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With so much information out there, we want to help our members and California taxpayers, in general, navigate it all and take the actions necessary to ensure they and their families can weather this storm.

This month, we are shining a spotlight on one of our past students, Kathleen Hedberg, an engaged public leader, civil engineer, and water systems expert who sits on a variety of boards throughout San Diego

Op Ed By Haney Hong

With the state’s primary still fresh on the minds of many Californians, it may seem much too early to already be looking down the road to the general election. It’s not.

By Kelly Batten

Here at San Diego County Taxpayers Association, we are busy watching out for your hard earned tax dollars.

Op ed by Haney Hong

Published December 24, 2019 in The San Diego Union Tribune

Local happenings impact San Diego the most.

Op Ed By Haney Hong

Published December 20, 2019 in the Times of San Diego

With all the hubbub around the impeachment and elections at the national level, it is easy to forget about serious — and possibly more important — issues at the local level.

By Glen Sparrow, SDSU Professor Emeritus

Between the passage of the Strong Mayor proposal in November 2004 and its kickoff January 1, 2006 San Diego had a political and financial meltdown. 

Op ed by Haney Hong

Last week just before Thanksgiving, we rendered departure honors for yet another official in the Defense Department as former Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer left office. 

Op ed by Haney Hong

Recent “electric fever” on community choice aggregation has danced right past some important taxpayer protections that warrant a closer look!  

By Glen Sparrow, SDSU Professor Emeritus

There are in the history of San Diego, no doubt, numerous incidents, individuals and experiences that could be included in any examination of the evolution to the strong mayor. .

Op Ed By Haney Hong

Published November 1, 2019 in the San Diego Downtown News

Last month’s season opening of our San Diego Symphony was a significant milestone that put us on the big city map. It was exciting to welcome an internationally renowned conductor and feel like we’re a part of something so culturally important.

Op ed by Haney Hong

It’s really easy for all of us to get a bit pessimistic about our future, but thankfully, I had occasion last month to stop and smell the roses.  I was privileged to be in attendance at the low-key, but ever so important retirement ceremony of a two-star admiral in the Navy Reserve. 

Op ed by Haney Hong

While Washington is tangled up in knots in talk over impeachment, I can’t stop thinking about an issue that’s much closer to home.  In fact, it’s about those who don’t have a home. 

Op Ed By Haney Hong

My wife isn’t going to like hearing this, but my transition to the “grumpy old man” phase of life is well ahead of schedule. I’m only 37, but the youth Global Climate Strike is raising my blood pressure.

Op Ed By Haney Hong

Kudos to Adele Lim for knowing when to ignore her Asian upbringing and stand up for herself -- and fellow Asians.

Op Ed By Haney Hong

Now that Andrew Yang has made the cut for the third Democratic debate, those media commentators who are so quick to dismiss him need to remember the last race for president -- and the lessons it taught us.

Op Ed By Haney Hong

I, for one, hope we will have figured out by then the role of human labor vis-à-vis machines and avoid the dystopia of science fiction hits like Terminator, Battlestar Galactica, and the Matrix!

Op Ed By Haney Hong

By repacking old thinking, a lot of presidential candidates make us frustrated.

Op Ed By Haney Hong

Published August 14, 2019 in the Times of San Diego

The unending quest to solve our “first world problems” here in San Diego leaves some of our very own living in “third world conditions.”  

Op Ed By Haney Hong

Last week at the San Diego Association of Governments, we saw compromise brokered by Mayor Kevin Faulconer of the City of San Diego and County Supervisor Jim Desmond, former mayor of San Marcos.  

Op Ed By Haney Hong

This month in our history, Aaron Burr – while serving in office as Vice President of the United States – fatally shot his intellectual nemesis and then-former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.

Op Ed By Haney Hong

Let’s see if this column contains more words than Andrew Yang will speak in the next Democratic Presidential debate. 

Op Ed By Haney Hong

Kudos to Mayor Kevin Faulconer for meeting with President Donald Trump when he was in Washington recently.