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Tenacious G
I'm in. A great idea.— November 10, 2014 1:28 p.m.
El Cajon immigrant shelter draws Iowan's ire
It's time to crash the economy, jnojr, if we follow your satisfyingly simplistic formula. And I'm talking nationally, not just SoCal.— November 10, 2014 1:25 p.m.
If they build it, you can retire early
The School District and its Board of Education sell off property that could be long-term leased (and even developed) and continually bring money into the system. That they squander such resources is criminal. At the present time, Labor has a lock on the Board of Education with all five trustees enjoying full Labor Council support in campaigns. These people will make decisions about how to spend new tax dollars coming down from Sacramento as part of Governor Brown's "local control funding formula." School trustee Richard Barrera is himself a walking conflict of interest: he heads the AFL-CIO Labor Council which includes the local teachers' union SDEA. He and another school trustee have been unopposed in their recent elections. Generally this Labor School Board favors property sales to finance employee retirements (or soon-to-come employee raises) and, secondarily, to foster private development which always benefits the building trades. It's also fair to say from the evidence that this School Board's lowest priorities are small class sizes to benefit children's learning and providing any support for high-performing strong principals.— November 10, 2014 1:06 p.m.
El Cajon immigrant shelter draws Iowan's ire
Yes SIR, Captain, Sir. Why don't you join Senator Grassley's posse? Or maybe Darrell Issa would have you. This story is fodder for the Reader cartoonist.— November 10, 2014 12:18 p.m.
Fat pay boost for SDSU's Elliot Hirshman
Why on earth somebody picked Janet Napolitano to head our UC system is mysterious-to-suspicious. When she was the enthusiastic head of Homeland Security, she was responsible for unprecedented numbers of deportations of undocumented Latinos, breaking up families and causing long-term hardship. Now she runs UC which has large numbers of striving aspiring Latino students? This gives me cognitive dissonance. Also, Napolitano took the UC job at a salary lower than her male predecessor's which makes her a poor role model for women seeking high-level jobs. Governor Brown owes us something positive for public education in his last term: he can get rid of Napolitano, roll back the lavish executive compensation across the UC system and establish a four-year moratorium on those killer tuition increases.— November 9, 2014 12:50 p.m.
Fat pay boost for SDSU's Elliot Hirshman
Meanwhile, Arizonan Janet Napolitano who is now Chancellor of the University of California, has warned she cannot continue the moratorium on tuition increases without more state aid and she will be raising student tuition starting again next fall. I'd say Governor Jerry Brown ought to do something about these abuses now that he's got his unprecedented fourth term in office. Like how about rollbacks?— November 7, 2014 3:26 p.m.
Expensive race card
In the outrage of the moment, I forgot to say thanks to lawyer Cory Briggs for pursuing the truth and to reporter Dorian Hargrove for telling it. Better late than never. Well done.— November 7, 2014 3:21 p.m.
White-knuckle descent
People love lists, but that doesn't make them accurate or definitive. (See U.S. News & World Report on colleges.) In this case, the airport is sort of saucer-y and sometimes requires flights to "go around" again, but San Diego has the most benign and predictably calm weather of any city in the United States, so descending flyers should enjoy looking into the windows of Mr. A's on the way to landing at Lindbergh.— November 6, 2014 12:43 p.m.
Expensive race card
Actually, there's nothing funny about GOP tool City Attorney Jan Goldsmith who routinely misuses his elected office by withholding public documents from the press and others; who causes taxpayers to pay for his obstructionism in this instance and for his mistakes in prosecuting cases like the free-speech "chalker;" and in particular who covertly strategized against former Mayor Bob Filner to assure his resignation in disgrace. Fortunately, weasel City Attorney Jan Goldsmith is termed-out.— November 6, 2014 12:35 p.m.
National hotel lobby funded wage referendum
Nice work, Matt Potter, for promptly uncovering the faces hiding behind the bogus "San Diego Small Business Association" which has diverted enacting a minimum wage for local workers for two more years. When will we stop legislating by ballot initiatives that are funded entirely by special interest money? When will we end the tsunami of corporate money that is destroying the integrity of public elections?— November 6, 2014 12:19 p.m.