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Butt out, Clairemont, says Linda Vista
The Board of Supervisors wanted to get rid of community planning groups in unincorporated areas **entirely** around four years ago, but the groups and their community supporters made a case that it was a bad idea. These planners are unpaid elected officials, many of them are retirees, working inside community plans that they created at the behest of DPLU (now DPDS). These groups are the small smidge of local control the BOS system allows. I think that all the long-time unincorporated areas should be allowed to incorporate because there are too many of these small cities now; Spring Valley should be it's own town (more than 28,000 people now live there). The county will never do it because of the tax money it will lose, but it is the most antidemocratic element of land management; if you want your voice heard after going to the local planning group meeting on an item, you have to drive down to the bay to say the same thing to the BOS, assuming that the BOS actually hears the item you are there to speak for or against, and the meeting times are extremely inconvenient for working people (9AM to 1PM on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.) This planning consolidation is a scam so that developers can ram through more condos even though surface street repair is at a standstill, and we have no idea if the sewage and water systems can handle even more of a load.— March 30, 2017 6:09 p.m.
SDSU’s big birdies’ tab
The general manger oversees all of the TV station and is responsible for every aspect of the operation of the station, while a station manager is the chief operating officer. Every TV station has both. Tom Karlo has been in San Diego TV for decades, Deanna Mackey has been at KPBS for twenty years. Both are SDSU grads.— March 30, 2017 3:06 a.m.
Expedia, Hotwire, and Priceline cost the city millions in taxes
Wrong; this can all be laid at the feet of city councils for not seeing what was coming and changing the statutes, a thing that has to be voted on anyway.— March 23, 2017 2:48 a.m.
Money for helmets, not for books
**In 1971, I was a graduate student at SDSU when the then-new Malcolm Love library opened at SDSU. It looked great, but the collection in the place was decidedly weak. One thing I'd often find in the stacks was a dozen-or-more copies of some out-of-date textbook that some prof had apparently demanded they buy so that his/her students would not have to buy it. And so it went in the collection. The place wasn't run well, and at times seemed almost out-of-control of the librarians. Over the next decade I had my experiences with the library as an occasional visitor, and also when I was a part-time instructor there. The library did not impress. In the 70's there was a huge problem with theft of books and materials, so there was a security system in place that searched all bags, packs, and even large purses.** You should go back and look at it; they have had a dome lobby leading to an underground entrance since the 1990s. The stacks have massively improved because they've been filling them out for decades, and the librarians actually care about what goes on the shelves. That written, if the librarians themselves felt in 2016 that they were being hamstrung in book purchases because of stingy funding, then they probably are.— March 13, 2017 6:25 p.m.
SDSU’s fleeing faculty
I meant "USC" (Univeristy of Southern California) not "USD"....slip 'o the finger!— March 13, 2017 5:51 p.m.
Drug firm charges UCSD with fraud
Notice that there was never a response, and it's been a year.— March 13, 2017 2:18 p.m.
SDSU’s fleeing faculty
...And now Elliott Hirshman has resigned as of last week, and Matt Potter has nothing to say. When Hirshman leaves SDSU at the end of June for a job as president of a private East Coast ex-Catholic ex-women's college (Stevenson University, formerly Villa Julie College), he will leave behind an unfinished industrial engineering building, a football team nobody gives a crap about, that 200 dollar "success fee", the dumb decision* to name that gargantuan student center after Conrad Prebys a few months before Prebys died, and a new "business college" that is more paper than school. What Hirshman excelled at was finding projects where he could give naming rights to donors, which is why the student center has a "Lee and Frank Goldberg Courtyard", and the Mack family has an elevator foyer in Student Services West named after them (!), and that industrial engineering building (when it is completed) will have a quad named after Thomas Day, but other spaces will be named after donors. It used to be you had to be a professor and dead before they named a building after you at SDSU. The one thing he never did was follow the USD path of Pradeep Khosla and Linda Katehi and double dip by becoming a board member of a corporation. Otherwise, he did everything the college president on the move is supposed to do; he stayed for six years, he tried to be as inoffensive as possible, he encouraged the things that get pay raises. SDSU alumni should start asking questions of how their alma mater is run, and for whom. ____________________ [footnote] I call it dumb because the decision to build the building in the first place was put to the student body in a general vote, but no decision was granted to the students if they wanted Prebys' name on the building.— March 13, 2017 1:55 p.m.