Politics
Sitting Pretty! Councilman Todd Gloria has a free ride to a second term By Manny Cruz You don’t have to go to a lot of trouble to find Todd Gloria. The man who has occupied the District 3 seat on the San Diego City Council for nearly four years seems to be everywhere. In coffee [...]
Not FDR, Not Reagan — Obama is Herbert Hoover
By Roger Hedgecock When President Herbert Hoover persuaded Congress to raise federal taxes after the stock market crash of Oct. 29, 1929, he transformed an economic downturn into a Great Depression. Obama is condemned to Hoover’s fate by repeating Hoover’s mistake. A myriad of new taxes in Obama’s health care “reform” and the financial regulation [...]
Homeless Solutions
San Diego needs a permanent homeless services and housing center By Councilman Todd Gloria Shelter is one of our most basic needs as people. With more of our San Diego neighbors without places to live than ever before, addressing chronic and family homelessness requires leadership, sustained focus and dynamic regional action. Almost 500 local people [...]
Paying for it all
By James Goldsborough You have to search deep into history to find other presidents who had to face up to so many problems with so few resources. President Obama is trying to do three big things at once at a time when economic stagnation, deficits and debt make it hard to do any one of [...]
All the news – almost
By James Goldsborough It’s been the dirty little secret of newspapers for 150 years: Print all the news that’s fit to print except news about newspapers. Since the New York days of Bennett, Greeley, Pulitzer and Hearst, reporters have been sent out to stick their noses into everybody’s business but their own, something that has [...]
Immigration Idiocy
By James Goldsborough “The law is an ass,” said Micawber, and there are times one must agree. American Apparel is a giant garment maker in Los Angeles, a successful company whose “Made in U.S.A.” labels on slacks, shirts and dresses shock customers used to seeing “Made in China” on everything they buy. Employing some 10,000 [...]
Repairing California
By James Goldsborough Having just driven the state for the first time in a few years, conversed with Californians about all manner of problems and observed places I hadn’t seen for a while, I return to San Diego in a dubious state of mind. I wrote recently that California’s population in 1978, the year Proposition [...]
Privilege or Prejudice?
By James O. Goldsborough Seigniorage is not a word that everyone carries on the tip of his tongue, but in the present economic situation it’s an important word to know. Long after banks are back on their feet, the regulatory system is functioning again and Congress has done something about bankers getting million dollar bonuses [...]
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