Without doing a full revamp of the default routing (#/ViewName) environment, I was able to do a slight modification of Cody's tip and got it working great.
the controller
.controller('GeneralCtrl', ['$route', '$routeParams', '$location',
function($route, $routeParams, $location) {
...
this.goToView = function(viewName){
$location.url('/' + viewName);
}
}]
);
the view
...
<li ng-click="general.goToView('Home')">HOME</li>
...
What brought me to this solution was when I was attempting to integrate a Kendo Mobile UI widget into an angular environment I was losing the context of my controller and the behavior of the regular anchor tag was also being hijacked. I re-established my context from within the Kendo widget and needed to use a method to navigate...this worked.
Thanks for the previous posts!