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Scripps pedestrians in a hurry avoid the bridge
Why is it that City traffic engineers seem to act only after there are pedestrian accidents or fatalities?— March 19, 2018 9:45 p.m.
After Mike Ferro, the deluge?
Also "attriting" a week ago, excellent Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne has taken a job at City Hall with LA Mayor Eric Garcetti. A big loss for readers. In his farewell column Hawthorne claimed things in the LAT newsroom were more hopeful lately, alluding to the purchase of the paper by Angeleno Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. Still, I hear that Michael Ferro, departing tronc management, retains a separate lucrative consulting contract with the organization.— March 19, 2018 3:22 p.m.
Still waiting for Soon-Shiong
If Dr. Soon-Shiong is as smart as he is rich, he will hang on to the La Jolla Light as a viable community weekly newspaper. Or, if weeklies are not in his wheelhouse, he will sell it off to some outfit that collects such journals. The Light remains full of local news and has even hired another enterprising reporter, Corey Levitan, who occasionally interviews La Jolla's homeless regulars. Covering this week's closed-to-community rally against gun violence at La Jolla High's football stadium -- where the track is controversially off-limits to public use -- Levitan noted that school principal Chuck Podhorsky watched the carefully-billed "student-run" proceedings from the distant football field goal posts.— March 16, 2018 4:28 p.m.
Jack McGrory —moneybags lobbyist
If SDSU wins the Qualcomm site to develop, it will be entirely to McGrory's credit. He is a tough adversary for the SoccerCity folks to compete with -- all that charm and fund of knowledge about where the bodies are buried. And now he is another crony-appointment by Governor Brown. And who is Allyson? Presumably the newest wife.— March 14, 2018 7:21 p.m.
Orange Avenue block sold – goodbye to real Coronado
El Cordova Garage is on Coronado, not in La Jolla. It's a good question, though. Maybe it's because guys who run auto repair shops are usually renters, as in this case, and are focussed on car stuff and customer service, not on the labyrinth of tax-dodging paperwork that is required of wannabe title-holders of historic sites.— March 13, 2018 5:31 p.m.
Sara Jacobs, 29, runs for Congress
There is strategy involved in running and winning seats in Congress, especially given California's top-two Primary system. Grossly unqualified newbies like Ms. Jacobs should not gum up the works with vanity trial-runs when the outcome matters so much. Why doesn't she run for School Board? San Diego Unified could use some new blood and many of those losers are running unopposed.— March 11, 2018 6:46 p.m.
Will the fall of Jacobs starve Faulconer?
Many DO say Joe Kennedy bought the election for JFK because he did. But Jack turned out to have been trending toward being a bad president all on his own. And he set the pattern for the next 57 years.— March 11, 2018 3:41 p.m.
Orange Avenue block sold – goodbye to real Coronado
Just last weekend I took four visitors from the snowy East Coast across the beautiful blue bridge into Coronado to draw a contrast with La Jolla where we just had been. I mentioned Coronado's enviable independence from "America's Finest" City of San Diego, its low-rise human scale, charming main drag ending with the Lamb's Theater and Hotel Del. La Jolla's business district has many long-term vacancies where landlords have tolerated no tenant at all for many years over lowering their rents; where the La Valencia Hotel's new owners have gutted the public rooms and destroyed the historic Whaling Bar; where a "memory-care" residence has been built across from The Lot with its costly movies and disco vibe and next to the soon-to-be-completed Conrad Music Center, permitted for construction without one single parking space. Not even for Maseratis. But hey, both places still have their beaches, right? Well, yes and no. Coronado beaches regularly get contaminated and closed by unregulated Mexican sewage after big storms. La Jolla beaches are becoming colonized by protected seals and sea lions. (Right now somebody is seeking "historical designation" for the LJ seal shelter, an intrusive brick seawall extending far into the water and built in 1931 by environmentally-naive well-meaning philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps. The century-plus La Jolla Rough Water Swim from the Cove has been cancelled for the last several years because of fecal contamination of sea water there.— March 11, 2018 3:24 p.m.
Oscar autopsy
Re Oscars which I had to watch three days after the fact, because I was on the phone with Apple Support on Sunday night. I like Jimmy Kimmel: he's an unpretentious natural and he reminds me of 12-year-old boys I know. I hope stars quit making intrusive forays into the lives of common people: twice is enough already. I thought the stage set was gorgeous: it looked like a geode. This year I didn't love any movie the way I loved "Manchester by the Sea" -- maybe because so many good films were also scary-violent -- "Shape of Water," "Dunkirk," "I, Tonya,""Get Out," "Billboards." But basically I thought It was a good year for movies. And finally, long ago my family and I left Sunday Mass early to watch the very wavy documentary "Kon Tiki."— March 9, 2018 6:32 p.m.
Sara Jacobs, 29, runs for Congress
1. Thanks for the news flash about not having to be a lawyer to run for office. 2. Thanks for naming Cosmopolitan as the source of the Jacobs puff-piece. 3. Thanks for correcting a commenter's grammar: the message still stands. 4. Your more-the-merrier thesis could well cost Democrats seats in Congress. 5. #MeToo Rocks except when someone is unjustly destroyed by unsubstantiated claims.— March 9, 2018 5:31 p.m.