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Layoff czar takes over Union-Tribune
I thought the cadre of LA Times reporters working on the too-brief San Diego edition was superb: notably Patrick McDonnell who covered the Mexican migration here before the Wall was built. These days he is based in Beirut, Lebanon. Only one Sunday ago he had a Page One story with photographs describing Syrian refugees crossing the Aegean Sea in rubber rafts from Turkey to Greece and moving on foot to the West. Chris Kraul, a former business writer, is now based in politically volatile Venezuela. John Glionna, based in Nevada, covers the inter-mountain Western US, including stories about armed TeaParty freeloaders who run their cattle on federal BLM lands. There were others too, but these are survivors of great changes in their business. Anyway, I appreciated the LATimes back then and I appreciate it now.— September 25, 2015 3:29 p.m.
Issa says criminal history should be shielded
Lord sakes, Ponzi, no offense intended! My description was based on your own comments, though admittedly I do not see mention of family criminals here. Indeed, your relatives sound like people to be proud of. Many of you here seem to know a lot about your relatives and are amused if they were scoundrels and mountebanks. Fortunately none are present-day ranking members of Congress like Darryl Issa, inventor of the car alarm scourge of neighborhoods. Personally, I know little about my ancestors and, having seen photographs of Irish immigrants at Ellis Island in NYC, I am grateful to be left in the dark.— September 25, 2015 2:57 p.m.
Can't lay off the layoffs?
Thanks for this darkly amusing column, Mencken. There is nothing worse than a board-game-ridden stay-cation.— September 25, 2015 2:11 p.m.
San Diego Public Library calls Cut! on Film Forum
Bad news in this sad story, amplified by the information from Javajoe25. Jamming the Central Library onto a tiny lot in the JMI Realty Zone of Interest, aka Petco Park, was always a bad idea. I have only been there once since it opened, and there was limited free parking available in the garage, but the site is congested and the number of homeless people in the vicinity was absolutely Dickensian. But now Scott can turn his attention to the imminent opening of "The Lot," a new small multiplex in mid-village La Jolla with a bunch of bells and whistles and an admission price of $22 to $24 per person. Unlike the Central Library, I probably will never go even once to this place. Too bad they razed a perfectly good grocery store for such a project.— September 24, 2015 10:37 p.m.
Joan Kroc gets the Hollywood treatment
What, Scott Marks is on vacation? Come ON. And for the record, if Joan Kroc is "famously remembered," it's for living in La Jolla, not Fairbanks Ranch, and for her many good works throughout the San Diego community, not for "rolling her Cadillac in a single-car late-morning crash on I-5 in 1997."— September 24, 2015 10:53 a.m.
San Diego killer drones for North Dakota
GA and the Blue Brothers may have anted up a few bucks for North Dakota politicians, but no way near as generously as the North Dakota Department of Commerce has treated these arms makers and their privately-held company. I wonder how the very conservative and sparse populace will appreciate the giveaways, or will enjoy having drones and drone jockeys overflying their farms and fields. Better there than here -- or New Mexico either -- if you ask me.— September 22, 2015 6 p.m.
Tribute to Arthur Wagner by Jefferson Mays
Wagner acted in many UCSD plays, memorably in "1776" as a colonial Founding Father. He was terrific.— September 22, 2015 2:42 p.m.
Feared U-T job cuts aren't San Diego's only layoffs
"There are a lot of people who aren't worth any more than … (nine bucks an hour.)" Sez who besides you, jnor? Maybe Ayn Rand. Whatever happened to "love thy neighbor," and "walk a mile in another man's moccasins?" Accepting a paltry wage is necessity, but "perfectly content to get it?" I don't think so.— September 22, 2015 2:35 p.m.
Feared U-T job cuts aren't San Diego's only layoffs
Hello, there is a connection between "people losing their jobs" and the "antics of billionaires." That's the point. You must be a coupon-clipper not to notice the link. I think the writer is mulling the vagaries of life as an employee in this day and age of gross income inequality. Even high-paid employees like Jack Griffin, who was said to be incompetent and impossible when briefly at Time, Inc. Griffin is now Chicago Tribune Co.'s overlord of the Los Angeles Times and its little sis San Diego Union-Tribune, which is momentarily getting a new publisher famous for cutting, cutting, cutting. If Matt Potter is thinking about $9/hour Park 'n Fly drivers, good for him: no one else is.— September 21, 2015 8:58 p.m.
The rise, fall, and re-rise of Nathan Fletcher
You are whistling Dixie, AlexClarke. There are laws that enshrine companies' rights to grant H1B visas and, according to a recent Don Bauder post, Qualcomm spent a bundle more this year than last on expensive lobbying to broaden their leeway to hire "essential" foreign workers. Anyway, try to focus: we're talking about the players here, not whether these legal practices are right.— September 19, 2015 1:58 p.m.