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Valley Center mountain lions on Facebook slammed
I find the assumption of some kind of moral superiority by people using phrases like, "So please leave them alone arrogant humans." tiresome and predictable from the wannabe self-appointed protectors of the environment. The very large majority of us are conservation-minded and respectful our local natural resources, including the large predators, like mountain lions and white sharks. We just want common sense applied to protecting them and protecting ourselves where we share space with them. You don't have to think you are special and entitled to preach at the rest of us just because you care about our wildlife.— September 10, 2019 9:48 a.m.
San Diego rat tales
"This doesn’t sync-up with San Diego County which saw an 11 percent decrease in homeless last year." What rodent population does sync up with is average rainfall. Last year's wet winter led to an explosion of vegetation, which is the natural source of food for rodents (as opposed to unnatural breakfast cereal, pet food, etc.)— August 14, 2019 9:54 a.m.
SDSU $575-an-hour lobbying deal revealed
You can't lay this one at the feet of the local GOP. This SDSU land grab is entirely a Democrat-engineered flim flam.— April 3, 2019 8:49 a.m.
Hawkins Way uses San Diego's Procopio lawyers to lobby city hall for downtown evictions
Thank God unions don't do the same sort of buying politicians or we might end up with ridiculously expensive ineffective government.— March 20, 2019 8:30 a.m.
Sheppard Mullin lobbies SDSU’s city deal
I heard a rumor that JMI has initially offered $12,000,000 for the property that was appraised at $83,000,000 when the City was talking to the Soccer City people. The residents of San Diego are going to get financially hosed again, particularly if Barbara Bry becomes mayor after supporting her developer buddies for the SDSU West deal.— February 2, 2019 9:06 a.m.
Idle Navy attack subs hit by audit
As a Vietnam era fast attack submarine veteran I can tell you that the bulk of the problem lies with "public shipyards". I was assigned to my first sub near the end of a shipyard overhaul. Even then the shipyard was incredibly inefficient in the way that you would expect a poorly supervised and coordinated government-run facility to be. The shipyard was a conglomeration of mini-empires based around trade specialties such as welding, pipe-fitting, electrical work, etc. My predecessors on the ship had started hoarding coffee (in 5lb cans) and canned hams a year before the overhaul started, as these items were the principal currency for expediting any work in the shipyard. I hope that public shipyard effectiveness has advanced significantly since then, but knowing how slow government is to adopt modern management tools I seriously doubt that things have changed much.— November 26, 2018 9:32 a.m.
The problem with San Diego's historic neighborhoods
Good article on the issues surrounding historic designation. Most of the commenters above say nothing about the critical distinction between voluntarily seeking historic designation and having it involuntarily imposed on your property over your opposition. Involuntary historic designation definitely raises legal issues of taking some of your ownership rights without compensation, and equal protection compared to those owners of property not subject to historic designation. An involuntary historic designation effectively makes the owner contribute some of his or her property rights for use as a "public museum". How would the above critics feel if they were told, "Good news! We have given your property a historic designation and now you have to open it to public tours all day every weekend." This would simply be a larger, but not different, burden on the owner than telling them, "you have to preserve the exterior of your house exactly the way we say so the general public can drive by and lokk at it."— November 16, 2018 9:42 a.m.
Farewell to a professional love
Mr. Bauder, I first came to notice your byline back in the days of your coverage of the J. David Dominelli/ Nancy Hoover scam. As someone who had something of a ringside seat to much of the action from my training and racing with Team J. David triathletes, I found your coverage to be accurate, informative and entertaining. Tom Shepard, Nancy Hoover and Roger Hedgecock were plotting how to criminally violate the campaign laws back then and Shepard ended up admitting criminal violation of the campaign contribution laws. Fast forward to today and Tom Shepard is promoting the SDSU West scam for developers. We will always need someone with your kind of investigative and reporting skills. Hopefully, Potter and others can fill your very large shoes. Best wishes in retirement from a long time reader.— September 18, 2018 7:23 a.m.
SDSU errors hit taxpayers, Cox flips on net neutrality, UT stories for sale
So SDSU has huge cost overruns and conflict-of-interest issues ("Also, “the campus did not retain conflict-of-interest and confidentiality statements for committee members involved in the selection process of the general contractor,” another requirement.") on a modest sized construction project, and they are telling us they are the best choice to oversee a massive redevelopment of the SDCCU stadium property with the SDSU West initiative? How many millions, or tens of millions of dollars would that end up costing taxpayers?— May 10, 2018 10:02 a.m.
Safety last in SDSU labs, state audit finds
So, once again we see evidence that SDSU's lip service to the "academic" need for more future space is nothing more than a fig leaf for their D1 football aspirations to build a new SDSU West stadium. SDSU spends more money subsidizing football than all but a few other universities in the NCAA. Maybe it's time for them to put some of those students fees back into academic improvements rather than grandiose football dreams.— May 1, 2018 9:54 a.m.