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Fisher bids adieu to $1.2 million annual compensation
Gosh, Matt, are you sure about all this Michigan malfeasance and gigantic salary paid to SDSU's basketball coach? I heard multiple announcements about "iconic" Coach Fisher's imminent retirement last night and today on KFMB Channel 8 and there wasn't one negative word about the guy. Then again, I think all the sports reporters are SDSU grads, so maybe they were just being loyal to their alma mater. But could this be some kind of trend? First SDSU's President said he's leaving, and now Coach Fisher is out. I'll try Channel 10 tonight.— April 11, 2017 11:05 p.m.
The Hedgecocks sue city over Pacific Beach sidewalk slip
Don, do you think citizen/voters know that convention centers are black holes, being over-built everywhere, driving down prices? I didn't know that Comic-Con is now paying cut-rates to the City of San Diego compared to days past because of this race-to-the-bottom competition. The Mayor's special election to raise hotel taxes for tourists ought to call for citywide infrastructure repair, which would do more for tourism here than any crazy convention center expansion. Can the transient occupancy tax legally be used for infrastructure repair only if the ballot language specifically calls for it? Could the Mayor be pressured to run a second measure on the same ballot for the higher hotel tourist tax to benefit local streets and sidewalks? And how big a vote is required to pass the higher hotel tax on tourists for either purpose? Do you think voters will be blind enough to pass this measure as it stands? As you say, this is Mayor-enabled corporate welfare.— April 10, 2017 9:29 p.m.
Visitors bend rules at Carlsbad's Flower Fields
Too many people on the planet and a lot of them are in California. Stories of traffic jams, road rage and piggish flower-field trampling for selfies are everywhere this spring -- Anza Borrego, Antelope Valley, now even at Carlsbad. It wasn't always like this, children....— April 10, 2017 7:32 p.m.
The Hedgecocks sue city over Pacific Beach sidewalk slip
An amazing Reader scoop. And an excuse for another of those predictably amusing Bauder threads, including the funny anecdote about Silicone Valley. Thanks also for the suggestion to use the proposed hotel tax hike to fix our streets and sidewalks rather than add to an already-expanded convention center.— April 10, 2017 7:22 p.m.
Settlement talks possible in San Onofre lawsuit
If Mike Aguirre succeeds in this matter, he will be our Local Hero. Such a long slog, such intransigent and powerful adversaries -- corporate and political -- such an important issue at stake. It's hard to believe he will prevail in these unfriendly times, but it is possible. I am keeping hope alive!— April 9, 2017 3:12 p.m.
Second thoughts about Hillcrest 111 at Seventh and Robinson
Really, thinkered? This is a new one: the hoi polloi are being victimized by community planning groups? You may not work in real estate or development, but you are trafficking in tunnel-vision nonsense. Regrettably, some community planning groups are dominated by realtors, architects and developers and the City Planning Commission is their tool. But your "new generation" thinks the word "sustainable" means gig-economy ideas like 24/7/12-months-a-year neighborhood-killers like vacation-rental-by-owner to pay for expensive mortgages or unsightly remodels. Or ending hard-won coastal height limits. Or enabling extreme densification in established areas. No interest there in communal consensus. As for your diversifying young turks, "property rights" seem to be just as sacred as for any "racist, classist wealthy white senior."— April 8, 2017 2:01 p.m.
Second thoughts about Hillcrest 111 at Seventh and Robinson
Thank you, Cassander, for your words of wisdom and truth about developers who build "overpriced and oversized crap ... for outside investors." San Diego community planning groups, themselves full of insiders, are ignored and going the way of the passenger pigeon.— April 7, 2017 2:33 p.m.
Ghost streetlights cost taxpayers, benefit SDG&E
A classic answer, dwbat. Doubt that it's SDG&E's responsibility? Me too. I assume it's the City's job, maybe with help from SDG&E, but that doesn't get it fixed either. No, I didn't "take a picture," as I thought reporting the problem in writing, indicating the exact location and fooling around with their google map would be enough. The "Get It Done" app is a misnomer.— April 6, 2017 6:07 p.m.
Ghost streetlights cost taxpayers, benefit SDG&E
Existing processes, written process narratives, procedures and training aside, it would be nice if SDG&E would get out to my area to cut away the vines and tree branches that obscure the single streetlight dimly illuminating my block. I have reported it at least twice on the City's bogus on-line system, to no avail. (Hoping for input here from Mr. Fixit, dwbat.)— April 6, 2017 3:19 p.m.
The holdings of top ethics officials
Well done, dwbat. Thank you. No word on the conflicts of interest? I did look up present and past ethics commissioners, aka flunkies, who are appointed by the Mayor and City Council. I assume these guys are not paid. Please tell me they work pro bono.— April 5, 2017 9:22 p.m.