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Faulconer's trickle-down turkey freebies
ATT gave Falconer's slush fund for the poor $22,500? They must be wanting to pave the way for unsightly cell towers here, there and everywhere. Better ATT should improve its "U-Verse" mess which, in the two weeks I have been a subscriber for home phone and internet, has cut off my email connection twice and phone service for one-half of Thanksgiving Day. And thanks, ATT, for those "service" hotshots based in the Philippines who try to communicate technicalities in opaque second-language English to Luddities in the lower 48.— November 27, 2015 4:17 p.m.
NFL Owners: A dysfunctional gang at best
What a great story from Matt Potter. What a degenerate is Mr. Irsay, what a terrible enterprise is football, what a crime that elected community leaders across the country -- like our own Mayor Sunny -- pander to rich NFL owners and sell expensive, single-use new stadiums in the centers of their cities to a stupid citizenry that ultimately has to pick up the exorbitant tab. A baseball-loving family I know was given tickets by a neighbor to a Chargers game a week ago. It was a first for the kids and the mother. Their report was interesting: luxe seats and reserved parking; elaborate tail-gating with booze obvious in the parking lots; mostly adults and few families or children in the crowd; obvious drinking in the seats; deafening noise and aggressive behavior in the stands in response to violence on the field; an excruciatingly slow and losing "game."— November 27, 2015 3:23 p.m.
All Jehu's Parties
People should know Jehu is pronounced "hey you."— November 25, 2015 6:07 p.m.
L.A. Times and U-T stars take bow
Visduh, I have never read the Union-Tribune editorial page, so I am not familiar with the work of Bill Osborne. I expected solid LA Times-style journalism from Tony Perry and was sorely disappointed by the snark and assiduous side-stepping of any issue that mattered to regular citizens of this town. All water under the bridge now: hail and farewell.— November 25, 2015 6:05 p.m.
Au revoir to noir
Why did they kill the Whaling Bar at La Valencia? Because they had bought the place and "just thought it was time." They also removed the famous WB mural, destroyed the green ambience of the Prospect patio beyond the french doors of the dining room, added a cheap little sidewalk cafe outside what used to be the front wall of the WB at the valet parking stand, and they fired all the superb longtime Mexican bartenders and waiters in the dining room who knew never to serve children's drinks in paper cups with lids and straws. La Valencia today is remodeled beyond recognition -- light, bright, tacky and unrecognizable.— November 25, 2015 5:45 p.m.
San Diego’s billion-dollar BioWatch terrorism bust
You've gotta love the military-industrial complex. At least Reagan's expensive SDI pipe dream was dubbed "Star Wars," which i always thought was cool, since he was himself a movie star. (And actually, jnojr, I think it was the Great Recession brought about by Wall Street that left us with more poverty than ever.) This Bio-Watch boondoggle reminds me of the recently escaped blimp that untethered itself in D.C. and floated over to Pennsylvania where it and its classified contents had to be recovered by embarrassed government security personnel. The blimp was meant to detect low-flying aircraft over the nation's Capitol, but, like Bio-Watch, it had never worked very well. Turns out the blimp was the pet project of some Army general who had lobbied hard for Congress to fund it. Shortly thereafter, he retired from military service and promptly took a paying job on the board of the blimp manufacturer.— November 24, 2015 6:45 p.m.
L.A. Times and U-T stars take bow
Easy come, easy go, but let's tell a little truth here. Tony Perry writes well, but he never once critically tackled political matters that have negatively defined San Diego for at least as many years as he was the local reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Perry's KPBS appearances were notable for amusing facile glibness as he regularly dismissed this town as an unredeemable anti-tax semi-libertarian backwater. It was a cinch to write about the World Famous San Diego Zoo and its animals -- but never a word about the sky-high admission prices or the outrageous City subsidy annually paid to this rich institution or whether zoos today serve a valuable purpose. Ditto for the sure-thing human interest stories of young Marines in wartime over any critical reportage on the jingoistic duplicity of national leaders Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, on the manipulation of public opinion to support distant "wars on terror" in Iraq and Afghanistan, on the fortunes being made by area arms manufacturers and contractors or on any connection between past folly and present dangerous unraveling in the Middle East. Oh well, to Perry's credit, he alone treated disgraced former Mayor Bob Filner even-handedly, in contrast to Jacobs-paid character assassins at KPBS and Voice of San Diego. But as the sole local representative of a great newspaper, I think Tony Perry should have done much more for this community.— November 24, 2015 5:06 p.m.
The strings attached to SDSU's Confucius cash
What's a little difference of opinion over the status of Taiwan or the legitimacy of China's claims to newly-formed islands between Japan and China when the "honor" of installing a Confucius Institute at San Diego State comes with a million-dollar payoff? SDSU, our incubator of all local politicians which masquerades as an academic institution, is as ethically challenged as its many strategically-connected grads.— November 22, 2015 2:01 p.m.
San Diegan’s Maui blowout takes on the Bee
Now that you mention it, I wonder if former Governor Gray Davis even talks to Steve Peace, since Peace was responsible for the electricity deregulation scheme that "turned out the lights" on Gray. Humiliation and defeat for Gray Davis while Steve Peace skates. What a country. What a system. Where's the justice?— November 22, 2015 1:41 p.m.
Cardiff flower farm is history
Goodbye Fujimotos, goodbye flower fields. Good job covering this important story. Attention must be paid. Thank you.— November 22, 2015 1:28 p.m.