JOB KILLERS!
Dems should steal a page out of the Conservative Playbook and expose who the Real Job Killers of San Diego are. By Eva Posner Taking inspiration from Andy Cohen calling B.S. on the right wing and...
View ArticleTodd Gloria Lays Out Vision For San Diego
By Andy Cohen If this was indeed his first and final State of the City Address, iMayor Todd Gloria made it count. As politically aware San Diegans have come to expect, Gloria brought his ‘A’ game to...
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The United Nations in My Closet
By John Filthy / OB Rag People don’t often look at where their clothes come from. We don’t often think about who made them. Our closets are full of garments made by people making less than a dollar an...
View ArticleRaising the Minimum Wage: At the Heart of the Differences Between Faulconer...
By Doug Porter San Diego iMayor Todd Gloria’s call for increasing the minimum wage during the State of the City address on Wednesday is drawing sharp reaction from the local wannabe plutocracy. What...
View ArticleLeaked Walmart Documents Reveal Propaganda Campaign to Fight Workers...
The mega-retailer misinforms and tells managers to tattle on employees who discuss organizing. By Aaron Cantú / Alternet A set of internal documents leaked on January 15 revealed that Walmart is...
View ArticleApple Pie and the Economy: Enough is Enough
By Will Falk I hope the economy doesn’t recover. There. I said it. And it feels really good. We are in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction and it is not being caused by volcanic eruptions or...
View ArticleSuperbowl 420, A Big Hit with Bud Fans Everywhere
By Doug Porter A gaggle of overgrown men in body armor chasing an inflated pigskin up and down a grass field in New Jersey named after an insurance company in the dead of winter just took on a whole...
View ArticleMore Ad Wars: Sanders’ Billion Dollar Baloney, Lincoln Club’s Crummy Photoshop
By Doug Porter It’s hard to miss the Faulconer campaign’s warm and fuzzy broadcast ads featuring former Mayor Jerry Sanders. We’re told several times about how the Republican Mayoral candidate “saved”...
View ArticleWhat Does City Heights Lose when Albertsons Closes?
The importance of keeping the public benefit issues alive when redevelopment is dead By Anna Daniels On January 15 Councilmember Marti Emerald released a statement about the imminent closure of the...
View ArticleCalls Intensify for Obama to Fulfill Campaign Promise on GMO Labeling
Members of congress, farmers and businesses await response from president By Elizabeth Kucinich / Center for Food Safety When polled, 93 percent of the American public said they supported the labeling...
View ArticlePressure to Raise Pathetic Minimum Wage Is on the Rise Across the Land
A growing coalition of progressive organizations is pushing hard to get the minimum wage on 12 state ballots. By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet After years of hard times and recent organizing by growing...
View ArticleIncome Equality and Good Economic Performance Go Hand in Hand
Dr Adnan Al-Daini /Independent Australia The argument of free market economists and plutocrats that income inequality is the price society must pay for strong economic growth is, demonstrably, bunkum,...
View ArticleReader’s Response to “What Does City Heights Lose when Albertsons Closes?”
"The branch doesn't fall far from the tree" vis á vis City Heights and Albertson’s By Remigia Bermúdez’ "The branch doesn't fall far from the tree" comes to mind in so many respects as I read with...
View ArticleMayoral Race Polling, Pensions, and Plutocracy
By Jim Miller Last week a new poll by Public Policy Polling (PPP) funded by the Democratic Party came out that showed the race to become San Diego’s next mayor a dead heat with Alvarez at 46% and...
View ArticleLGBT Leaders to Call for San Diego County Clerk’s Resignation
By Doug Porter Leaders of the local LGBT community will call for the resignation of County Clerk Earnest Dronenburg on Tuesday, presenting documentation they say proves he overstepped his legal...
View ArticleHow Dry We Are – Worst Drought Conditions in California Since 1895
By Doug Porter Thursday’s weather forecast for San Diego includes the slight possibility of rain. Maybe that should be a slight possibility of a slight amount of rain, since the total precipitation is...
View ArticleWhat Obama Should Order Next: Paycheck Fairness
One of the barriers to equal pay for women is the lack of available information about pay scales. By Martha Burk/Otherwords.org When President Barack Obama talked about pay equity in his State of the...
View ArticleWhen is a Smart Growth Project Really a Trojan Horse? – La Mesa’s Park...
By Bill Adams / UrbDeZine In the wake of California’s now defunct redevelopment program and the 2008 real estate collapse, examples abound of demolished or shuttered buildings, where property owners...
View ArticleThe First Order of Business for the Post-Election City Council: A Minimum...
By Doug Porter It’s time to give the Lincoln Club and their allies a dose of their own medicine. They’ve collectively decided to wield veto power over our elected officials, effectively turning San...
View ArticleThe Carl DeMaio as Moderate Fallacy
According to the national media, being a gay Republican candidate for office automatically qualifies one as a moderate. By Andy Cohen Carl DeMaio has himself back in the news again. And this time—for...
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