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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Teachers are asking for their first pay raise in seven years, along with better health benefits. The district counters that a projected budget deficit will not allow that to happen. -
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.
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New state-funded wellness coaches aim to fill the gap amid a shortage of school counselors. -
The San Diego Housing Commission has distributed more than a million dollars to people displaced by the January floods. -
Retired engineer and volunteer docent Ron Peterson guides visitors around the Tijuana Estuary by teaching them to rely on their other four senses.
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