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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More than 80 students at the City Heights high school participate in the "Hour of Code" program. -
As part of their efforts to combat local cannabis trafficking, officers arrested 129 suspects so far in 2014. -
The idea grew out of an effort that started in 2009 to have the YMCA help build an aquatics center at Pacific Beach Middle School.
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San Diego Unified School Board President Kevin Beiser highlights recent success stories in the annual state of the district speech. -
Around 150 people marched through City Heights and North Park on Wednesday night in a peaceful protest to oppose a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer for shooting and killing a black unarmed teenager. -
The National Weather Service issued a red flag warning and a high wind warning for the San Diego region Monday. Fire officials also got a warning - in the form of a report with 90 recommendations based on their performance during May's Bernardo fire.
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Fischer was initially charged with 20 criminal counts that included assault, burglary, forcing oral sex and sexual battery. But his plea deal with the DA did not include the two sex crime charges he faced. -
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.
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