Tag: David Alvarez
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San Diego Council Members to Mayor: Make Our Neighborhoods a Budget Priority
And so it begins. The city of San Diego kicked off its six-month-long budget process Wednesday, and council members representing neighborhoods south of Interstate 8 were first up at the podium. Each budget season starts with the city’s nine council members finding consensus on what to fund and then forwarding their recommendations to the mayor.…
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Where the Mayoral Candidates Diverge on Racial Profiling
By Liam Dillon Both San Diego mayoral candidates believe the police department needs more resources to combat racial profiling and plan to push for more cops and better pay if they’re elected. This is nothing different than Democratic City Councilman David Alvarez and Republican Councilman Kevin Faulconer have said throughout the campaign. Alvarez and Faulconer…
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San Diego Leaders Rally to Keep Immigration Reform Hopes Alive
San Diego business, labor and faith leaders rally to try and keep immigration reform on the legislative agenda. | Photo Credit: Jill Replogle By Jill Replogle With Congress back to work, immigration reform advocates are ramping up their efforts to get a bill passed before the end of the year. But debate over the federal…
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San Diego’s Low-Income Communities Want Clean Energy
By Maureen Cavanaugh, Patty Lane and Claire Trageser Listen to the Midday Edition interview with Councilman David Alvarez and Nicole Capretz, associate director of the Green Energy, Green Jobs campaign at the Environmental Health Coalition. Amid the flurry of bills sent to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk at the close of the state Assembly session last week, a solar energy bill was left out.…