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Chargers: Look at Petco Park Failure
RE "You're nuts. Petco is one of the easiest stadiums to get in and out of": It's easy to do that when nobody goes to the games. There's nothing but 2-lane surface streets for blocks around except for Harbor Drive, and that hasn't been improved since sometime deep in the last millennium. There are good reasons why so many fans arrive by trolley... and the bars up in the Gaslamp District are counting on sellout fans (if and when that happens) not being able to get out of there all that fast.— December 22, 2010 8:21 p.m.
Chargers: Look at Petco Park Failure
Secret: I put down at least one space before and two spaces after to insure that the editor recognizes any text starting with ""http://" as a link... something somebody else clued me into! Leaving out spaces at the end sometimes causes the link to include extra characters such as assumed end-of-paragraph tags, so that some links end with the mysterious "<p" or something similar...— December 22, 2010 7:36 p.m.
Rainwater Three to Four Feet High in Logan Heights
RE "At times like these, we need to remind our Leaders that they should be planning for ( and build for) catchment of these HUGE rains and thereby save the City from purchasing expensive water when it is coming down for "FREE" from Heaven!": ESPN just showed Qualcomm Stadium regarding tomorrow's bowl game: the entire parking lot is flooded. If we need an emergency reservoir, all we have to do is nail the doors shut and let it fill.— December 22, 2010 7:30 p.m.
Ducheny Closes Senate Officeholder Account
This politician's eating expenditure tab paints the picture of living LARGE. Hopefully, the one item for $475 was not for only one meal, although it does seem to have been pork by any measure. While I was a 1990s student rep in Sacramento, my City College student government travel and conference budget committee limited me to roughly $10 per meal. If I was still hungry, then that came out of my pocket, not out of student government. Denise Ducheney can speak to her own expenses as to when she was on the SDCCD board of trustees back then... but I bet old habits are just that with her.— December 22, 2010 11:54 a.m.
Half SD Households Can Afford Homes, but We're Still Expensive
Let's hope that there will be something other than low-wage service jobs to attract them back in the first place!— December 22, 2010 11:41 a.m.
Rainwater Three to Four Feet High in Logan Heights
We're looking at the highest the Encanto Branch of Chollas Creek has been in the last 70 years (in my family's collective memory), maybe the last 100. It looks like raging rapids of chocolate milk.— December 22, 2010 11:30 a.m.
Diana Gonzalez Murder Case Prompts March on San Diego D.A.’s Office
One of the beautiful things about America is that for the most part, we are free in our own business because we make the basic assumption that we have legitimate ends and means in what each of us does. The unfortunate consequence is that when one of us is seriously twisted, it just isn't possible to fully protect and defend any of the rest of us from that twisted person while still holding onto that blessing of liberty, a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. I am sickened that Diana Gonzalez was killed on the same open camps where I spent the majority of my adult life as a student, tutor, student leader, and involved member of the academic community. I am even more disgusted by her killer, someone who has conveniently put all of this behind him and is remaking his life somewhere else in Mexico. I would rather cut off my hand than injure the women who are close to me, or any other person for that matter, much less kill any of them. I don't know her killer, but if his memory of this eats through him from the inside out, then it is well deserved, for this coward will only be caught if he is foolish enough to cross the border. There is a warning here for women at City College. Look for the sincerity in the man who wants to be with you, where he is not challenged by your effort to improve yourself and have a better life. Too many of us men have an egotistical sense of self-justification even as we wallow in our own lack of ambition. Never tolerate the man who hurts you... and be selective enough that you don't get involved with one like that in the first place. No man needs to hurt a woman except to satisfy himself, and that's the sort of self-justification that can lead one to kill. Over the decades I've seen things at City College, it's not that unusual to see a teenage girl mature into a woman who outgrows the immaturity of the so-called man she happens to have been with when she started her college career. Good riddance to egotistical bad boy who refuses to grow up and become a man.— December 21, 2010 11:34 p.m.
Three Oceanside Assailants Sentenced in Beating of Elderly Woman
Somebody clued in informs me that it's kind of like a setup: the sentencing on plea opens all three of them up to the kind of up-the-asset scrutiny that would send the rest of us to the ACLU... maybe... like I have any experience with any of that.— December 21, 2010 7 p.m.
Three Oceanside Assailants Sentenced in Beating of Elderly Woman
Actually, I thought it was a picture of his 40-year-old uncle.— December 21, 2010 6:56 p.m.
Three Oceanside Assailants Sentenced in Beating of Elderly Woman
Brandin Michael Evinger, 24, and Tyler Thornton Mackin, 24, and Richard Roy Vaughan, 25. I can only assume that the evidence against these three was such that none of these individual street warriors, capable of dropping persons fully half their size and more than twice their age, had the courage of the presumed innocent to take their cases to trial. One wonders what their lives might have been like if they had shown that much sense a little more than a year ago...— December 21, 2010 11:01 a.m.