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-mor… 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.

TV and video games may intensify violence

"Starved for real experiences" and particularly of the type that invoke or challenge the human to act in "strength and courage" and other such human virtues. With the increasing absence of human experiential "adventure" as noted above, and in this world where profiteers have designed, dictated and overrun real life via entertainment venues like local news, sports, sitcoms, those dastardly idiotic instant-empty-mentality-reward-gratification video games, marketing and advertisement ever which way one turns----the masses have lost sensibility to fend against the insidiousness of it. We're bound to the impossible struggle and attempt to keep heads above water while the govt is in step with corporations whom benefit together with them in keeping a mass of zombies and drones at their disposal and as their arsenal. The escape is the "armchair variety" of life: the tv, the video game and a continued disconnection from real experiences and adventures where humans must "be" everyday in all their senses. We're seeing decades worth of a building violence-smorgasbord in fictional media alongside rampantly increasing real-life brutality worldwide and we just keep sitting and watching. If 20 babies executed in their school classroom in the US and all those mortified innocents who are living daily shell-shocked lives throughout the world doesn't finally tell us that something is seriously amiss with violence-for-profit, nothing can or will.
— February 22, 2013 8:53 a.m.

Power the Paradigm San Diegans!

Please reach out to family/friends/co-workers to get your emailed letters to the CPUC, CEC & Gov. Brown.
— February 8, 2013 6:27 p.m.