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A new report by the California Association of Realtors released Tuesday notes the median price of a home in San Diego County reached a record $625,400 in March. The reason for the spike according to experts, a lack of inventory. A typical home is on the market only 13 days before being sold, compared to a statewide average of 23 days. The news comes as the San Diego City Council’s Smart Growth and Land Use Committee is hosting a workshop Wednesday. Committee Chairwoman Georgette Gomez will lea

No more excuses for Maine politicians. The Maine Supreme Court upheld the state's Ranked Choice Voting law Tuesday, allowing an order by Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy that the secretary of state has to implement ranked choice voting for all statewide primary elections to stand. “Ranked-choice voting is the current statutory law of Maine for the primary elections to be held on June 12, 2018,” the justices wrote in an unanimous decision. “The consistent and explicit purpose of the citize

Many Americans are currently wondering, “Why don’t our elections result in governments that implement thoughtful, public interest policies that are supported by the majority of Americans?” The reason is process. Most of us worry about policies -- How much are we taxed? How well are the roads maintained? Or worse, we are being distracted by issues that divide us, rather than paying attention to the rules by which we elect leaders and how we are governed. That has led to an unhealthy democracy. P

Are you tired of the partisan bickering? The two-sided, red vs. blue narrative that serves only to reinforce party platitudes rather than get to the heart of an issue? The Bridge Alliance, a powerful coalition of civic action groups, is behind a new effort to change all of that. Most Americans believe our inability to talk to each other civilly has reached a crisis level. Therefore, the Bridge Alliance and 100 sponsoring organizations are declaring April 20-28 the "National Week of Conversation

As an independent candidate for president in the 2016 election cycle, I travelled 20 months and over 70,000 miles around America. As a Green Party candidate for Congress in upstate New York, I now travel the 15,000 square miles and twelve different counties of NY-21 that stretch from Vermont in the east, Canada to the north, Fort Drum in the west, Saratoga to the south, and all of it generally in and around the Adirondack Mountains. As our team talked with voters and collected signatures to get

This week, Portland Press Herald's column editor Greg Kesich dispelled the confusion about Maine's ranked choice voting "on-again, off-again referendum," which will be back on the June ballot. Contrary to the opposition's messaging, Kesish says, the referendum is neither confusing to voters nor a way to make winners out of losing candidates. In fact, he notes that the legislative process itself has been convoluted. Kesich writes: Here’s how it works: In races with more than two candidates, vot

Maine businessman and independent state legislator Martin Grohman launched his campaign for Congress Tuesday. Grohman is running to represent Maine's First Congressional District against incumbent Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree. Like many independent candidates and most US voters, Grohman is fed up with the hyper-partisan gridlock that has crippled the legislative process and prevents anything substantive from getting done in the US. "Our nation faces enormous challenges, but Washington is to

Welcome to our weekly post, Independent Action, where we let you know the important moves independent candidates and organizations made over the past week. Terry Hayes qualified for the ballot in Maine’s gubernatorial race by turning in signatures two months early — she’s the only Independent on the ticket. “I’m proud to give Maine voters the choice to vote for an experienced, independent, and courageous woman to lead as Maine’s next Governor. I am grateful to the thousands of Mainers who’ve ci

A lot of independents like Rand Paul because he's so different from a lot of U.S. Senators who go to Washington to lie low, not make any waves, bring back something for the constituents, and enjoy the smooth sailing of a cush job in a prestigious career pinnacle position. Maybe despite (or because of) a completely undistinguished career in the Senate chamber with no controversial stands or anything important, they'll get tapped to be Vice President. But the Kentucky ophthalmologist was swept in

As we get older, and hopefully wiser, we generally start to become more discerning on how we view the world and the problems we face. Many of us who seek to make the world a better place try to look at the problems, analyze them, and do what we can to correct them. However, because there are so many different problems facing us, this approach often overwhelms us and can instill a sense of hopelessness in our ability to create positive change. Looking deeper into this situation, we discover tha