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Big money talking in One Paseo ballot war
The recent hokey jokey Baywatch video of the conservative San Diego County Taxpayers Association advertising its annual Golden Fleece awards features political players, among them ambitious, fallen-but-buff ex-council president Todd Gloria, beach-boy-blond Mayor Kevin Faulconer and ever-genial expletive-exclaiming ex-mayor Jerry Sanders who now runs the powerful Chamber of Commerce. These amusing bad actors contribute, each in his own way, to the cynical big-money power grabs that this story describes. It's disgusting.— March 10, 2015 5:25 p.m.
Mayor’s foundation fueled by lobbyist funds
It's hard to stay abreast of the many ways that special interests have to grease the political skids short of delivering cash money in paper sacks to City Hall. I appreciate knowing how these "behesting" deals work: A company or person makes a contribution to a particular politician's favorite "nonprofit" cause and what? -- then gets a tax write-off plus "consideration" when it's time for City contracts to be let? Faulconer has such a deal going with marvelous-sounding OneSanDiego, plus the diversity benefit of an African-American politician as paid chairman of the group. Thanks, Matt Potter, for explaining and pressing for required disclosures of this clever and cynical gambit.— March 10, 2015 11:20 a.m.
Dis the DST
I'm listening, but I don't hear the music. If we lived in Russia, Arizona or Hawaii we wouldn't be dealing with this weirdness. I went to bed late last night and woke up "late" this morning. As I write, it's already 2 p.m. and I haven't finished reading the Sunday paper. The radio says that many people suffer heart attacks on the first Monday morning following our herd-behavior of "springing forward." The truth is that two-thirds of the year is being called DST and for what? Who decides this and who benefits? Did our ancestors do this? I don't think so.— March 8, 2015 2:13 p.m.
Strange bedfellows seek U-T control
Whatever happened to State Senator Christine Kehoe? She also launched trial balloons about reintroducing nuclear power plants to California, but then Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster happened, and that was the end of that.— March 6, 2015 6:28 p.m.
Sort of like the results of a fad diet
Good to see a column! Good to know Don Bauder's out of the hospital -- a place to leave asap, no matter the comely and solicitous nurses -- and recuperating. It's springtime, nearly, and that should help your full recovery. Thanks for letting readers know what you've been up to: we have missed you and many were worried by your absence from these pages. No need to reply, please, and no relapses!— March 5, 2015 9:57 p.m.
Could U-T's new owner steal Chargers for L.A.?
Interesting to read about how an LA Times-owned U-T might guarantee a Charger departure from America's Finest City to Carson in the LAT's principal market area -- causing political disappointment to various non-profiteers down here. I've heard that a business alliance between John Lynch and Ron Burkle would be unlikely, given their disparate political leanings. And I don't get how you buy a newspaper without the real estate it occupies: I guess in this digital age you don't need land or presses. But it is surely a sign of tough new-times that Tribune Co. out of Chicago peeled off its television assets before releasing the newspapers, and now the surviving LA Times might buy a San Diego U-T without the accompanying real estate. Loved that expression of concern from Bill Geppert, former head of cable goniff Cox TV, worrying about the advent of a genuine newspaper to our town.— March 5, 2015 3:27 p.m.
Deadbeat Doug
Deadbeat Papa Doug is what the grandkids call him.— March 4, 2015 10:16 p.m.
To get the Trowbridge Computer
Will Judge Woehfeil end this charade and put City Attorney Jan Goldsmith in his place? Let's hope he grants no access to a dead man's personal computer on behalf of taxing hotel moguls from the TMD and denies fishing expedition requests from sloppy and confused reporters at inewsourcew.org, one of two San Diego State nonprofit news organizations that seem to work closely with our City Attorney. We look to the Bench for relief.— March 4, 2015 10:14 p.m.
Million-dollar Annie
While we're talking about de-railing the purpose and direction of the University of California system, I want to add that, according to the San Jose Mercury News, 30% of incoming freshmen at Berkeley and UCLA last Fall were out-of-state and foreign students. Also, Janet Napolitano said this week she intends to freeze at the present level the number of spaces open to California students in the Fall of 2015 at all UC campuses.— March 4, 2015 1:24 p.m.
Million-dollar Annie
Mega-fund-raising in San Diego by this kind of take-the-money-and-run fund-raiser fits perfectly with the approach of University of California President Janet Napolitano who continues to insist on raising the price of in-state undergraduate tuition while adding more out-of-state and foreign students who pay higher tariffs, all the while maintaining six-figure salaries for too many administrators. A stunning recent report in the Sacramento Bee indicated that fully 20% of undergraduate spots at the campuses of UCLA and Berkeley currently go to non-Californians -- which amounts to authorized hijacking of our State system of higher education. Salt-of-the-earth State Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins is the only California legislative leader outspoken in opposing these Napolitano's policies, as Governor Jerry Brown officially votes against tuition hikes at Board of Regents meetings but does nothing to rein in Napolitano's political power. (Like, Governor Brown, is it really good for California to have a former Arizonan and head of Homeland Security running our flagship University system?) Meanwhile, locally, huge gifts from private donors to UCSD likely will increase private influence over the school's direction, if the past is any indication of what the future holds.— March 4, 2015 11:54 a.m.