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City leaders don’t mention “convention center”
Strategically, you're quite right about ballot clutter, including the repeal of Gov. Brown's regressive gas tax. But I'm a fan of the SoccerCity proposal and believe its passage would mark a new beginning for San Diego. If voters approve, we could leave behind our same-old same-old business-as-usual white-bread wheeling and dealing and bring transformative positive change to Mission Valley. I like the idea of mixed uses, a real River Park and a small-scale stadium for professional soccer -- "the beautiful game" and a world sport enjoyed for the last 40 years by several generations of local kids and their families.— August 9, 2018 2:33 p.m.
City leaders don’t mention “convention center”
Like the oppressive heat and humidity, one has to ask: when will we ever get relief? Mayor Kevin Faulconer is shockingly inept. He should have made common cause with Councilman David Alvarez to raise the hotel visitor tax to deal with San Diego's ballooning homeless population -- and throw in something for needed street repair -- and there would have been a real chance for two-thirds passage in November. Keeping expansion of the Convention Center in the mix guarantees defeat. Maybe Faulconer will blame this embarrassment on "bad advice," as his inept predecessor ex-Mayor Jerry Sanders recently did in the fiasco over full funding of public employee pensions.— August 9, 2018 12:32 p.m.
Tijuana’s most violent month in all its history
Wish we could go down to TJ for shopping and lunch, like we used to. Breeze across the border at the big Bienvenidos sign, pass cartolandia in the river bed, park at Jai Lai palace, visit the folk art store across the way and the mercado and maybe stop in to watch the glass-blower in his inferno. On the way back, visit the self-serve panaderia to sustain the kids with doughy treats, then a long wait in a sea of cars to return to the USA, checking out the fabulously varied wares sold by persuasive vendors young and old. Those were the days.— August 8, 2018 5:47 p.m.
Stingrays at Blacks, Boundary Line, Tourmaline
Wow. You can't say that San Diego Lifeguards don't earn their keep during this hot, high-surf, lotsa-rips summer of 2018. Thanks, folks!— August 8, 2018 5:19 p.m.
Zapf's legal defense gambit
Time's up for City Councilwoman Myrtle Cole. Let's elect a woman from District 4 who is honest AND intelligent, who believes in policing reform and who wants economic development in the community. It might surprise constituents to get accustomed to good representation again after a long lull. To make it happen, District 4 voters need to mobilize to choose ACLU lawyer Monica Montgomery for City Council.— August 3, 2018 6:40 p.m.
U-T strange ads: the doctor is in
Surely you're not saying that LATimes/U-T owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is running ads from his cancer research company in our hometown gazette equivalent in number and column-inches to lost ads from car dealers, appliance outlets and big furniture stores? That would mean the U-T had become a shopper for the Chan-Soon-Shiong Institute for Medicine! That would be wrong -- or maybe it would just be fashionably disruptive and new.— August 2, 2018 7:51 p.m.
The city hall honesty test
Words to remember: "the first city contract not renewed due to excellent performance." A citizens' initiative to retain Independent Auditor Eduardo Luna is a great idea.— August 1, 2018 4:22 p.m.
The city hall honesty test
Maybe a decade of conflict and contention and damning with faint praise even by friendlies have been enough for Independent Auditor Eduardo Luna. I would understand if that were true. He has ably and honorably performed important service to this community and deserves our gratitude. The byzantine process by which a new auditor may be named and approved is proof of how unwelcome such scrutiny is to the establishment in this town.— July 31, 2018 9:15 p.m.
Union-Tribune vet takes over N.Y. Daily News
No question there's a place in San Diego for the San Diego Union-Tribune and in La Jolla for the La Jolla Light, both now owned by the corporation that includes the Los Angeles Times. The old U-T editorial page and its editorial policy for the news pages were never my cup of tea, so I am glad the historic name has been preserved, there's continuity of publication and good editors and reporters are still in place to carry on. At this late hour, we're actually getting an owner with keen appreciation for strong journalism and its crucial link to civic well-being. Owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is a fascinating figure, with roots in China, formative years in apartheid South Africa, residence in Canada and home in Los Angeles. I think Soon-Shiong stands head and shoulders above all the limited and venal publisher predecessors -- including the Chandlers who sold out, rapacious Sam Zell, Platinum Equity traders, Trump-like Papa Doug, the playboys of tronc. Soon-Shiong was a paper-boy as a kid. As an adult he has moxie, wealth, intellect and a vision for our region's future to be shaped by excellent newspapers. I think we have lucked out.— July 25, 2018 7:12 p.m.
San Diego's no-helmet scooter documents under wraps
"Scooters are the way of the future." True, if you are 10 years old, don't have to carry anything that doesn't fit in a pocket, and actually need to go somewhere dressed in attire other than fllp-flops and shorts. Please don't be so silly. Riders should wear helmets and stay off sidewalks. And they should be ticketed if they don't follow those rules.— July 20, 2018 5:08 p.m.