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Stop Subsidizing Economic Doom
By Murtaza Baxamusa | Published in voiceofsandiego.org | 3/10/08
Now is the time to plan a San Diego beyond a recession. San Diegans are having a tough time making ends meet. The cost of living in San Diego is increasing faster than wages. Today, a single adult needs at least $28,510 a year for basic essentials and a two-adult working family with two children…
Fixing the Inclusionary Housing Law
By Donald Cohen, Martin Akinfosile, Richard Lawrence | Published in San Diego Union-Tribune | 5/30/06
The San Diego City Council has an opportunity to affirm its commitment to solving the affordable housing crisis for the city’s working families. Last week, responding to a lawsuit by the Building Industry Association, a Superior Court judge invalidated the city’s inclusionary housing ordinance on a technicality, and an apparently thin technicality at that. The…
Yes. We should make downtown for everybody
By Henry Rodriquez, John Harder, Richard Lawrence | Published in San Diego Union-Tribune | 10/14/05
Should the San Diego City Council allow project to continue with a community benefits agreement? The San Diego City Council is finally ready to approve the final phase of the downtown redevelopment project voters approved in 1998. The Ballpark Village Project will produce a host of benefits to our region including $20 million per year…
Should San Diego adopt an ordinance mandating certain wage levels for businesses contracting with the city?
By Doug Barnhart, Mel Katz, Stephen P. Cushman | Published in San Diego Union-Tribune | 4/8/05
Yes: Taxpayers pick up the tab for public assistance for low-paid workers The living wage proposal is good public policy, and the City Council should implement it quickly. This ordinance will help taxpayers, businesses and workers. We should all acknowledge that our economy is harmed when people who work every day can’t afford to buy…
No Plan for Meeting Community Needs
By Donald Cohen | Published in San Diego Union-Tribune | 12/19/03
In the past four years, I’ve sat on the city of San Diego’s Strategic Framework Committee, the Affordable Housing Task Force, the Workforce Investment Board, two committees at the Chamber of Commerce, the Mayor’s Committee on Smart Growth and a host of other efforts and political campaigns addressing our region’s infrastructure, transportation, health care, jobs…
County Practices Diminish Services
By Mira Jang, Sundari Baru | Published in San Diego Union-Tribune | 8/10/01
With the advent of the New Economy and the flurry of downsizing by corporations, government agencies have joined in the effort to streamline by cutting permanent jobs and replacing them with temporary workers. This restructuring has taken hold of our largest government agency — the county of San Diego. The Center on Policy Initiatives, a…
The ballpark : What jobs will it bring ?
By Enrico Marcelli | Published in San Diego Union-Tribune | 8/21/98
In the coming weeks, the details of the ballpark district agreement will be subject to intense scrutiny. Is it a good deal for the taxpayers? Will there be sufficient funds to cover the annual costs and debt service? Where will the $21 million in “other” funds come from? Are there adequate protections to guarantee that…
