EDC is the subject of a feature story in the North County Times (Monday, April 12, 2010), resulting from the Club of the Year award by the San Diego County Democratic Party. Here’s the beginning of reporter David Garrick’s story:
Democrats have been mostly an afterthought in staunchly conservative Escondido for decades, but the Escondido Democrat [...]

UPDATE: A memorial service for Midge Costanza has been scheduled at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 24, 2010 at the Town & Country Hotel, 500 Hotel Circle N. in the Mission Valley area of San Diego. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations be made to the Midge Costanza Institute for the Study [...]

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César Chávez Day is observed in California on March 31 of each year. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said of Chavez: “Our Golden State is proud to be home to people who selflessly dedicate their lives for the good of others, and perhaps no one exemplifies the unbreakable spirit and strength of service more than César [...]

by Charles Cleveland
Murray Hill, Inc., a progressive PR firm in Maryland, is making a bid to be the first corporate member of Congress.  Their effort appears to be tongue-in-cheek, with the aim of calling attention to the potential consequences of the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission, which gives domestic and foreign corporations the green light to [...]

It would do any liberal/progressive/Democrat good to read the blistering op-ed in the Washington Post online edition today (Friday, March 12). Former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines takes on the allegedly “fair and balanced” Fox News cable channel. But he also targets the mainstream news media for not challenging what he calls “a [...]

Air America, the only national liberal voice available to free radio listeners, has gone off the air. In an announcement posted to its website yesterday, the service said it would file for bankruptcy “to carry out an orderly winding-down of the business.”
The closure ends a six-year run and leaves yet another gap in the progressive [...]

Liberty One Radio will announce Jan. 4th that it has completed its SEC filings and is now ready to accept investors.
The enterprise had previously said it would be “on the air” with progressive radio in the San Diego area on that date. “Broadcasting will begin in a few weeks,” says the announcement, “and full-time broadcasting [...]