Corporate Deserters Seek to Continue Doing Business in the US While Paying...
By John Lawrence Corporations are relentless about setting up tax avoidance schemes and finding new and improved ways of getting out of paying taxes. One method is to set up a corporate subsidiary in...
View ArticleChamber of Misery’s Million Dollar Campaign Halts San Diego’s Minimum Wage...
By Doug Porter San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce CEO Jerry Sanders took to the airwaves yesterday to announce his group of paid canvassers had gathered 56,000 signatures (at up to $12 each)...
View ArticleCrippling Student Loan Debt, Not Just For the Young
By Joan McCarter / Daily Kos The retirement crisis, hastened by the death of the pension and the great recession that decimated retirement funds along with home values, has a yet another growing cause:...
View ArticleQuestioning San Diego County Pension Fund’s Excessive Risk
By John Lawrence According to the Wall Street Journal, San Diego County's pension fund manager is using an extreme amount of risky leverage to make up for a shortfall in funding. This is equivalent to...
View ArticleCouncilman Ed Harris: Why He Rejected the Proposed Lease for Belmont Park...
Harris: "We can't keep giving away our assets to big business." Just got off the phone with Councilman Ed Harris - he represents OB, Mission Beach and the rest of District 2, of course. He had a lot to...
View ArticleStudent Loan Debt: The Only Debt You Can’t Discharge in Bankruptcy
John Lawrence Today's students are being crushed with John Bunyan's proverbial burden on their backs - student loan debt. Until relatively recently this debt could have been discharged in bankruptcy....
View ArticleWho Runs San Diego? The City’s Dubious Partnership with Sea World
Well, this is a fine kettle of fish... By Linda Perine / Democratic Woman's Club San Diego taxpayers find ourselves as mainly unwitting, possibly unwilling and almost certainly under-compensated...
View ArticleCalifornia Just Passed a Plastic Bag Ban. Here’s What You Need to Know.
The move is sure to reduce litter—but not necessarily planet-warming emissions. By Katie Rose Quandt / Mother Jones Update, September 30, 2014: On Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB270 into law,...
View ArticleNovember 2014 Propositions: Jerry Brown’s One-Two Punch
By Doug Porter The following analyses of Propositions 1 & 2 represent my opinions. The SD Free Press editorial board may or may not agree with me. For all our articles on the upcoming election,...
View ArticleNovember 2014 Elections: When You Skip Voting It’s Not Rebellion, It’s Surrender
An Introduction to SD Free Press General Election Coverage By Doug Porter It’s time to get out the vote again!? For those of us who live in the City of San Diego the November general election will be...
View ArticleThree Years Ago this Month the Occupy Wall Street Movement Burst Upon San Diego
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag It was October 7th, in the year 2011, that the Occupy Wall Street movement hit San Diego. In a huge outpouring of demonstrators, up to 4,000 San Diegans marched through the...
View ArticleThe Co-Op Movement – Democratizing the Ownership of Wealth One Step at a Time
By John Lawrence It has finally dawned on the American consciousness that wealth is being concentrated among fewer and fewer people. In fact just 400 Americans own more wealth than the bottom 180...
View ArticleThe Secret of the San Diego Growth Machine: Another Case for Nancy Drew
By Norma Damashek Albert Einstein searched for a unified theory that would unite the forces of nature (he had his eye on relativity and electromagnetism). I, too, have been searching for a unified...
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How to Destroy Mission Valley
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag If you want to destroy Mission Valley, what's coming down the development pipeline will surely do it for you. There are four massive residential and commercial projects and...
View ArticleIn Defense of Uncertainty in the Development Approval Process
By Murtaza H. Baxamusa, Ph.D., AICP / San Diego UrbDeZine Nobody likes uncertainty. Certainly not the developers of a billion dollar mixed-use project that encounters community opposition due to...
View ArticleMemo to Jerry Sanders & Doug Manchester: The City Council Minimum Wage...
By Doug Porter It ain’t over ‘till it’s over. The City Clerk certified the results of a referendum drive backed by the Chamber of Commerce and other dark money interests yesterday. They sought to delay...
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Wall Street’s Latest Scam: Subprime Auto Loans
By John Lawrence Wall Street needs to get people into debt. That's one way they make their money - by collecting interest on people's debts. They had a field day with subprime mortgages, and then those...
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What Does Malin Burnham’s Possible Take-Over of the U-T San Diego Mean?
As 'Old-Money' Point Loman Burnham emerges to operate San Diego's daily, questions are raised whether this is the "Moderate Wing" of the Establishment reasserting itself? Part One of two parts. By...
View Article6 Common Mistakes Made By Cities and Towns in Urban Renewal
by Bill Adams / San Diego UrbDeZine For the last half century, cities have attempted to repair the damage to their urban cores from migration to suburbs and exurbs. Redevelopment has evolved into smart...
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Malin Burnham and the U-T San Diego Idea Factory
Part Two of two parts Part One By Frank Gormlie As we delve more now in Part Two into Malin Burnham, "the last Corte Maderan" as Mike Davis calls him, and his possible take-over of San Diego's only...
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