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Popular beach eatery in Oceanside suffered beer theft
Eva, you're back in the Reader! I've missed your reports. Nobody else is covering the underside of No County, and there is much that you can provide. (The recently-concluded Doshay case was poorly covered by the U-T, and nobody questioned the outcome.) Please tell me you will get back in the harness and provide your previous level of reporting.— July 2, 2017 8:05 p.m.
Judge says no to regulating SDSU mini-dorms
For those who own or occupy single-family homes in that area, and use them as single-family homes, those mini-dorms can be infuriating. Gathering a large number of college students together results in a noisy and overcrowded neighborhood. A simple explanation for this phenomenon is that SDSU has not provided adequate housing for its students, and they have to reside somewhere. And so they like the mini-dorm because it is relatively cheap and close to campus. Some universities have a situation that is much worse than in the SDSU area. (Think of UC, Santa Barbara with its huge and isolated student ghetto of Isla Vista.) But not all students would avail themselves of university-provided housing. Many much prefer to reside in an unregulated atmosphere, and will want something like the present situation. For some of the unfortunates who are trying to live normal lives in the middle of the hubbub, the only real option may be to move elsewhere. Homes in that area are in great demand, so prices are high. Sell out and leave would be my advice.— July 1, 2017 4:04 p.m.
Brick & mortar vs. Amazon
One small point of clarification: Macy's closed one store in Mission Valley Center, but that didn't mean it had left that center. As in a number of malls, it ended up with both a former Broadway and a former Bullocks there. They ended up, usually, putting the home store and the men's departments in one of the locations, and the rest of their offerings (mainly the women's) in the other. My recall is that the store they closed had originally been Broadway.— July 1, 2017 3:53 p.m.
I.B. ready to sue
Circa-1990, a fairly convincing case was made that the treaty and the treatment plant had this old and nagging issue solved. Now it seems that the matter got a band-aid slapped on it, with no real guarantee of no more spills. For one thing, TJ keeps growing, meaning the infrastructure and the plant have to keep pace. My observations of that country is that it cannot keep pace with anything, and it always playing catch-up ball, and only then when it decides to play the game. I'm inclined to agree with dwbat when he says that a big lawsuit may get some attention. What was lacking for decades, and what is lacking now is the political will to crack down and let our southern bad neighbor know that these spills are completely unacceptable. Oh, and where is the Congressman from that border district in all this? If anyone is positioned to get some action, it is he. That representative is Juan Vargas, who is silent.— June 23, 2017 7:57 a.m.
Tijuana-Ensenada toll road near Salsipuedes under repair
As we are frequently reminded in Big Sur, there are places where a road or highway should never be built. This most recent huge slide that has Highway 1 closed was an area that was basically a permanent landslide. Cut a highway across its face, and that highway will slide away the next time the slide slides. So, is this area on the toll highway one of those areas? With the history of it being blocked due to the fault line and landslides, it sure seems that way. That's an interesting piece of road, and I remember riding on it in the 70's when it was quite new. (The toll wasn't anything like $12 back then.)— June 23, 2017 7:16 a.m.
Nonprofits go after Faulconer SoccerCity plan
You beat me to it. I was just about to claim my prior use of "Kev-boy" when you gave me the credit. I cannot say that my use was based on the things you mention. It just seemed to fit. I used that sort of thing to refer to our recently-replaced president, and caught hell from my wife for doing it. I just have a mean, nasty streak when it comes to nicknames, even though most people who know me see me as a nice guy. Otherwise, I fully concur with your comments, especially the last sentence.— June 22, 2017 8:13 p.m.
Daughter of ex-Lemon Grove mayor in jail
When Lemon Grove incorporated in 1975, it was essentially built out. The only vacant piece of land was Miller's Dairy, which shut down soon afterward. I recall some fights about how that property would be developed, and cannot remember what happened to it. The poor little city had no real control over what it became because it "became" what it was prior to incorporating. Any attempt to gain some local control at such a late date is an uphill fight, and likely to be ineffective. Add in the fact that it wasn't a fancy, affluent coastal enclave, and you had a formula for abuse and disappointment. Now having said all that, I don't disagree with Ponzi, who researches his posts far more thoroughly than I ever do.— June 22, 2017 7:27 p.m.
SDSU’s very own bulldozer city?
And to boost the salaries of the top administrators on the campus, who will get raises proportional to the increased size of the student body.— June 22, 2017 5:56 p.m.
Rick Perry joins environmentalists on San Onofre
Odd, isn't it, that "environmentalists" were the opponents of Yucca Mountain. But that spent fuel and other waste will remain hazardous in perpetuity. If we are to store that nasty stuff in Yucca Mountain, it needs to be kept off-limits for at least 100,000 years. That's a long time folks, and keep in mind that our human written history goes back only about 8,000 years. Will humanity, hundreds of generations from now, manage to keep the history of that spot? There are other things that can be done with that spent fuel at least, such as reprocessing. But the US doesn't allow that. Some time ago, the late Glenn Seaborg, one of the earliest physicists to work on and with radioactive elements (he actually redrew part of the Periodic Table of Elements) was all in favor of nuclear fission power and regarded waste storage is essentially a political matter. A very smart guy, he didn't worry at all about storing the waste, but I can guarantee any reader that he would have never proposed storing it 100 from the mean high tide line on a seacoast. The figure of $100 billion to finish Yucca Mountain and start accepting shipments sounds over-the-top. But keeping in mind that anything the federal government does is always costly, it might not be too high. One part of the Yucca Mountain plan is to run a new rail line into the facility, one that doesn't use existing tracks, and bypasses most civilization.— June 22, 2017 5:46 p.m.
SDSU’s very own bulldozer city?
There are some unstated assumptions being made about the stadium property and its ultimate use. SDSU has no claim to that area at all. If the CSU system wants some (or all) of it, the answer would be to pony up a price that reflects its full value. Whatever plan eventually emerges and is implemented, It likely will not have SDSU paying full price for the land it gets. That campus now is crowded and the facilities are often second-rate. So, its popularity seems inexplicable to me. But it gets many, many applications. If it gets more space, the outcome will be to allow the student body to expand. Might it make more sense for the CSU system to declare that SDSU is as big as it is going to get? And might the next step be adding a new CSU campus to the county, one in So County? beernsports seems convinced that the SoccerCity proposal is superior to anything that is likely to come along. A large part of my misgivings about it is the unseemly haste that surrounds it and its biggest political backer, Faulconer. That property isn't going away, and allowing some time for others to come up with proposals doesn't cause harm. As it stands, the SoccerCity ballot measure will get a vote next year. There's a good chance that if it passes, it will be tied up in court for a long time, given some of its weaknesses and questionable language.— June 21, 2017 7:36 a.m.