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Racial restrictions were touted in deeds across San Diego County. Though no longer enforceable, neighborhoods from Vista to San Ysidro to Paradise Hills to Coronado used the racist language as a selling point. As Roxana Popescu reported in her latest investigation, it’s not certain how many people were impacted by these covenants, but a review of digitized county records found more than 10,000 recorded property documents with such restrictions. In San Diego County, finding out if a property had a racially restrictive covenant at one point can be...

It’s three o’clock on Aug. 4 and the temperature is creeping towards 119 degrees Fahrenheit in downtown Calexico. Maribel Padilla, the co-founder of the Brown Bag Coalition, is driving a van around the city to hand out water, cold towels and snacks to people who are unsheltered on the street. She makes water deliveries anytime the temperature goes over 114 degrees. Padilla is concerned about one man, Pedro Sanchez, known as Peter, who she hasn’t seen in a couple of days. “I worry that if he ...

For months, residents of a suburban Encinitas neighborhood have clashed with the hemp farm next door, blaming the farm for the nausea, dizziness and respiratory problems that they say have bothered them since October. Bob Echter, owner of Fox Point Farms which is home to the hemp operation, and Josh Schneider, CEO of Cultivaris Hemp which has been operating the hemp farm on Echter’s property, deny the neighbors’ claims. They chalk them up to the neighbors’ dislike for the smell of the hemp ...