Lessons from Super Tuesday

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.

OpinionSDCTAMarch 13, 2020San Diego Politics, Taxes, Primary, Super TuesdayComment

January Legislative Update: Hold on to your wallets - 2020 is here!

By Kelly Batten

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

Legislative UpdateSDCTAJanuary 27, 2020San Diego Politics, Politics Comment

Commentary: San Diegans weigh in on what mattered in 2019

Op ed by Haney Hong

Published December 24, 2019 in The San Diego Union Tribune

Local happenings impact San Diego the most.

OpinionSDCTADecember 30, 2019School Bonds, San Diego PoliticsComment

Not All School Bond Issues on March Ballot Get a Passing Grade

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.

OpinionSDCTADecember 23, 2019San Diego Politics, School BondsComment

Let’s be a big city

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.

OpinionSDCTANovember 14, 2019San Diego PoliticsComment

Can We Put Aside Our “First World Problems?”

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.”

OpinionSDCTAAugust 14, 2019Community Choice Energy, San Diego Politics Comment

What Should We Want in a Mayor?

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.

OpinionSDCTAJuly 17, 2019San Diego Politics, San Diego MayorComment

Fisticuffs or Reason: The Best Ways to Settle Our Differences?

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.

OpinionSDCTAJuly 17, 2019Politics, San Diego PoliticsComment