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 EditionLabor Day is a good time to look at how jobs and the economy are doing. The nonpartisan California Budget Project has some good and bad news. -
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez said the corruption scandal in the Sweetwater Union High School District inspired her to write a new law that would forbid public school administrators from raising money for school-board candidates. -
As Common Core standards officially kick in at schools around California this year, student teachers might have an edge in tackling its education strategies.
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Campus officials say the allegations involve members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity -
Lindsay School has started a preschool this year for the teens' children -
With summer coming to a close, two school districts in San Diego County are mired in labor negotiations and teachers are threatening to strike.
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KPBS Midday EditionNan Sterman, host of the KPBS show A Growing Passion, is working with donors, volunteers and local nonprofits to include entry level gardening kits among traditional food distributions around San Diego County. -
Immigrant rights organizations teamed up with medical professionals Friday to deliver 1,000 face masks to the detention center. But their donation was met with silence from center operator CoreCivic, which declined to accept the masks. -
State officials are now disclosing cases and deaths from COVID-19 at assisted living facilities. But advocates for the elderly say the true spread of the disease in these homes is still underreported.
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