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Hillary's big fat San Diego payday
Count me among those who thought Ronald Reagan was a disaster. He was the affable concierge for venal special interests, sponsor of increased militarization, official governmental double-dealing and outright lying. Reagan himself amiably ushered in the gilded age of income inequality, union-busting and corrosive anti-government rhetoric which continues to divide the nation to this day. Hillary Clinton is jaded, utterly co-opted by wealth, privilege, comfort and the perks and liabilities of extreme insider-ness. Mostly, she is diminished by years of damaging personal compromise required to keep herself alive politically. She is a woman, but that will not be enough to get her elected, because some old-fashioned Democrats want a candidate with principles and can't stand her husband Bill who sponsored NAFTA and the disastrous de-regulation of banks. Plus there is no Republican of any stripe who would ever cross over to vote for a Clinton. This adds up to Hill's being a loser, even if Daddy Warbucks Irwin Jacobs does pay to promote her candidacy in what is expected to be a record-setting costly campaign season.— May 19, 2015 12:15 p.m.
Hillary's big fat San Diego payday
No amount of money from super-rich Friends of Bill & Hill will get Hillary Clinton elected President of the United States. The couple's obscenely astronomical speaking fees will go into their private bank accounts, just as big foreign gifts go into their Clinton Foundation. Even so, Hillary is too cagey for openness (think about her avoiding comment on the NAFTA-clone Trans-Pacific-Partnership now under consideration); too hawkish on present conflicts in the Middle East (she voted for war in Iraq, to her everlasting discredit); too old and cosseted after all these soft years to enjoy the rough and tumble of populist campaigning. She cannot hear what matters to ordinary people in this country at this moment in time. She is little different from the many rich candidates on the Right -- ambitious, with influential supporters and fortunes of money, but profoundly out of touch with ordinary Americans. And her slick husband ultimately will prove to be an albatross around her neck.— May 18, 2015 7:17 p.m.
Who's frivolous?
Thanks again to brave Judge Joel Wohlfeil for his ruling against San Diego's disgracefully partisan City Attorney Jan Goldsmith who is incapable of recognizing a matter of public interest and acting on behalf of the commonweal.— May 16, 2015 1 p.m.
Sorry, the retaining wall won't be pretty
Another example of Mayor Sunny's undeclared war on community planning associations: "We don't need their approval to proceed…." As retaining walls go, it should be stepped back and terraced with plants spilling down the face from each level. There is no such natural local rock formation similar to this slap-dash objectionably brown masonry invention. Back, back to the drawing board!— May 15, 2015 2:36 p.m.
Plastic-bag ban a no-brainer
For what other project has the City of San Diego required a full environmental impact report in recent memory? Our Mayor and his Planning Department are transparently in the pocket of the plastic bag boys. I am impressed with this sudden civic pivot, calling for an EIR just as an important green proposal looms. Usually, EIRs are denigrated downtown as nit-picky, time-consuming, delaying tactics. Apparently we don't want to move forward too quickly -- as per voters' wishes -- with finding alternatives to damaging plastic bags.— May 15, 2015 2 p.m.
No hard drive, no sex neither
What a creep.— May 14, 2015 4:30 p.m.
California public utilities vs. us
We can expect the new LA Times/San Diego Union-Tribune to give Jeff McDonald free rein and more column inches to explore the stories he does so well. Let's hope anyway.— May 13, 2015 5:06 p.m.
Teams we love to hate
Obviously, Patrick's had a bad week. Lotta hating going on. I don't really care -- except for hating the Patriots and Brady and that coach Bellicose -- but I can relate to the depth of feeling. I hate our Mayor Sunny and his slick business friends who are developing the heck out of this town and I hate that it looks like the LA guys who are buying the Union-Tribune are not going to deliver us a Los Angeles Times-quality newspaper down here.— May 13, 2015 4:16 p.m.
Former U-T head keeps rolling around the desert
Now THAT is a terrible memory -- going in on a Sunday morning to learn to be a scab. You are an honest man, Don, to admit to it in print, and I salute you. And Mrs. Copley, a former secretary who married the Boss, thanking people? That's the most classic dreadful San Diego story I have ever heard.— May 12, 2015 10:43 p.m.
Spanish music by French guys comes to the Symphony
Don't tell me Symphony is going to have castanet-bearing Spanish dancers at this concert! Your videos are wonderful, but they may oversell the local product.— May 12, 2015 10:33 p.m.