Andrew Yang is Beating the Odds – Feels like Déjà vu

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.

OpinionSDCTASeptember 9, 2019Politics, Andrew Yang, PresComment

What will we celebrate on Labor Day in 2050?

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!

OpinionSDCTAAugust 29, 2019Labor, TechnologyComment

Andrew Yang Gets Us All to Think New and Ditch the Old

Op Ed By Haney Hong

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

OpinionSDCTAAugust 19, 2019Presidential Election, Andrew YangComment

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

For Andrew Yang, Getting Noticed Means Getting Over the Humility in His Cultural DNA

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.

OpinionSDCTAJuly 9, 2019Andrew Yang, Presidential ElectionComment

What it means to be an American

Op Ed By Haney Hong

Published July 3, 2019 in the San Diego Union Tribune

To me, being American means being ready to sacrifice something for myself for my wife, my family, my neighborhood, my community, my country.

OpinionSDCTAJune 28, 2019Comment

Give Credit Where It's Due

Op Ed By Haney Hong

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

OpinionSDCTAJune 25, 2019San Diego MayorComment

Hey Grads! Give Life Your Best Effort, But Don’t Expect Credit for It

Op Ed By Haney Hong

Life doesn’t give you an “A” for effort. Harsh as that may sound, I recently needed to remind my upper-division students at UC San Diego of this fact of life.

OpinionSDCTAJune 19, 2019Comment