• KPBS Investigates

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KPBS Investigates

By: KPBS
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  • Summary

  • KPBS News serves the people of the San Diego region with trustworthy, in-depth information that allows the community to hold its leaders accountable. We show how global and local current affairs change our lives, and how San Diego changes the world. We tell you more than just what is happening—we tell you why. Be sure to go back and listen to our first series, "Dr. J's." In it, KPBS investigative reporter Claire Trageser explores a horrific crime and its lasting impacts on Southeast San Diego, a lower income and predominantly African-American pocket of the city.
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Episodes
  • Episode 1: San Diego's first freeway

    Episode 1: San Diego's first freeway
    May 9 2023
    An architect has a radical idea for San Diego's oldest freeway, SR-163, which cuts through Balboa Park. An environmental justice activist dreams of someday reconnecting her community that was divided by Interstate 5. If San Diego is serious about its goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2035, how will our relationship with freeways have to change?
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    24 mins
  • Episode 2: A feat of (social) engineering

    Episode 2: A feat of (social) engineering
    May 9 2023
    The American freeway is born in a time of intense optimism around the promise of the automobile. President Eisenhower sees the country's dilapidated road network as a barrier to economic growth and national defense. Jacob Dekema, the father of San Diego's freeway network, sees freeways as lifesavers. How did our optimism blind us to the freeway's dark side? Magic Highway USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo4-rYNGEwE&
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    23 mins
  • Evictions in a Pandemic, Part 2: Forced out, Fighting to Stay

    Evictions in a Pandemic, Part 2: Forced out, Fighting to Stay
    Dec 17 2021
    When pandemic-inspired protections for homeowners and renters expired, renters especially have become vulnerable to evictions in San Diego’s hot housing market. In this second part of a two part series on evictions, KPBS Race and Equity reporter follows one family that has been forced out of their apartment and their search for new housing. Like thousands of other low-income renters in San Diego, their best option may be to leave the region all together. But there are groups organizing to fight evictions, and a growing tenants’ rights movement in San Diego.
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    20 mins
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