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Grandpa Irwin’s TV money
While awaiting response of Jacobs-enamored DWBAT here, I am amazed and grateful to SWELL for sanity-saving tips on customized news gathering. Accuracy of that Jacobs granddaughter's ubiquitous TV ads should be fact-checked for truthiness, just as gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom's gun-control boasting was labeled false yesterday. Just because Trump plays fast and loose with the truth, it doesn't mean every wannabe politician should follow suit..— May 2, 2018 1:58 p.m.
Manter’s rays costly to con-center ballot bid
Labor reliably cooperates with developers when it comes to building anything -- a Seaport Village teardown and re-do, redevelopment of an entire Navy base, the baseball park and public library crammed onto a developer's windfall land-grant, endless expansions of the convention center -- it's always about jobs, which is fine, and the short-term, which isn't. What else is there to know about labor unions in San Diego?— May 2, 2018 1:37 p.m.
Manter’s rays costly to con-center ballot bid
Wow, I wonder how public relations people like Mr, Manter sleep at night after they've taken money "to beat back the Barrio Logan community plan?" That was a particularly egregious stunt that merited bad dreams for ex-Mayor Jerry Sanders and retired U.S.N. Admiral Jose Luis Betancourt as well as Mayor Sunny. Presumably with the aid of Mr. Manter, those pillars of the community publicly lied that the port of San Diego would close if impoverished Barrio Logan's updated community plan passed muster. Which, of course, it didn't.— May 1, 2018 10:18 p.m.
Sara Jacobs, 29, runs for Congress
Go for it, Scott. Ponzi has overstepped.— May 1, 2018 3:48 p.m.
Sara Jacobs, 29, runs for Congress
OMG dwbat, you are overdoing it here. I thought you hated opera and theater and symphony -- all enterprises that Irwin and Joan Jacobs have certainly transformed with their generosity. Please don't defend Irwin's plan to destroy the Cabrillo Bridge western entrance to Balboa Park, and don't pretend that Irwin's early philanthropy hasn't morphed into miopic negative interference in local politics --including bankrolling his utterly unqualified granddaughter in her run for Congress of the United States.— May 1, 2018 3:46 p.m.
San Diego State slick magazine touts Mission Valley plan
Are you asking if I am an investor in this proposed venture? No, I am not. But I do like soccer, as does everyone in my family, and I would support a San Diego team and buy tickets to their games. Today's LA Times has an entire section devoted to the opening of LA's new soccer stadium, and there's a full page listing the cities in this country with soccer teams and stadiums seating 30,000 people or less. Of all these places, San Diego seems like t a perfect fit for major league soccer. Soccer would be a step into the future for our town, something new, something fun. I'm keeping hope alive that voters will feel as I do when they vote yes on the SoccerCity ballot initiative.— April 29, 2018 4:26 p.m.
San Diego State slick magazine touts Mission Valley plan
I think there's a big market of soccer-loving adults and kids in and around San Diego who would enjoy and support a soccer team playing in accessible Mission Valley. Neither group is guaranteeing anything, as far as I can tell, but SoccerCity people seem to have had a genuine vision for improving the city's helter-skelter Mission Valley -- far better than SDSU's tardy land-grabbing takeover proposal to reward developer/alum buddies. Since this is America, everybody's a capitalist and in it for some bucks. Also, I'm no fan of our new affordable opera or disorienting new-style shopping malls like UTC, but what's the matter with skating rinks? I know people who book ice time late at night so they can play hockey games. That also sounds like fun.— April 27, 2018 5:37 p.m.
San Diego State slick magazine touts Mission Valley plan
Please, the "housing crisis" is an excuse to densify single-family neighborhoods and kill off the thirty-foot height limit near the coast so that developers can continue to profit from pillaging. "Low and moderate-income housing, park and recreational purposes, open-space" in the middle of Mission Valley? We all know those things will never happen here. San Diegans will decide what they prefer at the ballot box. SoccerCity can bring us a new soccer-size stadium and the chance to attract a major league soccer team along with other amenities including a River park. So much more fun for so many more people than an expansion of behemoth SDSU into the Valley with development profits going to that institution's usual powerful political McCronies.— April 26, 2018 7:03 p.m.
Refs not vetted enough, says city auditor
Better safe than sorry, I guess, though it seems more a reaction to potential broad-brush liability rather than real danger. Feels similar to the School District's plan to chain-link the perimeter of every public high school campus to "prevent" the possibility of gun violence there.— April 25, 2018 3:07 p.m.
Local Dems and GOP beat back the edges
Certainly not "less than honorable," but definitely unconventional and definitely perennial. I think you have to own it.— April 25, 2018 2:27 p.m.