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A Tribute to Mervyn Dymally, Nancy Miller & Gloria Penner by Donald H Harrison
SAN DIEGO — It has been said that bad news comes in threes — and that has proven true with the recent deaths of Mervyn Dymally, Nancy Miller, and Gloria Penner. All three of them touched my life, and I’d like to pay tribute here. The Associated Press sent me early in 1968 to Sacramento…
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Lincoln Club Reverses Miller Endorsement, Switches Support To Amador | KPBS.org
KPBS reported this morning that the Lincoln Club (a prominent pro-business political club) reversed its endorsement of attorney, Jim Miller Jr., for a seat on the Superior Court bench after it discovered Miller had not been forthright about his credentials. Read their full story and as we and the San Diego County Democratic Party suggest…
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Why Let the Rich Hoard All the Toys?
Imagine a kindergarten with 100 students, lavishly supplied with books, crayons and toys. Yet you gasp: one avaricious little boy is jealously guarding a mountain of toys for himself. A handful of other children are quietly playing with a few toys each, while 90 of the children are looking on forlornly — empty-handed. The one…
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Oct 26 – Rally for Women’s Health With Sandra Fluke
Planned Parenthood Action Fund of the Pacific Southwest is hosting the Rally for Women’s Health with Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown Law School graduate and women’s rights activist, on Friday, October 26th at Noon in Balboa Park – 6th and Laurel.
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“Eye Of The Sparrow” — A Bad Lip Reading of the First 2012 Presidential Debate
If you were depressed by the debate last week then this may lift your spirits, or not.
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WAS IT THE KOCH BROTHERS OR MY COKEHEAD BROTHER? Watch, then chip in to get it on the air!
If the Koch Brothers’ Prop 32 passes on November 6th, no one in California will be able to stand in the way of corporate lobbyists and Super PACs. Prop 32 pretends to be “campaign finance reform,” but it would only increase the power of corporations and Super PACs by silencing union members — folks like…