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Prebys foundation president Debra Turner sues other board members
Wow, this has been a very technical and emotional string of postings, all at once. SportsFan is obviously far more than just a sports fan (lower case.) I'd guess he/she is an attorney, or should be one. Ponzi has my full sympathy. I avoided anything like he had, but any estate can blow up into a full-on mess. Isn't there a better way to handle these things? (To answer my own question), Yes there is, but we all might not like it if the government got into it.— May 24, 2017 7:37 p.m.
Brown Act shadows Faulconer's plan for November election and run for governor
Fear not, justice will be done. Or not. Strange things happen in elections--if you doubt me, just think back to November--and the outcomes are never sure things. The San Diego County voters are a somnolent lot and tend to vote for "nice" candidates, generally meaning those who are attractive and who keep the rhetoric on the positive side. But from time to time they can rise up and vote a bum out.— May 23, 2017 6:03 p.m.
Prebys foundation president Debra Turner sues other board members
Atta girl! Lawsuits make fees for lawyers and jobs too. No sense wasting the money on charities or, for that matter, settling Eric's claim. No, use it for hired guns to sort out the remaining funds. Sounds as if ol' Eric didn't do too badly. $9 mil, and the taxes on that of $6 mil. Hey, I'd take that deal in a heartbeat.— May 23, 2017 5:43 p.m.
Brown Act shadows Faulconer's plan for November election and run for governor
Stephan doesn't have to be elected, even if she runs as incumbent. As reported elsewhere (the U-T of all places) she was lead prosecutor in the Crowe case back when "Perfidious Paul" Pfingst was DA. In case you don't remember, it was that horribly botched case that cost Pfingst his reelection bid. Sadly his replacement was Bahnee. Just how Stephan managed to survive the purge of Pfingst loyalists and then prosper under this current regime isn't clear. She must be a hell of a politician in her own right. Any decent opponent will hang that Crowe case around her neck from day one, and keep reminding the voters about her, and the case that eventually cost the county over $7 million in a settlement with the family. I also remind anyone who has forgotten that the case was eventually taken over by the state attorney general who agreed that the boys were wrongfully accused, and who got a conviction against another perp. That conviction was, unfortunately, overturned on a technicality, and when retried, ended in acquittal. But she was right in the middle in perhaps the worst miscarriage of justice and botched police/prosecutorial work in many decades. In a turnabout of its usual stance, now that it is part of the LA Times, our U-T has editorialized twice that the supervisors should appoint an interim DA, and definitely not appoint Stephan. How 'bout them apples? She should not be a shoo-in at all.— May 23, 2017 8:30 a.m.
Billionaire Conrad Prebys cut his son out of will
Don, Her comment is like so many I've seen in smaller papers. The medium will print a story about some unfortunate event, such as an unexpected and tragic death, and then a reader sends in a comment to the effect that the story was improper and should be pulled. In some cases, I think that some folks just don't grasp what a "news"paper is all about. It prints, and should print, stories of events in its coverage area. Sometimes it has to tell a painful story in the process, but that doesn't mean it is doing anything wrong. News is like that; some like it and some don't.— May 20, 2017 9:37 p.m.
Lost control of car on Pearl Street and slammed into White Sands
Knowing San Diego streets, intersections, and lack of visibility (often due to overgrown shrubbery on the public street, or on adjacent private property), there may be a strong case here. San Diego streets and highways are a mess, the result of years of neglect, lack of code enforcement, and failure to repair the pavement. But it has been my observation that the fancier the 'hood, the better the streets. Go into Encanto or some of the surrounding areas, and you would conclude that the city never checks the streets or sidewalks. Sure, those areas don't bring in the taxes like La Jolla, but they do pay taxes, and yet there is scant evidence of it on the ground. So, to repeat, there's a good chance that these men have a good case.— May 20, 2017 8:57 p.m.
10 Barrel to be a 20-barrel operation
I'll quibble with your comment in regard to the Busch family. That family no longer "owns" the corporation, and I doubt that any of them work there. It is just a huge multinational corporation with Brazilian, South African and Belgian roots. It is incorporated in Belgium. But it now has a flock of Mexican beers, including the always-popular Corona, markets German beers, and is noted for its Stella. More recently it took over SAB Miller, which had been its largest competitor. All that global presence isn't a sign of strength, IMHO, as much as an indication of weakness on the part of the mass-produced brands. In short, AB InBev is losing market share, and has to resort to gimmicks to try to counter the changes sweeping the brewing industry. I doubt that this multi-national monster corporation can make the local experiment work and pay off. Don' worry, be 'appy.— May 20, 2017 8:44 p.m.
San Diego unemployment rate of 3.8 percent lowest since December of 2006
That figure, below 4%, is incredible. I've noticed that employment is up these days, and I base that on the crowded streets and freeways during usual work hours. But there are many, many un- and under-employed folks out there still, a phenomenon that has grown steadily for a long time. If this economy got real employment up to levels we had in, say, 1980, it would boom and we would be sweating consumer-price inflation.— May 20, 2017 7:48 p.m.
DeMaio faces off against Jerry Brown
It is possible that this issue has a certain grassroots element, something like a tea party interest, and a few "little old grandmas" are out there. If that is the case, then I'm all for it. What I'm not for is those slimy paid signature-gatherers with their misleading come-ons. While Von's and Ralphs have told the campaign they are "not welcome", that means little. Target had for years claimed that they didn't "allow" signature gatherers or those begging for donations in front of their stores, and yet they were often there. The California supreme court has ruled that store entrances are public places and that the stores cannot prohibit that sort of activity. That's why you see it constantly at some stores. It is more pleasant for the campaigners if the store welcomes them, but it is not required. DeMaio may have it called correctly about why those supers have gone as far as they have to keep the people away from their front doors.— May 19, 2017 7:40 p.m.
Billionaire Conrad Prebys cut his son out of will
Considering the size of his wealth, those $1 million bequests were really minimal. A mil doesn't buy all that much these days. In some cities it won't even buy much of a home. The son may be an esteemed physicist, but that doesn't mean he's affluent either. I'm going to think that Debbie figured large in that decision, maybe because she just didn't like Eric. More for Eric would mean less for other beneficiaries, such as herself. Hmmm.— May 18, 2017 9:44 p.m.