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The making of a San Diego county supervisor via CNN
Matt Potter unwittingly keeps promoting Nathan Fletcher for County Supervisor. Ever hear the adage that any publicity is good publicity? Admittedly, it is odd that CNN's Jake Tapper mysteriously tweeted what is likely a ghost-written U-T op-ed appearing under the professional Marine's name. But let's not jump the gun. it will take a vote of the people to make a Supervisor out of Nathan Fletcher, not just strategic story placement by a Qualcomm public relations flack with East Coast connections.— February 27, 2017 8:14 p.m.
Dalai Lama causes a stir at UCSD
Dalai Lama preaches peace and love. (Free Tibet, anyway.) If Chinese students (or their parents) don't like hearing him, they should go to the student union for a coffee and come back when it's over. When one of my kids graduated from UCSD, I had to sit through a Bill Clinton speech, which I definitely did not appreciate. Bill was upstaged,however, by a fiery woman student activist who supported the then-controversial "UCSD Charter School" and African-American professor of music Cecil Lytle who had resigned over the University's initial failure to support the charter school on its campus.— February 20, 2017 9:23 p.m.
Union-Tribune lays off journalists
Retiring a sportswriter is no way as serious a blow as retiring the one person who knows her way around the fortress "pink palace" San Diego Unified Education Center. U-T education writer Maureen Magee knows the layers of well-paid administrators, the designers of the opaque annual budget, the powerful players at SDEA and CTA teachers' unions which have bought and paid for the five-person elected school board and figurehead superintendent. There are only 104,000 students in our public schools -- 40,000 fewer kids from 20 years ago -- and more tax money became available thanks to Jerry Brown. Teachers got raises last year. But now a deficit has been declared and there will be cuts and hard times ahead. The community isn't going to figure out how this happened without Maureen Magee.— February 16, 2017 10:48 p.m.
Union-Tribune lays off journalists
Maureen Magee? An excellent reporter who has covered public education in this town for 20 years? This is a loss to the community. I hope this was not some sexist expression, letting go the female half of a highly qualified married pair who both work in the U-T newsroom. Depressing news.— February 14, 2017 6:04 p.m.
Nine films, two Saturdays, twelve Excedrin
Funny story, Scott. Glo doesn't read the Reader, doesn't go to movies, doesn't read much, I guess, but she can spot a critic a seat away. Never heard of this AMC marathon before now, and to me it sounds like how to ruin and confuse a bunch of good movies that deserve single screenings and some thought after each one. Whatever. In my opinion, Day One offers the strongest fare. ( I'm still wishing someone would explain "Arrival" to me.)— February 14, 2017 5:45 p.m.
Tronc to Union-Tribune: attrit now!
With all due respect, the Reader is our slim but reliable alternative news source to the attriting San Diego Union-Tribune, but the alleged VoiceofSanDiego has been attriting almost since its inception -- a weak sister which has never been a watchdog about anything, except maybe fallen Mayor Bob Filner. Reading that Los Angeles Times puff-piece on Mayor Sunny today -- written by a guy who for months had covered Hillary in warm prose -- was definitely a piece of tronc.— February 10, 2017 6:01 p.m.
Stop humming and learn math
Great point. There's never a challenge when someone recites solemn nonsense that music or art have value as handmaidens to STEM proficiency. (STEM's the acronym du jour for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math -- all those fields where tech companies hire cheap foreigners on H1B visas.) I think it's because well-meaning mild people are afraid to challenge that baloney business-model propaganda for fear it will result in the total disappearance of already-shredded music and art programs in our schools. Music and art have INTRINSIC value for all human beings: you don't have to grow up to be Gustavo Dudamel or Gustave Courbet to justify having had life-changing exposure to the joy of music and the beauty and power of art.— February 7, 2017 9:51 p.m.
Nathan, hot dog
Ponzi! It's not about shoes: the expression is "shoo-in." And I agree with you that Dave Roberts would have been a better county supervisor than Ms. Gaspar.— February 6, 2017 2:02 p.m.
Mayor privately plied by developer chef’s gourmet grub
Right. All meetings should be held in public and be completely transparent. That's an ideal honored only in the breach in America's Finest City— February 3, 2017 10:09 p.m.
Cash rains on supe
Tacky. Legal, but still tacky. A good reminder never to give a dime to any political candidate. Send your disposable income to the ACLU or the Sierra Club. At least they're working on our behalf.— February 1, 2017 11:10 p.m.