California Needs High Speed Rail Now
By Robbie Hunter/State Building and Construction Trades Council of California via Labor's Edge Blog California urgently needs high speed rail now. The nay-sayers are still searching for reasons to...
View ArticleReport Reveals The Unequal States Of America
By Isaiah J. Poole/Campaign for America's Future The top 1 percent captured all of the income growth between 2009 and 2011 in 26 out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, the Economic Policy...
View ArticleHow a Prop 13 Fairness Campaign Could Win
By Chuck McFadden/Calbuzz As a political matter, Proposition 13 is sacred. It’s been described by lazy reporters as the “Third Rail of California Politics” so often that you probably want to hurl...
View ArticleObama Administration Announces Banking Guidelines for Marijuana Business
By Phillip Smith / Stop The Drug War The Obama administration Thursday afternoon announced new guidelines that will allow financial institutions to provide services to marijuana businesses in states...
View ArticleMore Lies Leveled Against Raising the Minimum Wage — This Time by the Federal...
The truth: economists say raising the federal minimum to $10.10 would lift somewhere between 4.6 and 6 million households above the poverty line. By Joe Conason / AlterNet In the midst of a crucial...
View ArticleHow TPP Would Harm You At the Drug Store and On The Internet
By Dave Johnson/Campaign for America's Future A law affecting content on the Internet that was rejected by Congress shows up in a trade agreement designed to bypass and override Congress. Small,...
View ArticleYour Credit Card Has Been Compromised
By Judi Curry I received an automated call this morning at 11:27 am. It went like this: “This is your credit card company calling. We are not trying to sell you anything but we think that your credit...
View ArticleWhat’s Left: Surrender or Resurgence?
By Jim Miller Just when you thought the Obama administration’s education policy couldn’t get any worse, it did. Last week Obama nominated founder and CEO of New Schools, Ted Mitchell, to the second...
View ArticleNew Regulations Prohibit Food Trucks From 2 to 3 Blocks of Beach … and More
By Frank Gormlie/OB Rag New food truck regulations just passed by the City will prohibit them near the beach in Ocean Beach. In fact, the new law will not allow any food truck – unless on private...
View ArticleNobody Who Works Full Time in San Diego Should Live in Poverty
By Doug Porter If you believe the San Diego’s Chamber of Commerce latest outlook, as reported on KPBS, on the region’s economic health you’d better wear sunglasses because the future’s that bright....
View ArticleNAFTA Birthday Bash Draws UCSD Protesters
By Daniel Gutiérrez On Thursday, March 6th, the Sanford Consortium hosted an event in celebration of NAFTA’s 20th anniversary. The event, entitled, Mexico Moving Forward: 20 Years of NAFTA and Beyond,...
View ArticleMust Progress Come to a Screeching Halt To Save the Planet From Global Warming?
By John Lawrence Ever since the Enlightenment, progress has been essential to civilization. Defined as steady improvement toward a goal, the progress of society or civilization has been synonymous with...
View ArticleThe Jobs Picture: Not Looking So Good From the Bottom Up, Even in San Diego
By Doug Porter An article in the UT-San Diego business section about employment opportunities caught my eye this morning. While the local picture may be slightly better than the national projections,...
View ArticleRecognize: 58% Of Women Use Birth Control For Reasons Other Than Pregnancy...
By Rajiv Narayan / Upworthy I'm looking at these graphics, and I'm thinking to myself, "How did we ever put up with health care before the Affordable Care Act?" Were we really cool with paying $600 a...
View ArticleIsraeli Company Contracted to Build U.S.-Mexico Border Fence
By Aaron Cantú / Alternet This week, the Israeli company Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that its subsidiary won a contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection to...
View ArticleCity Attorney Jan Goldsmith: The Leviathan for San Diego’s Civic Netherworld
According to demonology, the Leviathan is the gatekeeper among the seven princes of Hell. It is believed that hell is the kingdom of Satan by many Christians. -- ask.com By Doug Porter If there’s one...
View ArticleSpinning the San Diego Convention Center’s Future Business
By Doug Porter San Diego’s tourism moguls have been playing with numbers again and that's always a scary prospect. Last year we heard all about how the local economy was headed for doom and devastation...
View ArticleThe Audacity of Common Sense: Progressive Caucus’ ‘Better Off Budget’
By Robert Borosage / Campaign for America's Future Blog Budgets are numbing – grist for geeks, not citizens. The Congressional Progressive Caucus annual budget proposal – the Better Off Budget – is no...
View ArticlePutting Our Financial Well Being Above Our Children’s Ability to Survive a...
By John Lawrence and Frank Thomas Each year there are more extreme weather events not only in the US but all over the world. Most scientists agree that, as more carbon dioxide is pumped into the air...
View ArticleSpecial Report: Get Ready for the Anti-Minimum Wage Tsunami of Lies in San Diego
By Doug Porter Sometime over the next couple of months the San Diego City Council will consider a ballot measure for November raising the minimum wage. Although California has already enacted...
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