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Wanted: one cheap deputy
Park host programs have been succesful at state, county and local parks for many years and there is no shortage of willing applicants capable of living up to the requirements. Now that they've invented the telephone, park hosts can easily call in the professsional gunslingers if they see or hear something big going down.— December 8, 2014 6:21 p.m.
Walmart protest a call to unionize
"If that Walmart Supercenter of theirs had to pay the same level of wages as the older supers, it would level the playing field to a large extent." "Level the playing field?" That's an interesting way to say "Raise food prices." God bless the Vons checkout workers, but it's not skilled labor: the job involves running barcodes in front of a scanner and, as proven in recent years, shoppers can do that themselves at the self-checkout counters. Except for unionized grocery stores, retail has always sucked as a career path and it was even worse when the typical non-grocery retailer was the so-called Main Street mom and pop shops, which offered very low pay and zero benefits.— November 30, 2014 8:01 p.m.
Pool for poor panned in U-T San Diego
Uh, did you read story or just the misleading headline? The UT didn't criticize the pool, but did run a story in which a representative of an esteemed "progressive" environmental law practice did, with the paraphrase saying the pool "has been singled out by some coastal environmentalists as a costly concession to the poor." The Reader's story then did that awakward segue from an evironmentalist's critcisms to the appointment to the water board of a guy whose employer has shockingly given campaign money to Democrats and Republicans! What kind of a fiend he must be!— November 29, 2014 7:42 a.m.
Some will lose Sunroad’s parking game in Kearny Mesa
This is social engineering gone awry. Certain elements of the bureaucracy have long hoped to force us onto the buses by ensuring new developments do not have adequate parking. "Why take 20 minutes to get to work," they say, "When you can hop on a bike or bus and take two hours? This utopian vision of mass transit and millions more in bike shorts makes for smug cliche responses, but in reality it is not a real-world solution to very real problems.— November 12, 2014 11:12 a.m.
And they're off (again)
Okay class here's today's math problem: During Del Mar's summer race season 16 horses died. The summer season had races five days a week from July 17 - September 3. The fall season has 15 racing days. Today's question: interpolating the results of the summer season, how many horses can expect to die at Del Mar between November 7 through Sunday, November 30? For a 10 point bonus, list one other "sport" where such a mortality rate is accepted as normal. Oops...we can't ask that: there is none.— November 10, 2014 8:30 a.m.
National hotel lobby funded wage referendum
Many of those groups/PACs are coalitions of small businesses and they are the employers most affected by an increase so why would anyone be surprised that they would band together to protect themselves? "Special interest money" funds EVERYTHING in campaigns. We are all part of many special interests that have PACs and lobbying organizations: renters, homeowners, business owners, unions, taxpayers, government aid recipients, environmentalists, churchgoers, LGBT, motorists, bicyclists, bus riders, liberals, conservatives, etc. You may directly not send money to them, but no matter your politics there are "special interest" groups spending millions and millions on your behalf to influence the course of government. The AFL CIO - a very big business - speng $30 million on political causes in the past year and big corporate honchos as Qualcomm's Irwin Jacobs give a lot more than that everyone year to Democratic candidates and so-called progressive causes. Don't you know when Obama gets on the phone to call donors (and all politicians do that that) he's not calling poor workers asking for $25 - he's calling rich business people.— November 6, 2014 1:28 p.m.
Expensive race card
Who created the transcripts in the first place and did Filner's office have an opportunity to sanitize them at the time?— November 6, 2014 12:57 p.m.
White-knuckle descent
"Pretty intense tailwinds to the West?" Actually no - the average wind speed in San Diego is 7 mph, compared with 10.6 in San Francisco and Kansas City, 12.2 in Oklahoma City, 12.3 in Boston. In fact, of the 50 largest US cities, only Phoenix has a lower average windspeed than San Diego. ( http://www.currentresults.com/Weather/US/wind-spe… )— November 6, 2014 7:41 a.m.
I did my very best for this city
"he is obese and will drop over before the end of his term." Well Madrid survived being drunk and dropping onto the sidewalk. Madrid is not exiting in a classy manner: instead, the best he can do is say he doesn't wish the new guy ill and after losing by a landslide he's still touting campaign slogans.— November 6, 2014 7:27 a.m.
Inevitable: death and board fees
"Local charities hoping for a fat payout from the newly enriched David C. Copley Foundation may be a bit disappointed by the non-profit’s recent report for 2013." Why would they be disappointed? The foundation has sold many millions of dollars worth of assets and has millions more to be liquidated, and the foundation board members got only a grand a month or less, small compensation for the responsibility of overseeing a multi-million dollar charitable foundation.. Sounds like the DCC foundation is being run a lot better (and more transparently) than, say, the Robert Peterson Foundation run (into the ground) by loveable liberal former San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Connor. Sounds like this Copley foundation is doing what one would hope: converting assets to cash, maintaining low administrative costs and taking a measured approach to donations.— November 5, 2014 7:49 a.m.