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Tighter Times Ahead for California's Colleges
Not sure where your information comes from, but according to the 2011-2012 budget thet Brown signed, expenditures for Higher Educations are slated at about $10.737 billion and the CDRC budget is about $9.768 billion.I believe the total budget is just under $86 billion, so you can do the math on the percentages.— August 22, 2011 10:47 p.m.
NY Times Probes Issa's Business Deals
Didn't Don Bauder broach this subject earlier this year? http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/financial-c…— August 18, 2011 8:54 a.m.
Will Southern Cal Newspapers Combine?
I couldn't tell you about that one. Are you a Chargers fan and if so would you drive up to LA for a game? I'm not a Chargers fan. I follow the Niners, Patriots and Cowboys. So unless one of those 3 teams are relocating, I'm not all that interested. If it were a new expansion team, I might feel differently. But If I don't already follow a team, I'm not going to give up following a team or teams I have been following for decades just because the Chargers or any other team moves to L.A. Apparently, I'm not one of those " fanatics" Don Bauder writes about.— August 18, 2011 8:51 a.m.
Will Southern Cal Newspapers Combine?
That depends, surfpuppy619. Remember, the league sets primary markets and secondary markets. L.A. is a secondary market to San Diego and is affected by blackouts of the Charger games. If the Chargers are blacked out in SD, then they're blacked out in L.A. as well; you have to go to Santa Barbara or Bakersfield or Yuma to see them. It would be logical to assume that if the Chargers move from San Diego to L.A. then the league would just flip flop the primary and secondary markets. And the secondary markets aren't required to show the games anyway so maybe the San Diego stations wouldn't show them just out of spite. I have been told that if you have a direct tv dish, allegedly for your rv, that is registered in the Silicon Valley, say Cupertino for example, then in theory, no matter where you were, you would be able to get everything but the Niners and Raiders. Not that I have any personal knowledge of such things.— August 16, 2011 10:30 a.m.
Bar Closes Shames Investigation
Actually, surfpuppy619 is correct. According to Black's, once you are "learned in the law", you are a lawyer, licensed and practicing or not.— August 14, 2011 10:48 a.m.
Fed Comes to Market's Rescue
I disagree, surfpuppy619. There were and still are many issues needing resolution. Many of the things Obama has gotten personally into could have, and imo should have, been handled by his closest staff, advisors, cabinet, etc; his minions as it were. It's called delegation. Set the goals and expectations, tell them how far they can/can't go on their own and have them keep him in the loop, but getting involved only when necessary. That would have let him free to concentrate his own efforst on the economy. Look at Clinton. Four weeks after his inauguration, he annnounced his economic plan. That set the tone. I still don't think Obama has ever really truly come up with an economic plan, rather he just keeps throwing bandaids on it. You can say what you want about some of Clinton's other shenanigans, but he had a 66% approval rating when he left office. Even with 4 more years, I don't think Obama comes close to that.— August 13, 2011 12:27 p.m.
Fed Comes to Market's Rescue
I disagree completely. Such a comment demeans serious, well intended fools everywhere. I don't think the GOP has a candidate that could even be considered to have risen high enough to be considered a fool. Right now I would consider them to be at best like Marty Feldman's "Eye-gor" to Gene Wilder's "Dr. "Fronkensteen". In other words, they're an only somewhat comical parody of what a real life politician should be.— August 13, 2011 10:48 a.m.
Fed Comes to Market's Rescue
Obama's first, and only, priority should have been the economy. Period. That should have been his main focus on that BEFORE anything else. Of course their were other concerns that needed and continue to need addressing, but they should have been relegated to second tier status.— August 13, 2011 10:40 a.m.
Fed Comes to Market's Rescue
For me, unless something changes drastically in Obama's performance, it's not a matter of whom I would vote for. It's a matter of whom I am voting against. My first Presidantial election was the 1972 election. Since then, I admit I have had to resort to voting for the lesser of two evils on a couple of occasions. However, this time I feel it's going to be more a case of voting for the least of two incompetents in order to keep the other out of office. As I said, not voting for one candidate so much as voting against the other. Or perhaps abstention will be the choice de jour come next November.— August 12, 2011 10:26 p.m.
Fed Comes to Market's Rescue
"Don't blame Obama for poor driving, the steering wheel has fallen off." Yeah that may be so, but Obama is the one who has been in charge of maintainence for the last 2 1/2 years.— August 12, 2011 2:23 p.m.