Todd Gloria

Opinion: No, San Diego is not backing away from commitment to equity on my watch

March 11, 2025 at 6:01 a.m.

A true commitment to equity is not defined by the title of a single position or the tenure of one leader; it is about creating permanent, systemic change. That is...

Heartland Fire and Rescue drive past police officers and people experiencing homelessness in an area that has a lot of overdoses on Friday, Jan. 5, 2024 in El Cajon, California. (Ana Ramirez / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Opinion: ing Proposition 36 is far less costly than the alternative

September 27, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

California’s trio of public safety crises — homelessness, drug abuse and retail theft — represent a costly, unfolding epidemic of human suffering. Highly addictive and dangerous drugs like fentanyl have...

San Diego Police Department Captain Jeff Jordon leads a meeting at the La Jolla Recreation Center about the department's plan to add surveillance equipment to streetlights.

San Diego needs transparency around surveillance, but the Privacy Ordinance is unworkable

October 20, 2023 at 11:34 p.m.

Gloria is mayor of San Diego. He lives in Little Italy.I have long believed that San Diegans have a right to know how, where and why government might be capturing...

San Diego, CA_PATH San Diego enhanced outreach specialist Jessie Angeles, right, checked on Martin Pascua in City Heights and reminded him of an appointment. Pascua has been homeless on and off for five years. There is a push by City Council Chris Ward and Georgette Gomez to get the city to transition away from police homeless outreach officers toward non law-enforcement outreach workers like Angeles. Photo by John Gastaldo

People are fed up. I’m fed up. The CARE Act is the change we need.

September 29, 2023 at 9:40 p.m.

Gloria is the mayor of San Diego and chair of the California Big City Mayors coalition. He lives in Little Italy.James Mark Rippee was referred to as “California’s most famous...

San Diego, CA - May 18: San Diego mayor Todd Gloria speaks during an event to unveil San Diego as the home of Major League Soccer's 30th franchise at Snapdragon Stadium on Thursday, May 18, 2023 in San Diego, CA. (Meg McLaughlin / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

As mayor, I know San Diego is a sports town that will embrace Major League Soccer

May 26, 2023 at 11:07 p.m.

Gloria is the mayor of San Diego. He lives in Little Italy.January 2017 is a time that lives in San Diego sports infamy.That’s when the Chargers announced they were making...

Mayor Todd Gloria is about to begin negotiations with San Diego Gas & Electric about a potential new electric and gas franchise agreement with the city.

As San Diego mayor, I believe we can end homelessness. Here’s how we’re doing it.

March 28, 2023 at 7:33 p.m.

Gloria is mayor of San Diego and lives in Downtown.Without question, homelessness is San Diego’s biggest challenge — as it is for cities across the nation. After two years of...

An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 es downtown San Diego moments before arriving at San Diego International Airport, May 7, 2018.

As San Diego mayor, here are my plans for homelessness, housing, infrastructure and safety

January 19, 2023 at 1:40 a.m.

Gloria is mayor of San Diego and lives in Downtown.At the outset of 2023, San Diego finds itself at a critical point. We’ve navigated the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Downtown, San Diego - June 28: Ash Street City Building settlement on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 in Downtown, San Diego. (Pat Hartley / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Todd Gloria: Here’s why the 101 Ash Street settlement proposal is San Diego’s best option

July 20, 2022 at 12:15 a.m.

Gloria is the mayor of San Diego. He lives in Downtown.In our efforts to resolve the disputes over 101 Ash Street and Civic Center Plaza, my fellow city leaders and...

As San Diego mayor, I hear your frustration. Here’s my plan to address homelessness.

March 28, 2022 at 12:01 p.m.

Gloria is mayor of San Diego and lives in Downtown.Recently, while blessing Saint Teresa of Calcutta Villa, a new affordable housing project in the East Village, Bishop John Dolan quoted...

SAN DIEGO, CA - OCTOBER 14: A trolley on the MTS Mid-Coast Extension Blue Line is stopped at the UC San Diego central campus stop on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021 in San Diego, CA. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

As mayors, we SANDAG’s new transportation plan – with one exception

December 10, 2021 at 12:30 a.m.

Blakespear is the mayor of Encinitas and chair of SANDAG’s Board of Directors. Gloria is the mayor of San Diego and vice chair of SANDAG. Sotelo-Solis is the mayor of National...

A man looks through the first wall at Friendship Park, near where the border separating Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego meets the Pacific Ocean Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. In the days before Joe Biden became president, construction crews worked quickly to finish Donald Trump's wall at an iconic cross-border park overlooking the Pacific Ocean that then-first lady Pat Nixon inaugurated in 1971 as symbol of international friendship. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Becoming a World Design Capital would improve life in San Diego-Tijuana

October 4, 2021 at 11:38 p.m.

Gloria is mayor of San Diego and lives in Mission Hills.I believe that San Diego is one of the world’s greatest cities, and together with our sister city Tijuana, we...

SAN DIEGO, CA - SEPTEMBER 23: A member of the San Diego Police Department's Psychological Emergency Response Team (PERT) (left) speaks to a woman sitting in building debris and trying to stop the demolition of a mural at Memorial Junior High School in Barrio Logan on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020 in San Diego, CA. (Eduardo Contreras / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Dialing 911 for a mental health emergency will soon dispatch clinicians, not police

September 2, 2021 at 12:35 a.m.

Gloria is the mayor of San Diego and lives in Mission Hills. Fletcher is chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and lives in City Heights.Not all emergencies...

ALAMEDA CA MARCH 10, 2020 - Aerial view of the Everett Commons subsidized housing in Alameda. The project provides housing for 20 low-income families at a cost of $947,000 per apartment to build. California has the highest cost to build low-income housing in the country, a huge barrier to the state solving its housing crisis. (Josh Edelson / Los Angeles Times)

As San Diego’s mayor, I urge you Senate Bill 9 to ease California’s housing crisis

June 3, 2021 at 12:42 a.m.

Gloria is the mayor of San Diego. He lives in Mission Hills.Even during the worst public-health emergency of our lifetime and the severe economic slowdown it caused, the issues that...

Here’s how I’ll ensure a fair franchise agreement for ratepayers as mayor of San Diego

January 26, 2021 at 11:36 p.m.

Gloria is mayor of San Diego and lives in Mission Hills.In 2021, we have a rare opportunity to chart a course to a safe and secure energy supply, sustainable economic...

Todd Gloria, candidate for San Diego mayor.

California Assemblyman Todd Gloria on the future of policing in San Diego

June 13, 2020 at 6:29 a.m.

These past few months we’ve pulled together as a nation and we’ve made the changes needed to save lives in a pandemic. But there is another epidemic taking lives that...

Gloria on why providing much more housing a moral imperative

November 23, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.

“I wish I had a house.I’d keep my life in there.”Most of us reading this have a home where we keep our lives. There is food in the refrigerator and...

Todd Gloria on how scooter regulations can and should work in San Diego

August 9, 2019 at 7:18 p.m.

If you go anywhere today in your “devil wagon,” please be careful.Devil wagon was a term for cars when they were initially introduced in the early 1900s. There were few...

Why housing solutions should work for all San Diegans

July 5, 2019 at 7:40 p.m.

Almost any San Diegan you meet can tell you that it’s too expensive to live in our city. That’s not up for debate. The real question is: What can we...

DEL MAR, CA 7/14/2018: Jane Stro of Solana Beach and a er of the NeverAgainCA.org was one of the protestors of outside the Del Mar Fairgrounds where the Crossroads of the West Gun Show was being held, protesting the gun show being held at the fairgrounds and gun violence. Photo by Howard Lipin/San Diego Union-Tribune/Mandatory Credit: HOWARD LIPIN SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE/ZUMA PRESS

Why gun show should be banned at Del Mar Fairgrounds

April 10, 2019 at 9:38 p.m.

According to data from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check, over 900,000 firearms were sold in California in 2017. While the overwhelming majority of these firearms involved no illegality,...

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