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Mayoral Candidate Barbara Bry on San Diego City’s Path to Economic Recovery
After 18 months of negotiations, this week, the City of San Diego finalized the sale of the Mission Valley Stadium to San Diego State University West for mixed-use redevelopment. TPR caught up with Sa ...
14 Aug, 2020
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14 min read
Migrant Students Work in Fields During COVID School Closures | CalMatters
Sisters Maria and Jennifer Salvador start their days before the sun. The Southern California teenagers report to work at an Oxnard strawberry farm with one goal: To harvest as many bright red strawber ...
14 Aug, 2020
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8 min read
Today’s Grapes of Wrath Descendants: The Insecure Future is Now
This is an independent opinion. Want to respond? Write your own commentary! Email hoa@ivn.us. John Steinbeck’s 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and film by the same name, “The Grapes of Wrath,” is co ...
13 Aug, 2020
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4 min read
Nonpartisan Reformers Are Ready for Another Historic Year
With under 3 months until election day, enthusiasm for nonpartisan election reform has hit monumental levels. NANR members are on track to make 2020 another historic year for reform.That’s why NANR is ...
13 Aug, 2020
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5 min read
What California Knows About Kamala Harris
More than any other vice presidential contender in a generation, Kamala Harris’ biography is singularly Californian. Born and bussed to school in Berkeley, tested by San Francisco’s cut-throat municip ...
12 Aug, 2020
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17 min read
Should the State Investigate Local Police Shootings? California Rethinks its Resistance
If officers shot and killed Sean Monterrosa in Connecticut or New York — instead of in Vallejo, California — a state agency would investigate the June 2 incident, when a police officer reportedly mist ...
11 Aug, 2020
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13 min read
From Internet Rights to Streeteries, How the Pandemic is Changing Working From Home
Coronavirus has reshaped how Californians live, learn and work in uneven ways. The pandemic has exposed the state’s long-standing digital divide with a significant share of low-income and rural househ ...
10 Aug, 2020
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6 min read
Iowa Is Officially No Longer The Only State with a Lifetime Ban On Felons Voting
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Iowa's governor decreed Wednesday that most felons in the state ...
06 Aug, 2020
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2 min read
These 24 States Have Already Made Voting Easier in 2020
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.With fewer than a hundred days to the presidential election, almost h ...
03 Aug, 2020
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3 min read
New Report Warns Campaign Finance Loophole Invites Foreign Interference in Elections
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Businesses that finance super PACs could be exploited by foreign ...
30 Jul, 2020
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2 min read