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Orlando Sentinel: Don't Let Party Bosses Rob You of Your Right to Vote
ORLANDO, FLA. - Amendment 3 in Florida, the ballot measure that would adopt nonpartisan top-two open primaries for state executive and legislative elections, received a major endorsement from the Orla ...
16 Sep, 2020
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Climate Disasters Demand Immediate, Equitable Action
This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.usThree of the largest wildfires ever to scorch California are burning right now. Millions are choking on ash up and ...
16 Sep, 2020
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Bill’s Defeat Keeps Undocumented Garment Workers in Meager Wages
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, Francis ...
16 Sep, 2020
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How to Make Sense of Affirmative Action in UC Admissions
Is affirmative action “the enemy of white people who are contractors and Americans of Asian descent who are trying to get into the University of California at Berkeley,” as one influential critic call ...
16 Sep, 2020
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We Need Chief Elections Officials to be Umpires, Not Players
Editor's Note: This article originally published on Governing and has been republished on IVN with permission from the author.Election specialists and national security experts have been gaming ...
15 Sep, 2020
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AB 5, COVID-19 Puts Strain on San Diego Husband and Wife Artists
Before 2020, Court Jones and his wife, Debbie Burmeister, said they thrived in the arts industry, finding an abundance of work in drawing live, digital caricatures at parties and trade shows. But when ...
15 Sep, 2020
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Vote ‘Yes’ on Prop. 20 Because a Violent Crime by Any Other Name is Still Violent
This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.usWe've all heard the famous quote from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet — "What's in a name?" — which suggests that t ...
11 Sep, 2020
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Homeless: Housing First vs. Services & Housing
Housing First is a program developed by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness that requires that homeless individuals receive stable and permanent housing before they can benefit from other ser ...
11 Sep, 2020
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YIMBYs, NIMBYs, ‘Regular People’ and SB 1120
The Embarcadero Institute released a report in September titled, "Double Counting in the Latest Housing Needs Assessment."The acronyms stand for “Yes in my backyard” and “Not in my backyard.”The term ...
11 Sep, 2020
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A First: Ohio Will Show Voters How Many Absentee Ballots Remain Uncounted in Election Results
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Ohio will provide updates starting election night on the number ...
10 Sep, 2020
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