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Cash comingling, ethics lapses at SDSU
Is there an echo on the internet? Jenjen says what I just said: they will all get a pass.— June 21, 2014 12:04 p.m.
Cash comingling, ethics lapses at SDSU
Hilarious photos, once again: Jaqui Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth I and the Garden Gnome. Plus, they seem pretty corrupt -- um, non-compliant -- even by the standards of SDSU's own auditors. But since SDSU is the cradle of San Diego's governing class, they will all get a pass.— June 20, 2014 12:30 p.m.
SDSU appoints Tony Gwynn Statue to take over Tony Gywnn's coaching contract
"Let someone else handle the day-to-day." I'm sorry, bereaved folks, that is very funny.— June 20, 2014 12:18 p.m.
Jerry Sanders’s playhouse
For her sake, I hope Alisa Reinhardt gets a better job than amending false filings for the Chamber of Commerce. From the sound of things, her sincerity has touched the hard heart of Readerwriter Matt Potter, who has otherwise outlined the feverish activity of Alisa's boss, ex-Mayor Jerry Sanders, as he goes about Chamber chores of locking up the city for the biggest richest special interests around. Is it possible, could it be, that Sanders had just been pretending to be a nice guy all that time he was in office? Come to think of it, Sanders is who appointed that band of thieves who drained the Balboa Park Centennial Committee of 3 million taxpayer dollars and now refuses to account for any of it. I guess if they'd been chalkers, they would've been prosecuted by the City Attorney....— June 18, 2014 10:12 p.m.
Tony Gwynn dies at 54
Thanks for mentioning upfront the role of chewing tobacco in the too-early demise of beloved Tony Gwynn from debilitating cancer of the mouth and jaw. Chewing tobacco is so deadly it ought to be banned.— June 16, 2014 5:36 p.m.
Kevin Beiser –from math teacher to political powerhouse
Quoting 2010 VOSD "fact checks" seems off-point in more ways than can be enumerated here. The truth is that SDUSD has upped class sizes ever since the brief period a decade ago when "class-size reduction CSR" was in place and funded by a Sacramento flush with money. In that moment there were never more than 20 children in grades K-3 -- the formative years for mastering literacy and numeracy (reading and math basics.) Over that time, achievement in early reading and math improved steadily. Long-term California is famous/infamous for near-lowest funding of its public schools among the 50 States; for its large class sizes; and for its high teacher salaries. Over time, as the student population has become poorer and more multi-ethnic, this casts a pall over the future of our golden state. Look for more of same in this next fiscal year, despite the Governor's tax increase and supposed "local control" of funds.— June 16, 2014 11:21 a.m.
For sale: Southeast SD’s complex of death
Ah, worrying about the "bereaved's" bang-for-the buck. It doesn't fill me with confidence that this outfit will have cornered 15% of the "funeral market" in the United States. But I do like their Digby O'Dell credo about caring for the dead, comforting the living and planning for the inevitable. Isn't that a riff on what newspapers are supposed to do: afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted while dealing with inevitable extinction-by-internet? (I have to say the Reader's new yellow headlines are misleading: "complex of death?" That's not exactly what cemeteries are.)— June 14, 2014 9:12 p.m.
Inside the buzz on Kashkari and Faulconer
I can't speak about Neil "Flashing Eyes" Kashkari, but Jerry Brown will make your freeway-clogged life better by taking 24% -- down from 33% as originally proposed -- of pollution control money and spending it on the bull train's first leg from Modesto to Fresno. Brown will also give you "local control" of extra funds for public school students, but your school bureaucrats -- all under the thumb of Labor -- will call the shots on how it's used, not you.— June 13, 2014 6:03 p.m.
Painful and suffering lawyers
How old is that photo of one-time Congresswoman Lynn Schenk? Maybe we should have had a picture of her brother, since it was his firm giving out money to raise the medical malpractice cap and he's the one on the Del Mar Fair Board.— June 11, 2014 11:21 p.m.
Kevin Beiser –from math teacher to political powerhouse
Kevin Beiser's only shortcoming is that he has been unable as school trustee to put the education of students at the top of the budget and bureaucratic list of things-to-do. In this, he has decades of well-meaning company. Ten years ago, downtown business moguls and the Chamber of Commerce teamed up to elect and try to run the Board of Education and they named a politically ambitious litigator without education background to be superintendent. Today, Labor dominates the Board of Education: trustee Richard Barrera is also head of the local AFL-CIO Labor Council; every Board member takes campaign money from Labor; and the local teachers union SDEA has become a member of that Labor federation. Last year this group named its own superintendent: a green local elementary school principal. Contrary to the churlish criticism of frequently AWOL ex-trustee Scott Barnett, Kevin Beiser is a genuinely good person -- hard-working, personable, up-front, devoted to kids. He does willingly and open-handedly participate in community events, such as emceeing a too-long Saturday night concert by the San Diego Children's Choir earlier this year. He is the first gay trustee on the San Diego Board of Education and he is a middle school math teacher of uncommon skill. Personally, I'd like to see Kevin challenge Todd Gloria for Susan Davis' seat in Congress. He has more to offer the community than the calculating Gloria and his talent would be wasted in Sacramento.— June 11, 2014 9 p.m.