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Long way from Chesapeake Bay
"some in Congress" such as our own local Darrell Issa, scholar-biologist-geographer-in-chief in charge of accusations against the Obama administration? At yesterday's hastily called House Oversight hearing on ebola terror, he referred to "eboli" (maybe he's a Latin scholar and thinks that's a plural form?) and the country "Guyana" in West Africa. Does he still own the car alarm company?— October 25, 2014 1:24 p.m.
Long way from Chesapeake Bay
Java and Ken: Read the [FDA warning letter][1] Please appreciate the fact that botulinum toxin is an adulterant, and you do NOT want to eat even a bite of an adulterated product. In science, to standardize concepts and simplify communication, specific terminology that is used may include words with broader meanings, but such words are explicitly defined in the related regulatory codes. FDA is doing a good job here of trying to get Chesapeake to have in place and follow all of the protocols needed to protect you. In food production, there's no room for sloppy record-keeping, processing, and handling. I appreciate the efforts of our health and safety regulatory offices; if they were better funded, and if there were fewer lobbyist-driven loopholes in the regs, more problems such as found at Chesapeake might be discovered. Remember the fungus-adulterated spinal injection products about a year ago? People died from meningitis caused by the fungal adulterant; the compounding lab that was involved wasn't caught before people died due to inspection backlog and regulatory loopholes. [1]: http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/Warni…— October 25, 2014 8:51 a.m.
Final offer for Goldsmith and Gloria?
And, as everyone knows by now, Goldsmith has hired Gerry Braun as "communications" director. We can expect total transparency from now on, right? Braun's salary will be only $113K, but the CA's office has a $46 mill annual budget, giving Braun much more opportunity to pilfer than he had with the measly millions that disappeared from Balboa Park Centennial funds.— October 21, 2014 3:53 p.m.
Final offer for Goldsmith and Gloria?
Good summary of the ongoing tawdry work of Goldsmith and Gloria. Can't wait to see the extent of redactions and the stupendously lame reasoning for them.— October 20, 2014 4:10 p.m.
Kevin Faulconer's pricy plan to privatize planning
Thanks for this important info. Can't wait to see the proposals. Would bet that the same old familiar names will be there. Planning consultants for community planning "updates" have been on the gravy train for decades. It sickens me that they get so much public money for such boilerplate product. Every resident in the inner urban core neighborhoods ringing downtown need to brace themselves for the onslaught.— October 17, 2014 5:25 p.m.
Curtains for Thomas Jefferson School of Law?
Don, A related subject: Have you ever researched for-profit medical schools outside the US? One in particular, Ross University Medical, on the island of Dominica, is of interest. DeVry owns the school. I don't think Ross is accredited by the US, but DeVry manages to buy residency slots for its students in California. Lately I've noticed that Kaiser Permanente has a number of young family-practice docs with a Ross medical degree in San Diego facilities. Your thoughts?— October 14, 2014 6:31 p.m.
Stone rolls to Virginia
Looking forward to the day when the current obsession with alcohol, esp. beer, passes. Maybe then the city planners and developers can think soberly about working harder to attract corporations that, in addition to requiring manufacturing and production worker skills, also require college-grad intellectual skills and scientific expertise. Way too much emphasis on alcohol is driving all of the business development forces in older neighborhoods. Way too many people are drinking way too much. I bet if Stone Corporation was the intended leasee of the South Park Gala grocery store site, instead of Target Corporation, the local anti-corporate screamers would be celebrating.— October 14, 2014 10:13 a.m.
Let the citizens speak
"*Many citizens ... have to wait, sometimes for hours, to address the council on items that have been docketed and noticed for a particular day. This is due primarily to a small group of public speakers who attend council meetings on a regular basis and speak on topics that are not on the agenda.*" Baloney. Especially when many people want to speak in opposition to controversial docketed items, they have to wait for hours because council places these items at the very end of the day's meeting. This is done to wear down and eliminate community opponents to what everyone already knows council intends to do. Every councilmember knows before items are discussed, before public speakers comment, how they will vote. Minds/votes aren't ever changed because of public opponents. Council just likes to stick a finger in opponents' eyes. Sorry to be so cynical, but I've seen this happen many times. Conversely, I've seen council let speakers who support them go on and on, way over the allotted time, as long as accolades are being heaped on council.— October 12, 2014 7:43 p.m.
Gaseous dismay
How wonderful to have my conclusion upheld once again: *the City's arguments are always without merit.* And pretty cool to slap them for being untimely. City had no problem manufacturing an "untimely" claim to deny completely refunding all 4 years of illegal Golden Hill MAD assessments, even though the final appellate ruling of illegality of the assessment took longer.than 4 years. Gaseous emissions are Goldsmith and team's specialty, yet they don't recognize them. How much longer will JG be in office?— October 10, 2014 3:08 p.m.
But Dear John postcards are okay
Wtf, above commenters? There is a huge problem w/censorship and mistreatment in jail. Anyone with their head on straight should be concerned, or else go vacation and violate law in a few other countries and see if you change your mind. Porn (which may include political mailers <snark>) I can kind of understand. Anything else, NO! Whose idea was this? Does "San Diego County policy" mean just the arbitrary rules of Gore and Brown, without approval of any other body or entity? How widespread in any prison system in Cali or the USA is this denial of the most basic civil right?— October 10, 2014 1:02 p.m.