Town Hall

Over the past few months, we’ve heard a lot about the challenges families are facing balancing work and school at home. On Wednesday night in La Mesa, there was a special online roundtable discussion offering community members the opportunity to share their personal stories. Before the meeting, NBC 7 heard from Genevieve Suzuki about how she’s coping. She’s a...

President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden squared off, in a way, in dueling televised town halls that showcased striking differences in temperament, views on racial justice and approaches to a pandemic that has reshaped the nation.

NBC News says it’ll host President Donald Trump for a town hall-styled event on Thursday, after the president submitted to a coronavirus test administered by the National Institutes of Health. The network’s decision received a strong backlash on social media, where a call to boycott NBC trended on Twitter.

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will take part in dueling televised town halls Thursday evening, instead of a previously scheduled debate. Trump dropped out of the debate after organizers attempted to switch to a virtual format when he was diagnosed with COVID-19.

NBC 6’s Steve Litz has more on what to expect when the President makes another stop in South Florida with just weeks before election day.

The City of La Mesa is, giving residents a chance to ask questions and voice concerns about the city’s handling of a large protest against police brutality and for racial justice, sparked by George Floyd’s killing and the controversial arrest of Amaurie Johnson, on May 30.

La Mesa will hold a virtual town hall to talk about the protests in the community in late May 2020. Those protests were followed by looting and destruction that rattled the community. NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez reports.

More information on the town hall.

Assemblymember Todd Gloria and San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Cindy Marten will host a joint telephone town hall on Friday.

Joe Biden’s foray into virtual campaigning has gotten off to a rocky start

President Donald Trump defended his administration’s response to the coronavirus and his confrontational style of name-calling political opponents as he fielded questions from the public in his first TV town hall of the 2020 election cycle.

Google has terminated four employees for allegedly sharing sensitive information after weeks of internal dissent related to the mistrust of leadership. At least one of the employees was at the center of recent worker protests in San Francisco. In a memo sent to staffers on Monday, three members of Google’s Security and Investigations Team wrote that the four workers were...

On his campaign tour, Beto O’Rourke made a stop in San Diego. NBC 7’s Alex Presha has more on his town hall in City Heights.

One woman left town. Another prays her house might somehow be spared again. And one man will just wait and watch and hope the water doesn’t rise. Few places in South Carolina are more worried about the possibility of disastrous inland flooding from Hurricane Florence’s heavy rain than Nichols. When Hurricane Matthew dumped a foot (30 centimeters) of rain on...

Benedict Cumberbatch is back to reading passionate emotional letters onstage, this time in New York City. The British actor was one of many celebs who have taken part over the years in “Letters Live,” which originated from London. Stars are given letters with highly emotional material to read, and they don’t know what they’re going to be reading until moments...

Westview High School will host a town hall-style meeting Saturday to discuss threats to school safety following the recent “March for Our Lives” events last month.

Students at Westview High School are planning a town hall to discuss gun reform with their representatives. NBC 7’s Melissa Adan reports.

Celebrities and activists have taken part in an evening of speeches and music in Manhattan billed as “The People’s State of the Union.”

Community groups in Ocean Beach and Point Loma gathered Tuesday to host a town hall focused on a recent string of arson and vandalism.

An Ocean Beach Town Council Board of Directors representative said the majority of the arson incidents happened in alleys. NBC 7’s Omari Fleming has more.