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Tentatively, judge sides with Filner in TMD dispute
Living wage for workers!!! Society's chain is only as strong as its weakest lnk. Congress already spoke up for the new middle-class like the TMD Exec Director that is raking in $450K yr. To avoid the "Fiscal Cliff', they went ahead and threw the 98% over once & for all with a sucker in their mouths. Per Prof. Reich's article at http://robertreich.org/post/39333816768: "2. The deal makes tax cuts for the rich permanent (extending the Bush tax cuts for incomes up to $400,000 if filing singly and $450,000 if jointly) while extending refundable tax credits for the poor (child tax credit, enlarged EITC, and tuition tax credit) for only five years. There’s absolutely no justification for this asymmetry." If the "trickler-downers" aka as "those that piss on the majority", refuse living wages to working people: an adjustment to the Poverty Level seems sensible. The upper 2% got benefited by the Fiscal Cliff deal and somehow, magically, thereby joined the "middle class". But did the poverty-level also get a boost? That way at least the working poor may eat and receive some medical care when the need arises, to be fit to report daily for indentured servitude.— March 21, 2013 5:20 p.m.
Appellate court refuses to stop closed CPUC meeting
"Whatever goes on in these meetings". . . .is obscured--it is secret. There is not a business meeting format that ensures that ex-parte communication rules (that were reported to be applicable to the stakeholder meeting in the exclusive-invitation) or that any rules/laws/ethics that the CPUC are bound by are effected. No webcast, audo-recording, roster of speakers/attendees, agenda, zip! Yes, a secret, conclave. This is a corrupt, insiders, hijacking of, by, and for the CPUC & their industry partners for the benefit of those they serve. Themselves. Californians lose by standing by passively as though powerless. Demand an investigation of law and ethics, or absence of it, by the CPUC.— March 21, 2013 6:34 a.m.
In Miller obit, U-T misses historic sleaze story
A heartfelt salute to Mr. Miller and condolences to his family.— March 4, 2013 8:55 p.m.
Hotel/worker battle escalates as cops arrest 20
You can also sign the petition at this webpage that ask Tarsadia to retain all Hilton employees: http://www.heiworkersrising.org/— March 4, 2013 10:13 a.m.
Peevey, supposed to be neutral, pushed secretly for Pio Pico
It is shameful and disgraceful that the corporatist-stranglehold has reduced men and women to prostitute themselves this way. We all are silent accomplices, if not vocal opponents.— March 3, 2013 12:56 a.m.
Peevey, supposed to be neutral, pushed secretly for Pio Pico
The Mar 20 La Jolla "Stakeholders and CPUC" meeting venue should make for very nice PUBLIC PICKETING and free parking too! Wear sun-protective gear. The next morning, Thurs Mar 21st, a Rally at 8 am, preceding the public CPUC meeting at 9 am will be held in a central and more convenient location: I just received these interesting details about it: http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=b4868081343... Stakeholders and CPUC need to get the message - ratepayers are Stakeholders too! Stakeholder Definition A person, group or organization that has interest or concern in an organization. Stakeholders can affect or be affected by the organization's actions, objectives and policies. Some examples of key stakeholders are creditors, directors, employees, government (and its agencies), owners (shareholders), suppliers, unions, and the community from which the business draws its re$ource$.— March 1, 2013 4:20 p.m.
Engineers dislike H-1B; bosses gloat
Went through the entire comment thread and saw nothing that reveals the behind the scenes, machinations at businesses or institutions that are H-1 B sponsors. It's my understanding that Federal Grants (taxpayer funds) NIH and various other federal institutes are the source for paying the visa processing fees, the travel to the US for the H-1B holders, and their salaries. The high instant loss on each tax dollar for the taxpayer, the long term losses with qualified unemployed US citizens, diminishing labor conditions/law standards/justice (H-1B holders are not going to argue 60 hr work weeks), societal and educational ruination to undermine the US as the 1-2% continue their insidious overtaking of the US and transform it into their personal mice colony. . . this is what's transpiring and the H-1B program and cap issue is one of 1-2%-ers keys. So, it IS all of those STEM participants that are NOT speaking up at their organizations and at the national level that perpetuates and supports the US downfall. They're reaping great benefits and taking advantage where/when they can with their $200K & up yearly salaries. Fed salary cap is ~$190K, but where there's a will there's a way to pay them more to do their part in this treasonous business. Even at these salaries the taxpayer continues to pick up the tab for their domestic and foreign escapades to "conference and seminar" several times a year. THAT ADDS UP ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN RESEARCH DOLLARS, as their research staff (yes many H-1Bs too) are privy to travel costs. These are the 1-2%. Oh yes,they're "brilliant". They know this splurging cannot be sustained unless a vast majority is kept VERY poor, sick, medicated, despondent, starved of nutritional food, in need of "healthcare", entertained rather than educated, on & on. So, let's talk about those wetbacks now and how they're ruining our country and raiding our tax chest by working their asses off for nearly nothing, doing what no high-schooler could or would do even at a decent wage. . . which is to labor at substandard conditions and wages. That's another of the 1-2%-ers keys: distraction and clouding of issues regarding immigration.— February 25, 2013 9:44 a.m.
Advocacy group closely tied to big hotel owner backs legal attack on Filner
If you care to fight the good fight, here's info to do it. Email your letter from the links below and/or attend the City Council meeting this Monday, 2/25 at 2 pm, downtown City Admin Building. https://www.facebook.com/events/613161478709837... http://onlinecpi.org/2013/02/letters-to-the-edi... http://onlinecpi.org/2013/02/monday-join-us-in-...— February 24, 2013 1:45 p.m.
Advocacy group closely tied to big hotel owner backs legal attack on Filner
EXACTLY!. . . ."Who's gonna wanna visit SD if they dont 1st and foremost protect the character of the city? They sure as hell didnt do much to protect balboa Park from developers and profiteers." AND there's more to do to protect from energy/utility profiteers! Mayor Filner took an early, decisive and courageous stand early on. That's what real leaders do. This phoney-baloney misleadingly named SD Co. Taxpayer's Assoc. (SDCTA) submitted a letter asking one agency to hold off and allow time for the other agency to slide in their decision to attempt to force UN-NECESARY power plants on San Diego residents/ratepayers!. PURE GREED & SLIME. From L. Lutar's 2/20/13 letter to the CPUC: "The San Diego County Taxpayers Association (SDCTA) urges the Commission to postpone making a final decision on the Quail Brush Generation Project until the California Energy Commission (CEC) completes its examination of the project, so that the Commission can consider further information about the need for Quail Brush." Firstly, it's the CPUC that approves energy "need" applications, not CEC, and these plants are NOT needed. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/feb/08/tp-m... Secondly, a hulking un-needed, power plant, within sight, sound and walking distance from the San Diego Mission Dam (a nationally registered historic landmark) within a San Diego gem, Mission Trails Regional Park---how is that good for tourism, if you don't first give a "dam" about the locals or the treasured environment? As one San Diegan that's sick and tired of fat cats serving their own portions in this city (a favorite city of US fat cats) and our entire country, and as a citizen who campaigned and voted for Mayor Filner, my message to the likes of SDCTA and others in that band of greed and sloth---voters sent a message to you in Nov, it was sent loud and clear . . . YOUR SELF-SERVE, FEEDING-FRENZY PARTY IS OVER!— February 24, 2013 1:17 p.m.
The fix may be in on Pio Pico power plant
The CPUC must quash special interest and any APPEARANCE of special interest. Let's hear MUCH more about efficiency and conservation from the CPUC and CEC when deciding these cases as though it is part of the equation of transition to a better energy future. My employer has proactively taken conservation measures the past few summers and reported that energy cost savings have been increasing each year due to our efforts. What reason is there to abandon conservation and efficiency the rest of the year? Enforcing the habit of conservation year-round could result in cost-savings and establishing real baselines of energy "need" (versus wasteful need) that may be relied upon as a bridge to-, and a permanent component of-, a new, smart, sustainable energy future with the immediate imperative to greatly reduce damage to the environment and atmosphere. Conservation/efficiency could be a win-win for 1) consumers, 2) utility and power companies with integrity, and 3) our one & only planet. Ask not what your planet can do for you, ask what you can do for your planet! Demand that policymakers and govt agencies/commissions take up that motto and challenge profiteering utility companies and wasteful consumers. Human survival relies on a healthy planet.— February 24, 2013 10:03 a.m.