Matthew Bowler
Video JournalistMatthew Bowler is an award-winning journalist from San Diego. Bowler comes from a long line of San Diego journalists. Both his father and grandfather worked as journalists covering San Diego. He is also a third generation San Diego State University graduate, where he studied art with a specialty in painting and printmaking. Bowler moved to the South of France after graduating from SDSU. While there he participated in many art exhibitions. The newspaper “La Marseillaise” called his work “les oeuvres impossible” or “the impossible works.” After his year in Provence, Bowler returned to San Diego and began to work as a freelance photographer for newspapers and magazines. Some years later, he discovered his passion for reporting the news, for getting at the truth, for impacting lives. Bowler is privileged to have received many San Diego Press Club Awards along with two Emmy's.
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STEAM, which stands for education in science, technology, engineering, art and math, is the new movement. Two organizations were honored for their efforts in promoting STEAM. -
The Mira Mesa band, nicknamed "Sapphire Sound," will be the first from the San Diego Unified School District to appear in the Rose Parade in nearly 30 years. -
There's no such thing as a free lunch, or at least that's what they say. That might not be true at a secret spot at San Diego State University. -
Barnard Asian Pacific Language Academy, a Chinese language immersion school in Pacific Beach, has thrown a Lunar New Year party for the past seven years. -
San Diego's old, vacant downtown library is sitting fowl while neighbors, politicians and business people wonder what's next. -
Educators did more than check out new technology for the classrooms on Friday — they also discussed where technology belongs in education.
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KPBS Midday EditionMembers of the California National Guard have always had a role in fighting wildfires, but now there is a task force working year-round on fire prevention efforts. -
KPBS Midday EditionHigher temperatures caused by climate change mean California’s all-important snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains is smaller and melts faster than it did in the past. As a result, forests are dryer for longer and more prone to wildfire. -
A new bill passed by the state legislature on Wednesday bans the use of private prisons and detention centers in California. For San Diego that could mean finding a different place to keep more than a thousand detained migrants.
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