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Open window reveals new boyfriend
This is a strange series of events. Cops actually came down hard on one of "their own." One PD asks another PD to arrest a member of a third PD. Very strange, and stranger still is that it apparently took only one incident to get the ball rolling. Let's recall this recent case involving a SD Sheriffs deputy who had over a dozen accusers before he was arrested and charged. (That case has yet to be tried.) But now the DA is pulling back on the seriousness of the charges, and that was predictable, sad to say. I would be curious to know what the defense attorney was talking about when he referred to the defendant having "already served 18 years for our country" when he is 37 years old.— April 14, 2018 8:21 p.m.
Papa Doug won’t get Bahamas job
For either of them, what is the big deal? There may be some banking secrecy alive and well there, and some dubious wheeler-dealers may be there, but it is still a backwater spot. No, I think they were mostly motivated by the title "Mr. Ambassador", and its prestige, especially since they can use the title long after vacating the post. In short, an ego trip.— April 13, 2018 2:47 p.m.
Chicken Pie Shop 80 years later
Those pies were always loaded with carbs. That was typical 1940's cooking. If you can't help yourself, just kick back and enjoy the flavors. I wish you and the shop well; let's not get too concerned with diet. (As they say in New Yawk City: Enjoy!)— April 12, 2018 6:59 p.m.
Chicken Pie Shop 80 years later
I've loved their chicken pies for a long time, and at least used to love the price too. Their food was a real bargain down through the years. My now-wife and I would dine there before heading to the Symphony back around 1975. But recently the place seemed dingy and down-at-the-heels, and not a pleasant place to visit. Maybe with their new-found prosperity, they can clean and brighten the dining room.— April 12, 2018 4:25 p.m.
Tony Robbins attacked #MeToo at lecture
You really, really don't like Robbins, do you Ponz?— April 11, 2018 8:57 p.m.
D.A. Summer Stephan's incumbent protection plan
The big fix is going as planned, and there's no derailing it, short of a major scandal. How Stephan managed to make the transition from Pfingst to Dumanis and to Dumanis' anointed successor is a great mystery to outsiders. Pfingst lost his bid for a third term due to number of factors, but the most obvious one was the wrongheaded prosecution of the boys in the Crowe case. He would not back down at all. Stephan was the lead prosecutor on that case, although she now tries to distance herself from it. The Crowe family hates her guts--my words for it, not theirs of course. When Pfingst was turned out of office, I'd have expected Stephan to be the first of the attorneys in the office to be fired, but she wasn't. So, how will she deal with a persistent thorn in local government, corruption? Bahnee went easy on it, usually with a "see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil" approach. Her one exception was the So County school boards, but after lodging almost three hundred charges, many of them felonies, involving fifteen miscreants and crooks, she and the judge went wobbly on most of them, and little punishment was dished out. I'd like to hope that the new DA would get really tough on that sort of wrongdoing, but she didn't get where she is by stepping to toes of politicians, especially supervisors. I, like most voters, know little of the opponent. But if she's getting financial support from Soros or his ilk, she's not what we need either.— April 11, 2018 4:42 p.m.
"Are you kidding me? It's a cow pasture."
Are there not parallels with Balboa Park, where over the years, community users were pushed out of buildings in favor of admission-charging museums, etc.? Why does the city think that it has to make a profit from this little golf course? It was for, and should still be for, junior and/or casual golfers. It's not Augusta, Brentwood, Bel Air, or Indian Wells. It's a municipal course, for pity's sake, and for the use of locals, not high-rolling PGA/LPGA types. Logan Jenkins, no longer a full-time columnist at the U-T, has written U-T columns on this course and the group that wants to restore it.— April 9, 2018 4:01 p.m.
Trump begins construction on Border Wall
If you know, share it with all of us!— April 7, 2018 8:56 a.m.
Clairemont braces for homeless housing
We may like to think that the US is the richest nation in the world, but it is far from that. While it is the richest of the large nations, there are about ten others that are richer and not all are oil producers. (Think Switzerland.) With current trends, the US will fall further in the rankings, and one reason for that is our failure to harness the energy of all our able-bodied citizens. We need more incentives for those who work and contribute, and fewer for those who cannot or will not provide for themselves.— April 7, 2018 8:53 a.m.
Trial begins for Oceanside woman who drove with body in her car
It is reported "elsewhere" this evening that she was convicted today on all counts, including murder. The report indicated she's looking at 15 to life in prison, minimum. Ol' Herb must be losing his mojo. Time to retire, Herb?— April 6, 2018 8:33 p.m.