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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The splat radius of this year's Halloween pumpkin drop broke a 14-year record. -
Children Now, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group, examined the educational and economic welfare of children in every county in the state of California. -
Sweetwater Union High School District is trying to put board of trustee corruption behind them. Some voters hope the new candidates will move the district forward. -
The focus of the drill at Knox Middle School in Valencia Park was to address the kind of violence that can happen when kids bully one another. -
Elizabeth White's 10-year-old son is dyslexic. She has had to fight with the San Diego Unified School District to get her son diagnosed and get the help he needs. -
The San Ysidro School District remains fifth on a list of seven schools the California Department of Education says it doesn't expect to be able to pay its bills. A declining enrollment and a $2.6 million deficit are among its problems.
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As federal stimulus checks hit the bank accounts of millions of Americans this week, one group of mostly essential workers have been left out — undocumented workers. -
The coronavirus is spreading in immigration detention, with more than 70 detainees in 12 states testing positive and hundreds of others under quarantine. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has started to lower its detainee population to reduce the risk of people getting sick. -
There are now six confirmed cases of COVID-19 among detainees at the Otay Mesa Detention Center and five among employees. Immigrant advocates now fear a wider coronavirus outbreak in the facility is inevitable.
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