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Is Faulconer heading for a Jacobs fail?
I think if Kev-boy wants to have a political career beyond this gig as mayor, he needs to be his own man. So far he comes across as the spokesmouth (which is what he was in his younger years) for whoever pays his daily rate. If he decided to really lead, I think he could make a difference. Selling his soul to the Dem Jacobs interests for a few $ million is not going to put him in higher office. Being a real leader and turning down this rape of Balboa Park might just put him on the map.— November 10, 2016 6:01 p.m.
Citizens victors over NFL greed
Could this be the point where the NFL goes into a steady decline? First, the San Diego voters recognized that they could not afford to keep going with a subsidy for the billionaire owners of the team at the same time that, Second, the nuttiness for pro football had peaked. There is plenty of reason for the public to decide that those gladiators on the field are victims of a game that glorifies mayhem, while being wildly overpaid for what they actually produce. It isn't a huge step from there to deciding that the system that exists isn't deserving of all the adulation. I'd like to be sure that your comment about how "San Diego was too smart for that" actually reflects reality. Elections take their strange twists, as this one did, and SD fans/fools/politicians can come back with another deal that gives away the store. Only when such votes persist will I feel that the stadium ripoff racket is gone for good.— November 10, 2016 5:48 p.m.
Issa sues Applegate
If Issa manages to hang on and win, the best thing he could do is stop any further notice of the claims made by the NYT and by Applegate. Two years from now if there were a trial of the suit, it would be in the midst of the next House race. Issa needs to have everyone forget this race. He can stay on if he spends more time in the district and works on getting favorable notice. Since he's no longer chairman of that governmental oversight and investigation committee, he'll have the time to spare.— November 10, 2016 2:21 p.m.
Citizens victors over NFL greed
When in comes to the Spanos gang and the team, "No" never seems to mean "No." Deano has struck out with the owners and the league as far as being permitted just to move to LA. He struck out on Tuesday. Or did he? As long as fools and fans are around, the team will keep trying to get a new stadium. I had expected the Spanos clan to have sold the team by this point. Even the sports page of the U-T reviled Deano's comments. That's a watershed! But if the family does sell, what can it now get from a buyer? The LA exit strategy seems out of reach, and now the voters here turned them down. A buyer would be buying a team that is forced to play in a substandard (they keep telling us) stadium in a city that doesn't really support it to the usual degree of insanity. I'd like to be confident that this closed the door on any more talk of a stadium downtown--or anywhere else for that matter--and no additional subsidies for the gang. But it won't be over until they do leave, and that may be many more years away, years of this useless talk about how to placate Deano, and huge political distraction for mayors and city council reps.— November 10, 2016 2:17 p.m.
Is today's election make or break for Union-Tribune?
I really doubt that the U-T endorsements carry much clout any longer. In fact, there are many voters who think that if the paper likes something, it is for the wrong reason(s), and take the opposite tack. Actually, that has been the case for many, many years in some SD circles.— November 9, 2016 7:46 p.m.
Is today's election make or break for Union-Tribune?
The fact that the current owner likens the paper to "something", meaning dog excrement, says so much about his attitude. When the U-T ended up sold to the LAT, and they shut the printing plant down, that made the U-T very hard to sell separately. Not impossible mind you, but hard to sell. Its newfound independence in some of its ballot recommendations, such as turning a thumbs down on the Charger giveaways, and also Measure A, was balanced out by making any recommendation in the presidential race. Both choices were terrible ones, and abstaining was a viable option.— November 9, 2016 4:16 p.m.
City slams door on Faulconer-Chargers emails release
Oh, Bahnee, are you tuned in? Does this sound like public corruption? It should. Will Bahnee investigate? LOL— November 4, 2016 9:10 p.m.
Lilac Hills opponents mum on money source
Big bucks developer with millions to spend to buy an election is now howling about pocket change in the hands of the out-gunned opponents? Do I have that right? I suspect that the developer is looking at defeat and watching the $4+ million swirl down the toilet. So, it's time to start to find some excuse or other way to have the failed vote negated in court. If the developer had just gone through the established channels, and spent the necessary time instead of all that money, they might have pulled it off. But when Bulldozer Bill Horn was forced (and it war a matter of force, not his voluntary recusal) to stand aside on the vote the developer tried to go nuclear with a mushroom cloud of funds pumped into a campaign. If you don't care to see development handled that way, make sure you vote accordingly.— November 3, 2016 10:04 p.m.
Park-starved residents locked out of school playgrounds
Nothing surprising here at all. The slobberin' city gets together with the slobberin' school district and works out a deal that promises things to fed-up residents. Before the work is even finished both entities have totally and conveniently forgotten the deal, and go their merry ways. Why don't/can't they work in concert to deliver on the commitments? Well, both are mismanaged and misgoverned agencies with their own set of fools in charge and a host of political priorities that guarantee that they want different things. And the final factor is that to do this right, as in the way it was promised, actually requires some of their underworked and overpaid employees to WORK. And that's where it all breaks down; just where the rubber meets the road.— November 3, 2016 9:56 p.m.
Tronc'ed again: Union-Tribune faces yet more jobless fears
Today's U-T reports that the Gannett deal is dead. So, now we're in a new world of uncertainty. I can't wait to see what happens next.— November 2, 2016 4:37 p.m.