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San Diego Used to Be Nearly Recession-Proof. What Happened?
I didn't think so...AZ and NV were both hit very hard by the housing fiasco, and in much of both states there isn't a high density of tech-savvy workers.— April 8, 2011 4:21 p.m.
San Diego Used to Be Nearly Recession-Proof. What Happened?
What types of businesses have left Cal for AZ, NV, and UT? Give me some data and numbers.— April 8, 2011 10:33 a.m.
I stumble on the MIHO food truck in South Park
Man, that's a great fish design, Founder! I hope Gala doesn't get turned into a curb-to-curb infill project. Ordinary residents in South Park do NOT want that, but we don't really have a voice. Looking at the City's website for the GH community plan update, you can see that people who attend the CPU and are City employees, business owners, realtors, builders, and developers keep pushing the idea, by inserting comments like "the Gala property is underutilized." Underutilized??? I use Gala and its convenient parking all the time, and so do hundreds of other people. How do these sharks live with themselves?— April 7, 2011 1:26 p.m.
Diary of a SealWatcher
Excellent writing, thanks for this article. I love to go watch the seal families do their thing. And it's free, no admission charge, one of the few things to do along our coastline other than look at the water, get in the water, or pay to eat/drink/stay at a waterfront business. There are so many places for humans to swim, kill things, and assert that they are at the top of the food chain. It's never enough. I hope the people who swim in the water where these wonderful seals live get big, bad ear infections from you know what. I guess if Jerry Sanders could charge people to view the seals, there would be ropes, barricades, guards, studies, assessments, oversight committees, and consultants. But it's free and natural, so the City shrugs and lets people destroy it.— April 7, 2011 1:14 p.m.
I stumble on the MIHO food truck in South Park
There is a great truck, Mariscos's, that is in the Gala Grocery Store parking lot every day (30th and Grape) in South Park. Marisco's sells fabulous smoked albacore tacos and all sorts of other fish hand-held food...yumm! The prices are very, very low and the quality is amazing. And you are right, Founder, the constant biz promotion machine known as South Park Business Group (they'd love to be a BID and plan to be one someday) NEVER has even mentioned Marisco's in their promotion websites. It's obvious that independent, low-cost, non-alcohol-vending groups do not fit the BID model.— April 7, 2011 9:40 a.m.
Japan Hit by Second Quake
Thanks for the info, Don. After reading this, I turned on CNN, expecting information, but instead the interviewer of Donald Trump is asking him what "the Trump doctrine" is. Save us all.— April 7, 2011 9:31 a.m.
Golden Hill Citizen Asks City to Enforce Vagrancy Laws
Yep, Vis, I was def tongue-in-cheek. Complaining about vagrancy laws to the Council is so pathetic that I just couldn't resist spoofing on it. Believe it or not, someone involved in this article DOES have a family biz selling pop-psych cr*p and I took the spiel almost directly from their promo. Also, adrian commenting below is spot on. Homelessness, mental illness, poverty, dysfunctional government,... are such seriously unaddressed problems that the void they create opens the door to cultish nonprofits. Of all types, not just churches. Not meaning to dis those 501c3s that do try to help by feeding and caring for helpless people, but many "nonprofit"-associated profiteers are also out there. And sometimes their access to government allows them to publicize trivial complaints that really have an underlying motive.— March 27, 2011 8:46 a.m.
City Advertising for Redistricting Support Services
If only. And to Visduh, if only real dems.— March 26, 2011 8:05 p.m.
Golden Hill Citizen Asks City to Enforce Vagrancy Laws
Who knows? Hope somebody asks. The answer would be interesting. Since there aren't any vagrancy laws to harass the homeless away and make them LEAVE, to somewhere distant from Mr Starr's properties, maybe the MAD or the Downtown Clean and Safe could foot the bill for a Life Coach for the homeless. A new solution? People do make money by selling pop-psychology pep talks. A Life Coach could come down to the underpass, say, every Friday night, and talk to the folks there about getting fitter and healthier, making lasting changes, improving their relationships, increasing income (better "panhandling style?) and/or healing their relationship with money, dissolving blocks, exchanging old beliefs with new supporting beliefs, turning stress into bliss, reintroducing creativity and joy into their lives,... helping them through this time of transition. All this could happen in a joyful and energetic way. The "clients" (NOT "vagrants," mind you!) get to be their true magnificent selves and leave empowered and happy. Emphasis on LEAVE.— March 26, 2011 7:42 a.m.
Golden Hill Citizen Asks City to Enforce Vagrancy Laws
Thanks, SurfP. It seemed to me that the term "vagrancy laws" was really outdated, ...a phrase that represents removal from everyday reality and the well-known, real-world, much-discussed and documented problems of people living on America's streets.— March 26, 2011 7:26 a.m.