5 Things You Need to Know About the Immigration Agreement
by Jackie Tortora, AFL-CIO/Originally published at Labor's Edge It was announced over the weekend the bipartisan Senate "Gang of Eight" came to an agreement in principle on a major aspect of creating a...
View ArticlePacific Beach Planning Group and Local Residents Fight Bar Expansions
By Sub-committee Wednesday, April 10, Bill Allen - owner of the Crystal Pier Motel - and other residents called a press conference at the pier to help expose a simmering problem in Pacific Beach to the...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal for Reforming the Health Care System
By John Lawrence The best antidote for a degenerative disease is a regenerative lifestyle The health care system, what I call the medical-industrial complex, is in reality a disease management system....
View ArticleHappy Tax Day—For Some More Than Others
Prop 30 passed, the truth is that the poor still pay a heftier share of their income in taxes than the wealthy. Last week, the California Budget Project (CBP) released their annual report “Who Pays...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Are You Feeling Patriotic This Tax Day?
By Doug Porter It’s time to pay up, people. April 15 is tax day and Uncle Sam is looking for his dough. The IRS estimates that fifty million Americans (75% of whom will get refunds) will wait until...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – No More Tax Dollars for Strip Clubs; End the Corporate...
By Doug Porter Labor unions and their supporters rallied in Sacramento yesterday surrounded by symbolic containers of gravy in support of Senate Bill 434, legislation introduced by Sen. Jerry Hill (D –...
View ArticleBanks Wrongfully Foreclose: Get a Slap on the Wrist
Those illegally foreclosed on get a pittance in return. By John Lawrence Banks foreclosed on military service members, homeowners who had been approved for a loan modification and even homeowners who...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Politicians Pandering to Prejudice in Boston Marathon...
By Doug Porter Now that one Boston Marathon bombing suspect is dead and another has been captured the debate on the right seems to have swung around to arguing over whether or not a trial is even...
View ArticleSequester Stalemate Cuts Legal Aid, Child Care, Housing
by Brad Wong/Equal Voice News Weeks after a political stalemate set in motion $85 billion in federal spending cuts for fiscal year 2013, sequestration has shifted from a political debate in the halls...
View ArticleDarrell Steinberg Says CEQA Reform Not Dead Yet
by Robert Cruickshank/California High Speed Rail Blog Last week Governor Jerry Brown proclaimed efforts to reform the California Environmental Quality Act to be dead for this legislative session. But...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Our SNAFU Congress: Stories of Inaction, Reaction and...
By Doug Porter Our national sausage making factory rises to the top my morning news heap today with a pile of stories that cry out to be told. We’ll start with the number zero. That’s how many...
View ArticleReagan’s Budget Director Excoriates Republican Economic Philosophy
David Stockman calls GOP economic policies "bubble finance" and "crony capitalism" Part 1 of a multipart series By Frank Thomas and John Lawrence David Stockman, an integral part of the Reagan...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Evading Taxes as a ‘Human Right’ (?!)
By Doug Porter Say what? Will these people ever stop with the twisting of words? Does it say that in the Bible? Is it in the UN Charter? Did the founders include it in the Constitution on orders from...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Name? Five San Diego Neighborhoods in Search of an Identity
By Avital Aboody About one year ago I moved from Los Angeles to San Diego and began working as the Project Coordinator for the Greater Logan Heights Community Partnership (GLHCP), a collaborative of...
View ArticleInitiative Seeks to Bring California In Line with Other Oil Producing States
Californians for Responsible Economic Development pushing ballot initiative to create oil and gas severance tax by Andy Cohen North Dakota does it. Louisiana does it. Florida too, and Alaska. Even...
View ArticleMath Should Trump Politics in California Pension Debate
by Lou Paulson, President, California Professional Firefighters/Fox and Hounds Daily If there’s one thing the debate over public employees’ pensions has taught us, it’s that California needs to invest...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – The National NRA Convention: No Sane People Allowed
Going Great Guns, Deep in the Heart of Texas By Doug Porter Stories about pushback resulting from votes against the Senate’s most recent efforts at gun legislation are making the rounds this week,...
View ArticleSan Ysidro: From Bi-National Lifestyle to Bi-National Border Region Center?
By Beryl Forman Growing up in the 1970’s in Tijuana, Linda Caballero Sotelo explained that “our mind set was that we had the best of both worlds.” Almost everyone moved freely through the border to...
View ArticleThe Greater Golden Hill Community Development Corporation: Striving to...
By Jim Miller When we at the San Diego Free Press decided to turn our focus to the community of Golden Hill, one of the first people I thought it would be good to talk to was my friend, neighbor, union...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Dougie Manchester’s Minions Twerking the Night Away
By Doug Porter ‘What the hell?’ you’re probably thinking, how did he come up with that headline? I was just reading the UT-San Diego’s editorial page today, something not recommended for the faint of...
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