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Measure C Will Correct a Decades-Long Battle for Voter Rights in San Diego Schools
This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.usThis November, San Diegans will vote on Measure C titled, "Charter Amendment: District-Only Elections for School B ...
18 Sep, 2020
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Prop. 15 Will Create a Just, Equitable Future for All
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-r ...
17 Sep, 2020
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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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