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Wednesday, February 8,2012
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DeMaio the deceiver

This time, the mayoral hopeful isn’t telling the truth about volunteerism

By CityBeat Staff

This is his roadmap to election: Lie to voters about a problem that only he knows how to fix.

Wednesday, February 1,2012
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Rest in peace, Kia

Looking back on the wonderful life and work of former CityBeat writer Kia Bowman Momtazi

By CityBeat Staff

This week was a sad one for the CityBeat family. Kia Bowman Momtazi lost her battle against cancer on Saturday afternoon. She was 29.Kia started with us as an intern in January 2005 and later joine

Wednesday, February 1,2012
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What’s Bob Filner waiting for?

Mayoral hopeful needs to get campaign in motion

By CityBeat Staff

In December, pollsters commissioned by organized labor asked San Diegans who are highly likely to vote in the June primary election whom they’ll select for mayor. The results should have Congressmember Bob Filner very concerned.

Wednesday, January 18,2012
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Jerry Sanders is wrong on homelessness

Mayor says new housing complex will obviate the need for winter shelter, and that’s just not true

By CityBeat Staff

There was so much buzz surrounding the high-energy opening of Mayor Jerry Sanders’ State of the City speech last week that it threatened to drown out some of the silly things Sanders said in his annual talk.

Wednesday, January 11,2012
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The State of the City speech we’d rather hear

Our version has Jerry Sanders changing course on several issues

By CityBeat Staff

Mayor Jerry Sanders will give his seventh and final State of the City speech on Wednesday night, Jan. 11. We won’t like most of it. Here’s what we wish he’d say:

Wednesday, January 4,2012
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PIPA is the new SOPA

Keep Tweeting to protect an open Internet

By CityBeat Staff

SOPA’s twin in the U.S. Senate is the Proect IP Act, or PIPA. Both bills threaten to rip apart the fabric of the Internet, compromise the planet’s digital security and open the doors for China-class censorship.

Wednesday, December 28,2011
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End the ‘Occupy’ occupation

Where we’d like to the 99-percent movement go from here

By CityBeat Staff

We understand that purposefully killing Occupy wouldn’t be consistent with the movement’s ethos. That would require an overt act of leadership, and there’s no place for leaders in Occupy’s horizontal structure. A natural death, or, better, an organic evolution into something different, would be more appropriate.

Wednesday, December 21,2011
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At long last, the Iraq War is over

And that gives us another opportunity to slam George W. Bush

By CityBeat Staff

The Iraq War has drawn more anger from us than any other matter as we’ve periodically updated the body count throughout the years.

Wednesday, December 14,2011
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A weaker Voice of San Diego?

Layoffs at nonprofit news site have us worried about local journalism

By CityBeat Staff

Voiceofsandiego.org, a nonprofit news website that launched in 2005 and is funded through donations and grants, sent three journalists packing, along with its development director, Camille Gustafson. One of the reporters laid off was Emily Alpert, who’s easily the best education reporter in San Diego, if not beyond.

Wednesday, December 7,2011
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Jan Goldsmith is sure that he’s not biased on pension initiative

But we’re not just going to take the city attorney’s word for it

By CityBeat Staff

Goldsmith said his support of the initiative is meaningless. If that’s true, why did he bother showing up at that press conference in April?