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North Park and South Park – say goodbye to 30th Street as it is
As usual, this is not about promoting bicycle safety or improving businesses. If it were, then parallel street routes would be used; and there would be data showing more than anecdotal evidence of increases for restaurants and bars from sources other than [delinquent developer front groups][2]. No, this has always been about the fiction of creating "multi-modal infrastructure" as a ploy for developers to [add density without providing parking][1] while still charging market rates and pocket the profit. Between that and the folly of this project removing 420 existing spaces, you can say goodbye not just to 30th Street, but to years of economic revitalization for both these neighborhoods. [1]: https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2019/03/04/s… [2]: http://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Details.as…— April 30, 2019 2:50 p.m.
SDSU profs fight cuts to humanities
One might casually assume outsiders such as business leaders are pushing this curriculum change, but that's rarely the case. [Steve Jobs][1] and [many other CEOs][2] have routinely praised the liberal arts as ([if not more][3]) important than STEM education for promoting innovation. And we have the example of [China][4] to show a STEM-centric education produces qualified technicians but rarely visionaries. Such changes are usually [cynically motivated][5] or [misguided by shallow analysis][6]. Which is why it's shocking to realize the crime this time isn't murder, it's suicide. [1]: http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/steve-says-t… [2]: https://www.inc.com/laura-entis/6-cases-for-the-v… [3]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/willarddix/2016/11/1… [4]: https://hbr.org/2014/03/why-china-cant-innovate [5]: https://www.salon.com/2012/09/14/conservatives_ki… [6]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-stem-…— April 17, 2019 2:14 p.m.
Wild Nights
Yes. Thank you for bringing this attention again. I have no more words.— April 3, 2019 9:44 p.m.
SDSU $575-an-hour lobbying deal revealed
Hey now! It's always sunshine, every week, here in San Diego. A sunny place for shady people—with more than enough warm manure to keep the mushrooms, er, people, happily in the dark.— April 1, 2019 9:25 p.m.
City of San Diego wants dockless scooter secrets
Since there aren't any participants from the ACLU, the Electronic Freedom Foundation, or other privacy *advocacy* stakeholders on [the guest list][1]—or indeed anyone who isn't involved in benefiting from this web of authoritarian tech—this looks less like they're hosting a "friendly debate" than they are an orgy. [1]: https://sandiego2019.smartcitiesweek.com/speakers/— March 29, 2019 2:22 p.m.
Yellow Cab driver's death by Camp Pendleton Marine solved 40 years later
I realize that attorneys need to make every effort to defend their client. But after the evidence shot down Vecchio's conjectures, the best he could come up with is, Cauble got away with murder for forty years, so he should continue to get away with it, because unfair? And that the victim had it coming to him, because gay? Thanks for letting us know who *not* to hire if ever needing a lawyer.— March 28, 2019 10:42 a.m.
Clairemont braces for density
It's possible what you're saying is true. But even without offering names or evidence, you're asking us to take your word for an isolated incident, and accept your using one individual to generalize about an entire group. But claiming that YIMBYs are proponents of racial equality is objectively not true, as their policies reinforce decades of redlining and discrimination—which genuine affordable housing advocates [have called out][1]. [1]: https://medium.com/@LATenantsUnion/dropping-the-h…— March 24, 2019 1:28 p.m.
Hawkins Way uses San Diego's Procopio lawyers to lobby city hall for downtown evictions
Not entirely: he's asking them to [keep their wallets open][1] in gratitude [1]: http://1sandiego.org/sponsors— March 23, 2019 10:47 a.m.
Hawkins Way uses San Diego's Procopio lawyers to lobby city hall for downtown evictions
"Opportunistic investments" is one term for it. "Predatory displacement" is more accurate. This and Julie Stalmer's [companion piece][1] reveal that San Diego is being sold out beneath us by our elected officials, who can't afford to run for office on their own, on behalf of the only ones with enough money to get what's decided: developers. "The FOUND approach" captures exactly what's happening: **all** non-owner-occupied residences being turned into short term vacation rentals. Don't think it's going to stop at SROs—there's not a single management company, landlord or LLC that will be able to resist the twin pinchers of complete deregulation and market capture, even if they wanted to. This is the future that has been long plotted for us by the developers, with their outright purchase of the local Democratic and Republican Parties, and abetted by their tax deductible [doublethink tanks][2] and [listener supported media][3]. May God have mercy on us, because God knows they won't. [1]: https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2019/mar/19/s… [2]: https://circulatesd.nationbuilder.com/corporate [3]: https://www.kpbs.org/give/corporate-sponsorship/s…— March 19, 2019 10:32 p.m.
Hacker stalls Port of San Diego's video spy network
Let's go over the facts: You said, "So get legislation written and passed that requires rules and audits by independent parties. Hold the operators accountable for transgressions over the rights spelled out in our Constitution." This article makes clear that "officials have declined a January public records act request seeking details." That's legislation already on the books, not being followed. What good would more laws broken without consequence do? You said, "[I] really have a skewed view of the world and our Government," for pointing out that this technology is already being used against free citizens per their "rights spelled out in our Constitution." That's not skewed: it's true. And pivoting to call me a "liberal" and a "radical" for upholding bedrock Constitutional protections is...defending order over freedom. Thus the appropriateness of the historical epithet to which you take such offense. I've never read Saul Alinsky, though it seems those quotes apply more to you than they do me. But you remind me of a poem by a great American: *bellowing through the general noise Where is Effie who was dead? —to God in a tiny voice, i am may the first crumb said* *whereupon its fellow five crumbs chuckled as if they were alive and number two took up the song, might i'm called and did no wrong* *cried the third crumb, i am should and this is my little sister could with our big brother who is would don't punish us for we were good;* *and the last crumb with some shame whispered unto God, my name is must and with the others i've been Effie who isn't alive*— March 12, 2019 7:07 p.m.