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We Need to Avoid a Managed Democracy — An Election Where the Incumbent Never Loses
This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.usThe New York Times ran a story recently about Marina Udgodskaya, a cleaning woman who ran for office against her b ...
28 Oct, 2020
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3 min read
What’s Even Scarier Than SeaWorld’s Spooktacular? A San Diego Without the Marine Park
Her son’s third birthday party and his preschool field trip, those are the SeaWorld memories Anna M. holds dear. As a season passholder, she gushed about how fortunate children in San Diego are to get ...
28 Oct, 2020
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7 min read
Here’s How California Keeps Early Votes Secret Until Election Day
Some county registrars lock up equipment and threaten dismissal to protect California’s early votes from being tallied before election day.The state legislature changed election law this year so elect ...
27 Oct, 2020
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3 min read
How VotePact Gives You Leverage Over the Duopoly
VotePact is a voting strategy that advocates that people vote for their actual preferences by pairing up with someone on the other side of the Democratic-Republican divide. So people can strategically ...
26 Oct, 2020
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4 min read
Employees, Families Worried As California Prison COVID-19 Cases Pass 19,600
Rancho Peñasquitos mother Cheryl Canson said she’s become increasingly concerned about her son, Jordan Jackson, an inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento. Jackson, who was sentenced to 35 ...
26 Oct, 2020
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4 min read
Shutting Down The Two-Party Duopoly Is on the Ballot in 2020
On October 21, US billionaire businessman Mark Cuban tweeted that the duopoly he would shut down “in a nanosecond” if he could was the Republican and Democratic Parties, asserting that their anti-comp ...
23 Oct, 2020
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4 min read
Replacing Cash Bail: Fairer Justice or Robopocalypse?
California is either about to right decades of inequality between rich and poor defendants by eliminating cash bail, or it’s about to turn over its justice system to robots. The question of what to do ...
23 Oct, 2020
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5 min read
California's Community Colleges Are Getting Shortchanged
This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Email it to hoa@ivn.usCalifornia’s 116 community colleges receive a fraction of the per-student spending compared to public universities in Califo ...
22 Oct, 2020
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4 min read
How Engaged Citizens Can End Corruption and Create Change
Represent San Diego and Independent Voter Project presented a screening of Daniel Falconer’s award-winning anti-corruption documentary, "UnRepresented," to an audience of 120 democracy reform advocate ...
21 Oct, 2020
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7 min read
Tax Measure Rejected in March Could Still Pass in San Diego
The San Diego City Council on Tuesday discussed the option of filing a lawsuit that would allow the passage of Measure C — a special tax measure that would increase lodging taxes — despite it failing ...
20 Oct, 2020
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2 min read