Double Down: Flu Related Deaths, Cases Skyrocket in San Diego

A troubling spike in flu-related deaths was reported by county health officials Tuesday.

The number doubled last week, bringing this season’s total to 91.

Incredibly, 11% of all emergency room visits in San Diego County last week were for treatment of the flu. There were 2,992 confirmed cases in the region during the same time period compared to 3,354 the previous week. The season’s total now stands at 10,324. That's roughly eight times higher than the number of cases this time last year.

NOT EMERGENCY STATUS, YET

8 Common Sense Solutions to Immigration That Go Beyond Two-Party Politics

As with many issues today, the debate on immigration is mired in partisan opposition instead of pragmatism. At one time, nearly everyone agreed that illegal immigration was a problem, but now one side acts as if it's a "human right" to live anywhere you want while the other suggests anyone here illegally is up to something nefarious.

Even where people understand the space between, we have no real solutions that address the disease rather than the symptoms.

San Diego's Signature Move: Initiative Season Begins In Earnest

Tired of being asked to sign on the dotted line at your local grocery store for a special interest project?

Well, brace yourself, because voters in the city and county of San Diego are about to be inundated in January and February with more signature requests.

Here are some of the massive projects to likely go before voters, and therefore need your signature:

Congress Is Back In Session, But It Needs to Get to Work

The holidays are over and it’s back to reality. Of course, part of that reality — for better or worse — if that the politicians have made their way back to Washington, DC.

To be clear, I am not suggesting that the politicians’ reality is the same as ours. That’s a big part of the problem.

First, it should be noted that most of the significant items on the agenda for Congress as they return to “work” are items that they failed to deal with LAST year.

50 Reasons to Bail Out of the Two-Party System and Become an Independent Voter

1. The two-party system came into existence at a time when people were still writing on paper with feathers dipped in ink.

2. And partisanship is as antiquated as that practice because we have better ways of accomplishing the same purpose.

3. Parties were invented because it was impossible in the late 1700s to have all the facts about a candidate for public office, so people relied on their party for direction about who to vote for.