Jim Desmond

Jim Desmond is a San Diego County Supervisor representing the Fifth District.

Sewage-fouled runoff from the Tijuana River has prompted authorities to issue an ocean-pollution warning for several miles of the shoreline just north of the U.S.-Mexico border near San Ysidro, California March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake

March 24, 2025

Mexico is poisoning Southern California in a border crisis almost no one knows about

America's border is in crisis and it's not just about illegal immigration. One hundred billion gallons of sewage is flowing across, poisoning the US with E. coli and toxic chemicals.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom

June 9, 2023

Newsom’s homelessness insanity fails taxpayers

Gov. Newsom’s homelessness insanity fails taxpayers. California’s Housing First program helps make the problem even worse and costs citizens billions of dollars.

San Diego freeway

January 25, 2023

San Diego wants to tax people out of their cars and into public transportation

It's not a secret that California is where many great and bad ideas first come to life. Once they catch hold in California they spread. Here's a new one designed to discourage driving.