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Coffee's king rankles in Ocean Beach
This is really funny, and it is no coincidence that it happened in OB, with all of its street denizens and their often-obnoxious behavior. Who put up the sign? I'd guess it was the Starbucks employee who has to clean those facilities, and clean up after some users who can be clueless about basic sanitation. But to identify other local businesses as the places to go was really over the top. This could get a small war going between local retailers.— February 18, 2017 1:36 p.m.
Dalai Lama causes a stir at UCSD
Just who is running the show in the US? If those Chinese students don't like features of campus life in this nation, they need to go elsewhere. And why do they spend so much to attend US universities? We must assume they think their knowledge and contacts are worth the cost. If UCSD caves in to this assault on free speech by guest students, it will be the saddest day so far (there have been many sad days there already) in its history. No, foreign students should never be allowed to dictate the terms of their study or life. They are, we must remember, guests of this nation.— February 18, 2017 1:31 p.m.
No gold star for Bonsall school district
A most interesting response. Or should we call it a rant? Well, whatever you want to call it, it represents the other side of the story. (But could you please catch your breath here and there and cut it into a few paragraphs?)— February 17, 2017 8:30 p.m.
Tip of Tijuana's garbage iceberg
Anything new or surprising here? Not to me, and not to anyone who has lived in the San Diego area for a long time. TJ was always was a trashy, dumpy place. Gringos loved it because it was so different from a first-world city that actually collected trash, had working sewers, and some standards for public health. In recent years, we were told by the media, such as our not-so-esteemed U-T, that TJ was a clean and modern city. LOL. Anyone who fell for that sort of nonsense deserved to have his/her pocket picked on a trip to TJ to enjoy its "fine dining." There's nothing very fine or nice or good about that border city. "Eet ees what eet ees", an' that's that. When Mexico ever decides to join the world at large and at least pretend to be something like a first world nation, then some progress is possible. But for now, bad trash pickup, bad cops, street crime against tourists, and unsanitary dining and food are what defines the place. Oh, I wish it were not so, but wishing doesn't change a thing.— February 17, 2017 8:23 p.m.
Kindergarten teacher charged with bank, wire fraud
I wonder. The sheer interchangeability of a limited number of first and surnames could result in dozens or hundreds of women named "Cristina Montijo". Could this be a classic case of identify theft, or at least identity hijacking? If she is the same one as in NY, then it gets more interesting.— February 17, 2017 6:04 p.m.
No gold star for Bonsall school district
Many years ago the Fallbrook Union High School district had a school site on Gird Road. On one occasion while working at Fallbrook High, I overheard the district's construction and facilities manager tell someone that the district would likely never need that site. (I assume that it owned the property as far back as the 80's, maybe even earlier.) But he added that at some future time, when the Bonsall District unified (meaning it would take on the role of providing its own high school), it would get and use the Gird Road property. Apparently it was within the boundaries of the Bonsall district. So, I'm assuming that this site is the same one he was discussing about 1995. If this site is that piece of property, it represents some foresight on the part of the Fallbrook high school district at a time when major growth had not occurred in the area. To assemble an accessible fifty-acre sight there now would be challenging, and likely costly. So, now it is up to the Bonsall board of trustees and its administration to get the high school built right, on budget, and overcome the NIMBY objections of nearly property owners. If they can do that, great. If they cannot, it will be typical of what happens so often in building needed new schools.— February 16, 2017 4:39 p.m.
Wrecking crew
I just knew someone would do a play on those words.— February 16, 2017 4:19 p.m.
Wrecking crew
"bad" debt is what I meant to type.— February 16, 2017 6:57 a.m.
Wrecking crew
So Bahnee owes Bahnee some $40K, and it goes back to 1994. Methinks that Bahnee needs to write that off as a bed debt, retire and move back the New England and crawl under a rock. The sooner we are rid of her and her corrupt regime the better.— February 15, 2017 9:12 p.m.
SDSU’s fleeing faculty
First, there is a disconnect between the headline and the story. Nowhere in the narrative is there mention of faculty resignations and turnover, as in "fleeing faculty." It would appear that the school is just not filling needs by hiring full-time faculty members. The cause, as identified by the author, is hiring many costly administrators and neglecting to rebuild the faculty, after sharp cutbacks during the economic crisis. Second, the notion that this nascent "research university" in the CSU system can be planning to reinvent itself while having a scandalously high student-to-faculty ratio is just amazing. Unless I'm very mistaken the operation was bragging of something like a 17:1 ratio in 1970, when it was just a "mere" state college. Oh, but now they can put instructors in front of the classes by using ever-larger numbers of graduate students. This is the same as replacing full-time employees with temps. And those graduate students are only temporary; they are churned and burned rapidly. Third, I have been continually taken aback by the popularity of SDSU with applicants from across the state, nation and world. The campus is notorious, and has been going back to the 60's, for not havng enough seats in popular classes for all those desiring to attend. For a long time, starting in the 60's and continuing at least into the 90's, business classes were in high demand, and many students spent years enrolled there, waiting for a spot to open up in a needed class. For many, many years the attitude in the admin building was that it was "no problemo", in that if students could not find space in classes they wanted or needed, well, they would take something else! Oh, that was the stated policy when crusty old Tom Day was campus president. Just who was he? Adam Day, mentioned in the story, is his son. How did Adam end up on the board of trustees? I can't say for sure, but money and influence had something to do with it.— February 15, 2017 8:33 p.m.