By Adrian Florido, Voice of San Diego Three years ago, as the debate over immigration policy raged nationally, it raged in Escondido, too. In 2006, the City Council passed a rental ordinance prohibiting landlords from renting to illegal immigrants. The Police Department increased its use of traffic checkpoints targeting unlicensed drivers in an effort, the [...]

Internal RNC Memo: “Engage In Every Activity” To Slow Down Health Care Reform by Chris Nava The Huffington Post reports that an internal GOP memo calls for delay as a strategy to damage efforts at health care reform. Read more here. A call to Political Action: If this memo isn’t enough to stir us to [...]

by Chris Nava A highly successful rally in support of Single Payer and Public Option outside Congressman Brian Bilbray’s office in Solana Beach last Thursday drew the attention of the local media. KUSI and Fox News TV crews covered the event, as some of the local papers. The rally brought together groups from PDA, the [...]

So another short-form rent review board hearing (for Ponderosa Mobilehome Park) another grant of a rent increase. This time only one resident spoke. Another speaker spoke of a class action suit against the park owner that may (I’m totally guessing here) have something to do with an electrical fire that took place in the park [...]

Sheila Kuehl, former California Legislator and author of the Single Payer Bill (SB810), offers her opinion and answers questions to supporters of California’s Single Payer who are not sure what to do about supporting Public Option.  Kuehl  shows how  the work in California with SB 810 helps  Public Option and how we can continue to [...]

In this third in a series of new essays, Sheila Kuehl describes an oft-repeated dance the Republicans playwith the lives of Californians when budget  considerations hit the floor every year.     The dance goes something like this:  “by adamantly refusing to support even the smallest of revenue increases, including fees, the Republican members of the Legislature [...]

Thursday July 16th, noon — Single-Payer Healthcare Rally at sidewalk in front of Congressman Brian Bilbray’s office in Solana Beach at 462 Stevens Ave. EDC members and fellow activists: This is an opportunity for all of us to take a strong message to Brian Bilbray. Let us make this a powerful event. The greater the [...]

The historical separation between the availability of water and planning for residential, commercial or industrial development is ending, according to a presentation at the Club’s July 11 meeting. In the past, cities set targets for development with little input from water providers, who are required by state law to provide for future demand. Laws passed [...]