Hypocrites! Taxpayer Association Rallies Supporters to Support Corporate...
The San Diego County Taxpayers Association has found a tax they like. They have issued a “Call to Action” for their supporters to show up at City Hall on Monday for a scheduled hearing of the City...
View ArticleWalmart’s Off to a Terrible 2013: Is Ravage-Capitalism Reaching a Point of...
By Joshua Holland / Alternet In a consumer-driven economy, you can only squeeze ordinary working people so far before they're no longer able to buy the goods and services required to keep the ship...
View ArticleWhy Mayor Filner is Right to Stand Up to the Real Bullies
What Filner is doing here is important and historic: he is standing up to the entitled private interests who have run San Diego for its entire history. As Doug Porter reported here at the San Diego...
View ArticleCongress’ Sequester Carries Dire Consequences for San Diego Innovation Economy
Cuts to government funding for basic research--already at dangerously low levels--could have devastating long term economic effects nationally, locally Basic research—the very foundation of the...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Republican Support for Gay Marriage Emerging as Supreme...
There are cracks emerging in the GOP social issues bulwark over the issue of gay marriage. The New York Times is up with a story this morning about 75 prominent Republicans who have signed on to a...
View ArticleToday’s College Graduates: In Debt and Unable to Find a Job
The American mythology that getting a good job requires a college degree is turning out to be a hollow promise, a mythology devoid of any connection to reality. Today's college graduates are being...
View Article20 Arrested at Mission Valley Hilton Protest over Job Security
Twenty people were arrested Friday evening during a protest at the HiltonMissionValley hotel during a protest stemming from the refusal of management to take step to protect employee jobs during the...
View ArticleThe Value of Human Smuggling
By Beryl Forman This semester I was unable to register for any classes offered through SDSU's department of City Planning, where I am working towards my masters degree. As to not get sidetracked from...
View ArticleThe Curtain Closes on Birch North Park Theatre?
The intersection of 30th Street and University Avenue is the physical center of North Park, as well as the hub the commercial and cultural activity in the neighborhood. In the early 1900s this corner...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – White on White: the California GOP Convention
As California goes, so will go the rest of the country. State Republicans, fearful of obvious signs the party is declining into irrelevancy, circled the wagons over the weekend in Sacramento for their...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Mayor Filner Keeps Up the Heat on Hoteliers
Get ready for more UT-San Diego editorials calling Mayor Filner a bully. He’s calling into question the deal struck between former Mayor Jerry Sanders and the downtown crowd giving them control over...
View ArticleTourism Marketing District Could Be Made Subject to Living Wage Ordinance
Obstinance of San Diego City Council and big hotel interests stymieing TMD deal, tourism ad campaigns. The Bob Filner era in San Diego is only in its infancy stages, but it has certainly not...
View ArticleThe Sequester and the Tea Party Plot
by Robert Reich Imagine a plot to undermine the government of the United States, to destroy much of its capacity to do the public’s business, and to sow distrust among the population. Imagine further...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Report: California Leads the Nation in Right Wing...
The popular image of the Golden State is that it’s a hotbed of liberalism; it’s the “left coast” of the country in conserve-speak. The Republican Party is all but irrelevant, and even Orange County,...
View ArticlePart One: President Obama & the Gang of Eight’s ‘Comprehensive Immigration...
A Chicano Historical Analysis: Immigration or Labor? By Herman Baca, President, Committee on Chicano Rights President Barack Obama, along with the “gang of 8,” 4 Democrats; Sens. Michael Bennet...
View ArticleJudge Tentatively Rules in Favor of Convention Center Expansion Project
San Diego Convention Center Expansion Project back on schedule to begin construction in 2014, with 2017 completion date. In a ruling issued today, judge Ronald Prager ruled that the funding mechanism...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Welcome to Paul Ryan’s Budget Nightmare
Congressman Paul Ryan’s blueprint for the Republican Party budget, rolled out for all to see this morning, presents a sweeping view of the future. (Here’s your copy.) In 10 years, the budget deficit...
View ArticleConvention Center Ruling Reinforces Private Tax Scheme
Props 13 and 218 necessitate convoluted scheme to effectively privatize public assets The privatization of public resources took another step toward reality yesterday, although in this particular case...
View ArticleWells Fargo: California Leader in Predatory Lending and Heartless Foreclosures
by Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment When it comes to foreclosing on Californians, it looks like Wells Fargo may take the prize. According to a report released today, Wells Fargo is...
View ArticleBad News Environmentally Elsewhere Is Good News for San Diego
Bad news for the environment in other locales can be good news for San Diego. Today, two offerings by the media - one on how hot and dry the City of Phoenix is getting due to climate change, and the...
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