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Let’s conduct a brief experiment. Read the following statements about candidates for elected office and try to guess who they describe:
Represent San Diego and Independent Voter Project announced this month it will host a free screening of the award-winning documentary, “UnRepresented.”
The documentary by Daniel Falconer features accounts by democracy advocates, academics and government officials of the “corrupt dealings” they have witnessed. Organizers said the documentary also offers “ideas for fixing the system, offered by concerned citizens on both the left and the right.”
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To launch IVN San Diego, we did something that might seem unusual: We surveyed San Diegans to find out what they thought about the news industry and how they’d like us to improve it.
Modern news consumption is frustrating.
Newsrooms have been decimated. Media outlets continue to disappear. Opinion is pawned off as news. Polarized echo chambers may entertain certain factions, but they don’t serve to educate or inform.
Are we entering End Days for news?
I took that question to Point Loma Nazarene University professor Dean Nelson. An institution unto himself, he’s knowledgeable, thoughtful and blunt about the journalism industry.
He doesn’t think the industry is broken beyond repair.
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Communities of color continue to bear the brunt of COVID-19’s devastation. Recent federal data on the pandemic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that African Americans in the United States have been three times more likely to contract the disease than white Americans.
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COVID-19 has presented our society with a public health crisis, but a larger problem exists if we don’t act now. Childhood domestic violence is on the rise as a result of the stresses caused by the pandemic.
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We have all had to make significant adjustments this year. And like most of you, my life has been dramatically impacted by this pandemic. Although I cannot advise on every subject, there is one thing I am fiercely aware of and that is the importance of good oral care.
When the news broke that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last week, social media became filled with messages honoring the ardent leader of human rights. San Diego's elected leaders and candidates also took to Twitter and Facebook to remember Ginsburg, who died at the age of 87 and was the second female to ever serve in the country's highest court.
Here's what local leaders and candidates wrote on social media.
IVN San Diego Editor's Note: This Supreme Court ruling could have a big effect on San Diego. A proposed hotel tax increase came just short of winning a two-thirds vote in March. Supporters will likely seek a court ruling on the measure.
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