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

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. Can anyone look upon what our nation has become over the last four years and see […]

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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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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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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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The Crisis of Broken Streets in Mira Mesa and District 6

May 11, 2020

When I first ran for San Diego City Council in 2018, I knocked on thousands of doors across District 6. One afternoon, when I was canvassing in Mira Mesa, I […]

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We Live in a State That Continues to Be Shaped by Earthquakes

October 22, 2019

I have a layperson interest in seismology, and if I had the patience and genetic gray matter to capably execute math and logarithm formulas I likely would’ve been a scientist […]

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Our Opportunity for Renewal and Parkland at Rose Creek

July 23, 2019

As Pacific Beach and Clairemont residents know, a new trolley stop and transit center is under construction at the base of Balboa Ave. adjacent to the newly-renovated Morena Blvd. interchange. […]

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My Grandfather’s Labor Legacy

September 3, 2018

Today, on this Labor Day, I’d like to reflect on the personal meaning labor has for my family. There was a time when 40-hour work weeks, eight hour days and […]

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The President of Nothing

June 1, 2017

Today, Donald Trump inflicted a grievous wound upon everything the United States has stood for since 1945. Today, instead of maintaining our role as a world leader, free with the […]

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