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Represent San Diego and Independent Voter Project announced this month it will host a free screening of the award-winning documentary, “UnRepresented.” The documentary by Daniel Falconer features accounts by democracy advocates, academics and government officials of the “corrupt dealings” they have witnessed. Organizers said the documentary also offers “ideas for fixing the system, offered by concerned citizens on both the left and the right.” “The corruption described in ‘UnRepresented’ isn’t

This is an independent opinion. IVN San Diego has invited all campaigns, including No on Measure A, to write a commentary. Have an opinion of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.us The global COVID-19 pandemic has made something inescapably clear: Access to a home is a matter of public safety. Without attainable, affordable housing, the health of individuals, families and the San Diego community are at risk. The dire need for housing is why I authored and have successfully moved a $900 mil

Incredible investigative work1 by Dorian Hargrove and the NBC7 investigative team laid out how City of San Diego officials allowed a questionable land deal to go through that generated significant profits for politically connected and influential special interests while causing taxpayers to waste hundreds of millions of dollars. The lack of scrutiny of the deal by the mayor’s office, members of the City Council and the city attorney’s office raises a lot of big questions. While NBC’s very detail

Some San Diegans are asking why there aren’t Republican candidates in the citywide campaigns for city attorney, mayor, and City Council. The quick answer is that local elections have always been nonpartisan, meaning that the top two vote getters advance to November regardless of party affiliation. In fact, decades ago, these races were truly nonpartisan. Political parties had little or no role. Today, the political party involvement is significant despite the official nonpartisan status of the

Disclaimer: Chad Peace is an attorney for the Independent Voter Project and represents 6 of the individual plaintiffs in this case. ‍ SAN DIEGO, CALIF. - If we said that citizens have religious freedom, as long as they joined a state-sanctioned church, that argument would roundly be dismissed as absurd. But when it comes to the right to vote in California’s presidential primary, that is exactly the argument of the state of California. Earlier this year, the Independent Voter Project and seven

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

This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.us When the COVID-19 crisis forced schools across California to physically close in March, the San Diego Unified School Board moved quickly to make sure that students who depend on school breakfasts and lunches would continue to receive daily meals. In order to prioritize where to first establish distribution sites for school meals, the school board identified the neighborhoods where the highest percentage of st

This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.us This November, San Diegans will vote on Measure C titled, "Charter Amendment: District-Only Elections for School Board Members." Measure C seeks to correct a decades-long battle for voter rights in San Diego Unified elections, establishing district-only contests for school board candidates, which will be consistent with all other San Diego elected positions. It will also bring the City Charter into compliance

Public education is failing communities of color. It's time to address the issue and stop defending the indefensible.

This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.us We've all heard the famous quote from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet — "What's in a name?" — which suggests that the name of things do not affect what they really are. But what happens when the thing in question is a crime, and the name given that crime could result in the early release of a criminal? This is actually what's been happening in California since the passage of Proposition 57, where a long list