GOP’s Congressional Shutdown To Cause Delayed Tax Refunds
By Doug Porter It’s pretty easy to dislike the Internal Revenue Service; a fact of life exploited by Congress on a regular basis. Since 2010 the agency’s budget has been slashed by more than $1...
View ArticleA Big Fat Job Killing Lie for Christmas from Jerry Sanders
"The Recession's Coming" and other pants-on-fire tales coming soon to a mall near you By Doug Porter Former Mayor Jerry Sanders, President and CEO of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, sent a...
View Article100 Years is Enough: Time to Make the Fed a Public Utility
By Ellen Brown/Nation of Change December 23rd, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve, warranting a review of its performance. Has it achieved the purposes for which it was designed?...
View ArticleGuns, Governors, God and the Gipper: Looking Back at February 2013
By Doug Porter For the twelve days of Christmas I give you: The madness of 2013, one month at a time-A month by month recap of stories that appeared in the Starting Line last year. #1 Rick "Tex" Perry...
View ArticleSequestration, Taxifornication, Misinformation, and the Great Tourism...
By Doug Porter For the twelve days of Christmas I give you: The madness of 2013, one month at a time-A month by month recap of stories that appeared in the Starting Line last year. #1 Sequestration...
View ArticleWhy No Wall Street CEOs Were Prosecuted For Causing The Financial Crisis
By Dartagnan /Daily Kos "If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance...
View ArticleBigger Than Watergate, Dumber Than Obamacare and More Dangerous Than a...
By Doug Porter For the twelve days of Christmas I give you: The madness of 2013, one month at a time. A month by month recap of stories that appeared in the Starting Line over the past year. #1...
View ArticleIssa’s Joe McCarthy Imitation, DeMaio’s Koch Connection and...
#1 Why Only Five People in Washington Take Congressman Darrell Issa Seriously San Diego’s own Congressman Darrell Issa is making headlines nationally this morning, but not in the way that the local...
View ArticleThe Repackaging of Kevin Faulconer, Wherein Barney Fife Gets Transformed into...
For the twelve days of Christmas I give you: The madness of 2013, one month at a time-A month by month recap of stories that appeared in the Starting Line last year. By Doug Porter #1 Carl DeMaio Obeys...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Cities: It’s Our Choice
By Jim Miller At the national level, there are signs that 2014 might be a hopeful one for progressives. In New York City Bill De Blasio was sworn in as mayor pledging to fight the “inequality crisis”...
View ArticleChallenge to San Diego: End Homelessness in 2014
Phoenix and Salt Lake City have ended chronic homelessness among veterans. Why can't San Diego follow their example? By John Lawrence Phoenix has become the first city to end homelessness among...
View Article50 Is the New 65: Older Americans Are Getting Booted from Their Jobs — and...
By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet In every corner of America, millions of people are terrified of losing their jobs and falling into financial ruin. Men and women with impressive professional...
View ArticleTo Hell with Pio Pico – It’s Time for a La Jolla Power Plant
By Doug Porter The pattern of dirty development has become undeniable in the San Diego area. Attempts to abate or oppose polluting projects in neighborhoods with higher percentages of non-whites are...
View ArticleCalifornia Legislators Call for Fracking Moratorium
By Dan Bacher Nine California Legislators on January 7 sent a letter to Governor Jerry Brown asking that he issue an executive order to prohibit the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources...
View ArticleGoldsmith Defends the Golden Rule: He Who Has the Gold Makes the Rules
City Attorney Defends Refusal to Represent City Council in Lawsuit By Doug Porter An op-ed in today’s UT-San Diego by San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith describes how he’s opted to simply ignore...
View ArticleLow Income Housing Fee Opponents Up to the Same Old Tricks in Signature Drive
By Doug Porter Oops. They’ve doing it again. San Diego’s voters are once again being hoodwinked into signing petitions. Given that our City Attorney apparently thinks this behavior is part of the...
View ArticleCollege Graduates Beg for a Shrinking Pool of Jobs
PhDs Go Begging, Microsoft Lays Off High Tech Workers, Graduates Not Able to Cope with Student Loan Debt Getting Jobs as Baristas... By John Lawrence ...That's the new reality for today's college...
View ArticleCo-opting the Neighborhoods Agenda
The local San Diego GOP attempts to steal a page out of the Democratic playbook in an attempt to rewrite history and claim the neighborhoods agenda for its own. By Andy Cohen Over the past two decades,...
View ArticleEmployers Can Take ‘Personal Responsibility’ For Poverty Wages
By Tina Dupuy/LA Progressive Brace yourself America—Republicans have discovered poverty! Right here, right under their noses, 48 million Americans are, as Senator Marco Rubio puts it, “soon-to-haves.”...
View ArticleHSR Is An Entirely Appropriate Use of Cap-and-Trade Revenues
By Robert Cruickshank/California High Speed Rail Blog Governor Jerry Brown’s proposal to use $250 million out of $1.3 billion in cap-and-trade revenues (that’s 19%) for high speed rail is generating...
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