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More caution against city plan to purge emails
There should be a public hearing, with a time certain, at a meeting of the City Council before this duplicitous end-run "administrative rule" is put into place at the end of March. Furthermore, our new strong Mayor Kevin Faulconer has been handed a gift -- an opportunity to show that he IS different from recent Republican mayors and is genuinely interested in keeping the community he serves fully informed. Kevin can rescind this "rule" to expunge the public record and he should. If he chooses to show up at Council and make a speech about why this is essential to keep faith between his administration and the voters, that would be fine too. It's an opportunity for Kevin Faulconer to shine at the beginning of his term.— March 3, 2014 1:05 p.m.
Scott Barnett bows out of school-board race
There is no excuse for being an elected school official who doesn't show up. No amount of fiscal watchdog grandstanding makes up for such a record. Scott Barnett has managed to "put (his) own life first again" for quite some time before today's announcement. He has been shockingly AWOL from meetings of the School Board as well as from community-based school "cluster" meetings where he is supposed to get grassroots information and answer questions from parents.— March 3, 2014 12:20 p.m.
How to find the perfect dog-walker
Key questions: how much are you charged for how much time spent walking the dog? All the folderol has nothing to do with exercising the animal.— February 28, 2014 8:38 p.m.
City of San Diego to purge year-old emails
Terrible. Absolutely incredible. City Hall must be feeling that anything goes since the election of Mayor Kevin Faulconer. He needs to step in here and do the right thing on behalf of freedom of information. Disingenuous but typical that other cities' practices are cited as justification for expunging the official record of how San Diego has been run -- an obvious dodge under cover of housekeeping to disappear evidence. And picking Phoenix as the exemplar? Home of Sheriff Joe Arpaio who regularly racially profiles Latinos and demeans them when in detention. Arizona as model? Home state of Governor Jan Brewer, who only reluctantly vetoed a law that would have allowed shopkeepers to deny service to gay patrons based on a claim of religious freedom. How can regular people support Calaware and lawyer Terry Francke?— February 28, 2014 4:15 p.m.
Chief Zimmerman: four years and out
Reader-readers appreciate Matt Potter's eagle-eye on important facts hidden behind such a benign-seeming event as the appointment of a first woman chief of police for San Diego. The details are breathtaking. Who knew? What we've got is a sincere-sounding team-player in San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman -- who surely must have gone-along-to-get-along to rise to the top in the now-tainted administration of "retiring" Chief Bill Lansdowne as well as during the previous tenure of political wannabe-mayor Chief Jerry Sanders. Plus in Chief Zimmerman we've got a top-cop with huge investments in political and economic powerhouse Qualcomm and who is limited by law to four years on the new job, based on the much-criticized "DROP" deal that allows her to draw a pension along with her full salary over five years. A lame duck before she ever begins. It turns out that i-Mayor Gloria was right: we should have had a national search for our Chief of Police to find someone who can clean house. We can only hope the coming election will take care of house-cleaning at the Hall of Justice where District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis has disgracefully worked hand in glove with both SDPD Chiefs Sanders and Lansdowne as well as consorted illegally with foreign funders of her election campaigns.— February 28, 2014 2:14 p.m.
Faulconer names SD's first female police chief
SDPD Chief Shelley Zimmerman doesn't strike me as the sharpest tool in the shed and if what Burwell says is accurate, we would have benefitted from a national search. Lansdowne, too political by half, should have been fired, but instead gets to enjoy "retirement." Zimmerman is an appealing appointment because many will be glad there is a first female top-cop, but if recent outrageous police behavior is common in the ranks, Zimmerman will have to have been looking the other way all along. Amusingly, Voice of San Diego ran the numbers based on Zimmerman's claim that most police are model citizens, and found that her calculations would result in a total of two miscreants on the force.— February 27, 2014 12:34 p.m.
Faulconer names SD's first female police chief
Calling what went down in Arizona this last week "sensible and courageous" is a stretch. Republican Governor Jan Brewer can get away with endorsing racist Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio, but the economic fallout from going along with the anti-gay so-called religious freedom bill would have been huge. Her decision was an easy one.— February 27, 2014 12:22 p.m.
Lights! Camera! The first annual San Diego Film Awards!
I'm guessing the "top cop" Chief Lansdowne will be billed as the "former top cop" since he just resigned today.— February 25, 2014 4:29 p.m.
Party cash clashes in Sixth District council race
Never mind the money for a change -- money isn't everything. In the contest for the new 6th City Council District seat, Independent candidate Mitz Lee has deep community ties and a history of service in citywide elective office. She is the community candidate -- neither a carpetbagger or a creature of special interests. Lee was elected to the San Diego Unified Board of Education in 2004 on a platform of fiscal responsibility and academic excellence and it was during her term that controversial Superintendent Alan Bersin resigned. Thank you, Mrs. Lee. Lee has lived in Mira Mesa for 30 years with her retired Navy officer husband, Jeff, and their now-grown sons who went to SanDiego State. She serves presently on the San Diego Human Relations Commission and on the board of her neighborhood Rancho YMCA.— February 22, 2014 2:53 p.m.
UT-TV goes dark on cable
What happens to the blonde who anchored that disaster?— February 19, 2014 2:18 p.m.