Tag: City Council
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Emerald Wants Her Chief of Staff to Take Over San Diego Council Seat
Ricardo Flores, chief of staff to San Diego Councilwoman Marti Emerald, announces he will seek her council seat in District 9 next year, April 22, 2015. | Video Credit: Matt Bowler By Matt Bowler Councilwoman Marti Emerald officially endorsed on Wednesday her chief of staff to replace her on the San Diego City Council. Last…
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Where the Affordable Housing Fee Is Headed Now
By Andrew Keatts So much for increasing the development fee San Diego charges to help pay for subsidized housing. The City Council increased the fee last fall. Business groups led by the Chamber of Commerce gathered enough signatures to challenge it with a public vote. Facing that prospect, the Council sidestepped a costly public vote…
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City Heights Candidate, Council Reps Get Labor Report Card
By Maureen Cavanaugh, Pat Finn, Peggy Pico and Claire Trageser Five of the eight members of the San Diego City Council were given failing grades by the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council yesterday for their stances on 24 key issues. City Heights representative Tony Young received one of them. Young, Carl DeMaio, Kevin Faulconer, Sherri Lightner and…
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A Reader’s Guide to Mateo Camarillo
This isn’t a job that Mateo Camarillo really wanted. If he’d had his way, in fact, he wouldn’t even be a resident of the newest San Diego City Council district. As the Redistricting Commission redrew the city’s political lines last year, Camarillo led the push to create a second Latino-majority district. His proposed map for…
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Where Being Able to Vote (and Cross the Street) Is a Big Deal
The story of Ernestina Diaz drives home the one storyline hovering above everything in San Diego’s newest City Council district. She’s lived here for 34 years, since her mother and father immigrated to the United States when she was a young girl. She calls City Heights home, and for a long time owned the piñata…