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VIDEO: Trolley Blue Line expansion opens, officials grapple with a vision for the future

Elected officials approved a $160B plan for transit expansion, setting sights on making public transportation free within 10 years

Philip Salata, Multimedia Journalist • December 28, 2021

The inauguration of the San Diego Trolley UC Blue Line extension to La Jolla is not only a major infrastructure development for the city’s transit system, but also a project with a history that spans well beyond the life of the entire Metropolitan Transit System.

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Bernie Sanders holds immigration rally

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders held an immigration rally at San Ysidro High School on Dec. 20.

Vicky Pineda, Sports Editor • December 22, 2019

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who is currently a candidate for the democratic presidential nomination, held a rally at San Ysidro High School to talk immigration.

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ESPAÑOL: Primera protesta del muro en la frontera

Celia Jiménez y Elizabeth Comparán • February 5, 2017

SAN YSIDRO -- Por primera vez desde la inauguración del presidente Donald Trump, decenas de personas se reunieron a pasos de la garita de San Ysidro para protestar en contra de la construcción del muro...

VIDEO en español: Protesta en la frontera

February 5, 2017

SAN YSIDRO -- Decenas de personas se reunieron a pasos de la garita internacional para protestar en contra del muro fronterizo autorizado por el Presidente Trump.

VIDEO: Protest at border

February 4, 2017

SAN YSIDRO -- A few dozen protesters converged near the port of entry on the evening of Feb. 3 to denounce President Trump's plan to build a wall along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico. Thousands of...

Protesters demand ‘No wall!’

February 4, 2017

By Elizabeth Comparán SAN YSIDRO -- For the first time since President's Trump inauguration, dozens of people flocked to the border to protest the wall he’s ordered built to divide the United States...

VIDEO en español: ¿Qué piensan de Trump los que cruzan ‘la línea’?

January 23, 2017

¿Qué piensas de Donald Trump? Les preguntamos a jóvenes ciudadanos a punto de cruzar la frontera el día de su inauguración. Su respuesta común: Temor.

VIDEO: What do border crossers think about Trump?

January 21, 2017

We asked U.S. citizens crossing the border into the U.S. what they thought of Donald Trump as he was being sworn in as the 45th president. Their common response: Fear.

Poetic panel present words from the soul

Heder Casas • October 27, 2015

English professor Virginia Escalante presented the "Chicano/a Poetics IV Panel" on Oct. 5 to continue the tradition of San Diego City College's International Book Fair and to celebrate its 10th year. With...

Crossing Borders

One City College student’s daily routine getting to and from school in one of America’s busiest border towns

Laura Sanchez • May 21, 2015

The Tijuana-San Diego border is a nonstop pumping vessel. It never sleeps. Thousands of people flood the border every morning as part of their daily routine. When most San Diegans are tossing and turning...

Spitting Up Teeth: Rec Center Rolling

Mark Elliott • February 24, 2015

This begins in a place most fighters first learn their craft. Before this sandy town by the beach had foam lined gyms around most neighborhood blocks. If it was not your dad teaching you to use that good...