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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...]
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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...]
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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...]
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Posted: 23 Sep 2015 07:15 AM PDT
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
DeMaio-Reed Pension Measure Flops, For Now
Positive Election Outlook Has Bernie Sanders Grinning
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The TRUTH will set you FREE.
The Case Against the Roberts Court
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Scott Walker Proves You Can’t Union-Bash Your Way To The White House
 MORNING MESSAGE
Bill Scher
Scott Walker Proves You Can’t Union-Bash Your Way To The White House
...his inclination to tie everything back to union-busting quickly became pathetic. It was only one month later when he said about ISIS, “If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the globe.” Even conservatives recognized that was a disturbingly glib answer to a complex foreign policy challenge. In the waning days of his campaign, he offered his one big idea: eliminate federal worker unions and abolish the National Labor Relations Board. Nobody cared.
 OBAMA AND POPE TO MEET
Moral Action on Climate Justice Rally to coincide with Pope Francis’ congressional address tomorrow:Join the Moral Action for Climate Justice Rally to demand urgent action on the climate crisis – and a strong response to the cry of the Poor. Join the rally between 3rd and 7th Streets on the National Mall, 9/24, 7:30 AM to 12:30 PM. More info at FollowFrancis.org and #followfrancis on Twitter.
Pope and President meet today. Roll Call:“Francis and Obama will discuss a host of shared interests, including improving economic opportunity, alleviating poverty, the environment, religious freedom and immigration, per the White House.”
Chinese president says he won’t manipulate currency, in advance of meeting with Obama. Reuters:“Xi, delivering a keynote address to some 650 business executives and other guests in Seattle, touched on a litany of issues that have strained U.S.-China ties. China will not manipulate its currency to boost exports and will never engage in commercial theft, he said, adding it will not discriminate against foreign businesses, will speed its market opening and make efforts to improve human rights.”
CLINTON OPPOSES KEYSTONE
Hillary Clinton comes out against Keystone. The Hill:“Clinton announced her shift at a campaign event in Iowa, one of two early-voting states where some polls have shown Sanders in the lead. ‘I think it is imperative that we look at the Keystone pipeline as what I think it is, as a distraction to the important work we have to do on climate change,’ she said.”
Will Hillary go farther on the environment? TNR’s Rebecca Leber:“The key is whether she continues to focus on policies that discourage the production of fossil fuels, like mining and drilling on public lands. The federal government leases 67 million acres to the fossil fuel industry, and Obama has approved leases for a quarter of them.”
Nine major corporations to pledge 100% renewable energy use. NYT:“Nine major companies are expected on Wednesday to join a global coalition of firms intent on converting to renewable energy. The new members include Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Starbucks,Walmart and Goldman Sachs.”
BIDEN BOOM?
Biden bump in Bloomberg poll:“Clinton, once the prohibitive front-runner, is now the top choice of 33 percent of registered Democrats and those who lean Democrat, the poll shows. Biden places second with 25 percent and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is at 24 percent.”
Clinton would empower Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices. The Hill:“[Clinton] accused pharmaceutical companies of ‘price gouging’ and ‘profiteering’ while millions of people struggle with skyrocketing healthcare prices … Like Sanders, Clinton on Tuesdaypledged to give Medicare bargaining power over drug prices — a position she also adopted in her 2008 campaign.”
The Nation’s William Greider says neither Sanders or Trump are populists:“… they are both working within the established order. By definition, populism requires plain people in rebellion … but the great disturbances already roiling party politics suggest that the political status quo is vulnerable to more upheavals, particularly if timidity and stalemate continue to suppress meaningful change.”
SENATE GOP VS. HOUSE GOP
Sen. Kelly Ayotte tells fellow Republicans not to shutdown. The Hill:“‘We all know where the votes are, and it’s not going to happen,’ the New Hampshire Republican said from the Senate floor. ‘I’m tired of the people on my side of the aisle who have been pushing this strategy…'”
Other Republican senators back “clean” bill to keep government open. Roll Call:“[Sen. Susan] Collins, R-Maine, said Tuesday after the weekly conference lunch that Republicans across the Rotunda should see the writing on the wall … ‘[Let’s] see, as the leader said, where the votes are, and then go to Plan B,’ Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Thune of South Dakota said … ‘I would support a clean CR,’ said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn …”
Federal workers prepare for shutdown. W. Post:“…the White House’s Office of Management and Budget is following a playbook last used in 2013 when a similar standoff resulted in parts of the government being closed for more than two weeks.”
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