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Billionaire Democrat's Balboa Park plan revived by GOP mayor
Maybe Jacob can lend some of his H-1B's to the new Balboa Park parking garage. Is Jacobs also going to help Seaport Village? Why not make this a two-fer and destroy two San Diego icons at once.— June 30, 2016 6:09 p.m.
Pupusa ceremony
Off topic here, but I don't know how to contact you otherwise. Ed, I recall you wrote a review of "The Bleu Whisk" in Lemon Grove. Your story was in January 2015 when John Barrios (the guy that cooked for presidents) took over The Food Factory. It has come to my attention that the restaurant has quietly changed hands again a month ago. Perhaps you can check it out again and see what's up. On the Yelp page, I saw many wonderful dishes and desserts. But I think things have been "simplified."— June 29, 2016 12:27 p.m.
Roseville neighbors protest towering duplexes
If all you have is Lorie Zapf, you are doomed. Past performance predicts future performance. She's clearly on developers side.— June 26, 2016 8:12 p.m.
Why change, La Mesa?
La Mesa needs to fix Spring Street. It is a traffic nightmare and time sink.— June 25, 2016 10:57 a.m.
Post-election protest at Registrar of Voters office
I also had a problem with the ROV. I am registered as NPP (No Party Preference) and a 'permanent mail ballot' voter for several years. I have voted in all of the elections since 2001. This year I did not receive my mail ballot. I didn't receive any voter pamphlet or other information. I finally called the ROV to find out if they had mailed the ballot and I was told I was not on the voter rolls. I would not be in the roster at my local precinct and I would have to vote using a provisional ballot. What is going on? I did not change my address, party or anything else. But I was dropped from the electoral roll as if I were deceased.— June 14, 2016 2:24 p.m.
Locals shamed on sales tax delinquency list
Sjtorres, these are 'sales taxes' collected by the merchant to be reported and remitted to the state. The Board of Equalization is entitled to collect all of the sales tax due, as it was collected by the merchant and is supposed to be set aside for monthly or quarterly remittance. What these businesses are doing is stealing from the state, subsidizing their business operations with ill-gotten proceeds that deprive the taxpayer of services such as education, parks, public services and infrastructure. It is stealing from the taxpayer, just like fraudulent workman's compensation reporting. If you don't like the sales taxes, ask your locality to lower the tax.— June 7, 2016 11:04 p.m.
Rent control protest in O.B.
I think some people need to take a course in economics. Price floors and price ceilings are inefficient. To someone ignorant of economic reasoning, rent control seems like a great policy. It appears instantly to provide “affordable housing” to poor tenants, while the only apparent downside is a reduction in the income flowing to the fat-cat landlords, people who literally own buildings in major cities and who thus aren’t going to miss that money much. The most obvious problem is that rent control immediately leads to a shortage of apartments, meaning that there are potential tenants who would love to move into a new place at the going (rent-controlled) rate, but they can’t find any vacancies. At a lower rental price, more tenants will try to rent apartment units, and at a higher rental price, landlords will try to rent out more apartment units. These two claims are specific instances of the law of demand and law of supply, respectively. In the long run, a permanent policy of rent control restricts the construction of new apartment buildings, because potential investors realize that their revenues on such projects will be artificially capped. Building a movie theater or shopping center is more attractive on the margin.— June 7, 2016 12:54 p.m.
Trying Trust again
I don't blame Trust. But I think they need to come down to earth. Perhaps it's high rent, but those menu prices are in the stratosphere. When restaurants ask those kind of prices before they earn a reputation for good food, they are going to earn the reputation for being overpriced and overrated. I'll be keeping my eye on the Yelp reviews. My prediction is Trust will be dust in a year.— June 5, 2016 9:40 p.m.
Chula Vista deemed the worst staycation spot
Yes the cocaine deal. There were many funny jokes about his cars and cocaine back in the 80's. What was he thinking.— June 3, 2016 8:51 p.m.
Signature-gatherer falsely claims petition will save Comic-Con
The Registrar of Voters sells voter registration data. It is legally sold to groups and organizations if they declare they are using the information for political purposes. It has been available for decades. It used to be made available on computer tapes. In the late 1980's, one enterprising individual took the tapes and created a CD-ROM with over 900,000 voters records and then resold it for $100 each. I was in the data business back then and bought one. What a surprise, it had the individuals phone number (whether is was unlisted or not), their date-of-birth, party affiliation (of course), address, PO Box (if they used one) and all kinds of tidbits about their voting habits and patterns. The one anomaly was that households in Rancho Santa Fe did not have an address listed, only a PO Box. While everyone else has to have a residential address on record. (The 1% have their privileges). That data is still sold to organizations for political use. But the ROV is more careful in who they release it to. The CD-ROM was a fiasco because it fell into the hands of people not using it for political purposes, but for marketing, skip-tracing, repossessions and serving lawsuits among other things.— June 3, 2016 8:45 p.m.