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A Now Leasing sign is hung on the side of an apartment complex on Las Posas Avenue in San Marcos. The building is gray and beige with bricks and stucco facade.

Multi-generational living and on-campus faculty housing could become the new norm for San Diegans

Lucia Skinner December 12, 2022
San Diegans are earning more but inflation and San Diego’s housing rise to the third highest in the nation means more college students and graduates are living at home.
Carl Sandburg Elementary School, one of the 113 elementary schools apart of the San Diego Unified School District.

San Diego County on Reopening Elementary Schools

Adam Correa February 28, 2021
The San Diego Unified School District just announced that it plans to have students and teachers back in the classroom by April 12.
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Human Trafficking in San Diego Hits FBI List

Matthew Baker February 27, 2021
Every day thousands of people are taken from their families and are sold for money like cattle. This needs to end now.
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California’s beaches must close to curb spread of COVID-19

Triniti Nowicki April 5, 2020

Story by Triniti Nowicki The sooner beach-goers practice social distancing, the faster we as a community can get through the coronavirus pandemic. If closing the beach is going to remind...

San Diego Veterans Still Lack Housing

Telescope Staff February 11, 2019

Story by Kiera Colarusso  At 66.6%, California had the highest rate of unsheltered veterans in 2018. Much of the ex-military population is still spending its nights on city sidewalks and underpasses. The...

An older homeless man lies on a boardwalk with his dog, looking at the viewer. The dog wears a black beanie and is covered with a brown blanket. The man wears a black hoodie and jeans. Several people stand or walk in the background.

Homelessness is a bigger issue than art budget cuts

Samantha Cox April 19, 2018

You’re homeless, cold and hungry. But at least you have a nice mural on the back wall of your liquor store to stare at, right? Mid 2017, Mayor Kevin Faulconer proposed a 2 percent budget cut of arts...

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Spring college fair arrives

Marcy Cortes April 3, 2017

SAN MARCOS-If you'll be filling out college applications next fall and want to expand your local options, the Transfer Center has you covered. The Transfer Center will be hosting the 2017 Spring College...

Opponents of San Diego County’s Measure B scribble NO with black tape along a YES on Measure B sign. Measure B would allow for the development of 1,700 homes north of Escondido. Oct 19, 2016. San Marcos, Calif. (Dylan Halstead/The Telescope)

Singling out the cluster of state props

Hayley Stevenson October 30, 2016

The upcoming election on November 8, 2016 goes beyond choosing our new president. While that has been a hot topic of conversation, there are more factors that play in the life we live in America....

Mandatory water restrictions are not the most elegant solution

Fern Menezes April 27, 2015
Mandatory restrictions is not the most elegant solution
San Diego County residents protest during the march against human trafficking. (Photo courtesy of Eva Posner/San Diego Uptown News)

Human trafficking still prominent in North County

Sean Horgan December 8, 2014

A dark shadow currently lurks within the alley ways of Southern California. Beaten, tortured, forced to perform hard labor and raped on a weekly basis; this is what many men, women and children...

Marijuana is one of the many illegal substances affected by Prop. 47. Since its passage, nonviolent crimes have shorter penalties and drug possession has been reduced to a misdemeanor. (Angela Marie Samora/The Telescope)

New law does anything but provide protection

Leah Baena December 8, 2014

California just banned felony charges toward crimes such as gun theft and date rape drug possession with Proposition 47. These crimes will now be charged as just misdemeanors. This is plain wrong. Possession...

President Deegan posing with Palomar staff before the ribbon cutting ceremony at the Grand Opening of Palomar’s new building on Oct. 10, 2014. (Gerald Tovar/The Telescope)

College cuts ribbon for new building

Gerald Tovar October 20, 2014

On Oct. 10 Palomar College Robert Deegan was humbled by the communities endorsement at the Humanities Building Grand Opening . He thanked the community for the district bond which recognized Palomar...

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