DeMaio-Reed Pension Measure Flops, For Now

DeMaio-Reed Pension Measure Flops, For Now Posted: 23 Sep 2015 10:21 AM PDT By Doug Porter Former  City Councilman Carl DeMaio, along with former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, are headed back to the drawing board, following the failure of their latest pension “reform” ballot proposal to gain traction in California.DeMaio and Reed were hoping to attract funding and political support for a pension reform initiative involving voter approval for each and every future plan throughout the state, negating what is now part of the collective bargaining process. The California Republican Party failed to endorse the measure during its Anaheim convention last weekend. DeMaio and Reed cried foul last month after the State Attorney General’s office gave the proposed reforms ballot language not to their liking.   [Read more...] San Diego Free Press shared from

The Citizens’ Watch of Mission Valley: “Manchester Project” Approved and Work Begins on Valley’s Largest (and Only) Park Posted: 23 Sep 2015 07:24 AM PDT To outsiders, Mission Valley at times feels like it's in its own intense universe. Other times, it seems like San Diego's own "black hole"- once you enter Mission Valley, you immediately get swept into its traffic craziness and grid-lock. But what happens in Mission Valley deeply affects the rest of San Diego, especially the coastal areas directly to the west - like Ocean Beach, the Peninsula, Mission Beach, PB - but also other nearby communities such as Clairemont and Grantville. Because of this close proximity these other communities are impacted by both the increases in population and density in Mission Valley and - due to the lack of infrastructure in the valley - are also impacted by strains on their infrastructure. Because of these - let's call them - interconnections - , we have been running a series of articles about what is being developed and being planned in Mission Valley. With these articles, we've instituted a type of 'Citizen Watch of Mission Valley' - and here, we continue this irregular series on the continued development and destruction of Mission Valley. Here's our latest: ...   [Read more...]

Returning From Darkness: National Suicide Prevention Month Posted: 23 Sep 2015 07:19 AM PDT By Will Falk I am an attempted suicide survivor. I tried to kill myself twice - once in April, 2013 and again in August, 2013. It has been over two years and I am still struggling to make sense of what I did. I just learned that September is National Suicide Prevention Month and for the last several days I have lost myself reading heart-breaking story after heart-breaking story of those affected by suicide - both attempted and successful. The first time I tried to kill myself I was in Milwaukee, WI. I was a public defender in Kenosha, WI and was overcome with anxiety, guilt, and a spiritual kind of exhaustion when I came back to my empty apartment on a snowy, Wednesday night. Looking myself in the eye in the mirror, I realized I did not want to wake up the next morning. I put on my pajamas, brushed my teeth, and swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills. I woke up in the emergency room - my throat coated in charcoal, the hair on my chest ripped from the monitors, my arms and hands pricked with needle marks where they missed my veins with the I.V. in the ambulance. A doctor asked me if I knew what happened. "I tried to kill myself,” I said. So, they involuntarily committed me to the psyche ward of St. Francis Hospital on the shores of Lake Michigan on the south side of Milwaukee.   [Read more...]

The System Failed Ahmed Mohamed Posted: 23 Sep 2015 07:15 AM PDT

The TRUTH will set you FREE.