Kyla Calvert
Education ReporterKyla Calvert is the education reporter forKPBS, producing multimedia content for radio, television and the Web. Kyla began producing web content while working in marketing in San Francisco. She decided to change careers and received a master’s degree in journalism with a concentration in digital media from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2009. While in school she freelanced for City Hall and The Capitol newspapers covering New York City and state politics and policy. After completing her degree, she worked as a fellow for Hearst Newspapers on “Dead By Mistake” a nationwide investigative project about medical error. The project received the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award. Kyla moved to San Diego from Beaufort County, South Carolina where she covered county government for The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette.
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Over the last seven days volunteers in cities around the country have risen before dawn to conduct an annual point-in-time count of their communities’ homeless population. Late last week volunteers for the San Diego Regional Taskforce on the Homeless conducted the local count. -
Hundreds of volunteers fanned out throughout San Diego County over the weekend to conduct a census of the homeless population.
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One San Diegan created her own job during the recession instead of waiting for a turnaround to take hold. -
San Diego home prices climbed 0.1 percent between October and November last year. That may not sound like much, but it was the only major city in the U.S. to see any gain in that period.
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San Diego County gained more than 6,000 jobs in 2010. It was the first year since 2007 that the county added any jobs. The increase could bode well for a continuing recovery.
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Belt tightening by the City of San Diego has reduced police-force staffing by about 270 positions in the last two years.
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