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How San Diego Progressives Ended Bob Filner's Political Careernew

For the first time, Donna Frye, Marco Gonzalez and Cory Briggs talk in detail about why they did what they did.
San Diego CityBeat  |  David Rolland  |  09-18-2013  |  Politics

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner's Got To Gonew

We believe Donna Frye, and we've lost our confidence in the mayor's capacity to see his policy vision through.
San Diego CityBeat  |  David Rolland  |  07-15-2013  |  Politics

Birther Gary Kreep's Family-Law Recordnew

Birther judge-elect opposed parental rights for communists and lesbians as a lawyer, and faced allegations of spousal abuse.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Dave Maass  |  12-20-2012  |  Politics

The Birther Judgenew

A master of political hits and campaign shell games prepares to take a seat on the bench of the of San Diego County Superior Court.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Dave Maass  |  11-16-2012  |  Politics

GOP Ambitions Behind the Mitt Romney Facadenew

A report from the Republican National Convention.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Nathan Dinsdale  |  09-04-2012  |  Elections

From Tucson With Lovenew

Checking in with Duke Cunningham halfway through his federal prison sentence.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Dave Maass  |  08-12-2010  |  Politics

Darrell Issa Proves Republicans Do Have Ideas For Healthcare Reformnew

Not long ago, Congress member Darrell Issa ran into Sen. John McCain. The two Republicans got on the subject of healthcare reform and Issa argued that businesses that don’t provide health insurance to their employees simply are shifting the burden to taxpayers.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Dave Maass  |  02-17-2010  |  Commentary

Capitalism Has Failed -- the Time Is Right for Communismnew

We believe Americans have finally reached a gaping capitalist-imperialist abyss and have no choice but to get a good running start and take a leap to communism.
San Diego CityBeat  |  San Diego CityBeat  |  04-01-2009  |  Commentary

We Want a Single-Payer Healthcare System, But Obama's Baby Steps Are a Good Startnew

What we know about healthcare is that the system we have doesn’t work, that costs are rising far faster than incomes, that it makes no sense to burden private business with having to provide care for the workforce and that a for-profit insurance model encourages the denial of treatment.
San Diego CityBeat  |  San Diego CityBeat  |  03-04-2009  |  Commentary

Former San Diego Mayor's Sister Gives Senior Center the Bootnew

For much of the last 30 years, Mavourneen O'Connor's Kind Corp. has operated housing and a community center for low-income seniors on a Downtown site, but four years ago, they inexplicably refused to renew a partner nonprofit’s lease.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Kelly Davis  |  02-25-2009  |  Politics

There's Not Much Hand-Wringing in San Diego GOP Circlesnew

Beneath the hullabaloo of the upcoming presidential inauguration can be heard a hearty debate over the direction of the Republican Party -- just not in San Diego.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Eric Wolff  |  01-07-2009  |  Politics

Obamabilia is Going Strong a Month After the Electionnew

As Barack Obama took the stage in Grant Park on Nov. 4, history was made and birth was given to a collectibles craze the likes of which younger Americans had never experienced.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Enrique Limon  |  12-03-2008  |  Politics

Election '08: San Diego's Greens Are Blue (And They're Blaming Ralph Nader)new

While Nov. 4 yielded a mixed bag for the GOP and the Dems, it provided nothing but a great big sack of rotten potatoes for just about every other political persuasion. Here, as elsewhere in the nation, adherents of the boutique parties saw their candidates routed on nearly every front. And no party performed so poorly in San Diego County as the Green Party.
San Diego CityBeat  |  David Silva  |  11-19-2008  |  Politics

Forget Lieberman -- The Dems Should Boot John Dingellnew

The octogenarian Democratic Congress member from Michigan whom the netroots should really be after; he's the guy who should be ousted from his post chair of the powerful House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Editorial  |  11-19-2008  |  Commentary

I've Got No Love for Seven Out of 10 Black Voters in Californianew

Yes, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, was a day when you truly felt proud to be an American. But then, on Nov. 5, I read something that changed all that. I read that California's black voters favored Proposition 8 by a margin of 70 percent to 30 percent, which means seven out of 10 black voters voted against gay marriage.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Edwin Decker  |  11-12-2008  |  Commentary

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