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The latest posts about Tommy and our related issues, including original material from Tommy and cited news content.

My Letter to the City Regarding Intimidation of AAPI Neighbors

March 8, 2021

As I wrote last month, I’m disgusted at the alarming trend of hatred and intimidation directed against our AAPI neighbors since the beginning of the pandemic, and especially the spike in violence since […]

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The Corrosive Cancer of Hate Against Our AAPI Neighbors

February 16, 2021

As San Diegans, we cherish our diverse, multicultural city and heritage, and we put a premium on safe, welcoming neighborhoods and communities. But like you, I’ve grown increasingly concerned, and incensed, […]

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Statement On Today’s Coup Attempt and Mob Violence at the U.S. Capitol

January 6, 2021

Today is one of the most disgraceful days in the history of our republic, and it is all happening before our eyes in real time. Can anyone look upon what […]

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The Constitutional Crisis We All Saw Coming

January 2, 2021

Since last year’s impeachment proceedings, the Trump administration and its ever-present array of constitutional crises has devolved into a cult so firmly entrenched among the cravenly ambitious, the grotesquely foolish, […]

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Environmental Democrats and Sierra Club Join Forces for Border Wall Report

December 27, 2020

By Tommy Hough and Rick Guerrero San Diego County Democrats for Environmental Action hosted our first Environmental Report on the impacts of the Border Wall this past June, when our […]

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Four Decades Since the Murder of John Lennon

December 8, 2020

 Born in 1940 and murdered barely two months after his 40th birthday in 1980, ​John Lennon has now been gone as long as he was with us. Forty years ago, […]

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Trump Administration Jettisons Environmental Review to Cut Mature Forests in California

September 12, 2020

By Mia Taylor with Tommy Hough As California finds itself amid another devastating wildfire season, there’s perhaps no more timely or critical environmental topic than the logging of our National […]

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Fracking and Logging on Federal Public Lands on the Central Coast

September 2, 2020

When Donald Trump won the presidency on an electoral college misfire after losing the popular vote in 2016, his administration rolled into office with a breathtaking lack of self-consciousness, and […]

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Comment on the City’s Proposed Updates to the Mira Mesa Community Plan

August 24, 2020

If you haven’t taken a moment to see or comment on the potential development updates and zoning changes the city is proposing for the Mira Mesa Community Plan, you should […]

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Drilling on Carrizo Plain and the Environmental Agony of the Trump Administration

June 19, 2020

Maxim One:  Everything Trump comes in contact with, good or bad, innocent or guilty, dies an early death in reputation, career, conscience, or lifespan. Maxim Two:  If Trump touches or […]

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