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L.A. Times writing more of Union-Tribune stories
Chac'un a son gout.— January 18, 2019 2:36 p.m.
The gosh-darned Götterdämmerung
Great point: "Not just old as opposed to young, but old as opposed to new. When every change seems like a destruction instead of a development." Thanks for that dark and cold January thought.— January 17, 2019 11:03 a.m.
L.A. Times writing more of Union-Tribune stories
I can't imagine why you keep saying this, AlexClarke, unless you were a fan of the old-style Union-Tribune under publisher Jim Copley where the news pages were censored by ex-Marine Corps generals and the editorial page was the GOP playbook for running California. The U-T now has become one of many papers owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and, as Matt Potter constantly reminds us, it's not getting the infusion of money that the LA Times enjoys. But Soon-Shiong lives in LA and wants good journalism for SoCal. It's why he invested a record $500 million to rebuild the LA Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, rescuing these troubled papers from the clutches of Chicago Tribune and its exploitive high-flyer Michael Ferro. While we have the chance in otherwise uncertain times, San Diegans should be encouraged to support their local daily newspaper paper.— January 17, 2019 10:36 a.m.
L.A. Times writing more of Union-Tribune stories
Speaking for myself, I cannot quarrel with a single one of Swed's observations or criticisms, though they do sting.— January 16, 2019 6 p.m.
L.A. Times writing more of Union-Tribune stories
Tangentially related, just yesterday Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed raved in his paper about the San Diego Symphony's new young mop-top Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare, soon to be San Diego's next music director. But apparently Swed has not gotten Mayor Sunny's PR message of positivism about our town. The Times critic panned Copley Symphony Hall and its neighborhood. Swed called it "dispiriting, a 1929 movie palace in a bland 34-story office building in San Diego's downtown financial district," in an area "not lively on weekends when most concerts are held," a building with "ungracious" acoustics. Swed praised the Sunday afternoon Payare concert and then walked to another music venue in "the rapidly gentrifying East Village" where "all around are grotesque new apartment buildings that look as though they took their inspiration from Legoland." There, he chided San Diego Symphony for charging $40 a seat for a 30-minute performance. Then he lowered the boom: "San Diego has, as elsewhere, a terrible homeless problem, but the East Village felt particularly callous. I witnessed ... three confrontations between oblivious operators of electric scooters and terrorized pedestrians or street people. Raucous partying on the patios of sports bars took place within feet of ignored hungry beggars. To a visitor, this San Diego looked like a candidate for the most tasteless and thoughtless major city on the West Coast."— January 16, 2019 1:43 p.m.
After gas tax loss, DeMaio targets union dues
DeMaio is a zealot who admits no limits. The regressive gas tax repeal had lots of support because it was so unfair, but this is DeMaio going off the deep end. Truly he is a small man in search of a balcony.— January 14, 2019 5:53 p.m.
San Diego’s top 12 philanthropists
Thanks to Marisa Gallegos for her comment about obtaining a low-cost loan from the Price Foundation to buy her house. Thank heaven for people like curmudgeonly Sol Price and his more gracious heirs who understand the meaning of "making a difference" in people's lives. Thanks also to intrepid Howard Singer for continuing to wage a long and lonely fight to get (rich) La Jolla Christmas Parade backers to rename their event as a gesture of neighborly good will in a season ostensibly dedicated to same. Not yet, but someday....— January 11, 2019 5:57 p.m.
Last hurrah in China for Ron Roberts
I don't get the reason for the China-attraction. Will Roberts become the San Diego Chamber of Commerce's envoy to China now?— January 11, 2019 5:26 p.m.
Why do we keep building in Mission Valley?
No worries, lovely story. Thanks for sharing. Definitely play the lotto in case the serendipity is still working.— January 10, 2019 10:04 p.m.
Why do we keep building in Mission Valley?
This is a pretty funny story, especially the nervous-nelly hydrologists who wouldn't talk to the reporter. I would like to add that City Water Guy Anthony Santacroce is aptly named: there is a low-lying medieval Franciscan church in Florence, Italy, called Basilica di Santa Croce, which was disastrously flooded in 1968 by the nearby Arno River and required international emergency intervention to save interior art and architecture.— January 9, 2019 9:56 p.m.