Syriza Succeeds in Greece by Mainstreaming the Anti-Austerity Movement
What US progressives can learn By Kate Aronoff / Waging Nonviolence On January 25, Syriza — a previously marginal, left-leaning coalition party in Greece — made history by winning the country’s general...
View ArticleThe Share-the-Scraps Economy
By Robert Reich How would you like to live in an economy where robots do everything that can be predictably programmed in advance, and almost all profits go to the robots’ owners? Meanwhile, human...
View ArticleHow To Save $12,000 a Year in San Diego? Drive Less!
By John P. Anderson Our family of four is a single-car household. We've lived in San Diego since Fall 2009 (5.5 years as of this writing) and have selected our residences in San Diego where we live...
View ArticleCommunity Planning Boards Have Democratic Elections Because of One Group From...
The Ocean Beach Community Planning Group Was the Forerunner to OB’s Planning Board By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag On March 10, the Ocean Beach Planning Board will hold its annual election of Board members....
View ArticleSan Diego’s Racial Unconscious: History is the Narrative that Hurts
...the insistence on what one might call “San Diego exceptionalism,” the notion that our city is somehow free of the same troubled history as the rest of the country, is at the heart of our city’s...
View ArticleRacism Matters: Why We Do This Thing
By Doug Porter This week the San Diego Free Press is taking a bit of a pause from our usual routine to focus on Race and Racism. Previous thematic efforts include War and Peace back in November and...
View ArticleFive Reasons Losing an NFL Football Team is Good for a City
By Bill Adams / UrbDezine My family will attest, I’m a San Diego Chargers football fan. During football season, not only is the TV tuned to Chargers games, but so are multiple strategically located...
View ArticleConversion to Renewable Energy is Going Too Slow to Avoid Catastrophe – Part 3
By Frank Thomas and John Lawrence Renewable Solutions Are Here Now and Technically Feasible Today It is now clear, at least from a technical perspective, that we could eliminate fossil fuels over a...
View ArticleWhy We’re All Becoming Independent Contractors
By Robert Reich GM is worth around $60 billion, and has over 200,000 employees. Its front-line workers earn from $19 to $28.50 an hour, with benefits. Uber is estimated to be worth some $40 billion,...
View ArticleThe Right and the Righteous Aspire to Greatness at CPAC
Infotainment for a Rainy San Diego Weekend By Doug Porter It’s time for that annual exercise in wingnuttery known as the Conservative Political Action Conference(CPAC), wherein activists of the far...
View ArticleEve on the Move
The rising Feminine has something to offer our old fashioned religions By Dr. Carol Carnes The great American Man of Letters, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “be an opener of doors for such as come after...
View ArticleOil Trains: Death and Destruction on the Rails
Department of Transportation Predicts Oil Train Derailments Will Become Increasingly Common By John Lawrence On Monday Feb 16, 2015 an oil train carrying millions of pounds of crude oil derailed in...
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The End of the Keystone XL Pipeline (We Hope)
A major defeat for proponents of dirty energy is in the works, as news reports indicate the Obama administration is set to block the permits needed for the Keystone XL pipeline. Construction of the...
View ArticleColorado’s Legalization of Marijuana Is a Huge Success
Pot taxes to fund school construction and substance-abuse programs By Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos Colorado voters agreed on how to spend $66 million of the revenue generated by the legal sale of...
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Surviving Sudden Poverty
By Jeeni Criscenzo While trainloads of Americans, who never expected to make the journey from the complacency of middle class to the downward spiral of poverty are trying to figure out how this could...
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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Lying Through Teeth
It sucks when grandma lies through teeth chewing gums selling machine embroidered cloth as handmade lace Blame it on the financial crisis: doublespeak for unnatural selection [Read more...]Author...
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Public Prayer Challenges Carlsbad Council’s Credibility
Carlsbad Leaders Hear from Referendum Winners "Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we're off to a good start," said Carlsbad Mayor Matt Hall, after Councilmember Mark Packard's opening prayer spurred murmurs...
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A Greedy Capitalist Gets His Comeuppance
Price Gouger Martin Shkreli Becomes Known as 'Most Hated Man in America' Turing Pharmaceuticals chief Martin Shkreli will face new competition for Daraprim, the drug he recently hiked 5,000 percent in...
View Article#MillionStudentMarch and the Soul of Higher Education
By Andrew J. Mackay The Million Student March emerges from a long-running crisis. A public good, an educated citizenry, is being misclassified as a private luxury in the name of profit. It emerges from...
View Article7 Paths to Development That Bring Neighborhoods Wealth, Not Gentrification
The plan to build better, more connected, flourishing communities is here—and it won’t require putting a Starbucks on every block. By Marjorie Kelly & Sarah McKinley / Yes! In cities across the...
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