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To Fight Depression, San Diego Educator Offers Unique Program
Before Social and Emotional Learning became widely recognized as a critical component of teen lives, Marisa Fogelman was well ahead of the curve. Fogelman spent two decades developing a curriculu ...
14 Dec, 2020
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12 min read
Is Proportional Representation the Future of Political Reform?
Momentum continues to build for broad systemic changes to how US citizens elect their public officials. Reforms like ranked choice voting and nonpartisan primaries are growing in popularity as voters ...
09 Dec, 2020
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3 min read
San Diego Democrats Promised a Progressive Future — We Will Hold Them Accountable to It
This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Email it to hoa@ivn.usThe year of 2020 has been one of the most challenging in recent memory. While our society was, and continues to be, devastat ...
08 Dec, 2020
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4 min read
Abolishing The Electoral College Could Have Many Unintended Consequences
It’s been a month since Election Day, and we still don’t know who won the 2020 election! While it’s looking more and more clear every day that Joe Biden will be inaugurated in January, Donald Trump ha ...
07 Dec, 2020
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14 min read
Can Gavin Newsom Use the Pandemic to Beat Back Homelessness?
If $800 million wasn’t a sufficiently appetizing carrot to get his audience to buy more motels, Gov. Gavin Newsom could dangle a more spiritual enticement: less time burning in the afterlife. At ...
02 Dec, 2020
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13 min read
Despite Reform Gains, Partisan Interests Still Largely Control Redistricting Process
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Next year's redistricting landscape is, at best, a mixed bag for good ...
24 Nov, 2020
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8 min read
Trump Is Right About Rigged Elections, But Maybe Not The Way You Think
The 2016 election seems like a distant memory from a lifetime ago. But 2020 isn't really qualitatively different, just more of what 2016 was. We're seeing that wild year's ghosts of partisanship in ov ...
23 Nov, 2020
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7 min read
Not Dire, For Now: California Expects $26 Billion Windfall Despite Pandemic
The good news: The recession California officials predicted in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic has not been as dire as they thought it would be, leaving the state with a $26 billion windf ...
19 Nov, 2020
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4 min read
What to Expect from San Diego’s Todd Gloria In Excelsis
This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.usAnd then there was Todd Gloria. San Diego’s first gay man, first person of color, first hip (surely you have heard ...
19 Nov, 2020
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6 min read
Trump's Own Administration Calls 2020 The Most Secure Election in US History
Editor's Note: The following article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.The wall of official resistance to President Trump's de ...
17 Nov, 2020
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4 min read