Peggy Pico
KPBS Evening Edition HostPeggy Pico served as the host of KPBS Evening Edition. Pico originally joined the KPBS newsroom as the science and technology reporter in 2010 after spending two years covering biotechnology and medical news in the Bay Area. Pico was raised in San Diego and has worked as a broadcast journalist in California, Arizona, and Texas. She previously reported for NBC 7/39 where she worked as a medical and science reporter for five years. Pico has won two Emmy’s and numerous awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Associated Press, and the San Diego Press Club. She also received the USC Health Reporter Fellowship and is a member of California Chicano News Media Association and the Association of Health Care Journalists.
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KPBS Midday EditionFalling off the fiscal cliff. A new report looks how San Diego's economy could be affected if Congress and the White House fail to act on automatic tax cuts to federal spending set to kick in at the end of the year. -
KPBS Midday EditionA new program identifies doctors providing quality and cost-effective health care, and then rewards employees who choose to go to those doctors. -
KPBS Midday EditionCalifornia has some of the least restrictive regulations in place when it comes to payday lending, those short-term, high-interest loans with payments taken out of your next paycheck. A new study looks at who is borrowing, from where and why, plus a warning to those looking to borrow online. -
KPBS Midday EditionLast night's mayoral debate got testy. Poway Unified School District must pay back almost $1 billion on a loan of $105 million. The Padres' sale includes more than the team and part of Petco. San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station is on thin ice with regulators. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe Tule Wind Project got the green light from San Diego County Board of Supervisors. We look at the energy project slated for San Diego's East County and hear from those for and against. -
KPBS Midday EditionA local activist group thinks corporations are evading California taxes while residents and institutions feel the weight of big budget cuts.
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