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The Ultimate Balancing Act: San Diego Teachers Pull Double-Duty
The Ultimate Balancing Act: San Diego Teachers Pull Double-Duty
Three weeks into the 2020-2021 school year and San Diego families are settling into their new routines. Aug. 31 was the first day of online classes for the San Diego Unified School District when thous ...
18 Sep, 2020
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6 min read
Life Without Conventions: San Diego's Downtown Businesses Find New Path
Life Without Conventions: San Diego's Downtown Businesses Find New Path
Aaron Trites says he’s always known he wanted to open his own comic book store someday. That day arrived in December 2018 when he opened the doors of Now or Never Comics in downtown San Diego, just a ...
16 Sep, 2020
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4 min read
Climate Disasters Demand Immediate, Equitable Action
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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4 min read
AB 5, COVID-19 Puts Strain on San Diego Husband and Wife Artists
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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3 min read
San Diego Man Killed by Border Agents Remembered at Chicano Park
San Diego Man Killed by Border Agents Remembered at Chicano Park
This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.us. At San Diego’s iconic Chicano Park in the Barrio Logan neighborhood, a group of artists, led by renown ...
15 Sep, 2020
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4 min read
Letter to the Editor: It Is Time 'We The People' End the Plutocracy
Letter to the Editor: It Is Time 'We The People' End the Plutocracy
We the people are not a commodity for our elected officials to trade for wealth and inclusion in a tyrannical plutocracy that funds their political campaigns. Corrupt elected officials are empowering ...
14 Sep, 2020
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2 min read
Vote ‘Yes’ on Prop. 20 Because a Violent Crime by Any Other Name is Still Violent
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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5 min read
SANDAG’s Five Big Moves: Trains v. Technology
SANDAG’s Five Big Moves: Trains v. Technology
SANDAG, the region's planning board, proposed its 2021 Regional Plan, titled the "5 Big Moves." The agency, which estimates the plan will cost roughly $177 billion over 30 years, are calling the five ...
11 Sep, 2020
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7 min read
Homeless: Housing First vs. Services & Housing
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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5 min read
Coronavirus Shutdowns Are Hitting Vietnamese-Owned Nail Salons Hard
Coronavirus Shutdowns Are Hitting Vietnamese-Owned Nail Salons Hard
Tracy Tran’s years of savings are gone. Most went into the nearly $13,500 monthly rent she says she’s been paying for her shuttered business since March, when coronavirus public health orders forced h ...
09 Sep, 2020
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5 min read