http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/articles.sec-44-1-editorial.html On May 31, the state Citizens Compensation Commission will consider cutting by 5 percent the annual pay of Gov. Jerry Brown and members of the state Legislature. It would match the proposal that Brown issued last week to cut the pay of state employees.]]> When it comes to voting, you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t, but you’re a damned fool if you don’t read our voter guide first.]]> In an interview, the U-T essentially informed Fletcher that the paper can’t endorse him because he’d been bad-mouthing the Republican Party amid his high-profile decision to leave the GOP and become independent.]]> Like so many politicians before him, Goldsmith is unnecessarily trying to scare you. Realignment is not creating public-safety risks in our communities; decades of public-safety policy based on mass incarceration is. ]]> The point is that we gave DeMaio a chance, and he eventually proved himself unworthy of it.]]> On Monday, the U.S. Senate voted 51 to 45 to proceed with a bill that would close a loophole that allows some extremely wealthy people to be taxed at a far lower rate than middle-class Americans.]]> Community activists will urge Lorie Zapf to schedule another hearing on a proposed ordinance that would attack neighborhood blight caused by home foreclosures.]]> This is what we believe was Fletcher’s goal: widespread news coverage and buzz for a campaign that’s been running on a sort of contained electricity.]]> The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act— otherwise referred to as “healthcare reform” or “Obamacare”—isn’t perfect. Not by a long shot. Of course, a system that we think would be much closer to perfect would have sparked the political equivalent of World War III.]]> Supporters of the measure, which will be called Prop. B, don’t want you to know that long-term reforms were enacted in 2008, because it reveals that the part of Prop. B that closes the pension system and opens a 401(k) is unnecessary—not to mention, as noted by the IBA, costly for taxpayers.]]> Do you know the difference between the city’s “structural budget deficit” and the city’s bigger-picture “financial problems”? It’s significant.]]> Last September, Paul Fisk heard something that gave him hope that there was a stack of money somewhere that was rightfully his. He soon found out that there had been a stack of money waiting for him, but he’d missed his chance to grab it two years earlier, when San Diego County gave up on him and took it.]]> Are the unions and state regulators always going to have to do the hard work for the Democrats on the San Diego City Council?]]> This is his roadmap to election: Lie to voters about a problem that only he knows how to fix. ]]> 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.]]> 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]]> 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.]]> 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:]]> 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. ]]> 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.]]>