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Why the Mission Valley Stadium Site is So Tricky
Lost is all the discussion of the Mission Valley Stadium site is the question of what to do with the stadium?The Soccer City plan includes a new 36,000 seat soccer stadium. SDSU is announcing plans fo ...
28 Sep, 2017
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California Moves Primary Elections from June to March
Californians will head to the polls earlier for primary elections. Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill Wednesday that moves all primary elections, including presidential primaries, from June to March.T ...
27 Sep, 2017
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New York Continues Its Uncompetitive and Undemocratic Primary
On September 12, New York held its primary elections, and once again, a quarter of the state’s voting population -- the 3.2 million independent and unaffiliated voters who refuse to join a party -- we ...
27 Sep, 2017
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4 min read
OC High Schools: Nowhere to Go But Up On Voter Registration
Orange County set a participation record in the last presidential election, with more than 80% of registered voters casting ballots, the highest percentage in 40 years. High schools in the OC, however ...
27 Sep, 2017
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San Diego: The Next Flint, Michigan?
Five government officials were fired and 13 criminal cases were filed against local and state officials in Flint, Michigan, resulting from the 2014 Flint water crisis that put 100,000 residents at ris ...
26 Sep, 2017
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Race and Diversity: Schools Overhaul Curriculum after Charlottesville
Recent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, ended violently, as white supremacists clashed with counter-demonstrators, and a car driven by 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., ploughed into a crowd fu ...
26 Sep, 2017
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4 min read
Lawrence Lessig Talks About Taking the Electoral College to Court
T.J. is joined by two prominent election reform attorneys: Lawrence Lessig with Equal Citizens and Chad Peace with the Independent Voter Project.They discuss their latest reform lawsuits and projects, ...
26 Sep, 2017
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1 min read
The Politics of College: Americans Sharply Divided on Higher Ed
“Too much of a good thing” isn’t usually an argument applied to education. But a recent Gallup survey found a sharp partisan divide in how Americans view higher ed, with just a third of Republicans co ...
25 Sep, 2017
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San Diego to Permit and Regulate Marijuana Production Facilities and Testing
In April 2017, San Diego adopted an ordinance permitting and regulating retail marijuana outlets (shops that dispense recreational or medical cannabis).On September 11, 2017, the San Diego City Counci ...
22 Sep, 2017
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4 min read
From "Shrooms" to CalExit: California Could Have a Wild 2018 Ballot
As ballot measure activists gather petitions to put various propositions up for a vote on the 2018 California ballot, a few stand out as -- shall we say -- rather bold.If they get enough signatur ...
22 Sep, 2017
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3 min read