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NPR, SDSU, UNICEF, and Doctors Without Borders beat back Encinitas attorney
Legal mumbo-jumbo. More likely the lawyers protective association at work.— May 1, 2017 10:25 a.m.
NPR, SDSU, UNICEF, and Doctors Without Borders beat back Encinitas attorney
There is a high likelihood that he can't pay either part of the judgement. But the part of this story that makes no sense is that the court rules he engaged in some highly unethical conduct, misconduct really, and fails to sanction him. If this sort of thing didn't justify sanctions, what would, pray tell? The court upholds the notion that he acted in what I would call a predatory manner, and abused his attorney-client responsibilities. But no sanctions. Crazy.— May 1, 2017 8:16 a.m.
U-T using charities to boost circulation
Being a former media buyer, it wasn't circulation I wanted. I wanted results from ads in a paper, and if it delivered, I loved it. Regardless of claims of circulation, paid circulation to be more exact, if the sales didn't show at store level, I was not going to buy it. Generally there was a tight correlation between circulation and results. The need was to get the ads in front of as much of the public in the proper demographic as possible. For my employer that was middle-income males. The Sunday offering almost always worked better than a weekday edition. So, jacking up circulation to report to this Alliance for Audited Media is fine as far as it goes, but if the ads don't reach the public and bring in business, it is all for naught. Perhaps there are national advertisers who just look at circulation vs. ad rates, and buy on such a basis. But how much of that sort of thing do you see in the shrunken U-T now? Not much. The retailers now rely on pre-printed ads that can be distributed by newspapers, or sent by mail (or door-to-door carrier for that matter.) If I were in the newspaper business now, I"d say that desperate times call for desperate measures, and I might try something like this. But there's not much reason to think it will bring in all that much circulation growth and it will not reverse the decline in the printed newspaper.— April 30, 2017 8:01 a.m.
San Diego State pays Francisco Sousa damages for false accusation bungling
This is a case that could have cost SDSU far, far more. That he settled for $10K (as reported elsewhere) is rather amazing. He happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. A number of campuses were rightfully accused of not treating rape charges seriously, and were on notice to shape up. SDSU was one of those universities, and the reaction was to jump on a shaky case and then persist in pushing it along. Campus cops are not usually noted for their sterling police work, and this is just another instance of that, in spades. Let's hope he can recover from the miscarriage of justice he suffered.— April 29, 2017 5:21 p.m.
Poway Unified sued over choosing Marian Kim-Phelps as superintendent
Bahnee ignored a nest of major scandals in So County school districts for years. I credit Susan Luzzaro of the Reader for keeping the matters in the public eye until the DA finally acted. When she did, the staff came up with something like 275 separate charges, about 20% of them felonies, aimed at fifteen miscreants in three school districts. But then the cases were bounced back and forth between downtown SD courts and Chula Vista, where they finally settled. The judge took her own sweet time (8 months!) to review the documents. But when trial time rolled around, Bahnee went wobbly, and accepted some plea deals that were very sweet for the defendants. Only three of them ever pleaded guilty to a felony, and two males went to jail for a few weeks, whereas the female got home confinement. The judge tried to allow board members of the Sweetwater district to stay on the board, until someone (and it wasn't the DA) pointed out to her that the law didn't allow that. So, don't expect much from ol' Bon. When I read the allegations made about Collins by the school district, my first reaction was that they were criminal acts. Instead of going for an indictment, which would have required getting the DA to cooperate and investigate, the district sued him! They were pursuing theft charges as a civil matter, totally inappropriate in my opinion. Misappropriation or theft of public funds should always be investigated criminally, and if supported by evidence, should always be charged. Anyone who wonders about this DA need look no farther than this case to realize how corrupt she is.— April 29, 2017 8:41 a.m.
North Park hosts panel on homeless Wednesday at Lafayette Hotel
Does the store expect the security guard to chase/apprehend thieves? Or is this one for show and intimidation? I'm sure you don't know, and I don't expect you to know.— April 28, 2017 5:32 p.m.
Poway Unified sued over choosing Marian Kim-Phelps as superintendent
If those events don't violate the Brown Act, then that law means nothing. Poway, both the city and the school district, manage to embarrass themselves frequently. Not long ago there was the councilwoman who used the building department/code compliance staff to harass a neighbor. The supe who preceded Collins was brought down by some serious sexual harassment claims. Poway has such a high opinion of itself that the Powegians seem incapable of understanding that normal laws, procedures, codes, and expectations apply to their elected and appointed officials.— April 28, 2017 12:06 p.m.
KOGO Radio financial stock tout arrested in Utah
The personality to whom he referred is Ric Edelman. I do hear him on weekends, and his advice is, to my mind, generally good. But you must realize that he doesn't tout investments on the air; he touts himself and his firm as investment advisors, and invites inquiries for "no cost" consultations. There are so many of those operations out there that they have to promote themselves somehow, and by paying to put a call-in program on the air, they can accomplish that. This is not to say that I'd recommend any of them who are on the air.— April 27, 2017 4:46 p.m.
Chargers now on KFI AM 640
This deal leaves me with a big question. Will they broadcast the Charger games on KFI (640 kc) or on the station at 570 kc? The big, powerful clear channel station, KFI, can be readily heard all through San Diego county. AM 570 is too weak to be picked up here in No County, so I"d suppose it is even less useful farther south in the county. (I've tried and tried to listen to UCLA games on AM 570, and finally gave up on it.) I think I know the answer, in that KFI has no sports boradcasts now, and that is what AM 570 does. So, if you want to hear Charger games on the radio in SD County, you will be generally out of luck due to being out of range of the weaker transmitter.— April 27, 2017 8:19 a.m.
Two separate tragedies on the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation
It is amazing how some folks can get ordinary cars into some really rugged spots. When I go out in my high-clearance 4X4, there are times when I start to lose my nerve, even though there's little danger of getting stuck. On a couple recent occasions out in the desert I saw Priuses parked along the rugged traces, their operators having taken off to hike. Those have just about no clearance, and look fragile to me, but they were driven to those spots with no apparent damage done, and got back out, too. If you are determined enough, you can take a car into some rough places. These two stories are really strange. I'd guess that Knutson was also suffering from a degree of dementia. There are times when a road will get really bad and then improve again, but that doesn't often occur nowadays, nor in So Cal. Thinking that will happen isn't "thinking" at all, it's just ignoring reality. While things that others attribute to coincidence often turn out to be anything but, this time there seems to be no common denominator in them. And while I don't usually buy coincidence as a factor, this time what else could it be? Something from the occult? Aliens from space? Evil spirits?— April 26, 2017 4:53 p.m.