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All Things BBQ: Lightnin' Jack's
Can never understand why anyone wants cornmeal "cake." The world's best corn**bread** is salty and buttery. Make it with salted butter, add salt, no sugar. You haven't lived till you make and eat cornbread this way.— December 12, 2013 6:22 p.m.
Canadian condo king piles up cash for Faulconer
No, Scott, Dems do not want an inexperienced and highly partisan Faulconer to carry anything, much less water.— December 12, 2013 6:19 p.m.
Legislative lounge lizard
Having trouble posting photo...oh well. You know.— December 11, 2013 8:59 a.m.
Legislative lounge lizard
Oh, here's Arpaio's fashion preference.— December 11, 2013 8:54 a.m.
Legislative lounge lizard
Ah, the SD County Federation of Republican Women...such icons of taste. How perfect to have Arpaio deliver a speech at their fashion/shopping fundraiser - perhaps he will discuss the garb he forced his prisoners to wear. If they only understood what he thinks of women. Surely Jan Goldsmith and his female TeaParty lady friends will be in attendance to hear this hero of justice.— December 11, 2013 8:53 a.m.
City attorney loses two more First Amendment battles
And seriously, hooray for Ray Lutz. What happened to him is frightening. It took stamina to fight back.— December 9, 2013 10:14 p.m.
City attorney loses two more First Amendment battles
The author is correct: No mention of political party in this article. I guess the quacky commenter is using in-duck-tive reasoning - you know, **the duck test**: "*If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands.*" (Quote stolen from 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency' via Wikipedia.) http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/d…— December 9, 2013 7:02 p.m.
City to pay in full for illegal maintenance assessment districts
Good info on the amount reimbursed. Pretty amazing, the way the City schemes to take money improperly, then keeps it, even when ordered to desist and refund. Over 4 years, the City took about $1.8 million in assessments from the property owners of Golden Hill and South Park, but has refunded only $78,000. That is dirty. The legal argument for keeping the first year's collection because of too much time elapsing was as specious as the losing argument that legal costs were not requested timely. The appellate court decisions have shown the legal arguments by the City to be stupid and baseless in every case. The City doesn't care: they will stall by fighting without a hope of winning, out of spite and in the belief that plaintiffs will just give up. Goldsmith runs the worst City Attorney's office ever, and the Deputy City attorneys are amazingly agreeable to enact inept and dishonest undertakings.— December 5, 2013 12:27 p.m.
Infighting among East County Chaldean community
How interesting. The "riding around in Mercedes-Benzes" claim isn't actually disrespectful or incorrect. The Chaldean NMA store owners that I know of love the nicer, finer material goods, as we all do in one way or the other. If you look at any of the FB pages of the Chaldean NMA families, you'll see a glam throw-back look in style. The photos of many parties and celebrations of even the younger hipper generations show a fondness for big, gelled and hair-sprayed dos, satin and silk and gold and silver and jewels, lots of makeup for the women, the works. It's a bit dated in style, but very expensive looking. The families seem to make pretty good money on the much-appreciated stores they own and operate in neighborhoods that are older, lower income than the El Cajon areas in which they prefer to live, maintain their swimming pools, and do business. I just wish that, in the Democratic-voting Central SD areas where some of their markets exist, they wouldn't put up Ron Roberts and other Repub election signs. And it would be nice if they would put some of their money into improving the look and smell of the grocery stores that I know their wives and daughters wouldn't set foot in.— December 4, 2013 10:37 a.m.
Stealing bases
Thank you for calling T-Glo "acting" mayor, which is all he is. He never refers to himself as acting or interim - just got an email invitation to **his** "annual" State of the City address. What a princeling. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/d…— December 4, 2013 10:20 a.m.