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Trump fan Soon-Shiong swings huge tronc
A case can be made that the U-T has already been folded into its big sister to the north, i.e.the LA Times. As soon as the ownership changed, the style and content of the U-T, Light or no Light, abruptly shifted to looking just like the Times. The headlines screamed LAT, and the political slant took on the liberal cast of that paper. Look on the LAT website and find local SD news stories. Look on the U-T website and find local LA stories. Often it is hard to tell which website you are looking at. It's already happened, folks.— March 6, 2017 9:58 p.m.
Suspended by state Bar but still top lawyer?
There was a time when reading graduation announcements from those who were finishing up at hick colleges, they would often mention how they were listed in Who's Who of college grads or grads in some specific major of field of study. It sounded impressive, as if it was some sort of honor. But then when I was finishing up my college degree, I never once heard of Who's Who. Only much later on did I realize that the people so "honored" had been bamboozled into thinking that the sales pitch (loaded with insinuations that they were really super performers) was some sort of accolade. It was just a way to separate a grad-to-be from a chunk of change, and sell him/her a book full of pix and bios of students who paid for the privilege. Maybe a few employers were impressed by a line in the resume that stated "Listed in Who's Who of (blank) graduates of 19XX". It was just a low-grade scam.— March 6, 2017 9:51 p.m.
Suspended by state Bar but still top lawyer?
Trial lawyers don't have a good reputation, and not just because they try to get the guiltiest of defendants acquitted or at least convicted of lesser crimes. They have that reputation because many of them are just sleazebags. Talking of ethics in the same breath as trial lawyers is utterly oxymoronic. They have no ethics, other than those imposed by the court system, which is spotty in its enforcement of standards. Steigerwalt had a history of being court-appointed to defend some of the worst-of-the-worst in many prosecutions, In fact, I used to joke that if he was the defense attorney, any observer could be sure of the guilt of the def. I suppose he got tired of all those no-win cases, even if he was fairly compensated, and was looking for a new venue. But the one he chose was his downfall. If this association really thinks that he's a great example of an effective defense counsel, they failed to talk to all those cons, several doing LWOP, who he represented. What a joke!— March 6, 2017 7:37 p.m.
County loses jobs, unemployment rises
Whatever it is now, the unemployment rate (the real, true rate) is scandalously high. If you want to understand the Trump phenomenon, look no farther.— March 5, 2017 5:45 p.m.
County loses jobs, unemployment rises
I too wonder why any US student would be pulled into a STEM field now. Oh, it's the latest/greatest thing, and it does require far above-average academic ability to succeed. But to what avail? Your hard-earned spot in the labor force is given to some foreigner on an abusive visa. There is a partial explanation for STEM as the preferred area. Simply put, the old liberal arts education qualifies most students for nothing at all in the way of career paths. That is just part of the whole destruction of the middle class, and the lifestyle that it provided.— March 5, 2017 5:42 p.m.
County loses jobs, unemployment rises
Not all towns subsidize WalMart. Not far from you, Pagosa Spriings, CO resisted Wally for many years. About two years ago, WalMart managed to get a big spread there, will out of town and the business district. After all the time that the town tried to keep WalMart out, I doubt it succumbed to the sales tax scam.— March 4, 2017 8:56 a.m.
County loses jobs, unemployment rises
Full service, sit-down restaurants are falling by the wayside. We have had about three of them close up here in Vista in the past few weeks. Coincidence? I doubt it. More and more of the eateries in this area are of the "menu on the wall" variety, even when the prices seem steep. But the larger issue is the fact that this "recovery" from the 2008 financial crisis is really weak, Huge numbers of qualified people just cannot find a decent job during this "boom." Well, the boom is restricted to a few areas of the nation, where it is white hot, while the rest of the areas and industries languish. I'm not surprised by this news, although I am most disappointed.— March 3, 2017 5:38 p.m.
San Ysidro School District supe sued
Here we go again. Those So County districts can be counted on to stumble from one scandal to another. Where do these school administrators get the idea that they pull off stunts like this? Well, they got it from Torres, Chopra, Gandara, and most of all from Ed Brand. (Brand has skated numerous times.) But this legal stuff sounds like old-time, small town lawyering, where the "attorneys" could take months to actually DO something. Talk, talk, talk some more, and finally file an action, take a motion to court, or even write a letter. Does the infamous "Shineon" law firm have any involvement here? This smacks of that. But the most important take-away is that the SY board has all it needs to fire his sorry butt, for cause, and get a supe who doesn't think that he can do whatever he pleases. These school administrators are, or are supposed to be, under control of the board, and are required to follow the state education code. What's so hard to understand here?— March 3, 2017 5:13 p.m.
Lawsuit on top of lawsuit at office of education
That operation is really responsible for nothing at all. At best it is a service provider to the school districts that actually have schools and run them. But that didn't prevent it from having a "supe" with a princely salary, and a retinue of overpaid drones. The county board of education is a pack of non-entities who stay below the radar in any/all controversies. Just go back a couple years and look at the performance of the board and supe during the So County scandal involving Sweetwater, Southwestern, and San Ysidro districts. Despite enabling laws, both absolutely refused to get involved in any way, worsening those messes. Even when the board had to temporarily fill the vacant seats on the Sweetwater board with some of its own members, it dragged its feet until a judge ordered it! Most voters have no notion of who their county board member is, what he/she stands for (which is usually nothing at all), what that person has done, or how he/she has voted. If the whole operation were eliminated, the districts would be able to get along just fine.— March 2, 2017 8:10 a.m.
Well-heeled tie
Maybe you've hit on a dirty little secret. When Day and later Weber were the presidents, suspicions about their dealings ran rampant. Sometimes it appeared that Weber was actually trying to play land baron, and shove his development schemes down the throats of neighbors, the city, the CSU system, and the world. As to Hirshman making no public appearances, well, maybe he's just a shy scholarly guy. Yeah, right.— March 1, 2017 9:32 p.m.