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Porn thief in our midst?
This is terrible. Honest pornographers are pumping out their offerings and then instead of reaping profits from their sales, these hackers are stealing the "stuff" and selling it themselves and pay no royalty or anything else. Don't you just feel so sorry for these purveyors of smut and perversion? So sad for an outstanding local industry.— January 13, 2018 8:20 p.m.
Partner dispute spells the end of Oceanside Ale Works
That comment made about the partner going "Bowe Bergdahl" on him was how he felt, but might be seen as slanderous. Partnerships can be very hard to keep going, and one key factor usually is that neither partner in a two-person operation acts unilaterally. That's where all this bitterness seems to have originated.— January 13, 2018 9:06 a.m.
Tronc’s Times newsroom blowback
I'll be darned! Sold it all off, huh? I still think staying in the Times building makes sense, and keeps the flag flying into the brave new world. But then tronc didn't ask me.— January 13, 2018 8:56 a.m.
Tronc’s Times newsroom blowback
Hmm. The LA Times has an iconic building in downtown LA with its name on it. That means the paper owns the building, and works from it now. (Actually it has or had more than just one building there; the whole area was called Times-Mirror Square. In recent years the paper and the holding company moved out of or shrank down and much of that space is either now vacant or used by others.) So, why head out to the west side of LA? It will surely cost more, and have a massive cost to relocate. Does Ferro think such a move will endear him to the affluent readers who reside in that area? Will the cachet of being close to Westwood, Century City, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Bel Air, and the beach somehow rub off on the subscriber base? On the matter of the U-T Smolens, who just recently seems to have surfaced in the rag, is playing chicken. Threaten to make a fuss if you're fired or laid off, and you become a target for just that. His columns are well written and informed, but he's not the key to keeping circulation up. Circulation is down, down, down and sinking. There are three investigative reporters at the U-T? For as little as they accomplish, I'd have never imagined they had even that many. During the Copley, then Platinum, and finally the Manchester years there were so many sacred cows in town that their Watchdog staff were reduced to being lapdogs. Even where no barrier existed, that staff ignored flagrant misconduct in public agencies, such as the So County school districts. Had it not been for the late Susan Luzzaro who wrote of the wrongdoing there for years, it might still be going on, unchallenged. The U-T came to that party very late, claimed to have discovered it, and then claimed credit for the criminal prosecutions that resulted.— January 13, 2018 7:57 a.m.
No sign of financing for Broadway-Navy project
If there is no financing for Manchester to pull this off, it won't get built. Can't we all hope? It may just fall through the cracks and be forgotten. Then the next round might be something to be proud of, well-designed, and viable for the rest of this century and beyond. Nah! Nevahappen.— January 10, 2018 8:42 p.m.
Kombucha all over San Diego
For a long time, well not so long really, I'd been wondering just what kombucha was. You have told me far more than I ever wanted to know. Decades of tea drinking have not left me wanting something more exotic in teas. I'll take my hot, freshly steeped tea, and be satisfied.— January 10, 2018 7:22 p.m.
North County congressman Issa to retire
I live very close to Issa's field office in Vista, which is the site of rallies every Wednesday. They were out there today, and since this is the result they wanted, maybe the crowds will stay home. On a more analytical note, this will avoid a fight for the GOP nomination between Issa and challenger(s), and gives the GOP the opportunity to find/field a strong candidate who can get a head start on the general election. Funny thing, isn't it, that the seat was regarded as a "safe" Republican seat until about three years ago?— January 10, 2018 5:11 p.m.
Investigative reporter quietly leaves town
Logan Jenkins also recently retired from the U-T, but will do one column a week, it was announced. His column will now be "of countywide interest", rather than (we must suppose) No County. Now when the U-T puts his column on-line, it doesn't carry his or anyone's byline. Why? Who knows.— January 10, 2018 2:11 p.m.
Do you really aspire to live in Rancho Santa Fe?
In so stating, she probably said more than her attorney would have allowed her to say. Once in litigation the mouthpieces, i.e. attorneys, tell the clients to say nothing at all. So, her reluctance was expected.— January 8, 2018 6:03 p.m.
Do you really aspire to live in Rancho Santa Fe?
His claims about Christy Wilson, and what she did and said seem very strange to me. Even if she didn't want them there, for whatever reason(s), telling them to leave would have been most foolish. There's another side to this story, hers, that we haven't heard or read.— January 8, 2018 8:11 a.m.