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Was Dan Broderick Really a Model of Integrity?
JV: Now, now, I am sure Fumbler is right. It's all the news reports, magazine articles and books that got it wrong, including pictures of the wrong house. ;)— May 14, 2008 12:04 a.m.
Purported Ethics Commission Pulls Another Slimy One. This Is So Blatant It Could Backfire
Don, I have not heard a peep out of Fromman since she left the mayors staff. Have you tried to contact her? Do you know any other reporters who have tried? I am wondering whether she has actively refused to discuss her time with the mayor, whether she merely avoids interviews, or whether it is simply that nobody has asked (for whatever reason). I wonder if there will come a point in time that she will candidly discuss her time on the mayors staff, including the treatment of her and the top people she brought in (such as Reynolds). It may be that she will speak in glowing terms of Sanders and his staff (i.e. she could lie through her teeth), but to date I have not read anywhere that the questions have even been put to her.— May 11, 2008 11:11 a.m.
Memo to Fred Sainz: Clean Up Your Language -- But First Learn How To Spell
Profanity filters are funny things. The UT forums profanity filter will not let you write the name "Hedgecock". It changes the offending word to "Hedge****". I find it strangely amusing that the UT forums profanity filter thinks the name of our former mayor is too vulgar to allow in print. It equally amuses me that it allows other forms, such as "Hedgepenis", with nary a complaint.— May 2, 2008 10:31 p.m.
Memo to Fred Sainz: Clean Up Your Language -- But First Learn How To Spell
Also, am I the only one that finds it absolutely hysterical that the UT prints a ridiculous editorial lambasting Aguirre on the very same day they print a story about Sainz email where Sainz feeds negative information to the UT editors to print about Aguirre? The editorial itself was classic Kittle. The piece says that "In the eyes of the law and any fair-minded person, Story is an innocent man.", yet the Mayor's own whitewash report said otherwise. The piece tries hard to imply that the judge dismissed the case for lack of merit, when in fact it was dismissed because the court would not allow the CA office to prosecute it and the DA and the AG refused to step in. The mayors office played politics and tried to poach $250K from the CA budget for a special prosecutor rather than pass it to the ethics commission as requested by the city council. I am still waiting for the mayors explanation for why the ethics commission hasn't fined Story. Think I'll get an answer soon? ;)— May 2, 2008 12:32 p.m.
Memo to Fred Sainz: Clean Up Your Language -- But First Learn How To Spell
Yeah, I agree with David. The mayor and Sainz (and by extension the UT) is trying hard to play this as another couple of swear words brought up by Francis or a supporter, while deflecting attention away from the real charge. The truth, of course, is that Sanders hired Reynolds in the first place so he was a member of the Sanders team (not a Francis flunky), and the most serious issue was Sainz trying to get the City Attorney IP addresses to give to the UT. The Sainz email is supporting info that he had an overly cozy relationship with the UT and was conspiring with them against the CA. That adds credibility to Reynolds main charge, rather than being the main charge itself.— May 2, 2008 12:21 p.m.
Chairman of San Diego GOP Co-Founded International Piracy Ring, Says Online News Website
Don, Web addresses are a little like computer directories. Just because they put up a page that says "coming soon" at www.fairlightcom doesn't mean that you cannot access a subdirectory such as I listed. You just need to type in the whole path. Another site of interest is http://www.fairlight.to If you go directly to http://www.fairlight.to/past/ you get a history of Bacchus, one of the key fairlight people. I also thought it was interesting that the internet country code top level domain is "to". I hadn't heard of "to" before, so I looked it up. Nope, it's not Sweden, it's ....(drum roll)..Tonga! (?)— April 29, 2008 6:29 p.m.
Chairman of San Diego GOP Co-Founded International Piracy Ring, Says Online News Website
BTW, The author should do more than just type in www.fairlight.com. The site is not dead, and has more if you go past the front page. For instance, you might find this page interesting: http://www.fairlight.com/files/CityAttorneySurvey…— April 29, 2008 4:28 p.m.
Chairman of San Diego GOP Co-Founded International Piracy Ring, Says Online News Website
This is some interesting reading: http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/FairLight "Strider (Tony Krvaric, founder mainorg code crack, ex No.1/WCC, 04/87-02/88)." "FairLight are a legendary Swedish demo and cracking group, born in april 1987 by two members of the West Coast Crackers (WCC), No.1 and Galahad. They decided they wanted new names, and thus became known as Strider and Black Shadow, respectively. "— April 29, 2008 3:54 p.m.
Three Former City Officials Charged by SEC with Fraud Are Receiving Generous City Pensions
Michael Uberuaga was city manager for 6-1/2 years. You need 10 years to be vested in the pension. Why is he receiving a dime? Purchasing years of credit should not count toward vesting, but the city council all want their 8 years of service to buy them a pension so they won't act. Also, 10.4 years should get him a 26% pension at the inflated 2.5% a year rate (which should be reverted back to 2%). Am I to assume that means that when he resigned in shame the city was paying him $233K a year???— April 15, 2008 6:34 p.m.
Union-Tribune's Internet Radio Will Be Off the Air Soon, Say Industry Pros and Newspaper Staffers
I guess the UT found it wasn't cost effective to directly compete with the on-air radio station they already own (KPBS radio, of course)— April 9, 2008 9:41 a.m.