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How Darbeau's hide was nailed
Seems to this outside observer that no "implying" is necessary: someone had to be the go-between, so why not former U-T staffer and hustler Tony Manolatos who certainly is sitting in the catbird seat, contacts-wise. As for his price, maybe he will raise his fee -- or maybe he is working at discounted "family" rates.— September 5, 2014 5:11 p.m.
It’ll cost almost $13 million to live next to Mitt
"Covered patios" look a lot like car-ports and are tacky, especially at $12,980. If Mitt is smart, he will buy this place for back-up in case the kids come over.— September 4, 2014 3:48 p.m.
Did Qualcomm cash grease Peters endorsement?
It didn't hurt that Qualcomm opened its wallet to the U.S. Chamber, but really, why would the Chamber ever consider endorsing wild-card right-wing Carl De Maio when there is a tall, handsome, intelligent, well-spoken, rich and business-friendly very moderate Democratic incumbent Congressman like Scott Peters to get behind?— September 4, 2014 3:27 p.m.
Lawyers snag 25% of SD Unified's supplies budget
How does this compare to SDUSD expenditures in past years? Does it include special education legal matters? For the second largest school district in the state to rank fourth in legal costs isn't bad, but we'd have to have answers to the first two Qs to know more.— September 4, 2014 2:46 p.m.
PG&E to pony up big for San Bruno explosion
Staff is where the knowledge is, always. Too bad the judgement is only half of what was recommended, but in today's climate, this is a win and I am glad to hear it. When is CPUC chairman Peevey going to leave? I agree with Dan Fogel: the death and destruction wrought in San Bruno was in a class by itself.— September 3, 2014 3:19 p.m.
Sun God kills, baby
Counting my lucky stars today, having missed videos of beheaded journalists as well as [removed] comments about UCSD undergraduates. Thank you, censors! FYI, Greeks, drinking, drugs and hooking-up have been at UCSD for years: the only typical convention that hasn't taken hold there is big-time football. But that terrible sad Sun God Festival death was preventable. The greatest scandal in higher education today is the utter lack of institutional protection for undergraduates who reside on university campuses. Drugs, alcohol, casual sex and sexual abuse are commonplace wherever there are student dorms or fraternity and sorority houses. Few schools offer quiet dorms, or drug-free, alcohol-free or single-gender living arrangements. Dormitory "resident advisors" lack any authority. Communal living is a social free-for-all that costs families a fortune. The old notion of "in loco parentis" went out the window after 1960 and, according to Wikipedia, it was pushed into oblivion by the Free Speech movement at UC Berkeley during that period -- roughly when 18-year-olds became subject to the Vietnam draft and, as compensation, gained the right to vote, a rite of passage that used to happen when a more-adult person turned 21. I heard about a local freshman girl who moved into the dorms at party-hearty San Diego State University and, within two weeks, felt compelled to move out because of zoo-like living conditions. She boarded instead with an east-county relative where she could experience independence from her parents, childhood home and old neighborhood friends, but where she could study, relax, feel comfortable and intact. I admired this kid's gumption and refusal to accept the bacchanalian SDSU environment, but it also seemed to me the no-rules university had failed her and deprived her of what should have been a positive opportunity.— September 3, 2014 3 p.m.
Poll: San Diegans don't want to subsidize stadium
You, Burwell, are not much fun.— September 2, 2014 3:19 p.m.
Bitter split at San Diego Opera
Don, aside from dishing about the cosseted "beach and ranch crowd" and Ian Campbell's new Swiss lady friend, no where do you admit that the kinds of changes being proposed -- and doubtless required by financial circumstance -- under the name "San Diego Opera" are in fact drastically different and scaled-down from what existed previously under Ian Campbell. You may be annoyed with Ms. Cohn, but she had devoted herself to a kind of programming which is now history. Campbell put on elegant extravaganzas of grand opera such as one might see in Italy. He imported great singers from Europe, used elaborate sets and costumes, had skilled choruses and dancers and a live orchestra with conductor. It was fabulous and magical, but it's over. Now they're talking about two singers in recital in front of a piano on a stage without wings. An entirely different more affordable experience, probably delightful, but definitely not "grand opera." Those who loved that form will miss it.— September 2, 2014 3:09 p.m.
Romney's La Jolla teardown not priceless
Geez, this little story exposed a lot of angry people out there on this TacoTuesday following Labor Day. And they don't even live in the neighborhood where gigantic earthmovers and cement mixers shoulder their way down narrow little Dunemere Lane toward the flattened pad that once was a charming, to-scale, walled, stucco house. Sic transit gloria and Maureen. Soon there will be a garage elevator on the site.— September 2, 2014 2:29 p.m.
Thanks, mule
When I am 77 and go hiking in the hot, high and dry eastern Sierras in the last week of August, I want to go with Bob Hudson. And when I get home, I will have to figure out what on earth was I thinking when I just could have gone to the beach instead.— August 31, 2014 1:01 p.m.