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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 doubt that politicians’ stomachs for change are as strong as their rhetoric: A Senate bill to excommunicate corrupt or misbehaving cops may be denied a floor vote, while another measure to involve the attorney general in certain deadly force investigations is gaining new opposition from those who say

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 Curriculum is headed in the right direction, but many groups are still being left out and that is unacceptable. Ethnic studies has always focused on giving a voice to those who have historically been ignored, misunderstood, or marginalized, and without question African American, Latino American, Asian

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-driven fallout on renters, owners and homeless is going to keep this issue hot. On top of that, housing prices just keep going up. For example, in San Diego home prices rose 6 percent over the last year, and despite the pandemic, Zillow projects they will fall by less than 1 percent within the next

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. ‍ The Postal Service is warning the two biggest Midwest presidential battlegrounds, Pennsylvania and Michigan, that much of their election mail won't get delivered on time because the states' absentee ballot deadlines are too tight. That sounding of the alarm bells preceded President Trump's explicit declarations this week that he wanted to deny the USPS an emerg

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 and died Aug. 9 — two weeks before his 30th wedding anniversary. He was 55. Polanco is one of nine California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) employees to have died from COVID-19, a disease that, according to staff who spoke anonymously to IVN San Diego, described as a wildfire

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, there are those who choose to hunker down and make all attempts to avoid even minimal interactions. Second, there are those who choose to not maintain social distancing and, therefore, are exposing themselves and others to becoming infected with COVID-19, either because they feel the risks of social i

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, Georgette Gomez, on the critical value of providing accessible and factual information and resources to the city’s diverse constituents during this unprecedented public health crisis. President Gomez stresses how the pandemic is magnifying systemic inequalities—including income, language, and  digital b

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-profile protests and showdowns in Sacramento, the state is still far from figuring out what work will look like in a more tech-dependent world — and it’s testing the patience of Uber and Lyft, which are now threatening to temporarily close down in the state. The latest clash started with a 34-page

For months President Donald Trump has been reluctant to extend a lifeline to the financially infirm Postal Service, a reluctance his critics have said is motivated by his loathing of vote-by-mail. Today Trump made that subtext…text. Speaking about the ongoing COVID relief negotiations on Fox Business, the president claimed that without new funding for the Postal Service, California and other states that plan to send every voter a ballot before the November election will be out of luck. “Now,

After 18 months of negotiations, this week, the City of San Diego finalized the sale of the Mission Valley Stadium to San Diego State University West for mixed-use redevelopment. TPR caught up with San Diego City Councilmember and candidate for mayor, Barbara Bry, to discuss her Roadmap to Recovery plan, as well as her priorities for housing, density, and economic development post-COVID. As a seasoned entrepreneur with experience in the local innovation industries, Bry highlights her strategy to