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Qualcomm's "bounteous" executive pay noted
Yeah - I think the Chargers want to move so they want it to look like San Diego isn't giving them any corporate welfare. I think the basic thinking is that a move to LA instantly adds at least 1B to their value whereas the roughly 500M of corporate welfare from San Diego will add about 500M to their value.— June 8, 2015 10:08 p.m.
Qualcomm's "bounteous" executive pay noted
Large semiconductor companies BRCM (HQ in Irvine, CA) and AVGO (HQ in Singapore but with major operations in Silicon Valley) just merged. The headquarters of the combined company will be in Singapore.— June 8, 2015 8:07 p.m.
Qualcomm's "bounteous" executive pay noted
And in other news - Faulconer just announced plans for a Dec 2015 vote on the stadium.— June 8, 2015 5:31 p.m.
Qualcomm's "bounteous" executive pay noted
If I understand it right the tax code is part of the issue. There is a limit of $1M on how much a corporation can write off for executive compensation. The stock compensation provides a loophole around that $1M limit.— June 8, 2015 11:23 a.m.
Qualcomm's "bounteous" executive pay noted
Let's say for the sake of argument that one ignores all questions about social fairness and only looks at the bottom line for shareholders. Is high CEO pay justified? Some recent research indicates the answer is no. "Across the board, the more CEOs get paid, the worse their companies do over the next three years, according to extensive new research. " http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/16…— June 7, 2015 10:49 p.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
Hi Don and Dan FWIW I don't mind having wild card teams - I think having roughly 25-30% of the teams in a league make the playoffs is about right. I think the NFL and MLB have about the right number of playoff teams; the NBA and NHL have way too many. But I don't like the one-game playoff for the wild card. I would go back to 3 divisions with one wild card team. So 8 total teams out of 30 make the playoffs. I don't like the designated hitter rule - something seems too easy from a strategy perspective about that. It takes away potentially tough decisions about when to pull the pitcher. Also it seems to me if you are throwing 100 miles an hour at dudes maybe you ought to face the same thing from an opposing pitcher. I think pretty much all major sports have too long a regular season now which is purely for economic reasons. Especially with the longer playoffs. I would change the number of regular season games for MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL to roughly 80% -90% of what they are now. NBA maybe 70% (82 games down to about 60) Just my opinions.— June 6, 2015 7:36 a.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
True, but you might not know that from the relative amount of attention those droughts have received from San Diego leaders and media in past years.— June 4, 2015 8:53 a.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
If the Cavaliers win the NBA championship that will make San Diego's time without a major sports championship (NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA and predecessors) the longest among American cities with major professional teams. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought_%28sport%29— June 4, 2015 6:49 a.m.
San Diego long-timers will bear water conservation burden
Thanks for the kind words. I'd just like to see the legislature have an open and honest debate about long term resource planning in CA. At this point it would seem like a statewide moratorium on building and development could at least be considered. It would seem to me that a complete restructuring of ancient water agreements could at least be considered. I think the water restrictions tend to go against those who don't have the power (i.e. money) to fight them rather than having an open and honest statewide debate.— May 31, 2015 3:45 p.m.
San Diego long-timers will bear water conservation burden
Rather than doing their job and coming up with solutions to problems that have the greatest impact on the problem with the least cost and inconvenience to constituents sometimes politicians like to come up solutions that seem like they're doing a lot but don't really have much impact. For example, TSA agents have forced mothers to drink their own breast milk. This does nothing to fight terrorism but sends a (false) message that the leaders are doing a good job fighting terrorism. As a resident personally I will fight and argue against any forced removal of lawns and forced water cutbacks unless the state leaders show they are serious about re-thinking our ancient water rules and distribution systems. Sorry if I have a bad attitude about this but frankly I think our political leaders are taking advantage of a lot of well-meaning people just so that big ag business campaign contributors can continue to make a lot of money.— May 30, 2015 8:18 a.m.