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Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. ‍ Voting in the presidential election ends in 40 days, and states are still making adjustments to their rules and procedures. The coronavirus pandemic, along with a wave of litigation from voting rights groups and Democrats, has resulted in 34 states deciding to make it easier to cast a ballot this fall — either voluntarily or as the result of a lawsuit. Most of

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The New York Times and has been republished on IVN with permission from the author. ‍ In his farewell address to the nation, President Dwight Eisenhower issued a warning: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” Eisenhower, who in his military

This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.us The city of San Diego has been drowning in public-pension quicksand for at least two decades. Back in the early 2000s, when the city’s pension system was under-funded by $1 billion, politicians and other high-level officials were accused by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission of “awarding generous new benefits to retirees while severely underfinancing the pension accounts” and

IVN San Diego Editor's Note: This Supreme Court ruling could have a big effect on San Diego. A proposed hotel tax increase came just short of winning a two-thirds vote in March. Supporters will likely seek a court ruling on the measure. The following is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Email it to hoa@ivn.us. In a roundabout, passive way, the California Supreme Court last week handed a big victory to the advocates of higher taxes. Without comment, the justices declined to take up

With more than 3 million people, California’s K-12 Latino student population could be its own country. In fact, there are more Latinos studying in our public schools than there are people in the oil-rich country of Qatar. But while Qatar boasts the highest income per capita in the world, Latino youth have been hamstrung due to decades of disinvestment in their local schools and communities. This November, Californians have an opportunity to rectify these inequities at the ballot box by passing

Aaron Trites says he’s always known he wanted to open his own comic book store someday. That day arrived in December 2018 when he opened the doors of Now or Never Comics in downtown San Diego, just a 20-minute walk from the Convention Center. It was better than he’s ever imagined. “San Diego is an amazing comic book city,” said Trites. “July of last year was far and away my best month; not just for the few days of Comic-Con, it was the entire month — business was gangbusters.” Trites said reve

Before he was hospitalized with COVID-19, before his roommates kicked him out of their shared apartment because of his illness, before he found himself unhoused for the first time in his life, Francisco Tzul noticed people at his downtown Los Angeles garment factory start to cough. In a few days, they would disappear. Tzul, 56, is an undocumented worker in the city’s massive garment industry, one that relies on men and women like him to produce shirts, blouses and skirts for major fashion brand

Paradise Hill resident Alicia Muhammad says said she loves chatting with her son every other day, but at 33 cents-per-minute — she can’t talk very long. Her son, Reginald Harmon, is incarcerated at the George Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa where inmates must pay to use the phone. "The calls are 33 cents per minute but the first minute or two you’re talking to the operator — you still have to pay for those minutes," Muhammad said. "Our calls last about 15 to 20 minutes. We spoke for 40 m

‍ Election Day Information * IMPORTANT: The deadline to drop off your mail-in ballot is 8 p.m. Nov. 3. Find your closest drop off location here. * If your mail ballot was lost or damaged or you forgot to register, you can vote in person at your local polling location. Learn more about voting conditionally here. * You can vote in person from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 31 through Nov. 3 (Election Day. Find your polling place here. Wondering if your ballot was counted? Track your ballot here. __

Proposition 25 would replace the money bail system. The following summaries are provided by Ballotpedia. How does Bail Work in California?‍ As of 2019, California utilized a cash bail system to release detained criminal suspects before their trials. Suspects paid a cash bond to be released from jail pending trial with the promise to return to court for trial and hearings. The cash bond was repaid to suspects after their criminal trials were completed, no matter the outcome.[2] The Judicial Co