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By Roberta Guise
A longtime educator friend — I’ll call her Kathy — is in her 70s, still teaches and collects Social Security.
Although Kathy will tell you she’ll never stop working, the reality is she’ll have to quit at some point. When she does, she’ll be glad for the regular Social Security payment that’ll offset the high cost of living in San Francisco.
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<p> Much news has been made overAlabama’s tough immigration policy, HB 56, and how it has adversely affected the state’s agriculture economy by driving the immigrant labor out of the state.</p>
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<p> After Barack Obama’s election as president, a number of pundits rushed to declare thatAmericahad entered a “post-racial” era, and issues of race could go on the historical scrap heap next to the Cold War and typewriters. They were, it turns out, spectacularly wrong.</p>
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<p> San Diegans rightly expect all levels of local government to be focused on creating and maintaining jobs, especially in this period of economic uncertainty. That is why we are united behind protecting thousands ofSan Diegojobs that may be in peril.</p>
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<p> Christmas… It is my 71st Christmas and the first one of my life without my Mother who passed on a few weeks ago. I told my brothers in September that she was rapidly deteriorating. Unfortunately I was right.</p>
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<p> Last week’s Republican debate brought some interesting surprises. As a Latina Democrat, the biggest one I saw was Newt Gingrich’s defense of a legalization program for undocumented immigrants who have roots in the community and pose no threat to society.</p>
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<p> Progress is like power. We know it when we see it and most of the time it is created by processes that go unnoticed and are hard to document. I’ve long argued that power gets created by numerous processes, some obvious like voting and others far less obvious like public recognition. Latino scholars and performers have long criticized the dearth of Latino actors in movies, television, and theater.</p>
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<p> America is at a crossroads. Shall we be governed by people or by corporations?</p>
<p> If you thought we had already answered that question more than two centuries ago, you’re right. The framers of our Constitution were clear that we were to be a government of, for and by the people. They recognized that corporations were not people and that the Constitution did not guarantee corporations rights intended for people.</p>