This week, students walked out of the most expensive school San Diego Unified has ever built: the Logan Memorial Educational Campus.
Despite their beautiful campus, Logan students aren’t happy with the district and the looming prospect of teacher layoffs.
VOSD Podcast host Jakob McWhinney witnessed the walkout. On the show, he shares what he heard from protesting students and how it squares with a recent PTA meeting at the same school.
He Who Holds the Power…
It wouldn’t be a presidential election year without a massive list of ballot measures. But a big one that would have stuck it to San Diego Gas & Electric’s power supremacy was stalled — in large part because of a labor union.
In this week’s show, hosts Scott Lewis and Andrea Lopez-Villafaña and McWhinney discuss a feud between SDG&E and public power proponents that played out in front of a San Diego City Council committee. One of the proponents, Power San Diego, was elbowed out by a local union with strong ties to SDG&E.
Now, if Power San Diego wants to put up a ballot measure to change ownership of San Diego’s energy grid this year, they’ll have to collect 80,000 signatures.
The Power of History
As Sports Arena gets ready to face the bulldozers, a new study found the building is historically significant and the city and developers will have to formally recognize it.
But the history mentioned in that study only scratched the surface, alluding to Midway’s “transformation from WWII housing into a lively entertainment and commercial hub.”
On the pod this week, Lewis takes us back to 1940s San Diego and the neighborhood once known as Frontier.
I think the podcast speakers were pretty accepting of the SDGE union stance against the public power effort when Power San Diego tried to convince the city council to support a public power ballot measure. What is so shocking is the unmentioned huge profits posted by the practically universally deeply hated utility every year while they rip off SD residents. The podcasters barely acknowledged that the other municipal public power companies do pay union wages, and those huge profits are unnecessary while union wages can be paid. It was also largely ignored by the council that makes mistake after mistake handling taxpayer funds.