The Backstory: The reasons why prosecutors opted not to file criminal charges in SDSU rape case
Rarely, if ever, is the public made aware of the reasoning behind a District Attorney’s Office’s decision not to file charges in a case. The...
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20 of 1,000 episodesThe Backstory: The Poway case being heard by the Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will take up a case from Poway Unified School District that tackles a contentious area of social media...
The Backstory: The Union-Tribune’s Community Voices Project
The Union-Tribune’s Community Voices Project is an online platform for civil discourse about news of the day and matters of the community. I...
The Backstory: Behind the Union-Tribune’s 72 Hours project
San Diego County, like many places nationwide, faces a mental health crisis. For three days last year, nearly two dozen journalists with The...
The Backstory: Customers are steamed over SDG&E’s rate-hike proposal
San Diego Gas & Electric is making a case before the California Public Utilities Commission to increase rates starting next year. SDG&E says...
The Backstory: The San Diego Union-Tribune stops running ‘Dilbert’
Hundreds of newspapers across the country – including The San Diego Union-Tribune – have either stopped or will stop running the “Dilbert” c...
The Backstory: What determines where a story runs in the newspaper?
In this episode, we’re taking a closer look at a couple of recent stories that had a lot of people talking. First, allegations that Padres b...
The Backstory: How the deaths of three sisters affected those making humanitarian water and supply drops in San Diego County
The number of migrants who have died or gone missing trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border has sharply increased in recent year from an est...
The Backstory: The controversy surrounding Scripps Mercy’s new chief of staff
Scripps Health announced last month that physicians at Scripps Mercy Hospital named a new chief of staff. The announcement of Dr. James Gris...
The Backstory: Santee residents debate transgender policy
Protests have taken place in Santee over the last couple of weeks after a 17-year-old girl complained about seeing a transgender woman in th...
Farewell from the San Diego News Fix
Hi everyone, Kristy from the News Fix here. Yesterday was our last official episode, but today I just wanted to come on and say thank you fo...
The Backstory: The real cost of child care in California
California has several subsidized child care programs that help families pay for child care and fund many of the state’s tens of thousands o...
Meet Captain Liz Clark — surfer, sailor and environmentalist
Captain Liz Clark is from Point Loma, and learned to surf and sail here before going to college at UC Santa Barbara and setting out on a 12-...
San Diego may fare better than other cities in coming recession
San Diego economists say a recession is definitely coming, but they also say our region may weather it better than most. Business reporter P...
The history of Lunar New Year and where to celebrate around San Diego
Lunar New Year is Sunday, Jan. 22. Each year is represented by an animal on the Chinese zodiac calendar, and this year, it's the rabbit or t...
In California, subsidized child care is chronically underfunded
State-subsized child care often does not cover the true cost of child care. That's the top-line finding from the second report in a new seri...
Birch Aquarium sees its first-ever pregnant male seadragon
For the first time ever, the Birch Aquarium is home to a pregnant male seadragon. Leslee Matsushige is the aquarium's resident seahorse expe...
The Backstory: New sports editor joins the Union-Tribune team
Union-Tribune publisher and editor Jeff Light, and managing editor Lora Cicalo introduce us to Ryan Finley, the U-T’s new sports editor. Rya...
More high-rise and backyard units could be coming to San Diego
A controversial proposal to allow high-rise housing and backyard apartments in San Diego made progress Thursday when it was approved by a ke...
Highlights from Mayor Todd Gloria's State of the City address
Mayor Todd Gloria gave his 2023 State of the City address Wednesday, where he highlighted housing, homelessness, infrastructure and more. U-...