The San Diego County Board of Supervisors (BOS) cannot decide wisely when it relies on poor staff information.
Need an example? Look at the BOS October 10, 2018, McClellan-Palomar Airport, Agenda Item. Palomar is in the city of Carlsbad.
County staff recommends that the Board approve a 20-Year Palomar Master Plan (PMP) to spend up to $112,000,000 to extend the 4900-foot runway up to 900 feet and to relocate the runway about 100 feet to the north before 2036. [Read more…]
Is it really a scary time for young men and boys? [h/t to Annie L.] [Read more…]
Does taunting work? Knock the Vote intends to find out. Here’s a PSA produced for the campaign by the Acronym group. It slams Millennials for just about all of the negative stereotypes out there. Will it motivate its audience to prove the stereotypes wrong by showing up at the polls on November 6th? I guess we’ll find out in 29 days. [Read more…]
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week contains articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and locally and nationally sourced writers on the confirmation of Kavanaugh, mail in ballots, the Occupy SD troll, Dems gaining in the Assembly, the local Republican congressional pity party, the importance of Tom Thurmond, Carlsbad’s crossroad, poli-trick-ians Summer Stephans and Myrtle Cole, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s feisty, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Music for our Times? Talking Heads – Burning Down the House (and maybe the Senate, too?) [Read more…]
Here’s the Adagio from Khachaturian’s Gayane Ballet Suite, envisioned by Politesseo as a lament for a warming planet. [Read more…]
Traditionally media coverage of elections has focused on the actual election day. It’s time to dump that mindset. If the June primary was any indication (and it was), close to two-thirds of the electorate in San Diego will have already cast their vote before November 6.
Mail-in ballots are headed for the post office this weekend; people will receive them starting on Tuesday (Monday is a holiday). I’m told that most of the early returns from mail-in votes are from people who’d already made up their minds.
I suspect many readers of this publication know who they’re going to vote for in the big name contests. I’m fairly certain many of those same folks don’t know who to vote for in the contest for San Diego Superior Court Office #37. If you were unhappy about Brett Kavanaugh, you might want to know about Gary Kreep. [Read more…]
I still feel my fathers hands
on top of mine
guiding the push reel mower
over lawn
the satisfaction of sweat
put into each cleanly cut line [Read more…]
I’m guessing that when Chris Hayes saw the coverage of Trump’s recent rally in Mississippi, some button got pushed. This is the rally where Trump lamented the disregard for the principle of “Innocent until proven guilty” (particularly as it related to his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh) and yet the crowd later repeatedly chanted “Lock her up” referring to Hilary Clinton’s unsubstantiated misdeeds! Irony is indeed dead.
The more galling aspect of this situation for Chris, though, is the disparity in the treatment of accused citizens—between the privileged few (such as Trump and Kavanaugh) and the rest of us, as evidenced by the treatment of Kalief Browder, the teen arrested in 2010 when sixteen years old, and when unable to post bail, imprisoned for three years in extremely violent conditions at the Robert N. Davoren Center on Riker’s Island while awaiting trial. [Read more…]
Mail-by-vote ballots will be arriving at homes in California next week and, after posting more than three dozen articles about candidates and issue since the June primary, it’s time to wrap up this phase of our election coverage. There were lots of contests I wanted to cover, but couldn’t for lack of time.
My parting shot in this series involves a short-but-sweet essay warning folks about some people NOT to vote for. There are people running for office who you shouldn’t vote for, and then there are candidates are so bad you should consider crossing the street to avoid them if you see them coming your way.
On Monday, we’ll be posting the San Diego Free Press Progressive Voter Guide. The editorial board met last week to consider endorsements; those will be announced in the Guide. We endorsed 14 ballot measures and 37 candidates. Three candidates were so bad they deserved special mention. [Read more…]
Nothing that these Establishment politicians (Republican and Democrat alike) do surprise me anymore, but it still disgusts me. I pray we learn our lesson from June’s election.
Remember when then-candidate, Summer Stephan suggested to the Union-Tribune she was a reformer? Remember when she told voters that she believed law enforcement officers were not above the law? Remember when she said she cared deeply for victims and victims’ families?
All lies. Since being in that seat, she’s cleared every officer involved in the shootings and deaths of San Diegans. Most recently, on September 21, she cleared every officer involved in the death of Earl McNeil although the Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide. [Read more…]
From the Democracy Now! website:
The Trump administration is transferring detained migrant children from shelters across the country to a barren tent city in West Texas. The New York Times reports that hundreds of children are being sent each week from shelters to the tent city, which currently houses 1,600 children. The facility reportedly has no school, and children have only limited access to legal services. The U.S. government is now detaining a record 13,000 migrant children. We speak with Louise Melling, deputy legal director at the ACLU, who says, “We have more children in detention now than ever before.”
