This is the first of a five-part Follow The Money series by inewsource reporters Jill Castellano and Brad Racino. In this episode, Jill and Brad look at the money on both sides of Proposition 6, which would repeal a state gas tax increase.

Proposition 6 is considered a potential historic opportunity for Republicans in California. San Diego has been a driving force in the statewide measure to repeal an increase of the state gas tax.

Campaign contribution limits are supposed to restrict the money in politics, but Nathan Fletcher has received nearly $1 million from Democratic Party so far – and it’s totally legal.

Meghan Lynch has Type 1 diabetes. After receiving Trina Health treatments, she would come home from the treatments and collapse with blood sugar levels so high she was nearly hospitalized.

Michelle Knuttila calls herself the angel of death. Her nonprofit, HiCaliber Horse Rescue has brought in millions of dollars in donations over the years. But now the rescue is embroiled in allegations of fraud and animal abuse.

Steven Nelson’s consciousness was cut short by five bullets and a beating to the head at a San Diego nightclub in 2011. Now music may offer him hope.

Hundreds of thousands of community college students are placed in remedial classes every year, and few get past them, especially black and Latino students.

When a state lawmaker proposed a 100 percent clean-energy California, it wasn’t seen as an achievable goal. Now, it could actually become the law of the land.

Natural gas is leaking – sometimes deliberately – from residential gas meters up and down the state of California. That surprise is buried in state documents, a review by inewsource has found.

Scripps Health had tried to salvage the remains of San Diego Hospice — hiring its employees, taking in its patients and winning a bidding war to buy the facility.