Jeff Powers is an award-winning journalist from San Diego, California, and has worked on IVN as a writer and editor. He has also worked on a number of local campaigns including SDSU West, Measures K & L, and other campaigns.
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The City of San Diego has a lot to consider when it comes to its energy future. If Community Choice Aggregation or CCAs is passed by the City Council in January, it would essentially empower those elected officials to purchase energy for the city, not SDG&E. SDG&
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Kris Michell, the President and CEO of Downtown San Diego Partnership, a nonprofit focused on coalescing downtown businesses and making San Diego's urban core a vibrant locale, is joining forces with Mayor Kevin Faulconer's team at City Hall. Michell is considered a City Hall insider, having
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Ground is being moved in Otay Mesa for six contractors selected to begin the process of building eight prototypes for the new border wall. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says four of the prototypes will be concrete, while the other four will be made of "other materials." If
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Five government officials were fired and 13 criminal cases were filed against local and state officials in Flint, Michigan, resulting from the 2014 Flint water crisis that put 100,000 residents at risk. An investigation found that the drinking water source for the city was switched to the Flint river
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How the heck did it come so far, so fast? That's certainly what comedian and blogger Beppe Grillo must be saying, just 7 years after starting Italy's fastest growing political party, the Five Star Movement. The groups co-founder, Gianroberto Casaleggio, passed away in 2016. What began
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The revelation that President Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was in fact wiretapped in Trump Tower, is just the latest example of why news consumers have such little trust in partisan national media. Let me qualify this article with an important point: outlets like FoxNews and Breitbart
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It's shaping up to be a big weekend for San Diego State University's football team. The Aztecs host the #19 Stanford Cardinal Saturday night at the stadium formerly known as Qualcomm. The crowd is estimated to be larger than 50,000 as the Aztecs are off
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Marijuana has a new BFF in the City of San Diego. The City Council voted 6-3 to legalize cultivation and manufacturing when new state laws take effect in January. That means America's Finest City now has a legally regulated marijuana industry including: * Pot Farms * Retail Storefronts * Edible Factories
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“Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.” It's not news for those of us who live here, San Diego is expensive. From meals, to electricity, to water, America's Finest City residents pay through the nose for common services. San Diego has some of the
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According to a report with the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency, a Hepatitis A outbreak has engulfed the East Village section of Downtown San Diego, an area that includes a large portion of the community's homeless population. So far, according to the county report, the
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SENATE PASSES FISCAL PACKAGE, HEADS TO THE HOUSE In a much discussed move by President Trump, the Senate, led by Demorcrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer reached an agreement on funding the government for three more months and providing billions of dollars in relief for Hurricane Harvey victims. The president
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419-3. Three Republicans voted against a bill that, in part, provides $7.85 billion in emergency financial assistance to the victims of Hurricane Harvey. Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, and Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs said no to the aid package. Minutes before the vote, Amash tweeted that