Three Former Governors Call for CEQA Reform
by Robert Cruickshank/California High Speed Rail Blog In a Sacramento Bee op-ed yesterday, former California Governors George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson, and Gray Davis made a case for reforming the...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Call Out the ‘Lynch’ Mob: The Mayor’s a Liar and the...
I expect it won’t be too long before a campaign to recall Mayor Bob Filner is launched, given the way the UT-San Diego is poised to pounce on every action regardless of significance taken by hizzoner....
View ArticleTax Refunds are Good, Despite the ‘Conventional Wisdom’
It's the most wonderful time of the year - time to dig out your receipts, examine bank statements, call up your accountant, and "render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's". It's time once again...
View ArticleRobert Reich: Coming Tuesday (Hopefully): The State of the Union’s Economy
By Robert Reich / February 9, 2013 If you’re sitting in the well of the House when a president gives a State of the Union address (as I’ve had the privilege of doing five times), the hardest part is on...
View ArticleBernie Sanders and Ralph Nader Both Condemn Postal Service Decision
By Matthew Rothschild / The Progressive -RSN Consumer advocate Ralph Nader and Senator Bernie Sanders condemned the U.S. Postal Service for its decision to end Saturday delivery. "The U.S. Postal...
View ArticleCalifornia Leads Nation in Fighting Global Warming
As of January 1, 2013, the cap-and-trade portion of California's Global Warming Solutions Act, AB 32, went into effect. Over 300 major polluters in California will face emissions reductions...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Papa Doug’s Got a Brand New Bag, Maybe
The Tweets were flying last night after the associate regional editor for Patch (AOL/Huffpo’s hyperlocal web news outfit) reported on twitter that a “source” told her UT-San Diego publisher Doug...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Strike Two for the Sanders’ Mayoral Legacy: Pension...
Last week a court invalidated the City’s scheme for renovating Balboa Park, saying that lawmakers blatantly ignored a city statute. The judge liked the plan, which included building a parking garage...
View ArticleArctic Methane: A Global Environmental Disaster in the Making
By Frank Thomas In the 1970s, permafrost Arctic sea ice at its lowest point covered about half of the Arctic ocean surface. But it has been on an alarming declining trend over recent decades, now...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Here Comes Strike Three: Tourism Tax Showdown Symbolic of...
City Councilman Kevin Falconer called for public hearings yesterday to placate the City’s hotel industry, which is growing increasingly panicky over Mayor Bob Filner’s refusal to release funding...
View ArticleRick Perry Shows His Love For Corporate Welfare Queens
Editor's Note: Since it seems like our local daily newspaper can't find enough good things to say about Texas Governor Rick Perry, we thought we'd present the point of view of a Texan who's living...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Keystone XL Pipeline the Focus of Nationwide Protests:...
San Diegans joined with protesters in twenty other cities in North American yesterday to express opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline project, calling upon President Obama to block it and for leaders...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Big Hotels to Mayor Filner: ‘We Want Our Money, We Stole...
So the Big Local News story today over at the UT-San Diego is that city’s hoteliers have decided to sue Mayor Bob Filner. It seems as though our Mayor has decided not play nice with the hotels,...
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Tunnels Under San Diego’s 30 Foot Height Limit in the Coastal Zone – Part 2
At the risk of encouraging the critics of the height limit by continuing the discussion of the effects and value of the 1972 citizens' initiative, this is meant then to demonstrate to those same...
View ArticlePeters Focuses Consequences of Sequester on San Diego
Sequestration deal agreed to in 2011 could have devastating effects on the San Diego economy. Representative Scott Peters is back home in San Diego. A rather irritated Scott Peters. “I love being here...
View ArticleWhy Democrats and Republicans Are Both Wrong About the Economy
The unemployment rate is 7.8%. Both parties agree that this is too high, but they propose totally different solutions to create more jobs. The Republican solution is to give more tax breaks and other...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Looking Past the Sequester Blame Game
The world as we know it will end in just nine days. That’s about the only thing Democrats and Republicans agree about on the subject of the sequester, a kick-the-can-down-the-road budget deal that’s...
View ArticleSex in San Diego: Sugar Daddies Site Boasts California Colleges Among...
By Amanda Marcotte / Alternet Soaring tuition rates are causing a number of reactions from the public: concern for young people saddled with ever-growing debt, anger at governments for cutting back on...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Mayor Crashes Press Conference to Defend City Against...
City Attorney Jan Goldsmith’s attempted to undercut Mayor Bob Filner’s questioning of the pending hotel tax-but-not-a-tax deal by staging a hastily called press conference yesterday afternoon. Things...
View ArticleCPI Asks: Why Should We Fund Poverty Wages?
The Center on Policy Initiatives (CPI) has long been a fighter on the San Diego scene for economic justice causes. Whether it’s advocacy on the part of financially distressed homeowners facing...
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