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Immigrant prison cash flows to SD politicos
Really? I thought this last week was all about immigrants being put in detention and holding cells. I remind you, tough guy, that San Diego would stop functioning without its "illegal aliens" working in hotel housekeeping and the kitchens of Gaslamp restaurants. Maybe even you could extend some appreciation and respect before they are rounded up and deported.— January 31, 2017 4:43 p.m.
Nathan, hot dog
Gosh, a resume of alternative facts! He could qualify to run for County Supervisor!— January 31, 2017 4:33 p.m.
Immigrant prison cash flows to SD politicos
Personal ethics and integrity should preclude Latino Democrats from taking campaign money from private prison corporations that hold undocumented migrants near the US - Mexico border where we all live. Anglo Democratic politicians in San Diego should share such scruples. But unlimited Citizens United money floods our politics to the detriment of politicians from both parties, diminishes the reliability of our elected representatives and the value of our votes. It's pathetic.— January 30, 2017 8:05 p.m.
Nathan, hot dog
Along with tweeting, Fletcher also has a habit of marrying women who are politically well-placed insiders. Back when he was a Republican, Fletcher's first wife worked in the GOP White House of President George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. After his San Diego mayoral attempt was cratering for lack of a political center, then-divorced Fletcher hooked up with divorced San Diego Labor Council leader Lorena Gonzalez. Gonzalez has become a powerhouse Democratic state assemblymember. Now Fletcher's also a Democrat. He and Gonzalez got married a month ago.— January 26, 2017 5:04 p.m.
Mayor's staff chief getting campaign cash
And just how do you pronounce this guy's name? Putz? Inquiring minds want to know.— January 24, 2017 5:19 p.m.
Will an early Alvarez get the political cash?
The idea of anybody supporting ex-Lifeguard Ed Harris for Mayor is a stretch, let alone the influential Jacobs clan. Getting appointed temporarily to a City Council seat does not a Mayor make, Geranium. Mayor Sunny makes the job look fun and super-easy, but it actually takes more than even he brings to the table -- like, knowledge, vision and a drive to improve civic life.— January 18, 2017 6:55 p.m.
The Middlebrow Monk's best films of 2016
Great picks of "Manchester," "American Honey," "Queen of Katwe" and the wonderful "Hell or High Water," but I suspect ulterior motives for naming the Coen Brothers' boring dud "Hail, Caesar." (Like, a chance to interview them for one of those let's-talk-to-famous-directors-column.) And as for "Weiner," how could you?— January 17, 2017 7:43 p.m.
They don’t care if their picture sucks
Must comment since you dismiss my two absolute faves in a long time (not just 2016) and essentially ignore the wonderful similarly populist-themed western "Hell or High Water." I thought all three films were tributes to regular people in an otherwise totally Donald Trump year. Kenneth Lonergan's "Manchester-by-the-Sea" is an uncanny pitch-perfect original screenplay/portrait of roughneck working-class mostly Irish-Americans who actually live in every way far north of Boston. Some of them work on boats. These people embrace the lives they have and are loyal to their tribe; some habitually drink way too much and get into fights in dive bars, but they are funny and unostentatiously caring as they struggle to do right by one another in the face of unexpected devastating blows from illness, addiction, divorce and tragic early deaths. And the same thing goes for "Moonlight" -- an original screenplay about a black child who grows up motherless in Miami's tough Liberty City neighborhood. But because of the kindness of strangers, he learns to stand up for himself as he becomes a gay man.— January 17, 2017 7:21 p.m.
Will an early Alvarez get the political cash?
Surely there's a more direct route to a San Diego County Supervisor's seat than through the annual January clamor of the world's wealthiest citizens and hangers-on in Davos, Switzerland. Somehow that gathering today lacks the cachet that it had in the high-flying, big-money,"third-way" Clinton Years or subsequent Gilded Ages of Presidents Bush 1 and 2 or even in Obama's first term, before the hobbled Asia Pivot. Now it's powerful to gather at the new Trump Hotel D.C. But Davos' faded glory is good enough for the time being for Jacobs' new groom Nathan Fletcher Gonzalez.— January 17, 2017 5:53 p.m.
U-T's stadium love affair with John Moores
When a city like San Diego just keeps on giving away its public land to developers like John Moores, you really don't expect him to step away from the cash cow, do you? And with help from ex-state legislator Steve Peace to sweeten the deal, with his outlandish claim of replacing Qualcomm Stadium with affordable housing for workers, a pro soccer franchise-cum-stadium, and lebensraum for his alma mater San Diego State University, who could say these pillagers lack vision or ambition?— January 16, 2017 7:31 p.m.