Kevin Crowe
Investigative Newsource, Reporter and Database SpecialistKevin Crowe served as an investigative reporter and database specialist for Investigative Newsource, a nonprofit journalism enterprise embedded in the KPBS newsroom. Together they produce investigations and data analysis. Prior to joining Newsource, Crowe worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, reporting on campaign finance and donation limits, phantom real estate buyers, school test scores and local government spending. Kevin helped expose enormous differences in how states – and counties – investigate mysterious infant deaths for the award-winning series “Saving Babies” while at Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C. A native of Missouri, Kevin spends much of his free time in the great outdoors, mostly in the pursuit of big bass. He is a graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, and of the Missouri School of Journalism.
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Councilman Carl DeMaio outspent and outraised Congressman Bob Filner in the primary election for San Diego mayor, but pro-Filner forces are lining up to make the runoff in November competitive and expensive. -
Although expulsion and suspension rates overall are falling across San Diego County, middle schools are the exception. Their suspension rates are holding steady. Experts say this is no surprise. As children grow into adulthood, challenging authority and breaking the rules are part of the transition. -
Bob Filner definitely got the most bang for his buck in Tuesday’s primary. The Democrat congressman spent just $8.75 per vote to make it into the general election for mayor of San Diego against Republican councilman Carl DeMaio. -
On Tuesday's ballot, voters will choose whether to approve two propositions involving city labor agreements and workers' pensions.
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Supporters of the proposition to reform the City of San Diego’s pension system have outspent the opposition committees more than six to one according to the most recent financial statements filed with the City Clerk. -
Two candidates for San Diego mayor have each raised more than $1 million so far, underscoring that this is a high stakes, high money contest. And it’s only the primary.
- Two San Diego nonprofits are poised to lose promised environmental justice grants — but the EPA has yet to tell them
- Bob Filner, disgraced ex-mayor of San Diego, dies at 82
- Trump administration considers immigration detention on Bay Area military base, records show
- San Diego County releases dashboard compiling on South County sewage
- California sent investigators to ICE facilities. They found more detainees, and health care gaps