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Dig a hole: Landmark La Jolla Village
I'd heard the rumors but discounted their possibility. These theaters do a lot of business and for $10 a pop max, less for oldsters. Plenty of parking. Near UCSD. Adjacent to north La Jolla residential. Why doesn't Mark Cuban or whoever it is who owns Landmark Theaters open another venue in the area? Carmel Valley is way too far away from this populous, movie-going, foreign-movie-loving neighborhood. Maybe Irwin Jacobs would open a movie theater for the community. He lives nearby. I'd gladly trade the Cabrillo Bridge in Balboa Park for another La Jolla four-plex.— June 3, 2015 8:45 p.m.
Israeli drone pioneers get Jacobs backing
Also, what are they thinking? Wouldn't setting up an installation of Israel's Techion in the middle of Manhattan draw the interest of global terrorists once more to New York City? It seems a heedless decision to me.— June 2, 2015 8:45 p.m.
Israeli drone pioneers get Jacobs backing
IRPS at UCSD used to be a place where highly qualified graduate students were required to take and master at least one major Asian language -- Chinese, Korean, Japanese -- and study the history, culture and customs of countries in the Far East. Sorta mousy, I guess, in this money-makes-the-world-go-round world we live in now. With Irwin Jacobs' gift, we get a new, more muscular name -- and maybe purpose -- nothing less than "The Center for Global Transformation." Between UC head Janet Napolitano, UCSD President Pradeep Khosla and the tone-deaf Regents, should we worry that UCSD is being hijacked by business interests and diverted to new not-really-academic goals?— June 2, 2015 8:39 p.m.
A mugshot is what they seek
Well said, Dorian. I appreciate that you are so open with readers and have the courage to stand for independent journalism, in contrast to the disgraceful Brad Racino of inewsource out of SDSU. Also, last time I checked, Pat Flannery was a realtor, neither a lawyer nor a journalist. But like many Irishmen, he likes to pick a fight.— June 2, 2015 7:31 p.m.
A mugshot is what they seek
Brad Racino, who works at an SDSU-sponsored KPBS affiliate called inewsource, has been flailing around for months trying to discredit environmental attorney Cory Briggs. San Diegans ought to worry about getting on the wrong side of powerful friends of unscrupulous GOP City Attorney Jan Goldsmith who has turned to those SDSU-run media outlets for character assassination of political enemies. Character assassination worked on Democratic former Mayor Bob Filner. It doesn't seem to be working on Cory Briggs.— June 2, 2015 1:20 p.m.
Council Democrats and staff rack up $10,000 travel tab
Not only do the many City Council staffers junket to D.C. to meet with local (and available) Congressmembers! This City Council has a raft of staff who, in the era of Strong Mayor, never do squat for their constituents because their Council bosses have no power. My experience with these people is that they dissemble at community meetings and don't return calls.— May 29, 2015 7:46 p.m.
No! to NAFTA on steroids
The SIO demonstration against the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership (TPP) was a good idea. It brought public attention to President Obama's attempt to fast-track this huge business boondoggle and to the reluctance of congressional Democrats Susan Davis and Scott to go on record opposing it. But then again, why would they? Both of them owe their elective offices to huge infusions of campaign money from local tech godfathers like Irwin Jacobs & Sons and others. Never bite the hand that feeds you. We'll see if Labor continues to support these two wishy-washy Dems, but I'm betting Labor can't afford not to.— May 28, 2015 3:32 p.m.
On the value of fish wrap...
Let's hear it for skilled, handsome, polite U-T investigative reporter Jeff McDonald and the skilled, lovely, incisive education expert Maureen Magee who married him. And while we're at it, let us praise the genius of longtime local columnist Logan Jenkins who's managed to write trenchantly in fewer and fewer allowed words over these lean years and may now be able to express himself fully once again. We can hope.— May 22, 2015 3:34 p.m.
U-T San Diego now belongs to L.A.
I'm not confident that Tribune Publishing's CEO Jack Griffin, presumably a Chicagoan, has ever driven the 5/405 between Los Angeles and San Diego at any time of the day or night, based on his notion that it takes an hour door to door at 3 a.m. to truck newly printed papers from the plant in Los Angeles to distributors in San Diego. But looking on the bright side, Griffin is right that it doesn't snow here. I get that my LA Times delivery guy Ricardo will deliver both the SD Union-Tribune and the LA Times to my front door and that news from the LAT Washington bureau will be the same in both papers. That's three good things, by my count, but they will need more than just Ricardo to cover all the UT households in the County.How many copies of the LAT sold in San Diego up to today? Good to learn that three U-T honchos still have jobs, but what about the U-T watchdog writers and witty observant columnists? Meanwhile, up in Los Angeles, publisher and CEO Austin Beutner has been taking out "Dear reader" ads promoting a June meeting of his book club at the city's "oldest and largest wastewater treatment facility" for a "forward-thinking conversation" on the California drought. "Distinguished water experts"will attend. You can buy a copy of the book, "Cadillac Desert, at latimes.com/Store. Everything helps the bottom-line.— May 21, 2015 11 p.m.
SEAL base stripper tabs uncovered by audit
If our red-blooded Navy Seals use their taxpayer-funded credit cards for lap dances and other x-rated forms of entertainment while they're away from hearth and home, all I have to say is, "Thank you for your service, fellas." You can always choose to change your ways with Travel Card 101 Training.— May 19, 2015 12:38 p.m.