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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Qualifying for a top-tier university can be difficult, but three community colleges have a way in. -
More than 6,000 college hopefuls attended the event at the San Diego Convention Center. -
Two San Diego-based relief organizations are gearing up to provide assistance to the region. -
Chicano Park Day memorializes a conflict and celebrates a community. -
Sweetwater Union High School District is joining a new statewide school food program called California Thursdays. -
Councilwoman Marti Emerald, who has said she will not seek re-election next year, is giving her support to her chief of staff, Ricardo Flores.
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KPBS Midday EditionCalifornia Department of Public Health investigators knew that certified nursing assistant Matthew Fluckiger had been accused of sex crimes by women at multiple nursing homes in El Cajon and La Mesa. Yet, the agency waited years to revoke his license. -
About half of the district’s approximately 100,000 students returned to campuses Monday for part-time, in-person learning. -
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.
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