Community Power Affecting Budget Decisions that Impact Our Neighborhoods

San Diego Free Press, 5/1/13

‘A Fair Shake for Communities’: Reactions to Filner’s First Budget

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 4/17/13

San Diego’s Fuzzy Budget Math Explained

San Diego Free Press, 4/3/13

City Council takes on debate over tourism dollars

Fox 5 San Diego, 2/25/13

The Starting Line – Downtown Tourism Showdown: Today’s Council Hearing is the Start of the Dump Filner Campaign

Downtown Tourism Showdown: Today’s Council Hearing is the Start of the Dump Filner Campaign, 2/25/13

Why Mayor Filner is Right to Stand Up to the Real Bullies

San Diego Free Press, 2/25/13

City Council Shows Strong Support For Tourism Marketing District

KPBS, 2/25/13

Op-Eds: Wrestling over wages

San Diego Union-Tribune, 2/23/13

Hypocrites! Taxpayer Association Rallies Supporters to Support Corporate Welfare (UPDATED)

San Diego Free Press, 2/23/13

CPI Asks: Why Should We Fund Poverty Wages?

San Diego Free Press, 2/22/13

Passions of San Diego’s Young Leaders

NBC 7 San Diego, 2/11/13

City to Spend on San Diego’s Worst Streets

NBC 7 San Diego, 1/29/13

Filner faces dispute on fiscal reform

San DIego Union-Tribune, 12/8/12

Housing advocates worried about too much downtown influence

San Diego Union-Tribune, 6/22/12

San Diego’s Inequities in Infrastructure Spending

San Diego Reader, 5/7/12

Government contracts fueled DeMaio’s business success

San Diego Union-Tribune, 4/29/12

Certain government reserve funds overflow

San Diego Union-Tribune, 4/28/12

A Better San Diego Forum Attacks Props A, B

San Diego Reader, 4/21/12

Community Alliance Challenges Mayor Over San Diego City Budget

OB Rag, 4/16/12

COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ASKS FOR EQUITY AND A VOICE IN SAN DIEGO CITY BUDGET

East County Magazine, 4/15/12

Districts 4, 8 Activists Cite Neglect in Community Projects

NBC San Diego, 3/12/12

City Invites Bids for Miramar Landfill Operation

San Diego Reader, 3/5/12

A Better San Diego’s Breakfast Forum Talks Foreclosures

San Diego Reader, 2/17/12

Port tonnage has dropped off

San Diego Union-Tribune, 2/12/12

Foreclosures Hurt Communities And Homeowners

KPBS News, 8/24/11

Activists Discuss Debt Debate, Wonder How We Let Right Control It

indybay.org, 8/24/11

Study Shows Costs to San Diego Neighborhoods and Local Governments Caused by Foreclosures

East County Magazine, 7/16/11

Contracting out of city landfill operations will be complex

San Diego Union-Tribune, 7/11/11

Foreclosure funk

San Diego CityBeat, 6/24/11

City Bears Brunt of Hidden Foreclosure Costs

KPBS News, 6/24/11

San Diego policy group: Fine banks for unkempt foreclosures

San Diego Union-Tribune, 6/24/11

Foreclosures Wallop SD Tax Receipts, Homeowner Wealth

San Diego Reader, 6/23/11

Group Releases Report On City Foreclosures

10 News, 6/23/11

Bankers blight

San Diego CityBeat, 6/15/11

City Council comittee votes to postpone competitive bidding to operate Miramar

examiner.com, 5/19/11

Higher Biz Taxes: Boom Or Bust For San Diego?

KPBS News, 5/4/11

Taxes: How San Diego measures up

San Diego Union-Tribune, 12/12/10

DeMaio calls for overhaul of pension system to plug budget gap

San Diego Daily Transcript, 11/5/10

DeMaio Unveils Financial Recovery Plan

10News.com, 11/5/10

DeMaio Unveils Budget-Balancing Plan

NBC San Diego, 11/5/10

What Comes After the Trouncing

VoiceOfSanDiego.org, 11/3/10

Landfill step has already been taken

San Diego Union-Tribune, 9/28/10

Council, Mayor endorse last minute Prop D makeover

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 9/17/10

Mayor to explore offers on landfill

San Diego Union-Tribune, 7/8/10

Sylvia’s Soapbox: Who benefits most from outsourcing, Mr. DeMaio?

East County Magazine, 7/7/10

San Diego eyes half-cent increase in sales tax

San Diego Union-Tribune, 6/30/10

Ballot Measure to Ban Living Wages in San Diego Fails to Qualify; DeMaio to Challenge Registrar’s Count

East County Magazine, 6/28/10

Initiatives may lead to labor accord

San Diego Union-Tribune, 6/26/10

Battle Over San Diego City Outsourcing Heats Up Again

KPBS News, 6/15/10

Heated Words Traded As DeMaio Touts Outsourcing Measure

10 News, 6/14/10

DeMaio Presents Signatures For Competition Initiative

KPBS News, 6/14/10

Supporters, opponents of contracting transparency initiative gather downtown

SDNN, 6/14/10

Bitterness surrounding competitive-bid measure

San Diego Union-Tribune, 6/11/10

Competition Initiative Threatens San Diego’s Living Wage

KPBS News, 6/10/10

Battle Lines Drawn Over Competitive Bidding Ballot Measure

San Diego 6 News, La Jolla Light, SDNN, 6/10/10

Labor tensions rising ahead of November election

San Diego Daily Transcript, 6/10/10

Contracting ballot initiative seeking ‘transparency’ raises questions in community

SDNN, 6/10/10

Impact Of “Living Wage” On San Diego?

KPBS News, 4/14/10

San Diego Celebrates Fifth Anniversary Of Living Wage Ordinance

KPBS News, 4/13/10

Businesses not dying in spite of living wage

San Diego Union-Tribune, 4/11/10

Pocket Change: Patrolling San Diego’s police force

SDNN, 4/6/10

Pocket Change: “The Bottom Line”

SDNN, 3/2/10

Study: San Diego at Bottom in Collecting Taxes

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 2/12/10

Looking at 2010: Murtaza Baxamusa and the Middle Class Thinker

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 1/22/10

New Year, New Budget Solutions?

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 1/6/10

Sobering Budget Hearing At The City

kPBS News, 12/3/09

SDNN inquiry prompts investigation into city’s finances

sdnn.com/San Diego News Network, 10/12/09

Deficit Should Be No Surprise

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 10/2/09

When An Agreement Is Not An Agreement

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 10/1/09

Garbage fee issue awaiting council

San Diego Union-Tribune, 8/9/09

S.D. City Council Talks Trash

KPBS News, 7/29/09

Big Increase in the Number of City Employees Making Big Bucks

San Diego 6 News, 2/4/09

Sanders Issues Emergency Speech on City Finance

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 10/15/08

Forum will discuss city’s redevelopment programs

San Diego Union-Tribune, 10/6/08

Let’s Talk Redevelopment

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 9/22/08

3 returned to CCDC; SEDC gets new faces

San Diego Union-Tribune, 9/3/08

CCDC Debates Role of its Next President

KPBS News, 8/20/08

Road to Privatization Hits Bumpy Patch

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 6/27/08

Council Trims Mayor’s Outsourcing Contract

10 News, 6/23/08

Consultants vs. Lifeguards & Librarians

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 6/18/08

In Effort to Spare Teachers, Union Urges Tapping Emergency Reserves

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 5/15/08

San Diego Unified To Lay Off Fewer Teachers

10 News, 5/13/08

Budget Proposal Trims Jobs, Pool Hours

San Diego Union-Tribune, 4/8/08

San Diego Tax Hike Money Goes to Hoteliers

KPBS News, 4/8/08

Council OKs Growth Plan; ‘Living Wages’ Entry Redone

San Diego Union-Tribune, 3/16/08

S.D. Council Adopts Blue Print Including Self Sufficient Wages

KPBS News, 3/11/08

S.D. Council Approves Blueprint for City Growth

San Diego Union-Tribune, 3/11/08

Talking Wages

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 3/10/08

S.D. Council Reviews Living Wage Ordinance

KPBS News, 3/6/08

Developers Dominate City Races

San Diego Union-Tribune, 2/28/08

Bad Jobs, Bad Policy

San Diego CityBeat, 12/4/07

Living wage law costs less than some predicted

San Diego Union-Tribune, 10/21/07

As San Diego Grew, Firefighting Didn’t Keep Up

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 10/9/07

City Hall Rift: When Words Collide

San Diego Union-Tribune, 9/28/07

Mayor Sanders “Managed Competition” Efforts Under Attack

KPBS News, 9/13/07

Cost and Benefits of Living Wage Ordinance Debated

KPBS News, 8/15/07

Plan to use brokers draws criticism

San Diego Union-Tribune, 7/29/07

Contractor Skirted Living-Wage Law

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 7/24/07

Council Members Begin Weighing Fees,Taxes

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 3/29/07

Who’ll Help Us Understand?

San Diego CityBeat, 3/7/07

The Indianapolization of San Diego

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 10/19/06

Groups Spar Over Details of Managed Competition in Prop. C

The Daily Transcript, 10/18/06

Indy By the Sea

San Diego CityBEAT, 2/1/06

America’s Cheapest City

San Diego Union-Tribune, 8/28/05

San Diego Reved Up For Revenue Talks

VoiceofSanDiego.org, 6/3/05

The Little Policy That Could

San Diego CityBEAT, 4/20/05

The Watchdog Bites

San Diego CityBEAT, 7/21/04

Low Wages Are Called a Burden on Public

San Diego Union-Tribune, 3/10/04

Report Say San Diego County, Calif., Should Adopt Living Wage

North County Times, 3/10/04