Dennis

Comments by Dennis

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Thanks Dorian
— February 21, 2013 7:32 a.m.

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Dorian, can you post a map that can be resized? This one is too small to read easily. Thanks
— February 20, 2013 2:08 p.m.

Engineers dislike H-1B; bosses gloat

Don, I don't dispute that the CPI figures are misleading as they don't include fuel & food which are the things that concern most residents, I believe those two items were removed from the CPI some years back (under a republican administration I think), in order to make inflation seem lower than it was and to reduce Social Security COLA's, much the same as the attempt now to use a chained CPI to reduce payments to SS beneficiaries. Unfortunately the CPI is the only set of numbers we have to make an apples to apples comparison over time. Conservative economists have been raising the bogeyman of inflation for over 6 years now in between worrying about deflation. Unless the economy really heats up I see little chance of inflation in the near term.
— January 12, 2013 1:34 p.m.

Filner ends pot dispensary crackdown; U.S. Attorney Duffy yet to respond

JW, Per the cit atty. He has the authority
— January 11, 2013 3:17 p.m.

Engineers dislike H-1B; bosses gloat

But SP the point is that even though we keep hearing fears of inflation there is little evidence of it's existence.
— January 10, 2013 10:17 p.m.

Engineers dislike H-1B; bosses gloat

"If the economy were to recover, and banks began lending the money from its enormous reserves (thanks to taxpayers' largesse), inflation would erupt." Don, doesn't inflation usually result from too much demand and too little supply? Why would lending from enormous reserves cause inflation? It would seem that an oversupply of available cash would only be inflationary if there were a larger demand for loans.
— January 10, 2013 3:58 p.m.

Democrats rule in lucrative Filner committee appointments

Not sure I understand the headline on this article. Why should it be controversial that elected officials get appointed to an Association of Governments? Those are exactly the people that I would expect to be appointed, not downtown developers.
— January 10, 2013 8:33 a.m.

At the Manchester Grand Hyatt: Break it or not you pay.

It would be interesting to know if at the same time they are charging the employees for breakage they are deducting it as a loss on their tax returns.
— January 3, 2013 11:35 a.m.

The 411 on San Diego's 311 "pothole" app

"The contract for the one-stop shot smartphone app has expired and the Mayor has not given any word whether he plans to renew it" Well, when your headline reads as above it appears that you think this is an urgent need and the mayor is not responding. The mayor has a lot more on his plate that requires urgent action.
— December 21, 2012 11:18 a.m.

Mayor Filner accused of caving to "NIMBY" concerns. Stops construction on University Ave

So residents were concerned in 2010 and nobody listened to them so now Filner is "caving" because he wants to respond to residents concerns? Dorian, maybe you need to get over the fact that DeMaio lost!
— December 21, 2012 10:24 a.m.