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SD Home Values Down 40% from Peak
Higher priced ($700K+) SD homes are also affected. We were recently turned down for a re-fi because the house appraised at 230K less than we paid. Appraiser said this was more about comps in the area than the actual home value but it's still depressing.— February 29, 2012 4:52 p.m.
Some Copley Retirees May -- Repeat, MAY -- Get Refunds
hi Don, What's the latest on layoffs at the U-T? I heard there were several within the last week or so, in addition to some salary slashing (but no pay cuts for editors or management, of course!)— April 22, 2011 12:52 p.m.
U-T Doesn't Identify Paid Consultant
Would that we could invest in the parking lot biz... I paid 30 bucks two years ago to park in a downtown lot on a game night, and that was to visit a restaurant near Fourth Avenue, not a ball game. Now I check the game schedule before heading downtown. Ride the bus? Only if I want to take three buses. Home games generally mean avoid the Gaslamp. Who loses? The restaurants, as Don has pointed out.— July 14, 2010 4:47 p.m.
U-T Axes 34 to 40
Re posts 3 and 11: Tom Blair is an excellent three dot columnist with great sources, terrific news sense and plenty of edge. Diane Bell's idea of interesting news is when somebody's water breaks.— June 18, 2010 10:18 a.m.
U-T Staffers Meet Their Team Leaders
This takes me back to the merger of the two papers in '92, on that excruciating day when people were called in one by one to learn whether or not they still had a job... Since there were two Food Editors, two Travel Editors, etc., it wasn't much fun to see one person come back smiling and know the other would be either reassigned or let go.— June 10, 2010 11:03 a.m.
Union-Tribune to Shrink Width of Paper
Response to post #14: Completely agree with you about David Elliott and his extraordinarily clever, spot-on movie reviews. Great word play, and no tolerance for stupidity... I only noticed Alison Gang because the paper made such a big deal out of promoting her complete w/ quarter page ads and photos. (remember those bus ads with Diane Bell's mug plastered across 'em?)— May 17, 2010 12:50 p.m.
Union-Tribune to Shrink Width of Paper
Speaking of reducing staff, I noticed today that movie reviews by Alison Gang, whom the paper was aggressively promoting a couple months ago, now have "Special to the Union-Tribune" in the byline instead of staff writer. Did she get the boot?— May 14, 2010 1:50 p.m.
Memory -- er, uh -- Lapses at the Union-Tribune
Speaking of Steve Kelley, remember this juicy tidbit (courtesy of Matt Potter's column in the Reader, 2002)? Ex-Union-Tribune political cartoonist Steve Kelley, fired in May of last year after a run-in with editorial page editor Robert A. Kittle, has been named editorial cartoonist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. As Kelley later described it, the dust-up began after Kittle objected to a proposed cartoon showing the "butt cracks" of two teenagers. The next day, according to Kelley, senior editor Bill Osborne got into the act, accusing Kelley of trying to sneak the cartoon into the paper and lying about it. After TV stations picked up the story, the U-T finally reported that Kelley had been dumped. The cartoonist attributed his firing to the paper's leftward editorial drift, but others speculated that it had something to do with Kelley's tryst with Shelia Lawrence, widow of hotel magnate and Clinton crony M. Larry Lawrence. The relationship resulted in an embarrassing custody dispute over an out-of-wedlock child.— November 6, 2009 1:51 p.m.
U-T to Stay in Mission Valley for Now; Vows Return to Profitability
Re post 9: We believe that CUSTOMERS always come first, QUALITY is our foundation for success, PEOPLE are our greatest resource, JOURNALISTIC EXCELLENCE is our commitment to our readers, and our workplace fosters a spirit of TEAMWORK." - Oh, the valuable hours that were burned up working on that ridiculous statement! We were placed into committees and told to fashion the statement through collaboration. Hilarity ensued, in the form of intense resentment from those of us in the trenches who had real reporting and writing work to do, unlike the editors. Of course, the statement ended up sounding like a bad press release with a lot of UNNECESSARILY UPPERCASED WORDS. Too many chiefs, as they say.— August 17, 2009 12:29 p.m.
Rumors: More Layoffs at U-T
Karin and her great and good friends better learn how to write, edit and shoot photos darn quick.— August 12, 2009 12:46 p.m.