Tag: Kate Callen

Budget Review Town Hall Forums: Some Takeaways

| March 2, 2025 | 0 Comments
Budget Review Town Hall Forums: Some Takeaways

By Kate Callen A series of four 2025 Budget Review Town Hall forums gave San Diegans a platform to express their views about how their city government spends their tax dollars. The series title was “Now that Measure E Has Failed, Where Should City Budget Cuts Be Made?” The goal was for constituents to communicate […]

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Why We Support San Diego’s Elected Community Planning Groups

| January 7, 2024 | 0 Comments

By Larry Turner, Kate Callen, Terry Hoskins For more than a half-century, San Diego’s community planning groups (CPGs) have been acclaimed as a national model of local democracy. As the City’s website states, CPGs elected by their communities have been “formal mechanisms [that] provide citizens with an opportunity for involvement.” This model of democracy is now […]

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San Diego’s Stealth Government: Read the Fine Print

| September 6, 2021 | 0 Comments

By Kate Callen Political troubadour Pete Seeger had an apt formula for comparing education and experience: “Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don’t.” For decades now, San Diegans unschooled in reading the fine print have lost hundreds of millions of dollars to painful experience: the public […]

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