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University offers to foot the bill for Ché Café repairs
A wonderful outcome for the Che, for its supporters, for UCSD itself. A big win for everyone. Nice coverage of this issue in the Reader. Thank you.— September 3, 2015 10:25 p.m.
New convention center study likely to fail test
JMI, the realtor who will profit from contiguous expansion of the convention center -- the outcome recommended by hired consultants -- paid for one-third of the cost of the consultant's report? Is the consultant a subsidiary of JMI? Might as well be. Same could be said for the City of San Diego.— September 3, 2015 1:30 p.m.
New convention center study likely to fail test
Rip-off city. Your discussion of convention center projections is damning. I have never understood how using "consultants" became so entrenched in public education, another example, automatically conferring expensive false legitimacy to any project. It seems "consultants" provide a sheen of objective respectability to any enterprise that requires public approval. "Consultants" are neither honest nor reliable: they are in business to please whomever hires them, thus assuring more future business for themselves.— September 3, 2015 12:13 p.m.
Bonnie Dumanis collects for a “community crime prevention event”
Looking on the bright side of San Diego's elected officialdom, at least Bonnie Dumanis didn't hit up constituents to pay her personal expenses. School Board trustee Marne Foster recently held an online fundraiser, using the school district's official logo, allegedly to pay for her kids' college tuitions. When asked if this might have been an ethical lapse, Foster reportedly said she sleeps well at night and that she answers only to God.— September 2, 2015 5:57 p.m.
Hillary’s felonious San Diego darling
I don't know, but isn't the headline supposed to reflect the lead? A little confusion here and inversion there. Aside from chronicling relations between muckety-mucks at the Union-Tribune and presidential contenders from both parties, this was an amusing trip down memory lane to read former Union-Tribune publisher Jim Copley's earnest reflections on the first-time-ever Nixon/Kennedy televised debates. No doubt that Nixon was sartorially challenged, looked swarthy, sweaty and shifty -- and so un-Californian! -- and he could never be loose and funny like Jack. But Nixon made a big comeback, brought us ten years of agony over Vietnam, the Doctor Strangelove Henry Kissinger and trade with China. That would be the modern China that's cratering our stock market today.— September 1, 2015 8:30 p.m.
Chargers, Airbnb, and Mark Fabiani’s vicious knife fighter
Quite right. Thanks for the important correction. While I'm at it, it was then-City Attorney Mike Aguirre who enforced the law. Consequently heads rolled at City Hall -- Sanders' development honcho Jim Waring among them, and maybe even Ms. Marcela Escobar-Eck, now a lobbyist.— August 30, 2015 4:01 p.m.
Chargers, Airbnb, and Mark Fabiani’s vicious knife fighter
We don't realize the power and influence of well-paid City Hall, State Capitol and Congressional lobbyists to change the rules that everyone but developers and other special interests have to live by. That's why Readerwriter Matt Potter's persistent reporting on lobbyist activities is so important. Only recently, now-lobbyist Marcela Escobar-Eck who used to work for developer-friendly Mayor Jerry Sanders and was responsible for allowing the too-tall Sunroad Building in the Lindbergh Field flight path, managed to get Planning Commission approval to override La Jolla community planning groups' objections and undermine La Jolla's longstanding Planned District Ordinance (PDO.) Lobbyist Escobar-Eck's efforts will benefit the property owner of a prime Prospect Street site in the "Village."The landlord had claimed a two-year dearth of suitable retail tenants. (Translation: no shop proprietor could meet his price.) So now there will be a big-bucks brokerage-office tenant on the ground floor of his Italianate building that fronts on a small plaza with a charming fountain. The corner site previously housed a small hotel and a street-level retail shop, Victoria's Secret, which attracted passing pedestrians and shoppers. The PDO in the commercial center of La Jolla encourages ground-floor retail establishments that attract strolling shoppers, with offices off-street or on upper floors. Prospect Street now has many street-level vacancies as other landlords undoubtedly hold out for astronomical rents or further erosion of PDO rules. One busy La Jolla builder, C.A. Marengo, is openly calling for ending the PDO. Tourists and other visitors to the main drags of Prospect and Girard in La Jolla this Fall may prefer window-shopping sexy lingerie over seeing sweaty-palmed financial analysts at their computers, navigating the iffy stock market. But volunteer planning groups, tourists and visitors are not represented by lobbyists who work for landlords and developers.— August 29, 2015 8:55 p.m.
Chargers, Airbnb, and Mark Fabiani’s vicious knife fighter
I think "swell" has strategic tunnel vision. This information about the client list of powerhouse lobbyists Fabiani and Lehane and their newest customer, Airbnb, is bad news for discombobulated San Diego homeowners who are trying to establish rules and regs for short-term vacation rentals in their once-quiet neighborhoods of neighbors, not party-hearty renters. The People will need to get their act together to prevail over "property rights" opportunists and cashiers of the "sharing economy" who have hired this killer team of Fabiani and Lehane to grease the skids with our development-friendly San Diego Planning Commission and ever-amenable City Council. Potter's description of Fabiani and Lehane's operation reminds me of Garry Trudeau's comic strip "Doonesbury." Trudeau invented a chemically-impaired flamboyant lobbyist named Uncle Duke who works for his ruthless son, Earl, with clients who were mostly dictators and tyrants, memorably a corrupt deposed President-for-Life of the Republic of Berzerkistan.— August 29, 2015 2:36 p.m.
Craft beer scene yields to burgeoning local heroin industry
You are a stitch, Walter Mencken.— August 29, 2015 11:58 a.m.
The state of the U-T and Tribune Publishing
Gosh, dwbat, you beat me to it. I was wondering if exiting the San Diego production facility of the U-T Mission Valley meant everybody or just printers. When will the staff move out and where will they go? It seems to me that relocation is a pretty big deal in its own right.— August 26, 2015 6:08 p.m.