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 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. -
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.
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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. -
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.
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- Deadline nears for Taiwan's Chinese immigrants to prove no China household registration
- Republican Sen. Thom Tillis will not seek reelection next year after Trump attacks
- Man kicked and injured a CBP beagle during airport baggage search