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San Diego's Hotel Business among Nation's Worst
After reading the blog with comments, I can see a bright side to all of this once a few of the larger properties are seized on tax arrears: We may end up with the best homeless shelters on the planet... and a new home for a central library!— June 24, 2009 8:10 a.m.
San Diego Unemployment Rises to 9.4% as Job Losses Grow
"SAN DIEGO, June 9, 2009 – The board of directors of Sempra Energy (NYSE:SRE) today declared a quarterly dividend of 39 cents per share of common stock. The current dividend is payable July 15, 2009, to shareholders of record on June 19, 2009. Sempra Energy, based in San Diego, is a Fortune 500 energy services holding company with 2008 revenues of nearly $11 billion." (see http://public.sempra.com/newsreleases/viewPR.cfm?…) You know, if Sempra Energy actually spent money in the community instead of handing it over to institutional investors, I'd bet not only would there be a lot more employment here in San Diego, but the overhead lines would go underground pronto. It's not like we need TV commercials to remind us that Sempra Energy is here with us everyday... all we have to do is avoid the pigeon droppings from the overhead lines. After all, what else is SDG&E's parent holding company to do since the County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted against the power cut-off plan? If the lines were underground already... Duh!— June 23, 2009 7:32 p.m.
After the fall
The government gyrations to be made after voters rejected those measures may be most curious. There are little-used and little-known provisions in the California Codes that may require dusting off... especially as parts of the state militia are moving between California and overseas deployments. Any members of the Governator's senior miltary staff care to comment on any legal authority to seize parks, schools, prisons, and other state property for re-directing their use as the militia commander-in-chief so directs, in the interests of "safeguarding and protecting the state"? (Wouldn't have brought this up if I didn't have a recent letter on Military Department stationery over some colonel's signature...)— June 1, 2009 1:15 p.m.
Reader writers' favorite drinks and where they drink them
Got turned on to cans of Foster's beer while taking Journalism at City College... "Drunkedness in a Drum". No, we weren't allowed to drink it on campus!— April 27, 2009 4:48 p.m.
Fat cats
Regarding #2: ... there is a lot of truth out there! We got a lot of it in discovery from the other side...— April 27, 2009 4:41 p.m.
What have you done that most people haven't?
Saw John-John salute his father's flag-drapped coffin on live TV, in glorious black&white. Was inspired by military escort (during Cold War before Vietnam, it was still OK to approve of military). Years later, I got to serve in the President's escort battalion (1/3d US Infantry Rgmt) and as part of Old Guard QRF, was armed to the teeth for Pres. Carter's inauguration just after I turned 18. Over a decade later, I was working less than a block east of the Whitehouse compound (and Old Exec Office QRF staging ground for Carter inauguration), on a paid internship with brand spanking new RTC in S&L crisis near the FDIC HQ on 17th NW, when the news broke of Iraq invading Kuwait.— April 27, 2009 4:03 p.m.
Fat cats
I would leave a comment here, except a corporate attorney might use it against me in court...— April 27, 2009 1:29 p.m.
Water Survey Says...
Regarding #1: As strange as it may sound, 700 out of three million may be enough to constitute a statistically valid sample size... IF the selection process was not all skewed up. For the curious, stop by the Learning Resource Center at City College (only a block away from the Trolley stop of the same name) and glance at one of the old MATH 119 textbooks on the shelves...— April 27, 2009 10:45 a.m.
US v. SDG&E defendant loses new trial appeal?
Regarding #1: 9th Circuit finally affirmed the Dec. 7, 2007 ORDER... FOR NEW TRIAL on March 17, 2009, and there was a hearing on April 24 in federal district court downtown (didn't make it to hearing... maybe date/venue set for new trial?)— April 25, 2009 12:24 p.m.
San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith fires John Serrano after Brown Field dust-up
No, "a little civil action 'in the public interest'" means go out and sue somebody... especially if that somebody happens to be a corporation gathering its million$ or billion$ through something provably illegal, unethical, and sufficiently morally offensive to get one's dander up. I'm pretty sure Duke Cunningham never thought of that, since he was having too much fun on the other side of the law... Look around. The Crash of 2008 leaves good pickings for clever citizens to set their sites on the corporations that have arrogantly flaunted the laws for so long, long enough to leave a trail of paperwork documenting their violations, even to the point of actually waking up federal investigators to what's been going on. Think of it this way: if we aren't prepared to exhaust all of our legal remedies especially when the corporate directors have left the vault unguarded through their illegalities and ethical lapses, then maybe we're not all that bright if we don't sue and collect in the public interest? Without at least trying this first, I'd feel kinda guilty about picking up a torch and pitchfork before storming the castle...— January 31, 2009 10:46 p.m.