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Election 2020
Public education is failing communities of color. It's time to address the issue and stop defending the indefensible.
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With more than 3 million people, California’s K-12 Latino student population could be its own country. In fact, there are more Latinos studying in our public schools than there are people in the oil-rich country of Qatar.
Is affirmative action “the enemy of white people who are contractors and Americans of Asian descent who are trying to get into the University of California at Berkeley,” as one influential critic called it? Or is neglecting race as a factor in admissions denying the reality that many students endure racism as an impediment to academic progress?
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We've all heard the famous quote from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet — "What's in a name?" — which suggests that the name of things do not affect what they really are. But what happens when the thing in question is a crime, and the name given that crime could result in the early release of a criminal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvMkCE106Wo
Mayor
San Diego Councilmember Barbara Bry faces state Assemblymember Todd Gloria in the November election for San Diego mayor. Here’s a list of key endorsements in the race.
SANDAG, the region's planning board, proposed its 2021 Regional Plan, titled the "5 Big Moves." The agency, which estimates the plan will cost roughly $177 billion over 30 years, are calling the five moves: Complete Corridors, Transit Leaps, Mobility Hubs, Flexible Fleets and the Next OS.
It seems every week another twist is added to the story of 101 Ash Street. Here’s how the story began.
The city acquired the building in a lease-to-own agreement valued at $72 million in the Fall of 2016. At the time the building was represented in public meetings as being in excellent condition and available for immediate occupancy with minimal work. More than two years later the City found itself paying $18,000 per day for a building that was still not occupied. Worse, the building turned out to be in dramatically poorer condition than thought.