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DC-Based Fulcrum and California-Based IVN Partner to Launch San Diego Local News Affiliate
San Diego, Calif.- California based IVN.us and Washington DC based TheFulcrum.us are the nation’s leading nonpartisan news and information publications focused primarily on political reform and relate...
Will California Change Policing?
It’s crunch month for California legislators who promised sweeping reforms in response to the police killing of George Floyd and the protests his death unleashed.Yet some social justice advocates doub...
California’s New Ethnic Studies Curriculum Leaves Many Cultures Out
This is an independent opinion. Want to respond? Write your own commentary! Email hoa@ivn.us.Thanks to the hard work of the California Department of Education, the new draft Ethnic Studies Model Curri...
It's Time for California to Set Clear Goals for Housing Affordability
This is an independent opinion. Want to respond? Write your own commentary! Email hoa@ivn.us. Housing affordability is a political football that has recently emerged as a campaign issue. The pandemic-...
Pandemic Spreading Like Wildfire in California Prisons, Employees Say
Gilbert Polanco is described as a man who was “proud of his job” and represented "the best of CDCR.” After working at San Quentin State Prison for three decades, Polanco became infected with COVID-19 ...
Let’s Stop Another Wall Street Takeover of Single-Family Homes
This is an independent opinion. Want to respond? Write your own commentary! Email hoa@ivn.us. The Great Recession sparked a massive transfer of wealth in California and the rest of the nation. It happ...
County of San Diego's Discriminatory COVID-19 Practices Are Hurting Latinos
This is an independent opinion. Want to respond? Write your own commentary! Email hoa@ivn.us. There are three groups of people who have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in different ways. First, the...
The Heart of San Diego: How The Asian Economy Keeps Beating
Allen Chan is a fixture in the Convoy District. In fact, it would be difficult to tell any story about this Pan-Asian community without talking to Chan, a judicious figure who stands out among the hun...
San Diego Council President Georgette Gómez on 'Pandemic Through the Lens of Equity and Inclusion'
Prior to Governor Newsom’s announcement of state assistance for California’s immigrant and undocumented workers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, TPR spoke with San Diego City Council President, Geor...
Uber, Lyft and Why California’s War Over Gig Work is Just Beginning
This week, a yearslong battle over how gig companies should treat the hundreds of thousands of Californians who find work through their apps finally came to a head. It also proved that even after high...