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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
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
San Diego Political Guru Tom Shepard's Career Begins its Gradual Descentnew
His long string of victories and his connections to some of San Diego's wealthiest and most powerful residents has earned him the enmity of the political left. Professor Peter Navarro refers to him as "a tragic figure in San Diego politics," but others simply deride Shepard as a mudslinger. To the perception of many, he's the man pulling the strings behind many a puppet mayor.
San Diego CityBeat |
Eric Wolff |
08-27-2008 |
Politics
Political Representation Lags Behind San Diego's Latino Populationnew
Roughly 3 million people live in San Diego County, and nearly 900,000 of them are Latino--and exactly 12 of them are Latinos who currently occupy elected legislative office.
San Diego CityBeat |
David Rolland |
07-16-2008 |
Politics
