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Convention Center expansion absurd
Well hello Don, at least those attending Comic Con can say they truly saw green people! http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2018/j…— July 22, 2018 3:22 p.m.
Convention Center expansion absurd
Hi Don, had a neighbor go to Comic Con this year, said he likely will never go back. It's been an annual ritual for him. He said the crowds get worse each year, and prices go up. I am not sure about recorded attendance levels, and growth. Sadly, the local news media almost stops reporting on any relevant news items, and obsesses with Comic Con, as if all our lives revolve around Comic Con events, celebrities I have no clue who they are, and grown adults in expensive costumes. I often wonder if we're back in Rome (new & improved!)...bread and circuses.— July 22, 2018 11:46 a.m.
Reporter accuses Ben Kalasho of assaulting him with dog
Some of the Chaldean liquor store or market owners are very nice people and I do not believe they will price gouge. A bunch of them I have heard, even extend credit to their known customers. I had a neighbor, an alcoholic (stepped-up his consumption when his wife died), who suddenly died himself, only to owe the liquor store down the street some $300+.— July 22, 2018 11:42 a.m.
Reporter accuses Ben Kalasho of assaulting him with dog
Looks like a police booking photo.— July 21, 2018 10:21 a.m.
Reporter accuses Ben Kalasho of assaulting him with dog
Most liquor stores in San Diego are Chaldean owned/operated. Buyer beware, often they have no pricing on their products so it is a guessing game. Be careful on the priced and especially $ale items, because often when the product is rang-up on the register/computer, a higher price will come up (never is it a lower price, you will notice). You ask the clerk "what was the original price of this beer you just scanned or put in?" and they will quote the tax and CRV for the gross amount, but never tell you the net. Then you question them a different way and their English goes Arabic, and they claim not to understand. Then the game of "well the sale ended a few days ago" begins, so I go to the cooler, pull the damn sale sign and bring it up to the clerk. Then the clerk will say in good English "I will give it to you for that today, for you." Hell, I am not buying a used car, I am only buying a 6-pack of not too hoppy beer. Everything in life has become a game, so it seems.— July 21, 2018 10:20 a.m.
Convention Center expansion absurd
Hi Don, we have in the neighborhood a fair amount of Section-8 folks who love Comic Con and attend in their various costumes. They take the bus there, take the bus back, take their brown bag lunch (if you can get a baloney sandwich through security), and I suspect they get some free handouts. Doing all the offsets between what it costs for the enormous amount of people on Section-8, and the cost for purchasing a Comic Con ticket, I suspect either way we Excel it, there is more red than black ink. Some may call me a skeptic or say I am thinking negatively about such a strange annual circus at our convention center.— July 21, 2018 10:02 a.m.
Convention Center expansion absurd
Hi Don, Zach is likely a direct beneficiary of the convention center expansion that is being railroaded down into our future, and forced upon us by politicos that strangely love corporate welfare. Thank God we did not give the Spanos cartel what they demanded decades back. Kudos to Bruce Henderson over the decades, and his work to expose the truth (and thanks to you too!).— July 20, 2018 4:17 p.m.
Convention Center expansion absurd
I wish Comic Con would depart (or be deported) to Las Vegas, just like they have threatened. San Diego will survive without the strange circus of Comic Con, and the streets you might even be able to travel on around that area of the SD Convention Center. Heck, let El Centro host Comic Con, that will be a good source of revenue.— July 20, 2018 4:10 p.m.
The fall of Horton Plaza
Does Ace Parking run the parking for Horton Plaza? What a monopoly Ace Parking has around town--and wonder who in GOV they are in cahoots with?— July 3, 2018 12:48 p.m.
The unmaking and making of Roger Hedgecock
Learned today, sadly, that Jimmy Valentine has passed on. He was the longtime producer for the Roger Hedgecock show. Jimmy did much to help wounded warriors.— June 25, 2018 6:11 p.m.