Category: San Diego

by Empower San Diego

On April 18, 2011, KUSI News aired a grossly inaccurate report (“Controversy surrounds latest redistricting effort” -here for the story at KUSI.) about Empower San Diego’s role in the City of San Diego’s redistricting process. Relying on false information, the report suggested that Empower has improper influence on two commissioners whose appointments the organization endorsed.

By Helen Villines / San Diego Citizens for Nuclear Free Neighborhoods

“What if you had just 15 minutes to evacuate, looking around your apartment or house, trying to quickly decide what you will take, how overwhelmed would you be – knowing you couldn’t return for a thousand years,” Rocky Neptun asks the group.

By John Lawrence/Will Blog for Food

There was a discussion Sunday, April 10th, on KUSI Channel 9 with a debate between Irwin Jacobs and Bruce Coons of Save Our Heritage Organization (SOHO). They invited the public to go to the park and see for ourselves the merits of the two proposals and that’s exactly what I did, the results are illustrated in the video below.

Monday, better known as “trash day” in Ocean Beach, is coming up soon. What a beautiful array of blacks, greens and blues await us on each and every street.

Oh…what’s this? What are all these trash barrels doing on their sides? And why are the tops cracked on so many of them?

My faith in the ability of my generation and the one following mine to actually give a damn got a major boost today when I headed down to City College at the (for the under-30 and under-employed set) ungodly hour of 8:00 for the pre-rally to a protest of the educational budget cuts proposed by Governor Jerry Brown.

First off, I’ve got to say that in general, I admire Brown’s apparent willingness to compromise on shrinking the state budget gap with equal measures of cuts and taxes …

When he saw what he had done, he said “Screw you, I’ll make it forty-one.”

[Updated April 17, 2011]

Mayor Sanders has released his two year budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Sanders is once again using our libraries as the mother of all piñatas, beating an obscene, disproportionate 7.4 million dollar reduction out of the library’s current budget.

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders proposed filling a $56.7 million fiscal 2012 deficit by cutting in half the operating hours of libraries and recreation centers in the nation’s eighth-largest city by population….

By Dave Maass / San Diego City Beat

As Congressmember Bob Filner prepares for the next leg of his political career, a potential run for San Diego mayor, we thought it time to tie off one of the loose ends of his last campaign.

On election night, Filner was accosted by an angry mob of Tea Party supporters of his Republican opponent, Nick Popaditch.

Editor: It has finally happened. Ocean Beach’s treasured home-town hamburger joint has finally opened the doors to its second eatery ever – this one in downtown San Diego. And the new place, at 10th Avenue and Broadway, is open just in time for baseball season. All we can say is ‘good-luck Mike and Terry! Don’t forget the little people on your way up! ‘

It happened again this morning (Tuesday, April 5).  The San Diego Union-Tribune ignored a large labor rally in downtown San…

See the full article for photos and video

Here are some photos and video from tonight’s gathering. Frank did a head count early in the rally and counted about 350. The group grew larger as the evening progressed and at its peak he estimates around 500 people. The Labor council passed out about 450 candles. Tune in later for a full account!

On April 4th, We Are One!

Join the Nationwide Day of Action and Solidarity

On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, where he had gone to stand with sanitation workers demanding their dream: The right to bargain collectively for a voice at work and a better life.

SAN DIEGO : Candlelight Solidarity Vigil

6:30pm to 8pm at Civic Center Plaza – 1200 3rd Ave.