Hell Freezes Over: California Conservative Launches Initiative to Raise...
By Doug Porter Earlier this year California Gov. Jerry Brown signed off on legislation to increase the minimum wage. The measure would raise the current $8 minimum wage to $9 an hour next July 1 and...
View ArticleHoliday Shopping Goes Local, Independent
By Jeff Milchen /Common Dreams For those suffering from too much quality time with their families, the chain stores are poised to offer an escape by opening Thanksgiving Day. Before your dinner is...
View ArticleRestoring Fairness to the World of California Water
By Kate Poole/Natural Resources Defense Council The Los Angeles Daily News penned a noteworthy editorial last week titled “California is drowning in ancient and unfair water rules.” It’s noteworthy...
View ArticleTens of Thousands Protest, Over 100 Arrested in Black Friday Challenge to...
By Josh Eidelson / Salon / Originally published on Nov. 29, 2013, at 4:40 p.m. Organizers say 111 people were arrested in eight Black Friday civil disobedience actions against Wal-Mart, with more...
View ArticleGoodwill Gets Thrifty With Many Disabled Employees, Pays Pennies For Hours of...
By Annie Lane Having relied on Goodwill for years as the place to drop off my "unwanteds" in the hope they would find new life with people who could better appreciate them (the tax write off was a nice...
View ArticleOn Black Friday: I Would Prefer Not To
By Jim Miller As the Salon story reposted here on Black Friday noted there were about 1,500 protests around the country on our annual day of consumer madness mostly designed to shine a light on the...
View ArticleThe Last Refuge of Sore Losers: UT-San Diego Proposes Splitting California in...
By Doug Porter The editorial board at UT-San Diego finally crossed the line from delusional to just flat out insane this weekend. After reading Sunday’s paper a rational human being might even be open...
View ArticleThe GOP’s Latest Dirty Trick – A Fake California Covered Healthcare Website
By Doug Porter After two months of regularly hijacking the 24 hour news cycle with horror stories about the Affordable Healthcare Act, Republicans here in California reached a new low this week. They...
View ArticlePublic Banking: How a Public Bank Could Benefit San Diego – Part 4
By John Lawrence In this fourth part of our series on Public Banking (check out Parts 1 - 3 here, here and here), we explore how a Public Bank could benefit the taxpayers and citizens of the City of...
View ArticleListen Up, Budget Cutters. Austerity Can Lead to Blood on the Streets, Even...
Researchers find statistical evidence that austerity policies are linked to explosive unrest. By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet Squeeze and push. Punish and strain. Since the global financial crisis...
View Article“The Defining Challenge of Our Time”: Four Things Obama Should Do To Really...
By Jim Miller Just as he did last summer during the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, President Obama addressed the issue of economic inequality last week during a speech on the minimum wage...
View ArticleOccupy-Linked Lawsuit Settled: Registering Voters Outside City Hall is No...
By Doug Porter Perhaps the most outrageous of the arrests made two years ago at the height of San Diego’s Occupy Movement was that of Ray Lutz, activist and former Congressional Candidate. On Nov 29,...
View ArticleMillions of ‘Missing Workers’ Continue to Make the Monthly Jobs Reports Look...
By Meteor Blades / Daily Kos The latest job growth report—released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics—would in normal times be an unalloyed piece of good news. The official unemployment rate fell...
View ArticleHow Low Will They Go?
Where will the negative campaigning in the San Diego mayoral race take us? By Andy Cohen Negative campaigning works. It’s a simple fact of our political world, otherwise it wouldn’t be such a constant....
View ArticleVolunteers Needed for San Diego’s Homeless Census Count
By Doug Porter The Regional Task Force on the Homeless is seeking over one thousand volunteers to assist in counting homeless individuals in San Diego on January 24, 2014. The Point In Time Count...
View ArticleSan Diego’s Thomas Jefferson School of Law Slashes Jobs, Salaries, and Budget
By Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money/ Dec 12, 2013 The new dean at TJSL has apparently been brought in to clean up the mess created by his predecessor, and he’s not being too shy about the fact:...
View ArticleRobert Reich: 3 Reasons Why the Budget Deal is a Raw Deal
In fact, the only good thing about it is that right-wingers hate it By Robert Reich /Robert Reich's Blog About the only good thing that can be said about the budget deal just patched together by House...
View ArticlePutting the David Alvarez Mayoral Candidacy into a National Context
By Doug Porter While many of the issues at hand for San Diego voters in the upcoming mayoral runoff election may be local, there is a bigger picture being watched by political observers nationwide....
View ArticleTrucking Companies to California: Your Puny Laws Don’t Apply to Us
By Jon Zerolnick/Capital & Main Several leading port trucking companies have taken a bold new position in the ongoing battle over whether or not they are misclassifying drivers as independent...
View ArticleIt’s Off to the Races! City Council Sets February 11th Mayoral Election Date,...
By Doug Porter “Bring it on!” That was the reaction of supporters of the Barrio Logan Community plan yesterday after the City Council voted to place a referendum sponsored by maritime industry...
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