By Katy Jae Waldman
San Diego is a beacon of equality, progress, and acceptance that makes it unlike anywhere else in the world. It is a vibrant and lively place with a diverse and powerful
community. San Diego takes care of its people, and we are proud of it. But unfortunately, the people that keep us clothed, fed, and caffeinated are suffering at the hands of their employers.
Amidst their rapid growth, it has become clear that Better Buzz Coffee is no exception to this. It seems that their pitch decks and investor meetings left out how their wageworkers were to share the spoils of their achievement. Their profits are soaring, but their workers are hurting. We reject that. With the support of The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 135 (UFCW) the baristas, trainers, and shift supervisors of Better Buzz Hillcrest are filing an election petition with the National Labor Relations Board on this day, April 19th, 2024.
We believe that all workers deserve access to benefits, fair wages, and a safe work environment. At Better Buzz Hillcrest, these needs have not been met. We are fighting for the following and more.
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Editordude: Several years ago, before the pandemic, I spoke with San Diego historian and archaeologist Richard Carrico at an OB Historical Society event about his well-known book on San Diego’s Kumeyaay native peoples, Strangers in a Stolen Land. What had caught my attention in his book was a map of San Diego County with the locations of major Kumeyaay villages and I asked him about it, as I was at the time on a quest to learn more about them.
It had dawned on me that there are no markers for the major villages — even those that had been in what’s now Mission Valley — and I wanted to enlist Carrico’s assistance in a project I wanted to take on about identifying, locating and commemorating the Kumeyaay’s main villages within San Diego. Needless to say, the project was sidetracked. But here is an article from KPBS that is a beginning to fulfilling that quest.
By Amita Sharma / KPBS / April 18, 2024
Scan the crowd-sourced Historical Marker Database’s 375 entries for San Diego County and you’ll see a lot about Spanish colonial, early American settler and U.S. military pasts.
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By chloris creator /Daily Kos / Friday, April 19, 2024
There’s lots of good news out there! Polling looks better for President Biden! tRump is sleeping in the courtroom! And he is IN a courtroom.
And there are bad things that did not happen! Gee, last weekend it looked as if things were getting much, much worse in the Middle East! (Note: there were some bombs last night. That’s not good — but the Biden admin is working to deescalate.) The Senate dispensed with the stupid Mayorkas impeachment.
But sometimes it’s hard to feel it, to recognize it. Partly because we all have some PTSD, and partly because too much of the media is droning on and on about the former guy.
Maybe we just need soundtracks to lift us up.
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By Paul Krueger
Mayor Todd Gloria is bragging about our city’s selection as a finalist for the “Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.”
“This award honors feasible and scalable solutions to housing affordability,” the Mayor boasted on Twitter/X.
The non-profit that sponsors the awards was equally effusive. “The City has taken ADUs to the next level by allowing homeowners to build additional ADUs on their property, an unprecedented move that allows the City to rapidly increase (its) supply and density of affordable housing,” said Hannah Gable, Director of Strategy and Operations for Ivory Innovations.
But even a cursory Google search would have given Ms. Gable pause about slavishly embracing the City’s willful distortion of the actual results of its “Bonus ADU” program.
Fact is, the Bonus ADU program has utterly failed to provide even one unit of the intended — and desperately needed — very-low or low-income housing.
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The City of San Diego has just sent out public notices for two new projects proposed for West Point Loma Boulevard, one at 5184 and the other at 4954.
5184 West Pt Loma
This is an application for a Coastal Development Permit and related permit to demolish the existing single-story duplex and build a 3-story building with 4 rental units. When and if it is built it will be a 3,865 square-foot multi-dwelling unit residential building with associated site improvements at 5184 & 5184 1 /2 West Point Loma. It will be a Process 4 permit application for the 0.1 -acre site.
This project should go before the OB Planning Board.
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