Urban Mo’s, Baja Betty’s and Gossip Grill are leading an effort throughout Hillcrest to help bring smiles, food and gifts to underprivileged children, youth and those infected or affected by HIV/AIDS this holiday season. The local group of restaurants, owned by Chris Shaw, has signed on to two different programs benefiting The San Diego LGBT…
SAINT PAUL, Minn. – To address the serious problem of bullying in Minnesota’s schools, Gov. Mark Dayton has signed Executive Order 11-33, establishing the Governor’s Task Force on the Prevention of School Bullying. This task force will be charged with examining the best practices and policies that currently exist to prevent bullying and providing future…
DES MOINES, Iowa – One day after Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry likened bold new steps by the Obama administration to tackle international human rights abuses of LGBT people to the president waging a “war with people of faith in this country,” he has released a new ad in Iowa attacking open service in the…
LAGOS, Nigeria – The Nigerian Senate has voted against same-sex relationships in the country. As the bill received its third reading in the Senate, members of the upper legislative house unanimously voted in favor of passing the bill into law. The Senate increased the penalty for an offender to up to 14 years imprisonment and…
Influenced by the protests and removal of former Egyptian president Muhammad Mubarak, Canadian anti-consumerism group Adbusters (best known for its self titled magazine) makes a public proposal to occupy Wall Street Sept. 17 with the demand for President Obama to create a presidential commission to end the influence of money on politics and government. Less…
Little Italy is a neighborhood in downtown San Diego. Originally, it was a predominately Italian fishing neighborhood. It has gone through major change over the years and now Little Italy is a hip urban neighborhood composed mostly of restaurants, retail shops, home design stores, art galleries and residential condos. Little Italy has been a stable…
Let’s make a few things clear right off the bat. Yes, I read the entire California Supreme Court decision on Perry v. Brown. No, I am not a lawyer. But I do know that fixing dumb laws is the job of legislators and citizens, not the judiciary, an inconvenient truth the California Supreme Court seems…
TUCSON, Ariz. – Public opinion on gay marriage is shifting and the state of Arizona is a good example of this shift. In 2008 the state’s voters passed a gay marriage ban by a 56-44 margin. Now according to Public Policy Polling (PPP) they’re almost evenly divided on the issue with only 45 percent of…
Born and raised in Brockton, Mass. Bonnie Dumanis, San Diego County’s district attorney since 2003, describes her upbringing as scrappy, and the neighborhood where she was raised as “fighting.” In fact, her father went to school with the mythical boxing champ, Rocky Marciano. Today, Dumanis (60) is fighting some tough competition of her own as…
