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Robb Field's dumpster overflow problem
This practice of charging to take small household amounts of trash to the dump has just the wrong effect. Folks either don't get rid of it at all, or dump it anywhere they can get away with it. Around No County there used to be a number of spots that were secluded, and kept getting illicit dumping. There are fewer of them now than ten or twenty years ago, it still goes on. Why not ENcourage use of the dump, rather than DIScouraging it?— January 22, 2018 4:49 p.m.
El Cajon's homeless feeding ban reconsidered
I'd guess the motivation to pass that ordinance had little or nothing to do with the Hep A epidemic, although it may have been used as an excuse. Better to be able to claim it was done to protect public health than to admit the city just wants fewer homeless folks in its boundaries, and fewer of them visible. But this offers a graceful way to exit a situation that is getting El Cajon plenty of negative publicity for being mean spirited. One sidelight to this story is that the U-T kept referring to those who were charged with a crime as having been "arrested." They were NOT arrested, but rather were cited. While they might have been subject to arrest if they refused to accept the citation (BTW a "traffic ticket" is a citation) by signing for it, nobody got the arrest treatment. In case this isn't clear, an arrest is a physical removal from the scene under restraint (meaning handcuffs) and a trip to jail where one is booked, photographed, and usually required to post bail or wait for a court appearance. There is a huge difference. Does nobody at the U-T know the difference? That's my take. So much for accuracy in journalism.— January 21, 2018 2:16 p.m.
Sempra hasn’t paid corporate taxes since 2008
You just described Faulconer.— January 20, 2018 5:06 p.m.
University of Saint Katherine coming to Chula Vista
Chula Vista will take what it can get, and this isn't much, at least yet. There is a Saint Catherine University, up until recently called the College of Saint Catherine, in St Paul, Minnesota. It's one of those private but Catholic institutions, along the line of the University of San Diego. At the undergrad level it is still a women's college, but does accept men into some of its graduate programs. It has been around for over a century. One alumna was my late mother. This new operation, name spelled with a "K", is something else entirely. It may or may not grow into something of significance.— January 20, 2018 2:54 p.m.
PG&E funds Atkins Torrey Pines golf blowout
How many of the voters in her district have even a glimmer of what sort of sell-out she is? Darned few, I reckon. Popular Dems like her never seem to get the sort of scrutiny that other pols have to expect. She's everything the liberal, touchy-feely voter wants, and away she goes.— January 19, 2018 7:41 p.m.
Less farming, more drinking in San Diego County
Don, When these figures for jobs and unemployment come out, I keep having the same questions. If jobs worked actually are reduced, the unemployment rate should increase. Yet this month's numbers show a loss of jobs and a continuance of a very low unemployment rate. And for San Diego we've had a number of instances where the jobs went down and so did the unemployment rate. I hazard to guess that there were a few months when the opposite happened. All of this makes me think that either or both of the stats are invalid. The impact of the reported rates is heavily politicized, and when that is the case, the credibility of the stats goes down, way down. The notion that San Diego, of all cities, has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation is hilarious/concerning/appalling. But one thing that it isn't is credible. Whatever measurement tools are being used, and who is using them, need to get a hard-nosed review. These reports make no sense, and I, for one, will not accept them as accurate.— January 19, 2018 7:11 p.m.
Traffic circles coming to Moraga Avenue
Roundabouts work where drivers are accustomed to them and see them frequently. At this stage, neither of those things is true in the US. Training drivers in those courtesies would help them work better. As it now stands, they can work in low-speed, low-volume situations, but not where the traffic wants to go as fast as possible. They also have to be done right. Carlsbad installed one about two years ago on Carlsbad Blvd where it intersects State Street. Previously they had a long left-turn storage lane for southbound drivers wanting to turn onto State Street, and it seemed to work fine. For the northbound drivers on State there was a long merging lane onto Carlsbad Blvd. That spot is on a slope, and when approaching from the north, it is hard to see across the circle and determine how much traffic is there. But where you used to just move into the left-turn lane and wait for a break in traffic, now you have to head to the right and then counterclockwise around the circle, and then quickly turn right off the circle onto another tight turn to go on State. It's a mess, despite the fact that the city got two or three awards for a well-designed roundabout. Today it is studded with striping, warning signs, and flashing "Yield" signs. If it worked right, all that would not be necessary.— January 19, 2018 4:01 p.m.
Forbes eyed SD for Amazon and got it wrong
I'm in agreement with you. If an up-and-coming corporation wants to set up a second headquarters, it should be looking for an area that has space and even if it will only have offices, should be able to accommodate the staffers. California and many other areas just don't have low-cost housing or short commutes. (San Diego sure as heck doesn't.) Amazon could consider a few of those cities that have been left out in recent decades. Detroit, St Louis, Cincinnati, or Pittsburgh could be considered, and one of those might offer the necessary attributes. There sure would be a major welcome in any of those! But in reality, I suspect that the winners will continue to win and the losers will continue to decline. And that's how it's gonna be.— January 18, 2018 5:57 p.m.
Forbes eyed SD for Amazon and got it wrong
Thirty years ago very roughly, my father and I, who were both stock investors decided that Forbes was getting it wrong too often. Oh, it was the most entertaining of the business magazines, one that I looked forward to receiving and reading. Afterwards neither he nor I subscribed to it. One of the features of the mag was a column by a guy named Srully Blotnick (yes that's how it was spelled) who was eventually unmasked as a fraud, but only after being in the magazine for something going on thirty years. He had totally hoodwinked the magazine with a piece of fabrication that took some real nerve to pull off. He was an engaging writer, and often had some excellent advice or observations that cut through the fog. But he wasn't who he claimed to be, and it took Forbes a very long time to get wise. So, I"ll not testify to the accuracy or inaccuracy of Forbes, because I never see it.— January 18, 2018 2:58 p.m.
Burglary victim leads cops to crooks
The city's stock reply is that the department is understaffed and isn't paying enough to keep good cops.— January 17, 2018 10:23 a.m.