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Warning and message from deportees
I really doubt that "thousands of previously deported individuals" will be returning to San Diego to contest their coerced and now illegal "voluntary" departures. For one thing, many have probably found their way back already -- no, just kidding! Seriously, INS and ICE are masters of high-handedness, red tape and delay. Few undocumented workers on this side of the Border have the language skills or means to fight the system. But thank God for American Civil Liberties Union lawyers who do and for this huge victory for human and civil rights.— August 30, 2014 3:19 p.m.
Goldsmith to argue against his own legal opinion
Appreciate this thought, but both Goldsmith and Faulconer were duly elected to office and are in like Flynn with downtown establishment players who give off even worse vibes. Let's do remember Goldsmith's failed prosecution of the Chalker, though -- a free-speech story so ably reported by Dorian Hargrove.— August 29, 2014 2:13 p.m.
LaDainian Tomlinson's brutal history
A friend who lived near LD in Scripps Ranch years ago said he was a favorite neighbor with kids and adults. Too bad he's left San Diego -- maybe the move was part of the economic migration from CA to TX that Don Bauder chronicled earlier this week.— August 29, 2014 2:06 p.m.
Rich Hill
I read someplace that this film was a Sundance audience favorite. For those looking forward to a night out at the movies, I would warn them against this relentlessly depressing documentary. For some inexplicable reason contrary to the reality depicted, there was neither murder nor suicide in the story. I experienced "Rich Hill" as if I were being hammered into the ground with a gigantic mallet. "Rich Hill," by the way, is the real name of a town of 1,300 souls in rural Missouri, a locale I wouldn't sugar-coat with the term "heartland." Life is short and there must be better uses for grants and kickstarter funds than this project. Not three stars. Just brutal. Also, yesterday it was at Landmark La Jolla Village.— August 28, 2014 11:22 p.m.
Pretty slick, City
Advantage to crusading attorney Cory Briggs over former Mayor Bob Filner because Briggs has last year's town-criers Donna Frye and Marco Gonzalez on his side. (The three of them played rough; we ended up with Mayor Kevin Faulconer; and Briggs wins fees from Faulconer & Friends' legal missteps.)— August 28, 2014 12:26 p.m.
Use brains, stay in California
Gosh, I'd forgotten all about John Moores and his vaunted philanthropy that included largesse to city councilmembers who subsequently voted to provide taxpayer funds to finance building his baseball Padres Petco Park.— August 27, 2014 10:46 p.m.
Use brains, stay in California
Very interesting story, Don, thank you. I was just on a plane with a man who was contemplating a move from Temecula to Houston for exactly the reasons you describe. And I know an extended family of hard-working blue-collar Latinos who moved from Orange County to San Antonio where they have non-union jobs, houses with big yards and much lower taxes. Everybody loves California, but it exacts a price that some people cannot afford.— August 27, 2014 4:43 p.m.
Lawyers’ feast
I liked these items. Irwin Jacobs needs a brand-expert to improve the name of his committee: he can start by getting rid of the City Council President's name -- a person who was recently mistakenly called "Gloria Todd" in the LA Times. Also, should I too dump bonds? Does Congressman Scott Peters know something I don't? And Councilman Mark Kersey's good advice might include: don't forget to look left, right, left when crossing a street. Also, never teach a 9-year-old Arizona girl to shoot an UZI. Better safe than sorry.— August 27, 2014 4:25 p.m.
Putting the "Public" back into the CPUC
So presumably this bill -- what's the number? -- won't be part of this week's end-of-session wheeling and dealing? Couldn't it be tacked onto some unrelated measure and voted in at midnight like so many other zombie deals? Young-pro ex-assemblyman Nathan Fletcher (GOP/Dem) was skilled in sub-rosa stuff. Couldn't his admirer Dem. Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez pick up the baton?— August 27, 2014 2:19 p.m.
“Free” city land just got pricey
A totally feel-good story, Dorian. Nice going, too, to Counselor Cory Briggs. White collar criminals never seem to admit wrong-doing these days: they just pay up. So thanks to Judge Timothy Taylor for this Sunroad ruling. (Taylor was the same white-hat jurist who amazed many by denying Irwin Jacobs' plan to "remodel" Balboa Park and the graceful Cabrillo Bridge.) In this case, good for taxpayers to recoup the cost of Sunroad easements that had been designated freebies by City Council. Good that Sunroad will have to pay to establish a city park in the concrete desert that is now Kearny Mesa. And finally, good that Sunroad must cover Cory Briggs' legal fees.— August 24, 2014 2:17 p.m.