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Closed-door meetings with Chargers preceded mayor's stadium backing
Well, maybe he was working in something about Ahnold's nose. Who knows? I agree with his appraisal of the chances of the GOP winning either of the offices I mentioned. When I said it would likely not succeed, that's what I meant.— November 1, 2016 4:22 p.m.
Pacific Imperial Railroad opts for bankruptcy
That's not anything that I'd want to bet on. The role of the MTS CEO and his legal counsel in keeping this thing going is extensive. Their statements of support for the PIR group of questionable personalities could have been something that newer investors regarded as authoritative. In other words, MTS might have encouraged fraudulent activity by the PIR people, and if anyone defrauded relied on those statements, well, MTS was involved. Those things could bring RICO into the picture. Not that I expect that, but ya' nevah know.— October 31, 2016 8:25 p.m.
Closed-door meetings with Chargers preceded mayor's stadium backing
I'd guess that what Kev-boy wrangled from the Spanos gang are promises of support and assistance in his future political ambitions. He's probably going to be looking at the governor's chair, or a US Senate seat. Either would require all the supporters he can get, and then it would likely not succeed. Those of you cynics who say that the Chargers--actually the Spanos gang--cannot be trusted, need to take another look. They can never, ever, under any circumstances, be trusted. If they could, they would be staying here for at least four more years, and then negotiating for some repair and upgrade to the current stadium. Verbal assurances from Alex, Dean or the next generation are worth nothing.— October 31, 2016 4:06 p.m.
Physician's assistant brings on physician's demise
I'd wondered how all that heroin was showing up to replace the opiods that were harder to get. If you are right, the stuff isn't heroin at all. And yes, I remember the Kristin Rossum case, and the trial. She was such a beautiful gal, and most of didn't want to think she was a killer. But the case was too strong. What ever came of her Aussie boyfriend who bugged out to his native land as the net closed around her? It always looked to me as if he abetted her, or at least encouraged her. He's likely free as a bird "down under", while she rots at Chowchilla.— October 30, 2016 10:21 p.m.
Physician's assistant brings on physician's demise
I don't see Oxycodone on the list; that's what some call "hillbilly heroin". But all of those pain killers have a downside. If you read the cautions for the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory pain meds, it would make you swear off all of them forever. I'm almost afraid to take an aspirin tablet! But there's a huge market for the opioid drugs, and too much temptation to use them, sell them, and abuse them. Now that there is a federal crackdown on prescriptions for all these addictive drugs, heroin (the real kind, likely from Afghanistan) is baaack. So what do we do now?— October 30, 2016 8:05 p.m.
Sweetwater school district resolves boundary issue
Eastlaker, it is good to see you commenting. After the guilty pleas by four of the Sweetwater trustees and one ex-superintendent, too many voters likely went back to sleep. What had not happened was a top-to-bottom cleaning of the district administration. After all those years of Trujillo/Gandara/Brand mismanagement, the corruption was likely deeply embedded at the district office. Sweetwater pointed up the weaknesses of the new law that allows bond issues to pass with a 55% approval rate. That bond oversight feature of the law was put there to reassure voters that funds so generated would be spent carefully. But we now know that just having a committee guarantees nothing. When a district wants to ignore the committee it can and there are no consequences. So, I fully agree with your idea that no more school bonds be approved--and I'd make that a statewide recommendation--until there is assurance that the money will be spent properly, and only after old money has been accounted for.— October 30, 2016 8:49 a.m.
Sweetwater school district resolves boundary issue
I"ll quibble with the headline here. This board vote may be a victory for some students, actually for some parents, but not all students in SUHSD. And some others may see it as a loss. One thing that jumps out is the comparison of the Eastlake schools with those in Bonita Vista. They are newer, and one of the parents says that the Bonita schools are "more run down." Didn't that district have two bond issues that raised a huge amount of money to bring ALL the schools up to standard? Now we hear that they're not anything like that. This vote would seem to be the sort of thing that the new SUHSD board should be doing. After years of mismanagement and dysfunction by the now-convicted crooks who were on the board, this board has its work cut out for it. Just undoing bad policies that were put in place in earlier years may require some Solomonic decisions and votes. I'm glad to see some reporting in the Reader from So County. For some months now there has been no news coming out of that area, and I doubt that everything there is lovely. Let's see more such reporting.— October 29, 2016 7:23 a.m.
Tronc'ed again: Union-Tribune faces yet more jobless fears
The absence of the U-T in those charts and analyses should be taken as indication that the paper is considered insignificant in the bigger corporate picture. Either that, or the U-T numbers are rolled in with those of the LAT. It is now impossible to sell off the U-T separately from the LAT. Its papers are printed in an LAT facility, and the bulk of its editorial material is identical to that of the LAT. Maybe the next step is about to be taken, changing the name to LAT, San Diego Edition. That would reprise the valiant attempt the LAT made starting in 1978 and continuing through the early 90's to invade Copley territory and gain a substantial foothold. It failed then, and likely would fail now. And so they stick, for the time being, with the fiction that the U-T is an independent newspaper.— October 27, 2016 9:55 p.m.
Bridgepoint over troubled waters
Those accrediting agencies are rather self-appointed, aren't they? I'd suppose they started out as a self-policing effort on the part of schools, colleges and universities to weed out fakers and phonies. And for much of the time in the old days, they probably did a good and fair job of it. But are they doing such a good job now? But, know what? I'd rather not see the government get into the task. It would be turned into a super-bureaucracy that accomplishes little, and cost massively to operate. Some self-regulation of a genuine sort is what we need.— October 27, 2016 5:59 p.m.
No one is responsible
BevMo is what it is. They don't claim to be providing a public service or a "needed" product. I really doubt that BevMo has shopping carts scattered around the neighborhoods.— October 27, 2016 5:52 p.m.