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U-T to be sold to L.A. Times parent for $85 million
Dwbat, are you some sort of millennial that you don't remember? There was a brief golden period between 1978 and 1992 when the Los Angeles Times published a daily home-delivered San Diego County edition. At its height, there were only 60,000 subscribers. Just ten months after the morning San Diego Union merged with the evening Tribune, the LAT shuttered its San Diego enterprise, leaving reporter Tony Perry behind as the liaison. Some of those San Diego County edition writers continue today -- Patrick McDonnell writes from Beirut and Syria, Chris Kraul from South America, John Glionna from the interior West, photographer Don Bartletti continues to document migrants coming to America. If savvy new LAT publisher Austin Beutner will save the best of the U-T -- editor Jeff Light, writers Jeff McDonald, Maureen Magee, columnist Logan Jenkins, maybe others -- in combination with his Times staff, I personally will be happy as a clam and praying for their success. The Times is a great newspaper, but finances will be the hard part, since newspaper advertising is devastatingly diminished. But I am happy to hear about this positive change and I'm also hopeful. San Diego readers will be the winners.— May 7, 2015 11:16 p.m.
City-council Democrats hitting the road
Why would you stay home when you can get out of here? Council members have a "line-item in their budget for business trips" and Lightner has a large paid staff including a truly superfluous official spokesman. Not bad for a woman who seldom responds to constituent concerns and whose home area of La Jolla lacks functioning streetlights, street-sweeping, or passable roads due to helter-skelter sewer construction, car-damaging potholes and years of neglect. Plus, she's termed-out and says she will not run for public office again.— May 6, 2015 10:12 p.m.
Tangerines (Mandariinid)
Wow, Scott, one star? I thought this was a beautiful movie -- vivid, simple, two languages, great faces, poignant story about a commitment to keep peace in a rarely-seen part of the world. My only question is where did rustic hero Ivo get such white bread?— May 6, 2015 9:57 p.m.
Wanted for cash: SDSU drop-outs
I always thought admission to the National Academy of Sciences depended on a person's producing a body of superb work over time, not on a who-do-you-know fraternity-style-thumbs-up. Maybe those "great faculty members" at San Diego State who don't get inducted into the National Academy on their own should just keep on keepin' on being "great" but not olympian. Also, maybe President Hirshman is confused about profs' proper roles at the state college level: to focus on teaching more than research. It's a different deal up at UCSD, for example, where profs often teach only one class in a semester, because they are supposed to be busy thinking, researching and writing, lest they perish. It is true that much of San Diego's political lifeblood flows through SDSU, but in science, not so much. And Campanile Foundation "branding?" I'm not sure what that advertising jargon means in this instance.— May 6, 2015 5:08 p.m.
Boomtown lobbyist
The Cleveland Elementary school community should be wary of any project associated with Marcela Escobar-Eck who has over-the-top Sunroad on her rap sheet, along with the recently contested grandiose and redundant One Paseo project in Carmel Valley. The greater San Diego community should be raising hell with the elected School Board over its fire-sale vending of viable school properties. Escobar-Eck has long been associated with rapacious development practices; the School Board operates under cover of benign purpose but is no less venal.— May 6, 2015 4:47 p.m.
Commission of lies, company of duplicity
Dwbat is your man for photo-shop ops! He has provided us with near-twin bros, civil yachtsman Malin Burnham and iconic green Gumby, as well as an image of Governor Brown in flames with his chum former CPUC chairman Michael Peevey, descending to hell for their collusive misdeeds.— May 4, 2015 3:46 p.m.
Commission of lies, company of duplicity
Do we really have to defend the present Governor's sister who is a daughter of a previous Governor and spouse of a very rich and connected corporate guy? Has she ever resigned from any board to make a principled statement about the ethics of her fellow travelers? Maybe she has. Maybe she hasn't. Couldn't we just say that Kathleen Brown doesn't have to do a thing and would nonetheless be representing -- if not defending -- the status quo, whatever it might be?— May 4, 2015 3:21 p.m.
The Gaslamp cop cam case that won't die
Now we're hearing about conflict of interest corruption among police department brass in New Mexico, along with mistreatment of women by patrol cops in San Diego and, across the country, routine rank-and-file blue silence about fellow cops' harsh treatment of blacks in black neighborhoods and outrageous common police practices like the "rough ride" in police vehicles that broke the neck of hand-cuffed and leg-shackled Freddie Gray in Baltimore last week. Just after the January 2014 retirement of Taser-pushing Albuquerque police chief Raymond Schultz, the Washington Post published a detailed U.S. Department of Justice "damning report on the use of force among police officers in Albuquerque." (WaPo 4/14/14) After reading this official litany of literal police overkill in Albuquerque, it seems incredible that Schultz may be drawing ABQ retirement pay and has taken another job in Texas as an assistant chief of police. Here at home, we wonder if Tasers, like official police and mayoral pronouncements, are reform or window-dressing. San Diego has just paid out $5+ million for two officers' sexual abuse of women held in custody -- crimes that occurred repeatedly but were missed? overlooked? tolerated? on the watch of former Chief William Lansdowne and longtime assistant, now Chief of Police Shelley Zimmerman. Zimmerman is also chief promoter for the no-bid million-dollar contract here for Taser body-cameras. But we still don't know the rules or extent of police body-camera use or the schedule for camera deployment. And Chief Zimmerman has said she plans to withhold cop-cam evidence from any public scrutiny.— May 4, 2015 12:20 p.m.
Peevey the pusher man
An incredible $25 million for greenhouse gas research to UC from Edison and SDG&E in return for sticking ratepayers -- not stockholders -- with the cost for shutting down malfunctioning nuclear San Onofre. This outrageous deal happened on the watch of politically adroit UC President Janet Napolitano.— April 30, 2015 4:44 p.m.
Brains…if only the city had brains
Is it a legal defense for running somebody over if you're a hearing-impaired driver caught in a parade or procession of zombies in the automotive right-of-way?— April 30, 2015 4:31 p.m.