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Despite $32.5 Million Funding Gap, City to Go Ahead with Library
Don I agree with Visduhon this one. I don't dismiss the argument that donors for the remaining funding might not come forward. I just have to have hope for this, after 50 years of seeing a main library inadequate from the get-go deteriorate further and further. This will be a building used every day by San Diegans, rich and poor--but predominantly middle class and poor who don't have all the other alternatives available to the wealthy. A stadium might be used 20 times a year, maximum? A convention center expansion based on the wishes to keep one annual user, Comic-Con? A new city hall so public employees can live even better than they do now, with guaranteed pensions and health benefits? The irony is that those who would benefit most from the library, middle-class and lower-class San Diegans and their children, show the least support, yet salivate for a new stadium whose Chargers tickets would cost them a week of salary for the family to attend (maybe even more). How about the Spanos goofs (as the LA Times fondly calls the family) ponying up the remaining $30 million for the library in return for a city ballot proposal on whether to go ahead for a stadium subsidized with public money? Say this for John Moores, he may have made a bundle out of downtown redevelopment, but he has donated lots of money to universities and other public organizations. What is there in San Diego with the Spanos name attached? Nada, nada, nada. I remember when Alan Bersin had to get down on his knees and genuflect to get the Chargers to come up with a couple of thousand dollars to pay for 9th-grade football some years back.— June 29, 2010 10:29 a.m.
U-T Editor Brings in Former O.C. Register Pals
Don You're right about the cacophony on blogs, back-and-forth. But after taking time to read the dialogue (sic) between the San Diego City Beat blog coordinator and Refriedgringo, I have to say that the Beat person comes across as mighty thin-skinned--not the best quality to feature in trying to develop a readership for that little weekly.— June 11, 2010 12:35 p.m.
U-T Editor Brings in Former O.C. Register Pals
Well, the Orange County rag aka the Register has always prided itself on graphics and looks rather than distinguished content. So perhaps no great surprise, except that endless tinkering with looks certainly did not stop the Register circulation from plummeting (even worse than the U-T readership drop). And the interloper from Orange County also hired the Register's science reporter, who is now inflicting is 'gee-whiz, ain't science-a-hoot' style on remaining U-T readers. The many science-adept residents in San Diego must be turning green. But hey, they probably gave up reading the Superficial Daily long ago.— June 10, 2010 1:07 p.m.
SDNN Closes Orange County Operation
I'd love to see a poll as to how many people living in San Diego County have ever heard of SDNN. As to the UT, why would anyone think that the interloper editor from the Orange County Register would be able to arrest the plunging fortunes of the paper? The Register has suffered circulation losses greater, percentage-wise, than the UT. And that was at a time when the interloper editor was part of the management brain trust. It's only the egotistical stirrings inside every editor's breast that can logically explain the hubris each one thinks he or she brings to the table. The newest one is no different.— May 25, 2010 3:18 p.m.
Graham Claims She Was "Spotless" in Florida. Hogwash!
Don, if I'm not mistaken, the U-T at one point reported Graham's controversial actions from Florida. So all a reporter had to do is check the paper's own archives. Is that too much to ask? (rhetorical) But the overall historical amnesia about so many San Diego issues that now pervades U-T reporting shouldn't be a surprise, given the editor himself is an interloper from Orange County with no knowledge at all about the SD region. It's too bad that you can't physically pick up a copy of the paper in Colorado but have to rely on electronics: Only the paper product can reveal the incredible "gee-whiz" quality of the stories put out on the front page. Real news is too often now dumped inside or into the B section, be it local or non-local.— May 21, 2010 10:06 a.m.
Canadian Doctor Charged with Smuggling Treated Athlete in San Diego
Hey, Athlete H, I know who that is: John Hadl!! (for any of you over 50 years old...)— May 19, 2010 5:49 p.m.
Union-Tribune to Shrink Width of Paper
Each day, the paper looks more and more like Light's old rag the Orange County Register: lots and lots of graphics, few non-local news on the front page, a trend toward prominent display of feel-good, man-bites-dog type of goofy stories, and on and on. Lot of good all that did the Register, which just got out of bankruptcy and whose circulation's nosedive makes the UT decline seem almost paltry by comparison. On the positive side, there is....little or nothing. But hey, I read the rag for free so what do I care? I'd never pay for it. Now as for the Reader, I actually might plunk a dollar down every week should it abandon its gratis distribution.— May 13, 2010 7:05 p.m.
Padres's Attendance Was Better When Losing at Qualcomm
A good ticket is now $63!! With two people, add in the cost of parking, a little food or drink, and you've spent $150-plus on two hours of often dismal baseball. Maybe in the long run the Padres are finding that there is no free lunch, and no amount of public subsidy will offset a poor, overpriced product.— May 6, 2010 12:17 p.m.
Kittle to Take News Slot at KUSI-TV
Well, Penner will be happy if the report is true. She'll be able to count Kittle as an editor, no matter how specious the moniker, and put him back on her dreadful little show every Friday to pontificate far and wide. But Don: by Cohen belittling a report that BowTie Bob himself has confirmed, hasn't he exposed, deliberately or not, newsroom tension from the get-go? No matter, I suppose. In the end, if the Twitter proves true, then KUSI will simply cement its position as the doormat of SD electronic media news, whether castoffs from the city's other news organizations go to die...— April 12, 2010 4:30 p.m.