The Stupak/Pitts Amendment is the most serious threat to women’s reproductive rights we’ve seen in decades, and it’s up to us to make sure it doesn’t become law. The Senate is mobilizing now to finish their health care bill, and we have no time to waste to tell Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that new [...]

John Marelius, political reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune, presented to the Club’s Nov. 14 meeting his explanation of why gaining passage of Democratic legislative programs at the state and national level has been such a challenge. His lively discussion of factors affecting the electoral and legislative process proved to be a crash course in [...]

Club members elected the recommended slate of officers for 2010 at the November 14 meeting. Twenty members who could not attend the meeting voted by absentee ballot and 25 members who attended also voted, exceeding the quorum requirement in the EDC bylaws. EDC officers will be sworn in at the December holiday party and take office January 1, 2010. Between [...]

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of monthly reports from City Council member Olga Diaz on issues, events and activities in Escondido. Marriott Hotel Project Escondido has been in the process of securing a full service hotel. After years of negotiations, the Marriott Hotel project is no longer under consideration. A variety of [...]

After emerging from a close House vote, the health reform bill is being considered by the Senate. Observers are closely watching negotations on access to abortion services, the fate of the public option and, of course, how the reforms will be funded. Reid says health bill will be done by Christmas The New York Times, November 11, [...]

North County Times reporter David Garrick takes a look at Olga’s first year in office, saying most local leaders praise her, but there are some she has “irritated.” Read the story in the North County Times