Comic Relief
there is a new blurb under the make a comment section of comments We prohibit profanity, libel, spam, racial epithets, and the harassment and abuse of others. Any off-topic comments stand a chance of being removed. In other words: talk …
City College to Host First Fall Semester SDCCD Board Meeting
The San Diego Community College District's Board of Trustees will meet at San Diego City College on September 16. As that will be Mexican Independence Day, expect to see City College MEChA out in costume and in force. The District's …
The Most Beautiful Squirrel in the World # 5
Update San Diego 7/02/2010
On the story about the tax increment of CCDC, San Diego Downtown News, 7/2010 page 3. I moved to downtown San Diego in 1982 fresh out of the University of Minnesota in Mechanical Engineering. I worked day labor trying to …
If Mexico Sustains Sempra LNG Shutdown, Then Sunset for Sunrise Powerlink?
An issue for Sempra Energy has been brewing south of the border, rather quietly. What is unknown is the impact the issue might have on the alleged need for SDG&E;'a Sunrise Powerlink project. Sempra LNG has been running into judicial …
Independent Thought
Coronado
I want to die in Coronado. I came to this conclusion on Monday morning after dropping my boys off at Fiddler’s Cove for a week long sailing camp. When my oldest son, Andrew, stepped out of the car, he took …
No Park Wants the Homeless or their Dogs
This afternoon, as I stepped out of the Pacific Beach Library, I saw two police officers writing tickets for a group of homeless young people. One man was being cited for having his small dog – it looked like a …
Todd Gloria Silences His Critics on Facebook
Take a look at Todd's facebook page and tell me this isn't a pulpit for him as Council Member of District 3 versus a personal page.. http://www.facebook.com/toddgloria?v=wall At first I thought "this is great since Todd never reads or responds …
On Needing a Bigger Boat
As we approach the Fourth of July weekend, thinking about America today reminds me of that infamous warning in Jaws: “You're going to need a bigger boat.” This past decade has had a lot of surprises for us as a …
D-Day: The Beginning Of The End Of "Festung Europa."
"How long, on this longest day/ until we finally make it home?" --Iron Maiden, from "The Longest Day" on A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH. It was sixty-six years ago that "Operation:Overlord"--the sea-and-airborne invasion of the French Channel Coast, took …
PG&E Requests CPUC Rehearing on Commercial CCA Speech Rights
Pacific Gas & Electric Company has filed a request to strike a recent California Public Utilities Commission decision where CPUC regulates false and misleading commercial speech of investor owned utilities. The CPUC decision specifically addressed advertising by PG&E; and other …
Multiple WEBA Status Reports Submitted in Latest Round to CPUC
In a sign of great division among competing parties, three separate concurrent status reports were filed with California's Public Utility Commission, revealing no imminent settlement in the Wildfire Expense Balancing Account (WEBA) application by Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & …
Update San Diego 6/28/2010
It is time to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long, Hanoi celebrations and watch the three films about King Ly Thai To. He move the capital from Hoa Lu to Thang Long, now Hanoi. There is a series by …
Alpine, Supervisor Jacob Warn SDG&E & Forest Service of Wildfires
A San Diego Union-Tribune reader submitted an editorial letter "SDG&E; jumps gun on Sunrise link" over the weekend, indicating that "On June 16, Sempra (SDG&E;) or one of its contractors were using helicopters to land on the Cleveland National Forest …
Money Does Not Buy Wisdom...Nor Can Lucre Rent It!
"I believe in rags-to-riches/ and your inheritance won't last! So take your Grey Poupon, my friend/ and shove it up your a**!" --Aerosmith, from "Eat The Rich" on PUMP. Money can rent-or-buy many things; such as fame, friends, a quick …
riding out tomorrow..a Sunday musing
riding out tomorrow without prejudice of age or intuition as if beaches still can call with thunderous ocean waves powerful roughing up my shore taking them as they comes riding thru the foam lifting and projecting toward a thoughtful shore …
One Ugly Thirst
to Jenn To get this bad must take a serious imbalance of the humors: I find myself in Mission Beach– like literally in Mission Beach– waking up with half my face in the sand; a gnarly gash in my knee; …
Redevelopment Agency to Spend Half a Million on Blight Study
San Diego City Council members, wearing their Redevelopment Agency hats, approved the Centre City Development Corporation (CCDC) plan to conduct a blight study at a cost of up to $500,000. The blight study was a rider on CCDC's Redevelopment Agency …
Poem: A configuration of a stale situation
These unrealistic expectations I form from within this deficient position I’m in, leave me with nothing but hopeless anticipation for the creation of a stable foundation where termination is put to this endless rotation of that same tired explanation I …