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Award-winning nonprofit media in the public interest, serving San Diego's inland region

October 8, 2025 (Santee) – Natalie Camou de Zavaleta is a Santee resident and award-winning filmmaker whose short comedy, #1 Bad Dad, will be showing at the San Diego Film Festival(link is external), which runs October 18 and 19.  ECM interviewed her for our radio show on KNSJ, 89.1 FM on her film, which explores the theme of a father and son separted by detention, then reunited. 

Highlights included interviews with immigration lawyer Nora Milner, El Cajon marketing manager Chris Berg, and Congressional candidate Curt Morrison, as well as coverage of top news issues such as controversies in the Grossmont Union High School District, protests and a recall effort in El Cajon

May 19, 2025 (San Diego) — East County Magazine editor Miriam Raftery interviewed Nora Milner, an immigration attorney based in San Diego. This interview originally aired April 4 on KNJS radio, with a Youtube video(link is external) available. Milner, who works at the Milner & Markee(link is external) (LLP) law firm, specializes in immigration law.

Highlights included coverage of major issues across East County, including Grossmont High School District’s mass firing of librarians and teachers, El Cajon adopting measures on immigration, vaping