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Southwestern College's Proper Snack Bar
According to Southwestern College’s April 2010 purchase order, Alevy was paid $2491 for communication services. The purchase order names Chopra as the initiator of the agreement. Aside from being a principal at Trilogy, Alevy serves alongside Chopra on the South County Economic Development Council. =================== And the gov hits just keep on coming!!!!!!!! I would hope the DA or US Attorney would look into this-but asking gov to do it's job is a littl but too much to ask for in these lean days.......maybe if we paid them $800K per year like the City Manager in Bell, CA (Pop 37K) we would get a better response!— July 22, 2010 4:22 p.m.
Kerry Steigerwalt of Pacific Law Center says he was the “fall guy”
He continued spending almost $5 million a year on advertising after taking control, according to information introduced in court. ==================== That would still not match Sam Spital's spending/advertising budget!— July 22, 2010 8:21 a.m.
Suit Challenges Lid on City Workers' Healthcare Costs
Possibly, but I think the most likely course will be several years of extremely slow growth. ============ What we have setting in right now (today) is, IMO, deflation from job declines in the private sector. The loss of jobs, as in working class, middle class, decent wages, American, jobs, is leading to stagnant spending, causing deflation. As long as the economic job losses continue we will continue to see deflationary signs..........we are in big trouble.— July 22, 2010 8:17 a.m.
Ballpark Study Confesses: "We Hastened and Greatly Worsened the Glut"
Ex-Mayor Dick Murphy's Harvard MBA didn't do him or the city any good. ================= Harvard Business School didn't work out so well for Enron either.....in fact the Harvard MBA is behind more Fortune 500 fraud than convicted felons.— July 21, 2010 10 p.m.
Kerry Steigerwalt of Pacific Law Center says he was the “fall guy”
According to the Pancer team, the intake coordinators are often former car salesmen who con the clients, asking initially for a high price and then coming down when meeting resistance. “The fee is based on how much the client is able to pay, not on traditionally recognized criteria such as complexity or novelty of legal issues and consumption of attorney time,” says the suit, which was dismissed on summary judgment and is now on appeal. ========================= If this is true Kerry Steigerwalt should be disbarred. Those yahoo's from AZ should be enjoined from EVER doing busienss in CA again as it relates to law and the courts. The CA State Bar should also notify the AZ Bar about all the issues and AZ should disbar Jeffrey Phillips. These people are a danger to the public at large, and all of them should have their professional licenses revoked and run out of town-especially Kerry Steigerwalt. Kerry Steigerwalt should be sued civilly by all the lawyers who he reamed in this fraud. They are lawyers, and if you're a lawyer you do NOT let people defraud you, especially other lawyers.— July 21, 2010 9:06 p.m.
Ballpark Study Confesses: "We Hastened and Greatly Worsened the Glut"
It makes no sense to be "unfortunate" in one of the highest cost areas in the country. The government should force the "unfortunate" out of San Diego and into lower cost areas such as Barstow, Fresno, and Bakersfield where their welfare and disability payments will stretch farther. The state should be "redlined" so as to prevent the "unfortunate" from clustering in desirable areas where it is too costly for the state to financially maintain them. By Burwell =================== LOL...I have to agree with Burwell on some of his points......I remember getting into it numerous times with the local cops and FF's who post here, and elsewhere, that they deserve to make 6 figure cash salaries (not even counting the multi million dolalr pensions) b/c they cannot afford to buy a home in San Diego, did not make enough money. I told them they are not entitled to a job that pays enough to live in a high cost city.....— July 21, 2010 8:30 p.m.
Lest We Forget: Pension Woes Worse Than Ever
Puppy you really are delusional. Have you missed some of your meds? =========== I feel delusional after trying to get thru that thick head of yours that these pension scams don't work.— July 21, 2010 8:21 p.m.
Suit Challenges Lid on City Workers' Healthcare Costs
The U.S. A. and California is entering the next great depression.— July 21, 2010 8:18 p.m.
Suit Challenges Lid on City Workers' Healthcare Costs
Founder makes an interesting point in the comment above. The city has just approved a new library, wants a new City Hall, appears to be supporting a new Charger Stadium downtown, and hopes to expand its convention center to keep Comic Con coming to town. If the City is technically insolvent as you claim, who in their right "business" mind would want to enter into these contracts worth hundreds of millions? ================== Well, your first mistake was thinking our elected leaders are in their "right mind", they are not. Carl DeMaio and Donna frye are the ONLY two who are speaking out against these white elephants. Carl is demanding a PUBLIC vote on these issues. Finally someone giving the average Joe who pays for this BS a right to voice their opinion.— July 21, 2010 4:28 p.m.
Suit Challenges Lid on City Workers' Healthcare Costs
It continues to defer maintenance and infrastructural spending, cut back on fire protection, drop library hours, etc. ============= We have already seen that the muni services usually covered by the muni, such as library access, community pools, parks, beaches-these have ALL been cut back to bare bones funding and pretty soon librabries will only be open two days a week, from 10 AM to 2 PM, pools will be shut down completely (due to "budget cuts"), parks will be left to rot and not maintained, and the beaches will never be kept up-in fact we have seen ALL of these things happen already (beach fire rings gone, libraries w/limited hours, pools shut down, parks getting maintained less) and the ONLY thing we will have is an over paid fire and police dept's. That is all we will have, and the service will be lousy and the costs sky high-like it is right now-but it will get worse.— July 21, 2010 4:25 p.m.