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The Nation Is Watching Nonpartisan Reformers Make History in 2020
Thanks to your continued commitment, the fight for nonpartisan reform has never been stronger and more unified! Last week, 200 people turned out for our second NANR spotlight to hear stories from the ...
17 Sep, 2020
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5 min read
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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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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7 min read
California Elections 2020: Proposition 18 - 17-Year-Olds to Vote
How Would Proposition 18 Affect Who Can Vote?Proposition 18 would allow 17-year-olds who will be 18 at the time of the next general election to vote in primary elections and special elections.Do Other ...
06 Sep, 2020
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California Legislature's $100 Billion Economic Stimulus Plan
Working groups from both houses of the California Legislature last month proposed a $100 billion joint stimulus plan to put the state on a path toward an equitable and resilient economic recovery by r ...
28 Aug, 2020
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8 min read
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 ...
18 Aug, 2020
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1 min read
What California Knows About Kamala Harris
More than any other vice presidential contender in a generation, Kamala Harris’ biography is singularly Californian. Born and bussed to school in Berkeley, tested by San Francisco’s cut-throat municip ...
12 Aug, 2020
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17 min read
Side Hustles, Liquidating 401(k)s: Here’s How Jobless Californians Are Getting by Without the Extra $600
Since the federal weekly $600 boost expired last month, unemployed Californians have been living on impossibly low budgets — and expect to do so in the coming months even if President Trump’s weekend ...
11 Aug, 2020
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7 min read
The Constitution: Not As Easy As It Looks
There is a good deal of mention of the Constitution on social media these days; frequently, in short, declarative sentences that express with certainty what the document means. Oftentimes these commen ...
03 Jul, 2020
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6 min read
Major National Reform Progress: New Initiatives, Spotlights, Books, and More...
First, on behalf of the NANR Board, I want to thank our members for making NANR's first Spotlight program on June 8 a big success, highlighting the important work our members are doing to ensure safe ...
18 Jun, 2020
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5 min read