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Four months ago, Voice of San Diego reporter Lisa Halverstadt got an email.

A local woman, Natalie Raschke, asked Halverstadt to tell her family's story. “My kids matter, they have faces, they deserve to be heard and seen. I’m hoping you can help me achieve that,” she wrote.

This week, we share that story.

Plus: San Diego's next strategy for 101 Ash St. New street vendor rules. And OMG  the Assembly Select Committee on Gasoline Supply and Pricing is here.

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Over the next eight years, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) needed to pass three different tax increases. These increases would fund the grandest of their plans to improve transportation for the whole region and update the ways we get around, large and small.

But this week, the first of those three initiatives failed. And it failed fast. We review what happened and why.

Plus: Graduations. Big hopes for big buildings on the coast. And the latest election results.

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We're coming at you live from Novo Brazil Brewing in Chula Vista with special guests and an awesome audience.

Talking points: primary election results, "South County" vs. "South Bay," Chula Vista politics, special interests, miniature schnauzers.

Guests:

Chula Vista City Councilmember Andrea Cardenas
Steve Garcia, host of the Emo Brown podcast

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The Primary is nigh!

Though it’s not the blockbuster 2020 election that melted our faces and dominated every inch of social media, our next major democratic exercise is nearly here. (Get those ballots in by June 7 with the help of our Election Guide: vosd.org/ballot.)

This week, we check in on the main races we've been watching in the region and the stories behind them.

County Sheriff, Chula Vista Mayor, Assembly District 80 and San Diego City Council District 2 are the four horsemen of this non-apocalypse. But rest assured, there's plenty of intrigue to unfurl. Let's get to it.

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The redevelopment project of 50-ish acres of land in the Midway area — which comprises Sports Arena, derelict streets and serves as a major junction in San Diego — is only getting more complex.

Recently dubbed ‘the new San Diego Special’ by podcast host Scott Lewis, the San Diego City Council this week made a move to get the Midway redevelopment rolling again.

This week, we review that meeting. Plus: New COVID quandaries at San Diego Unified schools.

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We’re coming at you with two interviews this week.

First up: Voice's Jakob McWhinney published an authoritative piece on Awaken Church. On the show, McWhinney reviewed some of the historical highlights of the Evangelical Christian movement and its political proclivities. Throughout the pandemic, this church has become highly activated as an anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown, right-wing political engine.

And second: The head of the Regional Task Force on Homelessness, Tamera Kohler, called us up to unpack the latest homelessness point-in-time count. We discussed the numbers, the caveats, and a few different ways we can understand the crisis right now.

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