Jakob McWhinney

Brews & News Live Podcast Voice of San Diego Presents Brews & News Live Podcast 🍻 We’re back! Bring a friend, have a pint and embrace your inner news nerd with Voice of San Diego. […]

We have a live @voiceofsandiego.org podcast at Soda Bar on Wednesday with a rad guest - SDSU athletic director JD Wicker. Come listen to us blab about local public affairs, college sports in the era of NIL and sports betting, ticket prices and a whole lot more.

Got questions for Wicker? drop em! 👇

The Learning Curve: San Diego Unified (Finally) Inks Agreement for Safe Parking San Diego Unified’s board approved a licensing agreement with the San Diego Housing Commission to open a safe parking lot at the district’s now-vacant Central Elementary campus.

Via @jakobmcwhinney.bsky.social: A once-abandoned plan to open a safe parking lot for homeless families at a shuttered elementary school is now moving forward.

Thanks for including the Homelessness Beat Reporters Collective guide!

San Diego Unified Doesn't Know How Many Students Each School Can Fit As districts across the county grapple with enrollment decline that will likely get worse in coming decades, San Diego Unified officials say they don’t actually know what the capacity is for each of…

As the state grapples with a school enrollment crisis, San Diego Unified doesn’t know how many students each campus can fit.
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Mayor Gloria’s Admin Ousts Climate and Sustainability Director The firing of the city’s Chief Sustainability Officer follows a pattern of weakening San Diego’s climate action arm. 

Mayor Todd Gloria’s admin ousts climate and sustainability direction - The firing follows a pattern of weakening San Diego’s climate action activities. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/10/08/m... @voiceofsandiego

Chula Vista Becomes First in County to Embrace AI in Policing The City Council voted Tuesday to begin using artificial intelligence in police officers’ body-worn cameras and police reports. Civil liberties advocates warn the technology is too new and…

Chula Vista police will soon begin using a suite of AI tools to generate near-instantaneous police reports and transcribe body camera footage.
voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/24/c...

A Broken Friendship Is Breaking National City Hall A development dispute has spiraled into a months-long saga of corruption accusations, lawsuits, allegations of mishandled human remains, shouting matches at City Council meetings, a sexual harassment…

It’s been less than a year since a National City development dispute began.

Since then, city hall has been plagued by a lurid saga of allegations involving everything from sexual harassment claims to the alleged mishandling of human remains.
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#sidewalktings

County Urges El Cajon PD to Change Mental Health Call Policy A top county bureaucrat last week sent a letter to El Cajon’s city manager imploring the city’s police department to resume responses to ‘all high-risk mental health crises.’

@sandiegocounty.bsky.social is urging a reversal of a controversial El Cajon police decision to stop automatically responding to mental-health crisis calls.

i regret to inform you that scam texts are getting much more creative

Can we get a list of your fav historical nonfiction books?

NBC News: "Is it your understanding that [Charlie Kirk's shooter] may be close by or still in Utah?"

The commissioner of Utah’s Department of Public Safety: "We have no idea"

In 10 years San Diego built a 11 mile, 9 station expansion of the Trolley

Just to offer some context here:

We don't know what the Charlie Kirk shooter's motives were.

He may well have been a radical Leftist.

He may also have been a neo-Nazi accelerationist.

Or a narcissist.

We simply don't know yet.

Maybe we will some day, but we don't now.

A Republican School Board Member Came out as Trans. Then Came the Calls for Resignation One North County school board member’s journey to self-acceptance brought her face to face with vicious attacks. Those attacks unleashed a torrent of support.

This summer, a Republican school board member in Escondido came out as trans.

Calls for her resignation quickly followed, but were soon overshadowed by a torrent of supporters.
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A Republican School Board Member Came out as Trans. Then Came the Calls for Resignation One North County school board member’s journey to self-acceptance brought her face to face with vicious attacks. Those attacks unleashed a torrent of support.

School trustee Carol Durney had long struggled with a deep, existential discomfort. Then, at 64, the longtime Republican had a startling revelation: she was trans.

Now, despite the vicious attacks she's endured, she can’t help but marvel at the joy she feels.

“My heart is full of love.”

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

Headline from Fox 5 & kusi saying Actor Mark Wahlberg to bring Mexican restaurant to San Diego County

Finally maybe now we'll be able to get some good Mexican food around here

More history via @jakobmcwhinney.bsky.social and I:

been there, bud

The Progress Report: As ICE Arrests Near Schools Stack Up, Some Teachers Are Mobilizing To teachers like Erendira Ramirez, educators must open themselves to ‘all the possibilities,’ when it comes to countering ICE’s increasingly disruptive actions near local schools.

As ICE continues to arrest parents near schools, some teachers are urging for more to be done.

“This is history in the making. So, what are we willing to do? Are we going to just follow the law to the T, or are we willing to do what’s right and ensure that students still feel safe in schools?”

A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich “Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.

Song of the Week: 'Alien Mask' Chorduroy, “Alien Mask”: Fuzzy, snotty and frenzied, this is psych rock just like momma used to make. Chorduroy’s latest album comes complete with deliciously blown out vocals, driving basslines and…

"Fuzzy, snotty and frenzied, this is psych rock just like momma used to make,” reporter Jakob McWhinney writes of a new song by the local act Chorduroy.
voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/27/s...

After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras A 20-year-old Honduran woman who has lived in the Charlotte area for more than a decade will soon be removed from the U.S.

this is extremely fucked

in case you were wondering, yes, the "no thinking necessary" rationale for your boss to send you to the "no thinking necessary" conference was likely ai generated

this website for an ai conference boasts an incredible feature - a template for how to convince your boss to pay for it, complete with the signoff "Best, [YOUR NAME]". the aifolk need someone else to think of how to pitch their boss on a conference that helps them not think.

The nation’s annual summer respite of horrific school shoutings is over

hard disagree on this one

this is genuinely horrific.

ahem www.axios.com/local/san-di...