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Women in politics
Since when does rude and self-important ex-Congressman Barney Frank weigh in on Carlsbad political contests? Does he live out here now?— June 22, 2016 10:36 p.m.
Mexico is off limits
Really, "a population of adults needs no rules of behavior?" And here I am, praying that common sense and the Golden Rule will guide the American electorate in selecting a President in November.— June 22, 2016 10:31 p.m.
Independence Day — a resurgence?
I'm with you, dwbat.— June 22, 2016 4:16 p.m.
UPDATED – Opposition remains for La Jolla Jewish center plan
I think "tempest in a teapot" minimizes the viciousness of the opposition. You would think Hillel was going high-rise or planning a 24-hour convenience store with liquor sales. Given the purpose of the organization, the peculiar site, the reduction in building size, such opposition seems mean-spirited.— June 21, 2016 4:36 p.m.
UPDATED – Opposition remains for La Jolla Jewish center plan
Good for the Reader for revisiting this question of building the Hillel Center on its own land in La Jolla across from UCSD. In La Jolla it seems that "property rights" do not apply fairly or equally to all landholders.La Jolla's termed-out Councilmember Sherri Lightner, the La Jolla Shores Association and the La Jolla Community Planning Agency have worked seamlessly for years to block construction of the Hillel Center. Considering the flood of approvals of bulky, ugly and oversize projects that have been allowed by these same La Jolla citizen groups in recent time -- against architectural standards and community plan provisions -- Hillel is both benign in social purpose and compatible in its scaled-back design with neighborhood norms. Finally, perhaps history is now on Hillel's side and the Center will be approved.— June 21, 2016 12:38 p.m.
Hillcrest historical district plan wiped out
Marcela Escobar-Eck -- onetime San Diego official involved in the Sunroad scandal is now the face of San Diego area developer interests. Calling that section of wide and traffic-choked University Avenue "historic" is a stretch, although it is true the buildings are low-rise and oldish, as is the extravagant claim that the shift is equivalent to the Orlando massacre. Still, there is much to be said for low-rise and old and the unchanged center of a lively LGBTQ scene. In La Jolla, Escobar-Eck succeeded in overriding La Jolla Community Plan provisions that ground-floors were meant for retail shops over commercial uses -- and got Morgan-Stanley brokerage offices installed at a small charming Prospect Avenue plaza that once housed Victoria's Secret. Escobar-Eck's landlord client had held out for astronomical rent and kept the building vacant for years and then cried poverty and property rights until he had a non-conforming stock broker to pay the freight. The La Jolla Community Planning Association went along with change.— June 17, 2016 2:47 p.m.
Florida subsidy orgy over?
Recently the esteemed Scripps Research Institute was reported to be in financial trouble -- again -- with drastically reduced NIH grant money and even though it has headed off a crass proposed merger with USC. I have always wondered how the Scripps Florida spin-off has affected the Scripps Research Torrey Pines operation. Do you know, Don?— June 13, 2016 8:43 p.m.
Luis Guzmán will not be voting for Donald Trump
Now Luis Guzman's the best thing about that CBS series "Code Black" about emergency room blood and gore.— June 13, 2016 8:35 p.m.
Gun mogul's cash targeted Gaspar for assault weapons vote
Politics is its own convoluted world: if Republican Encinitas Mayor Gaspar's admirable stand against the AR-15 assault weapon hurts her in the race against incumbent and sole Democratic Supervisor Dave Roberts, I will be glad. Roberts has apparently wisely sidestepped the issue and Ms. Gaspar now is left holding the bag of her convictions. Dave Roberts deserves a second term.— June 13, 2016 8:29 p.m.
Local company celebrates Hillary Clinton’s selection as the first female robot presidential candidate
Gotta wonder why there was no mention of Qualcomm's previous best-in-show cyborg, the paleo-loving political opportunist and Party changeling Nathan Fletcher. He gives Hillary a run for the robotics money.— June 12, 2016 2:51 p.m.