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 [...]
Judge’s accusations on colleagues denied in appeals court
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A mandate (known as a “Petition for Writ of Mandate and Prohibition”) filed by Judge DeAnn Salcido was denied Tuesday by the 4th District California Court of Appeals.
Salcido, who will face re-election next month, filed the writ against the San Diego Superior Court and her former boss Peter Deddeh, the presiding judge [...]
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 [...]
1968 student strikes
Last year I was executive producer of a project to interview 40 people involved with student strikes at San Francisco State, the longest lasting in American history and a culmination of black, white, Asian Native American and Latino student organizations for the creation of a college of Ethnic Studies, among other demands.
We never made it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Inauguration coverage and the assassin elephant in the room
I will be reporting from Washington up until Tuesday’s inauguration. Check back daily for stories, photos and video. You can also follow on Twitter.
Over the course of the election season I would cover Obama events in Oakland, Calif., south Florida, the convention in Denver and election day and night with Obama volunteers in my native [...]
