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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Cal State San Marcos and San Diego County expand a partnership to help former foster youth go to college. -
San Diego Unified school board trustee Scott Barnett said Thursday he and the other trustees should have been told about the acquisition before it happened. -
San Diego Unified School District's Police Chief Ruben Littlejohn says having the vehicle doesn't reflect a militarization of the educational system. -
Chula Vista Elementary School District might have violated state mandates last spring when students with disabilities were denied testing modifications.
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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.
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Officials say the State Route 11/Otay Mesa East Port of Entry Project will help facilitate and bolster trade between the two countries by adding a third port of entry in the San Diego region, as well as cut down on motorist wait times at the border. -
After an increase in both human and drug smuggling off the San Diego Coast, the San Diego sector of the Border Patrol has now launched a new marine unit. -
KPBS Midday EditionBreakfast Block, a grassroots San Diego group founded early this year by a woman who lost her job amid the pandemic, works to feed, clothe and provide other essential items to San Diego's growing unsheltered population.
- County official overseeing animal shelters complained of 'shit dogs,' too few euthanasias in voice message
- San Diego City Council approves parking fees in Balboa Park
- A rivalry over $50 million meant to clean cross-border rivers is brewing
- City Council approves phased-in $25/hour minimum wage for hospitality workers
- Nathan Fletcher's accuser seeks restraining order against Lorena Gonzalez