Googins, Faigin face tough battle for first city attorney
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Up to now, the city attorney in Chula Vista was appointed by the city council but Proposition Q — a 2008 ballot measure — changed city charter to make it an elected position and Chula Vistans will go to the polls Tuesday to choose between Glen Googins and Robert Faigin as their first [...]
Cox, Castaneda continue to trade blows in Chula Vista mayoral race
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A year before the city’s centennial, Chula Vista will consider its future in what may be a pivotal election.
Though several candidates are vying for two council seats, the most heated race is for mayor with three candidates—the current Mayor Cheryl Cox (Republican), Councilmember Steve Castaneda (Democrat) and Southwestern College trustee Jorge Dominguez [...]
Turks contemplate European Union
Turkey – Images by Khari Johnson
Story written Oct. 2005
Turkey consists of 69 million potential EU-citizens. We spoke to some of them about their future with or without the EU.
By Khari Johnson and Per Christian Selmer-Anderssen
46 years after first applying for European Union membership and three weeks after the start of a ten to fifteen year [...]
Ben Fong-Torres
In the early 1960’s, there was no such thing as “Rock Journalism.” People barely knew what rock-and-roll was. It wasn’t until 1967 that Rolling Stone Magazine was created and iconic writers like Ben Fong-Torres came on the scene to change the game.
Wesla Whitfield
Wesla Whitfield has accomplished a lot since she started singing with her sisters at four-years-old. The SF State graduate has played Carnegie Hall, sang for First Lady Hillary Clinton and performed more than 10,000 shows but today the 63-year-old counts still being able to project her voice across a room with no microphone as a [...]
Ethel Payne: History maker, history follower and “First Lady of the Black Press”
One of the best parts of coming to Washington has been getting to know more about my grandma’s sister, Ethel Payne, who I always knew as Aunt Ethel.
She was one the first black woman White House correspondents, starting her career in Japan, publishing work that started in her journal and ended in the pages of [...]
Gay Bishop’s invocation not aired by HBO but moves quickly on YouTube
So Sarah Pulliam is a reporter for Christianity Today. We worked together a few years ago at the Colorado Springs Gazette. Sunday’s big “We Are One” concert at the Lincoln Memorial and that aired on HBO, starting with the invocation of Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. It [...]
Civil rights leader and congressman delivers sermon at Shiloh Baptist, a church founded by former slaves
On the Sunday ahead of Martin Luther King Day and Barack Obama’s inauguration, I went to Shiloh Baptist Church on 9th St in Washington. Today it’s a church of hundreds of people but it was founded by 21 former slaves in 1863.
The church is led by Rev. George Wallace Smith but Congressman John Lewis delivered [...]
New economic stimulus plan: sell as much Obama schwag as you can
Hope. Inspiration. Brighter future. Change the world, blah blah blah. What continues to amaze me is the amount of money people are making on Barack Obama’s name and image. There have been plenty of jokes that the Kool-Aid’s been passed around among excited or obsessed Obama supporters but now its reaching critical levels of [...]
Green for All testifies before Congress
This is unrelated to the inauguration but a real sign of our times.
Oakland’s own Van Jones testified in the first hearing of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on Thursday, urging them to green the stimulus plan, fully fund the Green Jobs Act and create a “Clean Energy Corps to retrofit [...]
Happy birthday
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After waiting with thousands for a chance to see Barack Obama’s train arrive at Union Station, I met at a Sbarro’s the Hameeds, who I got to know on Election Day in San DIego.
While there, Amrit and Gurudass Kaur Khalsa came up to compliment Mrs. Hameed on her [...]
Kerner Commission 40 years ago and today: problems and solutions for America’s inner city poor and what Obama can do about it
The last time there was a Democratic majority of this kind in national politics was in the 1960s in Lyndon Johnson’s administration. Johnson would pass more legislation then almost any other president in American history. It would include Medicare, civil rights laws and the War on Poverty. But the Great Society, a sort of new [...]
