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 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. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego County is in line with national numbers showing the number of homeless students enrolled in public school is on the rise. There are 20,000 homeless students in San Diego County. -
San Diego's Convention Center is hosting 3,000 educators as they work to encourage more girls and woman to study science, technology, engineering and math, at the second STEM Symposium. -
On the whole, San Diego County's sophomores beat the state average when it comes to passing the high school exit exam, but an achievement gap persists.
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KPBS Midday EditionA sewage testing program at UCSD could be key to helping identify COVID-19 outbreaks when students return to school in the fall. -
Last year bike shop owners had trouble keeping bikes in stock. Now, the problem is parts. -
Five cyclists have died on San Diego County streets over the past month. Activists say local leaders must speed up the construction of protected bike lanes.
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