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Gannett wants a crack at the Union-Tribune
OMG, won't someone at short-sighted, hideously greedy and journalistically-challenged Tribune Company in Chicago just take the money and run? This time it is USA Today parent Gannett Company offering a big buyout -- at least it is a newspaper chain making the offer --but still, Tribune talks about consulting their consultants before deciding to say yes or no. Maybe the Tribune people just hate print. I've said it before: this is excruciating.— April 25, 2016 6:05 p.m.
One of San Diego Opera's best productions: Madama Butterfly
The story is devastating; the voices were up to the gorgeous music; but hefty Butterfly did not look like the geisha billed here and this visual dissonance detracted from the experience.— April 25, 2016 5:49 p.m.
Hey, Bernie: Hillary has diddled with Wall Street
I think that photo was a perfect representation of Mrs. Clinton. Did you see her face harden during the Brooklyn debate when the topic became Israeli/Palestinian relations? Get used to seeing it: the woman is a tool of the wealthy pro-Israel lobby AIPAC and a total hawk. New York Times correspondent Mark Landler has just published a new book called "Alter Egos," contrasting the style of aggressive militarist Clinton -- Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine, Syria -- with President Obama's critical skeptical restraint about "regime change" via unilateral U.S. military action around the world. As for Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders is standing in for her, doing a better job than she ever could as a truth-telling candidate for President. However it all turns out, we owe a debt to Sanders who has so bravely defined the twilight of America's promise over the last 40 years and clearly described a democratic way out of the gathering darkness.— April 25, 2016 3:55 p.m.
Torrey Pines Road pothole problems never stopped
This has nothing to do with Lori Saldana, who is running for Mayor and wants to repair San Diego's infractructure. Thank you for noticing, Lori! Q. Do you wonder whose city clowncil District the fissured Torrey Pines Road is in? A. Clowncil President Sheri Lightner, that's who. Sheri's husband Bruce has the nerve to run for Sheri's termed-out seat, but you can vote for entrepreneur Barbara Bry who will be a lot more constituent-oriented. And you probably won't want candidate Ray Ellis because he didn't vote in any election for 10 years in a row, until he got the public office bug. (KPBS)— April 21, 2016 7:20 p.m.
Another day, another Otay Mesa drug tunnel
Or lend a hand to Gov. Jerry Brown's crazy mammoth water diversion tunnel project slated for the Sacramento Delta.— April 20, 2016 10:16 p.m.
The Jacobs-Faulconer dance
Pretty small sums, given what Hillary Clinton gets from these Qualcomm folks. I may be speaking too soon, but it looks like Nathan Fletcher's flame has burned out for anything but the sinecures he has obtained from the Jacobses -- a job-with-title at Qualcomm and an "academic" appointment to teach "government" ay UCSD where Irwin Jacobs is a major donor.— April 20, 2016 10:12 p.m.
Money for helmets, not for books
One has to ask why on earth San Diego State would need a first-rate library? For the majors in business administration? For the hospitality industry majors? For the elementary education majors? What SDSU needs -- and is working on -- is land in Mission Valley for non-Greek housing and a smaller sports stadium that can be used for football and soccer. SDSU Library is an oxymoron, emphasis on the moron.— April 19, 2016 8:11 p.m.
Suicide in Clairemont
I am relieved to know the jumper was not one of the senior residents of the building.— April 19, 2016 7:55 p.m.
Junketing for Hillary
What an outfit: that "Center Forward." Actually, that's exactly where moderate Democrat Scott Peters needs to stay if he wants to remain the elected congressional representative from District 1. And it will not be at too great cost for him: he is a Hillary Clinton kind of guy, tied to centrist/conservative Democratic politics and the big money of Irwin Jacobs who founded Qualcomm as well as other business types who live in the La Jolla, Carmel Valley, Rancho Santa Fe areas of the district. It's true: America is neither right nor left. It is deeply and probably permanently changed from its middleclass heyday. The evidence of our almost-Roman decline is everywhere. Bernie Sanders' idealistic campaign to reinvigorate voting and voting rights, to remove money from the political process, to restore free education at public universities, to downsize and reform banks that are again "too big to fail" -- it may all be heroic spitting into the wind.— April 19, 2016 7:52 p.m.
Ex-mayor Bob Filner comes out in support of city attorney candidate Cabrera following anti-slut-shaming op-ed
I hear the Boston Globe has taken a leaf from Mencken's playbook and did a spoof Page One last week featuring Donald Trump. I think that's tacky for the daily Globe but acceptable for the alternative SD Reader, even though it can be misleading. Anyway, Mencken, flawed Bob Filner WAS the People's Mayor who, among many other good works while briefly in office, got rid of those rotten kangaroo-court-taxation-by-citation red-light cameras. We salute him for that.— April 16, 2016 5:44 p.m.