PPIC Poll: 51 Percent of Likely Voters Would Back $11.1 Billion Water Bond
By Dan Bacher The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) has just released the results of a statewide survey revealing that a "slim majority" of likely voters, 51 percent, would support the $11.1...
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San Diego’s P100 Program Targets the Poor and Vulnerable While Letting the...
By John Lawrence Since 1997, San Diego County has required all families applying for California's version of welfare called CalWORKs to submit to warrantless, suspicionless, unannounced home searches...
View Article‘Poor For a Week’ – Neel Kashkari’s Trickle Down Game Show
By Doug Porter The forerunner of today’s reality TV programming was a program called ‘Queen for a Day.’ Starting out as a radio program, it made the jump to black and white TV in 1948, staying on air...
View ArticleBeware of Wall Street Schemes on Redevelopment
By Murtaza H. Baxamusa, Ph.D., AICP /San Diego UrbDeZine With the demise of redevelopment in California, some cities are looking for creative ways to stay solvent. One idea is to leverage New Market...
View ArticleWho Runs San Diego?– Douglas Manchester and U-T San Diego
By Eva Posner / Democratic Women's Club U-T San Diego, formerly the San Diego Union-Tribune, is the largest daily newspaper in the region. According to the U-T advertising rate book, U-T San Diego...
View ArticleThe Anti Minimum Wage Hired Guns Coming to Town
By Doug Porter Sources close to Rise Up San Diego are telling us the company collecting signatures for the Slave Wage Jobs Coalition will be National Petition Management(NPM). Today we’ll take a look...
View ArticleHelping Young People Who See the World through Frosted Windows
By Ernie McCray I just finished watching a Turner Classic Movie, "Scandal at Scourie," that featured two of my favorite all-time movie actors, Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson, playing a couple who...
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What Could Have Been
By Lucas O'Connor On Friday, Kevin Faulconer made his position official and vetoed the City Council’s increase of the city’s minimum wage. We know Faulconer has long been fundamentally opposed to wage...
View ArticleNaomi Klein: ‘Our Economic Model Is at War with Life on Earth’
New video trailer previews thesis of anticipated new book by Canadian writer and activist By Jon Queally / Common Dreams The book's title is not elusive: 'This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the...
View ArticleGOP Gubernatorial Candidate Neel Kashkari’s Workers’ Paradise: North Dakota
By Doug Porter I attended Voice of San Diego’s Politifest on Saturday, held at Liberty Station. It was a gorgeous San Diego morning for what was dubbed a 'civic festival.' Republican gubernatorial...
View ArticlePrecious Water Bottled and Shipped Out of Drought-Ridden California
By Anastasia Pantsios / EcoWatch California is suffering through a record drought. Water is being rationed and its usually fertile agriculture industry is suffering. Meanwhile, someone in Minnesota or...
View ArticleGame of Drones: What Are the Rules of the Game for Civilian Drone Use?
By Lawrence A. Herzog On a recent Sunday morning, I was hiking up the back streets of Soledad Mountain in La Jolla. Arriving on top and prepared to enjoy the stunning aerial view of our Pacific...
View ArticleMore Evidence Pointing to Charter City ‘Savings’ Fallacy
by Don Greene / Escondido Democratic Club Part of the pro-city charter mantra we hear from Mayor Abed and the other members of the city council majority is about savings. Especially savings when it...
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California Legislature Passes Bill to Protect Temp Workers
By Michael Grabell / ProPublica The California legislature has passed a bill that would hold companies legally responsible if the temp agencies and subcontractors they hire cheat workers out of their...
View ArticleWhy Labor Day Still Matters: Unions and the Future of American Democracy
By Jim Miller Over the last year, the subject of economic inequality has been in the news quite a bit with the release of Robert Reich’s spectacular documentary Inequality for All and economist Thomas...
View ArticleDeMaio Dissed by US Chamber of Commerce
By Doug Porter San Diego’s “New Republican” candidate for the 52nd Congressional District actively sought and failed to get the endorsement of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Instead, the...
View ArticleAre You Ready to ‘Disrupt’? Climate Movement Readies Global Mobilization
In less than two weeks, the 'Climate People's March & Mobilization' is set to make its mark on history. A new film helps explain where the movement came from and where it's going. by Jon Queally/...
View ArticleThe Fight to Save the Minimum Wage Hike Intensifies in San Diego
By Doug Porter The struggle for a better life for nearly two hundred thousand San Diegans continues, as the forces of reaction desperately fight back following passage of an ordinance increasing the...
View ArticlePoisoned Chalice Electric Rate “Fixing” Threatens Community Energy in San Diego
By Jay Powell “… with the passage of AB 327, the thorny issue of Net Energy Metering and rate design has been given over to the CPUC. … recognize this is a poisoned chalice: the Commission will come...
View ArticleCity Threatened with Lawsuit Over Illumina Economic Incentives Deal
By Doug Porter A citizen group represented by Attorney Cory Briggs has announced its intention to file a lawsuit blocking the city’s economic incentives package with Illumina, Inc. An email sent to...
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