Dorian Hargrove
Dorian Hargrove covers public accountability and neighborhood-level impacts of government decisions for Times of San Diego, linking city hall, policing, housing and community safety through tightly reported local stories. His work relies on public records, lawsuits and data analysis to show how policies and errors play out on specific blocks, from garbage fee glitches and police use-of-force to car break-in patterns and redevelopment fights. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and editor at the masthead, known for watchdog reporting on local government and social justice issues and for teaching investigative journalism.
City government errors, fees and oversight
Hargrove’s politics coverage focuses on how city government decisions and mistakes affect residents financially and politically. In his reporting on a trash fee error that inflated property tax bills for tens of thousands of households, he follows residents who first spotted the glitch, documents the scale of overcharges and details how councilmembers confronted Mayor Todd Gloria, including calls for his resignation. He treats these episodes as accountability stories built from residents’ experiences, close review of tax bills and pointed questions for officials rather than conventional campaign or personality coverage.
He has also reported on labor and enforcement issues, including a story on county accusations that a major sushi supplier forced grocery sushi chefs to “pay to work,” highlighting wage practices and regulatory scrutiny in the food supply chain.
Policing, surveillance and justice system scrutiny
Hargrove devotes substantial reporting to policing tactics, surveillance technology and the justice system’s handling of serious incidents. In a data-heavy story on pepper spray deployments in the Gaslamp Quarter, he uses police use-of-force records to show a sharp rise in chemical strikes by a specific enforcement team over recent years.
Coverage of automated license plate readers explains why San Diego police rely so heavily on the technology and presents official justifications alongside concerns about extensive surveillance, including bilingual versions for Spanish-speaking readers.
His collaborative reporting on the Islamic Center shooting and related litigation follows families of victims as they sue to obtain school district records about a teen shooter and traces the shooter’s disappearance from a mental health facility the night before the attack, grounding the narrative in court filings and institutional responses. He also covers the justice system internally, such as the death of a former acting U.S. Attorney found inside a federal building, where he focuses on the official’s role and tenure in the office rather than speculation.
Housing battles and redevelopment politics
Housing policy and redevelopment fights form another core thread of his work, approached through both state legislation and neighborhood opposition.
In coverage of the Midway Rising project, he explains how a governor-signed bill shields the project’s environmental review from future litigation and clears the way for thousands of housing units, retail space, a new arena and parkland on the former sports arena site. He follows the story from changes in state law through to impending city council approval, highlighting the tension between coastal height-limit advocates and backers of large-scale redevelopment. Hargrove reports on housing groups suing regional transportation planners over blocked development near train stations, framing the dispute around transit-oriented housing mandates and regional growth obligations.
He also covers lawsuits against the city over alleged misinterpretation of state housing law and neighborhood campaigns such as West Uptown United, which organizes against dense projects advanced under programs like Complete Communities.
Neighborhood crime mapping and community reporting
Hargrove consistently anchors his accountability reporting in specific neighborhoods, using crime data and street-level detail to make trends tangible for local readers.
A series of stories on vehicle break-ins across Uptown, the Peninsula and downtown maps the blocks with the most incidents since 2022 and tracks how patterns have shifted since the pandemic. These pieces blend crime statistics with on-the-ground descriptions so residents can see which stretches are most affected and how enforcement responds.
As host of the Mission Times newsletter, he reports granular updates such as progress on a long-running pipeline replacement along Mission Gorge Road, translating project metrics into clear timelines and neighborhood impacts. He also writes reflective community pieces around local tragedies and school events, connecting policy and safety conversations back to day-to-day life in the communities he covers.
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A.D. Quig
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Adam Daly
Adam Daly covers politics for amNewYork with a focus on the inner workings of city and state government and the low-profile forums where power is exercised and negotiated. He reports on commissions and panels that shape how New York is governed, treating charter reform and government efficiency as central political terrain. His coverage of moves to replace an Adams-era charter commission with a new government efficiency panel foregrounds mandate, authority, and what “efficiency” means in practice for agencies and services. He tracks who gains and loses influence when one commission supplants another and which constituencies are being answered to. Daly explains dense procedural questions in clear, reader-facing terms, using specific institutional details and occasional wordplay to connect jargon-heavy reforms to public spending, service delivery, and mayoral power.
Adam Pack
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Adam Sullivan
Adam Sullivan is a veteran politics reporter for WCAX who connects elections and party disputes to everyday life. He covers statewide races, party primaries, federal representation, political rhetoric, extremism, and accountability across the Upper Valley and neighboring states. His reporting includes Becca Balint’s victory over Molly Gray in the Democratic U.S. House primary to replace Congressman Peter Welch. He also reports when political controversies affect public safety, political culture, towns, and institutions, including a New Hampshire Libertarian Party post endorsing violence against elected Democrats. Sullivan follows cultural stories with civic consequences, such as Noah Kahan’s appeal to fans to stop stealing a Strafford road sign linked to his music. He writes straight news centered on concrete events, official reactions, political context, community impact, and what comes next.