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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KPBS Midday EditionThe strike comes after last-minute negotiations with the school district failed to produce a new contract. Union members ultimately rejected an offer to raise pay by 1.5 percent, while adding one day to the school year and an additional five minutes to each school day. -
The San Ysidro School District and the teachers union are at odds over pay, the length of the school year and class sizes. -
The agreement reached after an all-night negotiation session includes raises and increases the maximum an employee will pay for health coverage. -
The new law allows the California chancellor of community colleges to choose 15 community colleges to be the first in the state to offer bachelor's degrees. -
San Diego Mesa College is spending $54 million to build two new buildings on campus. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego County is in line with national numbers showing the number of homeless students enrolled in public school is on the rise. There are 20,000 homeless students in San Diego County.
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KPBS Midday EditionLa Mesa City Councilwoman Dr. Akilah Weber was close Wednesday to being elected to the 79th Assembly District seat her mother Shirley held from 2012 until being appointed secretary of state in December. -
Tuesday is the last day to cast a ballot in the 79th Assembly District special election, with both the San Diego County Registrar of Voters office and each voter's assigned polling place open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. -
Black migrants must deal with both racism in Mexico, and unequal treatment from the U.S. government.
- San Diego resident golfers teed off at their vanishing access to city-run courses
- Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?
- Mexico: US deal lets 'El Chapo’s' son’s family enter from Tijuana
- City Heights residents say proposed cuts to libraries, rec centers are inequitable
- Newsom outlines $12 billion deficit, freeze on immigrant health program access