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Oligarchy Rocks at the Desert Trip Festival
This easy life knows no pity. Recently Nelson D. Schwartz of the New York Times did an interesting feature on luxury tourism on cruise ships, “In an Era of Privilege, Not Everyone is in the Same Boat,”...
View ArticleBank of North Dakota Soars Despite Oil Bust: A Blueprint for California?
Despite North Dakota’s collapsing oil market, its state-owned bank continues to report record profits. This article looks at what California, with fifty times North Dakota’s population, could do...
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The Great Eastern Expansion: Where Is The Plaza?
By Barbara Zaragoza City staff and developers envision a city that will include professors, engineers, highly trained athletes and international tourists. There will be new boutique shops, gourmet...
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The California Way of Poverty
Last week, I pondered the obscene spectacle of holding a mega-concert catering to the wealthy in the Southern California desert town of Indio where a quarter of the population lives below the poverty...
View ArticleUC San Diego Faculty Call on Regents to Divest UC Funds from Fossil Fuels
Academic Senate votes in support of divestment resolution UC San Diego Academic Senate UC San Diego’s Academic Senate announced the passage of a resolution calling on the UC Regents to divest the...
View ArticleThe Age of Precarious: 6 in 10 Americans Living on the Financial Edge
"The more we learn about the balance sheets of Americans, it becomes quite alarming." By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams An unexpected medical bill or a dip in the stock market would be all it took to...
View ArticlePublic Pays for Hedge Funds’ Profits
By Donald Cohen / Capital & Main What do 82 public libraries, a Texas beef-processing company and a string of Pizza Huts across Tennessee and Florida have in common? They’re all managed by the same...
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The US Made a Deal With the Devil in Saudi Arabia
Did Saudi Arabia Aid the 9/11 Hijackers? All indications are that our biggest buddy in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, was directly involved with the 9/11 hijackers, and what's more, exports its extreme...
View ArticleSan Diegans Participate in LA Action to Break Free from Fossil Fuels
By Nancy Cottingham / SD350 Over a two week period earlier this month, a wave of >Break Free from Fossil Fuels mass mobilizations was held around the globe. The first action saw hundreds of people...
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Homelessness and Housing by the Numbers – A San Diego Shell Game
The San Diego Point-In-Time Count is a federally mandated annual report that identifies the number of homeless individuals and families in the county on one particular day. The 2016 report, which was...
View ArticleNuclear Shutdown News May 2016 : Ripped Off California Ratepayers Struggle...
California Nuclear Ratepayers Still Struggling For Justice Over San Onofre Shutdown Costs By Michael Steinberg / Black Rain Press (via OB Rag) Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline and fall of...
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Will They Vote? It’s Put Up or Shut Up Time for Sanders Supporters
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was in San Diego on Sunday, speaking at a rally in the parking lot of Qualcomm Stadium. About four thousand people attended the event, which featured music and other...
View ArticleRemembering Helen Chavez: ‘Are We a Union or Not?’
She played a vital role with husband Cesar Chavez in birthing our country's first enduring farm workers union By United Farm Workers After they were married in 1948, Cesar Chavez would return home...
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The Gig Economy: OK If the Profits Went to the Giggers
There's nothing inherently wrong with the idea of working a job here and a job there according to the worker's convenience and other activities. The problem is that the profits go to some centralized...
View ArticleSan Diego North County Coastal Cities Moving Forward On Clean Energy Initiatives
By John Garcia / SD350.org During the past year, the San Diego North County Coastal cities have taken steps forward in implementing their Climate Action Plans (CAP) and studying Community Choice Energy...
View ArticleDefined-Contribution Plans are Inadequate Substitutes for Pensions
By Ben Valdepena / Californians for Retirement Security In testimony to the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, Californians for Retirement Security called for national action to...
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Brexit: Not in Black and White
Millions of words will be written over the coming weeks about the vote in Great Britain to leave the European Union, popularly know as Brexit. I’ll point to a few commentaries striking me as important...
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GDP is a Poor Measure of Progress
Gross Domestic Product does not measure the well-being of human beings. War, natural disasters, incarcerations all add to positive GDP growth. Profits from casinos, drug sales, cigarette sales, junk...
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On Love and Meritocracy – Part 1
We Don't Need Another Gadget What the world needs now is love... so wrote Hal David in 1965 with music by Burt Bacharach. It was true then and even truer now. We don't need another gadget, we don't...
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On Love and Meritocracy – Part 2
There is No PhD in Love. Instead, there's a 'filtering out' system. When I was a graduate student at UCSD, my adviser, Irwin Jacobs, founder of Qualcomm and local billionaire, advised me that at the...
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