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Spanos clan saves its charity for Stockton
I would agree. Stockton is impoverished and gang-ridden. As for local Junior Charger Girls, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez may have included them in the salaried ranks of Senior Charger Girls, and former school superintendent Alan Bersin was a big proponent of calling cheerleading a secondary school "sport."— February 16, 2016 6:13 p.m.
Local lawyers speak on Scalia's death
A savvy New York Times commenter tonight suggests that Obama legitimately has until February 22 to make an interim appointment to the Supreme Court when the presently recessed Senate returns to work. What a great idea. Scalia was arrogant and inexcusably rudely dismissive of other points of view, but he enjoyed center stage and displayed a cutting wit from the bench. His constitutional "originalism" was nothing more than living in the legal past.— February 13, 2016 9:50 p.m.
Border Patrol outfit isn't counting its shekels
We're well into 2016 but the glacially slow "audits" of the federal Department of Homeland Security covering years 2010-2014 show NOTHING for Border Patrol "Special Operations?" Like, are they kidding? Why don't we just admit this paramilitary agency has a blank check from Dems and Reps alike -- including President Obama. In this instance, auditors say as much, citing "incomplete records" including no figures for "total program costs" or "performance measures." This is an example of the unaccountable wasteful status quo that Bernie Sanders would undo. Hillary claims it's "unrealistic" to expand (presently frozen) Social Security or create millions of jobs to repair crumbling infrastructure across the country, but Bernie says we can reallocate money from one pot to another. This would be a beginning.— February 12, 2016 2:24 p.m.
Can Bruce Henderson be detained at Guantanamo until this is all over?
Former City Councilman and diligent lawyer Bruce Henderson was the all-seeing Karmac of his day. It takes many years to be vindicated on some matters, but surely Bruce Henderson can draw some satisfaction from the current San Diego Chargers situation. Fortunately he has outlived the Union-Tribune, all the Copleys, Herb Klein and many other players who have survived but slunk off into quiet corners. All I can say is thanks for reading that contract, Bruce, and for being willing to speak truth to power. And thanks to the Reader for covering it.— February 11, 2016 2:21 p.m.
Where the streets have no name
Recently elected female representatives from City Council District 4 and overlapping District E San Diego School Board -- both Democrats -- have been a disgrace to their constituents, to their political party and to their African-American heritage. School Board member Marne Foster finally has resigned under a misdemeanor cloud after abusing the power of her office and Myrtle Cole has sold out to development interests while feathering her own nest, much like her predecessor Tony Young. It is a pity.— February 10, 2016 9:27 p.m.
The Carlsbad Lagoon Mall and money
Impact on the Lagoon? Just devastating.— February 10, 2016 9:15 p.m.
Gaslamp 15, we hardly knew ye
Scott, I NEVER take public parking garage elevators. Public parking garage elevators are so NOT anybody's friend -- unless you are traveling in a big posse of Gaslamp revelers. You're right, I don't gripe about parking at Opera (matinees) because I always park on the street within one block of the Civic Auditorium. And even then I pass an array of homeless people that is surpassed only when leaving the Civic -- hundreds of poor people plastered up against the walls of buildings along Third Avenue. This town doesn't rank third in the nation for its homeless for no reason.— February 6, 2016 10:37 p.m.
Charter-school backer buys hefty stake in Union-Tribune
I think you subtly equate "charter-school backer" with corporate evil-doer. In fact there's a quality difference in the charter schools backed by wannabe newspaper moguls Michael Ferro in Chicago and Eli Broad in Los Angeles and the disastrous record of traditional public schools in those cities. The public schools of Chicago and Los Angeles continue to deliver for their adult employees, but they miserably fail legions of poor children who have no alternatives. In San Diego, our public school record is more mixed, with pockets of success and disaster. Past charters foundered because of inept or exploitive management, but we have had numerous charter successes, notably the High Tech secondary charters backed by the Jacobs family, the Preuss School at UCSD and Gompers Academy. If mega-rich moguls these days focus their attention and money on saving local newspapers and keeping public education alive via the charter mechanism, I'd say we are all better off. It's new and different, but it's a big improvement over the status quo.— February 6, 2016 12:34 p.m.
Gaslamp 15, we hardly knew ye
Normal people don't park in the same space at Horton Plaza every time and if they do, it's on the roof -- far, far from Gaslamp 15. At the end of the night, when you are flummoxed and imagine your car's been stolen, there's always the guy in the electric cart to schlep you from level to level to level until you find it. More embarrassing for guys than gals, but it works.— February 3, 2016 10:26 p.m.
Roosevelt called Lindbergh a Nazi
Wasn't Lindbergh first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean? Wasn't Robert E. Lee a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the general who led the Confederate Army in the tragic American Civil War? We could take a Thumper-the-rabbit approach to everything, saying nice things or saying nothing at all, and expunge history at Lindbergh Field and Lee Elementary School. (I guess I need to be educated about Hank Bauer....) I just don't see why all the truths about these famous figures can't co-exist.— February 3, 2016 10:13 p.m.