Opinion: California must restart research that could help veterans By Amber Capone July 16, 2024 at 4:31 p.m. California, a longtime leader in innovative mental health research, is facing a critical juncture in...
Opinion: We are students who are tired of living with pollution and closed beaches By Eric Camberos July 16, 2024 at 4:05 p.m. As a high school freshman and a proud member of the Clean Coast Collaborative, I...
Opinion: Women’s perspectives are being incorporated into public policy in Mexico By Alicia G Kerber Palma July 16, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. The Cali-Baja region, particularly San Diego and Tijuana, represents a tangible example of binational integration.This...
Opinion: I’m the first Mexican-born woman to travel to space By Katya Echazarreta July 15, 2024 at 5:40 p.m. As a child, I was always fascinated by outer space. I was 7 years old...
Opinion: I was a successful engineer but realized something was missing By Rafael Alvarez July 15, 2024 at 5:35 p.m. I am the proud Mexican American son of immigrant parents from Mexico and...
Opinion: SDSU is ready to help underserved engineering students By Theresa M Garcia July 15, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. I first learned about the learning culture over 20 years ago when working with a...
Opinion: State’s program helping those with disabilities should be embraced across U.S. By David Rivera July 15, 2024 at 10:10 a.m. In 1969, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, now known as the Lanterman Act, was...
Opinion: To help underserved, more schools should host SAT, ACT exams By Vince J Kotchian July 15, 2024 at 11:49 a.m. San Diego: We have a problem. In the past year or so, we’ve seen many...
Opinion: How our LGBTQ Pride Week became such a beloved, stellar event By Tyler Renner July 11, 2024 at 4:05 p.m. My San Diego story began at the Pride Parade of 2015. That was the...
Opinion: Don’t use Pride celebration to justify more police surveillance By Lilly Irani July 11, 2024 at 4:01 p.m. The San Diego Police Department held a press conference on Monday announcing an expansion of...
Opinion: To solve San Diego’s housing crisis, we need walkable, bikeable communities By Saad Asad July 8, 2024 at 5:35 p.m. When I suddenly had to find a new apartment after my landlord didn’t renew my...
Opinion: Preservation could help with housing, homelessness. Here’s how. By Sara C Bronin July 8, 2024 at 4:05 p.m. California’s housing shortage makes it a proving ground for innovative housing solutions. That’s why, as...
Opinion: I never imagined I could become homeless. Here’s how I coped. By Julie Porter July 8, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. When I was a stay-at-home mother living in a large house in suburban San Diego,...
Opinion: Sicknesses show South Bay sewage nightmare is a health emergency By Kimberly Dickson July 3, 2024 at 3:11 p.m. My husband and I are in the unique position to witness firsthand the health consequences...
Opinion: Stranger danger is on your child’s phone. Keep them safe. By Jon Moffat July 3, 2024 at 3:05 p.m. As a digital safety expert, I’m constantly updating my internet safety presentations to parents and...
Opinion: What does the Fourth of July mean to the working class? By Jim Miller July 3, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. When we celebrate the Declaration of Independence, it’s important to remember Thomas Jefferson himself believed...
Opinion: Good Mourning, America: We are united in grief By Mathew Holloway July 3, 2024 at 6:01 a.m. On the eve of Independence Day weekend, we, as Americans, experience the connective tissue of...
Opinion: Getting a street named after someone is not easy. But we did it. By Felicity Senoski July 2, 2024 at 4:10 p.m. Howard Wayne’s six years working in the state Assembly as a representative of his district is...
Opinion: Soaring student absenteeism poses huge long-term risks By Emil Ostrovski July 2, 2024 at 4:06 p.m. It is widely understood that the pandemic negatively impacted student learning, with California students experiencing...
Opinion: Student protesters should be held accountable for criminal acts By Brian Jones July 2, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. There are few milestones in life quite like college graduation. The cap and gown, pomp...
Opinion: Electric vehicle infrastructure in Baja California must expand By Lew Cox July 2, 2024 at 1:04 p.m. As electric vehicle travel gains popularity, drivers increasingly seek to expand their range of...
Opinion: E-bikes help the environment. Let’s fix outdated regulations holding them back. By Jason Kenagy July 1, 2024 at 4:20 p.m. Did you know that most electric car vehicles receive a federal tax credit of $7,500?...
Opinion: Renewable diesel fuels will take California to the next level By Cory Ann Wind July 1, 2024 at 4:15 p.m. California has proven to be a leader in addressing climate change, with its Low Carbon...
Opinion: Older Californians are up against Mother Nature By Joe Garbanzos June 28, 2024 at 10:48 a.m. Older adults are fed up with the California homeowners insurance market crisis. AARP, a nonprofit,...
Opinion: California homeowners are paying more for less insurance By Jamie Court June 28, 2024 at 10:31 a.m. Court is president of the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Consumer Watchdog. He lives in Los Angeles....
Opinion: In California, State Farm is not such a good neighbor after all By Terra Lawson-Remer June 28, 2024 at 10:26 a.m. Lawson-Remer is vice chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. She represents District 3...
Opinion: The insurance crisis is hammering condo owners. What can be done? By Tom Freeley June 28, 2024 at 10:22 a.m. Freeley is the CEO of the California Association of Community Managers. He represents managers and...
Opinion: Aging is not easy. We change without even knowing it. By Lynn DeWoskin Covarrubias June 26, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. Covarrubias is a licensed educational psychologist and lives in Bonita. Have I always been this...
Opinion: Postpartum depression is not just for women. Men suffer from it, too. By Daniel Singley June 25, 2024 at 4:25 p.m. Singley is a San Diego-based psychologist, president of the American Psychological Association’s Division on the...
Opinion: My daughter struggles with mental health. It’s changed our lives. By Erin Miserlis June 25, 2024 at 4:20 p.m. Miserlis is a nonprofit executive working towards empowering youth and lives in North County. Last...
Opinion: Teaching computer science in the prison has been a challenging and rewarding experience By Emma Hogan June 21, 2024 at 6:31 a.m. Hogan is a doctoral student in computer science at UC San Diego and lives in...
Opinion: I teach English literature to incarcerated students. I’ve learned so much. By Annie Mcclanahan June 21, 2024 at 6:25 a.m. McClanahan is an associate professor of English at UC Irvine and lives in Irvine. When...
Opinion: We advocate for higher education opportunities to those involved in the criminal legal system By Jennifer Gomez June 21, 2024 at 6:20 a.m. Gomez is a justice-impacted graduate student at UC Irvine, in the Masters of Advanced Studies...
Opinion: I’ve seen how the power of education can fight inequality By Chris Boyd June 21, 2024 at 6:15 a.m. Boyd is a writer and filmmaker from San Diego. He is currently producing and directing...
Opinion: College in California prisons is transforming lives By Shannon Swain June 21, 2024 at 6:11 a.m. Swain serves as superintendent for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Rehabilitative...
Opinion: More education means less recidivism, less spending on prisons By H Haro June 21, 2024 at 6:05 a.m. Haro is a UCI LIFTED graduate housed at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. I am...
Opinion: How the LIFTED program opened my eyes and gave me hope By S Hoffman Ii June 21, 2024 at 9:52 a.m. Hoffman II is a UCI LIFTED graduate housed at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility....
Opinion: County must carefully regulate battery energy storage installations By Joe Rowley June 18, 2024 at 5:58 p.m. Rowley is a former vice president for Sempra U.S. Gas and Power, and...
Opinion: Investing in transfer students will close the degree divide By Mark D Milliron June 20, 2024 at 10:02 a.m. Million is president and CEO of National University and lives in San Diego. Sanchez...
Opinion: Legislation to protect students urgently needed By Kathie Moehlig June 17, 2024 at 4:05 p.m. Moehlig is founder and executive director of TransFamily Support Services and lives in San...
Opinion: How to use existing housing to help the homeless By Joanne Standlee June 18, 2024 at 9:54 a.m. Standlee is the executive director of Housing 4 the Homeless, and lives in Del Mar....
Opinion: Student protests must not be discouraged By Megan Thiele Strong June 17, 2024 at 5:25 p.m. Thiele Strong, Ph.D., is a sociology professor at San José State University and a 2023-24...
Opinion: Fathers have rights, too By James P. Rudolph June 17, 2024 at 11:08 a.m. Rudolph is a family law attorney with Reel Fathers’ Rights and lives in San Diego....
Opinion: What is a father? I had three men in my life who taught me. By S Meltzer June 14, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. Meltzer is the rabbi of Ohr Shalom Synagogue in Bankers Hill and a lecturer in...
Opinion: My father left an incredible mark on me as a parent By Farheen Umar June 14, 2024 at 1:50 p.m. Umar is an entrepreneur and documentary producer. She lives in Rancho Bernardo. Writing about a...
Opinion: Celebrating resilient dads and families By Greg Anglea June 14, 2024 at 11:59 a.m. Anglea is CEO of Interfaith Community Services and lives in Escondido. As a father of...
Opinion: A cherished sense of fatherly presence By Sahmie S. Wytewa June 14, 2024 at 12:05 p.m. Wytewa is the tribal liaison at the University of San Diego and member of the...
Opinion: What my Dad has showed us in his fight against Parkinson’s By Hiram Soto June 14, 2024 at 1:18 p.m. Soto is a communicator for social issues and community advocate. He lives in Poway. Having...
Opinion: My guide, my caddy, my teammate – my dad By Jeremy Poincenot June 14, 2024 at 1:43 p.m. Poincenot is an inspirational speaker and lives in Carlsbad. As I was growing up,...
Opinion | Does one San Diego union hold the key to the future of American democracy? By Jim Miller June 13, 2024 at 3:06 a.m. Miller is a local author, professor at San Diego City College, and vice president for the...
Opinion | Proposed funding reduction will devastate state’s overcrowded emergency departments By San Diego Union-Tribune June 12, 2024 at 11:17 p.m. Fernandez, M.D., is president-elect of the California chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians...
Opinion | San Diego’s life sciences industry has long history of historic breakthroughs By Joe Panetta June 12, 2024 at 11:18 p.m. Panetta is president and chief executive officer at Biocom California and lives in San Diego....
Opinion | Gov. Newsom should not punish immigrant students. Dreamers don’t deserve it. By San Diego Union-Tribune June 12, 2024 at 11:19 p.m. Pinto is an attorney and Immigrant Legal Defense's founding co-executive director, overseeing the group's legal-education...
Opinion | Olive oil prices, climate change and canaries are all connected. This is how they’re linked. By San Diego Union-Tribune June 11, 2024 at 3:54 p.m. Wolsey, Ed.D., is an international literacy consultant and a graduate of the University of San...
Opinion | The rail corridor between L.A. and San Diego is too important not to fix. Why wait? By Leif Gensert July 1, 2024 at 12:01 p.m. Gensert is a board member of RideSD, a transit advocacy group, and lives in North...
Opinion | America finally has momentum in the push for cleaner energy. We must not go backwards. By Bob Keefe June 10, 2024 at 11:01 p.m. Keefe is executive director of the national nonpartisan business group E2 and author of the...
Opinion | College exposed me to new levels of racism that I didn’t even know existed. Here’s how I survived it. By Samira Hassan June 7, 2024 at 6:20 p.m. Hassan is a student at San Diego City College majoring in journalism and lives in...
Opinion | Despite challenges, I’m committed to growing the number of women in the trades By San Diego Union-Tribune June 7, 2024 at 4:35 p.m. Wilson is a journeyman wireman and a member of IBEW Local 569 and lives in...
Opinion | I love my job for many reasons. Seeing great sunrises and sunsets is just the start. By San Diego Union-Tribune June 7, 2024 at 5:07 p.m. Astivia is a first officer pilot for Mexican airline Volaris and lives in San Diego....
Opinion | I’m proud to be one of few women in construction. I’m thankful for my mentors. By San Diego Union-Tribune June 7, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Grierson is a third-year apprentice at Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 206 with A.O. Reed...
Opinion | College graduation is twice as special for these 2024 grads. Here’s why. By San Diego Union-Tribune June 6, 2024 at 12:10 a.m. The Morenos are part of SDSU’s graduating class of 2024. They live in Temecula. As...
Opinion | Syphilis is surging again. Here are those who are most at risk. By San Diego Union-Tribune June 6, 2024 at 12:06 a.m. Ebor, Ph.D., M.S.W., is an assistant professor of social work at San Diego State University...
Opinion | Our tribal communities must have the same access to internet connectivity as others By Bo Mazzetti June 6, 2024 at 12:00 a.m. Mazzetti is chairman of the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians, where he resides. Cope is...
Opinion | The power of half a million: SDSU alumni are transforming our region By San Diego Union-Tribune June 5, 2024 at 12:21 a.m. Dathe is the executive director of San Diego State University Alumni and lives in Loma...
Opinion | Those in Gen Z bring different expectations to workplace By Jessica I. Mills June 5, 2024 at 12:16 a.m. Mills is a Gen Z freelance writer who lives in San Diego.By 2025, Gen Z...
Opinion | Workforce development can create job skills that are in high demand By San Diego Union-Tribune June 4, 2024 at 11:55 p.m. Young is interim president and CEO of San Diego Workforce Partnership and lives in Valencia Park.Today, a cloud...
Opinion | My family won’t have a place to live much longer without cheaper housing. We deserve it. By San Diego Union-Tribune June 4, 2024 at 12:32 a.m. Velez is a policy coordinating committee member for the San Diego Housing Federation’s Homeless Experienced Advocacy and Leadership...
Opinion | I know firsthand the negative, enduring impact of housing insecurity. Protect families. By San Diego Union-Tribune June 3, 2024 at 11:51 p.m. Villanueva is president and CEO of City Heights Community Development Corp. and is a longtime...
Opinion | Affordable housing is in a state of emergency. Let’s act accordingly. By Rebecca Louie June 3, 2024 at 11:46 p.m. Louie is the president/CEO of Wakeland Housing and Development Corp. and the board chair of...
Opinion | Mexico’s next president must have a plan to protect oil, the nation’s greatest asset By Duncan Wood May 31, 2024 at 11:06 p.m. Martin is vice president, Energy and Sustainability, at the Institute of the Americas at UC...
Opinion | Mexico’s next president will have to address pressing issues around the country By Tania Navarro May 31, 2024 at 7:20 p.m. Navarro is community opinion editor at The San Diego Union-Tribune. She is a transfronteriza who lives...
Opinion | Mexico’s next president will hear from us. We will keep fighting for clean air and water. By Paloma Aguirre May 31, 2024 at 7:10 p.m. Aguirre is mayor of Imperial Beach and serves as the San Diego Coast representative on the...
Opinion | Mexico’s monumental election isn’t expected to bring big changes at the U.S.-Mexico border By Alan Bersin May 31, 2024 at 7:01 p.m. Bersin is executive chair at Altana Technology and Inaugural North America and fellow at the...
Opinion | People who are visually impaired need hope and empowerment. This event will provide it. By San Diego Union-Tribune May 31, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Perry is CEO of Eyehesive and the One-Eye Era membership and lives in San Diego....
Opinion | Reaction ranges from satisfaction to anger to concern verdicts will be overturned By San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board May 31, 2024 at 1:36 p.m. Editor’s note: This is a sampling of reactions to the 34 guilty verdicts returned Thursday...
Opinion | The war industry extracts cheap labor from UC San Diego students. This must stop now. By Evan Apodaca May 29, 2024 at 11:21 p.m. Apodaca is a visual artist living in San Diego. McClay is a graduate student majoring...
Opinion | Marfa Rabkova is in a another country, facing charges for protesting. It’s unjust. By San Diego Union-Tribune May 31, 2024 at 5:17 p.m. Torrey, King and Torres are students majoring in communication. All are classmates in UC San...
Opinion | UC San Diego alumni are demanding amnesty for arrested protesters and suspended students By San Diego Union-Tribune May 29, 2024 at 10:30 p.m. Hafez is a software engineer and an alumnus of UC San Diego, graduating with a...
Opinion | Some activists are making theatrical performances. Do they know why they are out there? By San Diego Union-Tribune May 29, 2024 at 4:27 p.m. Havis is a theater professor and the faculty director of Jewish Studies at UC San...
Opinion | UCSD faculty members demand amnesty for students from the Gaza Solidarity Encampment By San Diego Union-Tribune May 28, 2024 at 11:05 p.m. Aron is a professor in the Department of Psychology at UC San Diego and lives...
Opinion | I protested over Vietnam in the 1970s. But our tactics were different – and they worked. By San Diego Union-Tribune May 28, 2024 at 11:00 p.m. Phair is a San Diego businessman who has degrees from Cal Western and from the...
Opinion | The foster care system in San Diego needs an overhaul. I know firsthand what is missing. By Shane Harris May 25, 2024 at 12:20 a.m. Harris is the president of the People’s Association of Justice Advocates, and lives in Paradise Hills.I...
Opinion | Koreans owe gratitude to the citizens of Gwangju. Here’s why. By Paul Courtright June 21, 2024 at 2:01 p.m. Courtright is an ocular epidemiologist and lives in Rancho Bernardo. For most Americans, May 18,...
Opinion | UC San Diego trustees and the chancellor should resign. Their actions against students crossed the line. By Doris Bittar May 25, 2024 at 5:59 p.m. Bittar is an artist, writer and community organizer who lives in North Park.Have Israeli war crimes...
Opinion | Is the word ‘chingona’ a compliment or an insult? Here’s my take. By Laura Castañeda May 24, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. Castañeda is a deputy opinion editor at The San Diego Union-Tribune and lives in Chula...
Opinion | I’m trying to register young South Bay voters one at a time. Here’s how. By Izayah Ringfield May 24, 2024 at 6:29 p.m. Ringfield is a junior at Chula Vista High School and lives in Chula Vista.Last August,...
Opinion | He died in the line of duty. Now an Escondido street bears his name. By Linda Dudik May 24, 2024 at 1:06 p.m. Dudik, Ph.D., is the president of the World War II Experience, an educational nonprofit based in...
Opinion | My father-in-law was a POW. He shared his story with visitors to the USS Midway Museum. By San Diego Union-Tribune May 24, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Reily is a retired naval officer and retired college professor/administrator who lives in Bankers Hill....
Opinion | I care for people in their final days. Here’s what I’ve learned about hospice. By San Diego Union-Tribune May 23, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Dang, M.D., is a physician specializing in hospice and palliative medicine with Sharp HospiceCare, as...
Opinion | Budget cuts to programs that help people with disabilities hurt families, too By San Diego Union-Tribune May 23, 2024 at 12:09 a.m. Hershey is CEO of Home of Guiding Hands and lives in El Cajon.In the dynamic...
Opinion | I fear for my disabled daughter. Her services may be stopped due to lost state funding. By San Diego Union-Tribune May 23, 2024 at 12:05 a.m. Wiesner is a retired salon manager and the mother of a client in Home of...
Opinion | Will state break its promise to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities? By San Diego Union-Tribune May 23, 2024 at 12:02 a.m. Jardini is executive director of the California Disability Services Association and lives in Sacramento. Gov....
Opinion | Let’s fix Proposition 47 to stop incentivizing theft and increase personal accountability By Shelley Zimmerman May 21, 2024 at 11:08 p.m. Zimmerman is a former San Diego chief of police. She retired in 2018 after 35 years...
Opinion | The truth about Proposition 47 is hidden from voters. Here’s what you need to know. By Mitchelle Woodson May 21, 2024 at 11:06 p.m. Woodson is the legal director of Pillars of the Community, a Southeast San Diego-based nonprofit, and...
Opinion | Why my trip to Ecuador inspired me to save animals who depend on the Earth’s food chain By San Diego Union-Tribune May 20, 2024 at 11:02 p.m. Rivera is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Cal State San Marcos. He...
Opinion | Housing is a privilege in California with sky-high costs. This needs to change, now. By San Diego Union-Tribune May 20, 2024 at 11:01 p.m. Gonzalez Soto is a tenant living in Pacific Beach and a member of the Alliance...
Opinion | The nursing field is short-staffed and doesn’t reflect our community. Here’s a fix. By San Diego Union-Tribune May 20, 2024 at 10:59 p.m. Girard is senior program director of Southwestern College Nursing and Health Occupations Program and lives...
Opinion | Harvey Milk’s legacy is being remembered here. I’m proud to be part of the celebration. By Tyler Renner May 20, 2024 at 4:26 p.m. Renner is a communications professional and LGBTQ+ advocate. He lives in University Heights.When I found...
Opinion | Celebrating matriarchs with enduring love and courage all year long. I do and so should you. By Sahmie S. Wytewa May 18, 2024 at 12:10 a.m. Wytewa is the tribal liaison at the University of San Diego and member of the...
Opinion | I encourage my students to transform their challenges into opportunities By San Diego Union-Tribune May 17, 2024 at 5:01 p.m. Labio, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the School of Arts, Communication, Design and Media...