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"Reform by red tape" slowing H-1B sharply
There is no shortage of qualified engineers or programmers. There IS a shortage of Americans that will work for wages that Indians and Chinese are satisfied with. This has been a fraud for decades. This is the main reason WHY American wages have stagnated while the biggest tech firms have made record profits. Because they profit from exporting or insourcing high tech jobs to pad their bottom line. So sick of this treason. I hope Qualcomm and all the other abusers a day of reckoning. Their greedy management comprised of lying executives and HR departments, turning their back on Americans need a severe correction. Personally, if there is a hell, I hope that is their destiny.— November 30, 2017 7:21 p.m.
Protesters defy food-sharing ban in El Cajon
I have to say the irony is not lost on me that El Cajon doesn’t want homeless activists/advocates to feed the local homeless, yet El Cajon is where most of the refugees from the Middle-East are dispatched by refugee settlement organizations. These are people who get “hooked up” with an apartment, medical care, food stamps, free college (mostly at Cuyamaca College) and other perks. So importing, settling and paying for foreigners from nations who have been critical and unfriendly with U.S. policies, citizens of countries that kill and maim Americans on domestic and foreign soil... are treated so much better than those who were born in the U.S., probably were productive at one-time and paid income taxes, and a population that has a sizeable portion of veterans. You really have to step back and ask yourself what this country has come to? The whole refugee phenomenon is dividing Europe. On a daily basis we learn of bombings,mass murder, slaughter, human trafficking, by the people of that region, yet we invite them here, coddle them, planting the seeds of our own destruction. Yet our own citizens must suffer humiliation, hunger and the elements while the Mercedes and Range Rovers of the refugees pull up to social services for their freebies.— November 24, 2017 6 p.m.
Car won from casino still undelivered
Indian givers.— November 23, 2017 6:17 p.m.
Protesters defy food-sharing ban in El Cajon
What country has the lowest homeless population? China. Do you want to guess why? Let your mind wonder, but they aborted babies... Human trash may sound offending, but if society can't help and they can't help themselves, what are they? They just commit petty crimes, make neighborhoods feel unsafe, they leave trash and feces, they raise the cost of retail because they steal shopping carts, they urinate in public spaces, they block public access sprawling all over the city sidewalks, they are ruining the new San Diego Central Library, they spread disease, and so..how much longer can these negative attributes denied, that they are indeed human trash.— November 22, 2017 9:11 p.m.
If there’s a vote on San Diego's convention center...
Most of the large trade shows are held in Anaheim, Las Vegas, Orlando, Chicago and New York City. The second tier cities are San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, New Orleans and San Diego. San Diego has enjoyed the largest exhibitor, Comic Con, because it was organic – it grew its base and support relationships in San Diego. Trying to poach well-established trade shows from those other cities will be difficult. New trade shows will develop, but never the size of Comic Con. The biggest trade shows are also global. Take the Paris Air Show and the Hannover Messegelände in Germany that hosts a third of the world's largest shows. New trade shows? Well new trades shows for 3D Printing, Drones, and Robotics will most likely emerge. More likely, those technologies will be absorbed by the respective market or discipline they fall into. CES (consumer electronics) will probably remain the largest show in the U.S., held in Las Vegas. At one time COMDEX (computers) was the largest convention but it imploded as new, more nimble and specialty trade shows became established. I feel Comic Con is starting to look like the COMDEX bubble and eventually the Comic, Video game, Streaming movies, and other industries will peel away. Everybody wants something they can’t get and what makes Comic Con special is scarcity of tickets. If everyone could get in, the magic would fade away.— November 22, 2017 5:08 p.m.
Irene Valenti claims to be matchmaker for the rich
The estate is back up for auction; Friday, December 8, 2017 http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2017/n…— November 22, 2017 2:24 p.m.
County unemployment falls, jobs gain
Don, these stats seem to have a lose relationship with reality, Disability claims are at an all time high, "gigs" like Uber and Amazon delivery are where in this equation? The bureaucracies progress like molasses and workplace disruptions take years for those public servants to adopt. There's also the people who have given up looking for work. That population grows more every year as age discrimination is evident. So there are many people in their 50's and 60's just not being able to find a job. Could be the regulators don't have enough investigators to examine every age discrimination case. There are thousands of cases in the pipeplines. Another discriminatory requirement many businesses are doing is making a requirement of the job to be bilingual in Spanish. Sure, if your need is for an interpreter, but if it's just a rank-and-file job this side of the U.S. border, can they demand Spanish? It's a tight market indeed, businesses are expanding and Wall Street is giddy, but our job market has been driven by the lowest wage jobs, service and retail. And many of those graduates are earning minimum wage and paying college loans. Sure jobs are up, but what jobs?— November 18, 2017 10:03 p.m.
The cost of free delivery
Ian, I have been using DoorDash, UberEats and Postmates for food delivery. I used GrubHub a few times, but they are unreliable and have horrible customer service. I was using UberEats several times, but I don’t like their choices anymore. It depends where you live. I split my time between Coronado, Lemon Grove (caretaking for a 92 year old) and Palm Springs. I have a lot of choices in Coronado, a lot of junk in Lemon Grove. DoorDash is my preferred choice and then Postmates. But I do like UberEats tracking where, just like Uber, you can watch the car on a map and know the ETA pretty well. There are also some tricks, DoorDash will deliver from places that are not on their “menu.” You need to use the search feature. I think this is the future of delivery though. One of my favorite Italian and pizza joints in Lemon Grove does not deliver, so I get delivery using DoorDash. I have not stepped foot in the place in a year. They know me by name, I have been going there for over 30 years. But I don’t mind a few extra bucks not to have to go and wait in their chaotic lobby for my food. Now I get it without leaving the house. And on weekends if you are watching a movie or a game, have friends over, who wants to leave the house? Risk a DUI if you have been drinking. I’d rather pay $10 extra bucks now and then rather than me or one of my friends get a $10,000 life wrecking DUI. So these delivery services are vital for people who are too busy to cook meal, ill with the flu or just a little tipsy and don’t want to risk getting into a DUI situation because of a few beers. I like these services and sometimes treat us to a meal of veal marsala with mushrooms and a tiramisu, or just a craving for an pepperoni and mushroom pizza that doesn't come from the chains.— November 18, 2017 6:54 p.m.
As aviation-gas lead drops over Serra Mesa...
People that choose to live near egg farms, landfills, airports, concert venues, railroad tracks, always seem to start complaining after a while. So when safety concerns are addressed, and curfews are set, they look for other factors to slay their dragon. A lot of the old planes like Piper Cubs and Cessna 172’s have less horsepower that todays cars and trucks. I used to be a private pilot and know it’s safer to fly than drive a car. Other than military training, private pilots often advance to commercial rating and are an important component of small aircraft fleets for search-and rescues, transport pilots, rural transportation, bush pilots, crop dusters, emergency evacuation, small commuter and private corporate transport. They are a vital part of our economy. In addition, the municipal airports are an asset for national defense and disasters. California has a unique, unpredictable disaster scenario known as “earthquakes.” We may be complacent because this invisible force rarely strikes with devastation, but it lurks like a time-bomb. C-17 Globemaster air transports can land and take-off on short runways like Montgomery and Gillespie Field. We need those airstrips for recreational aircraft as well as standby airfields for our national security and disaster staging. Those Mooney's, Pipers, Cessna's and Beechcraft's pay the bills and keep these important assets afloat.— November 17, 2017 6:51 p.m.
South Park land rush to X out Rebecca’s Coffeehouse?
Remember too, that commercial property also enjoys the Prop. 13 property tax cap. So there are very few things that raise the cost of managing the property. With capped property taxes, depreciation, interest expense and other deductions, the cost of managing the property has very subtle increases. Particularly if Rebecca has a triple-net-lease (which is common), she is paying the most of the building expenses. Greed has taken over our society and it is slowly crippling and destroying our society.— November 17, 2017 5:49 p.m.