Marijuana has a new BFF in the City of San Diego.
The City Council voted 6-3 to legalize cultivation and manufacturing when new state laws take effect in January.
That means America's Finest City now has a legally regulated marijuana industry including:
Once again our nation watches riveted as hurricanes and floods threaten our towns and cities, our coastlines and water supplies.
Emergency management at every level of government learned from the pain of Hurricane Katrina that planning and pre-locating supplies and vehicles saves lives.
Technology improvements allow for better communication among the different agencies and volunteers that respond to disasters.
Daniel Norland joins host, T.J. O’Hara, on this week’s episode. Dan is best known locally as a history teacher at a San Diego school, and nationally as the editor of Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo, the story of two Algerians detained for seven years at Guantanamo, who wished to tell their story to America. The two discuss the complex issue of human rights versus terrorism, and more.
Americans are facing a new public health crisis. According to a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry, an astounding one in eight Americans are currently struggling with alcohol addiction.
Criminal justice in the United States has a long and controversial history and continues to be one of the most contentious topics of our time.
Competition is the American way. In business, you hear the following saying: “If we don’t take care of the customer, somebody else will.”
As a nation, back to Teddy Roosevelt’s trust-busting and before, we’ve been well trained to distrust monopolies, or even situations where competition is limited to a handful of providers. We have about eight major airlines in the U.S., and that choice is often painful enough.
But would we ever let our airlines merge such that there were just two? How about our banks?
It’s an open secret that elections in the United States are as much affected by money as they are by votes. A mediocre candidate with healthy funding is nearly always more likely to win out over a strong candidate without the tools to get their message out.
During the Trump vs. Clinton race, over $4.4 billion was spent on television ads alone.
“Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.”
It's not news for those of us who live here, San Diego is expensive.
From meals, to electricity, to water, America's Finest City residents pay through the nose for common services.
San Diego has some of the most expensive water in the country.
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Partly due to confusion around the health care reform plan, Americans are now seeking clarity on what is the best solution to solving the country’s health care woes.
US Senator Bernie Sanders hopes to capitalize on the moment by introducing a “political type campaign” to drive forward single-payer health care by 2020.