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Manchester buys more San Diego papers
I advertise my small business in local community papers and when the UT bought the North County Times and essentially shut it down, it resulted in the loss of a major advertising outlet in north San Diego and southwestern Riverside counties. Advertising in the UT after that was more expensive and far less effective, so I had to stop doing it. I cannot tell you how happy I was to see that none of the community papers I still adveetise in are on the list of the UT's latest purchases! The UT has been calling offering three days of weekly delivery (including the Sunday paper) for 56 cents a week which also includes a digital subscription. That's essentially giving the paper away. As a newspaper executive, John Lynch makes a good radio salesman.— November 1, 2013 8:10 p.m.
Land owner Stuck in the Rough puts up fencing in Escondido
"I have for many years heard of a legal doctrine called "hostile and flagrant occupancy" which recognizes that if one person is using and/or occupying the property of another for a long time and without trying to hide it, he gains the rights to the property… Stuck has no right to complain, nor to put the fence where those encroachments are located. Is some attorney able to further explore that idea?" The whole purpose of "Stuck" going to court is to get an impartial decision. They have every right to file a legal complaint and I'm sure their attorney knows that in some instances what they thought was theirs may no longer be theirs after if goes to court. As for, "Since all the land use issues will be decided in the courts, it's totally gratuitous to harass the local home owners..." the way it gets to the courts is for each side to file complaints on the issues they feel need to be adjudicated. Each side in a dispute has the right to find their own attorneys who are able to further explore" the issues and then present them to a judge or jury to decide who is right. What I am surprised is that the residents have not yet formed a group to try to buy the golf course, instead of just spending money on legal actions that in the end will not gain them rights to control property which is clearly not theirs, i.e. most of the golf course. The chain link fence and brown ex-golf course have already had a major impact on property values, but their attorneys probably have not advised them there's little if any precedent in the law for a court to order the golf course reopened, the sprinklers turned back on and the maintenance crews rehired. But, there's less money to be made for the attorneys by advising a sensible course, as opposed to the hourly fees that will accumulate in a long dragged-out court fight to try to gain control of property they don't own and are unwilling to purchase. At the end of the day, the only guaranteed winners are the lawyers. San Diego County is over-built with golf courses and I suspect this kind of land use issue will crop up elsewhere. In the far eastern part of the county we already have the once notable Rams Hills Golf Course in Borrego Springs sitting brown and decaying. I don't expect though that residents would try to buy the Stuck property as the vast majority could not even be bothered to become residents of the country club they now feel is essential to their home's value. I don’t blame them, as golf courses have fallen on hard times and closed throughout the country: if the residents tried to borrow money to buy the course, the lenders would advise on why it's a bad investment. Meanwhile I’m going to retain the homeowner's attorneys. When I look out my window there’s a fabulous vista of an undeveloped hillside. I don't know who owns it, but they should not have the right to build on it since that would harm my view and maybe make my house worth less than it is with a great view.— October 28, 2013 10:45 a.m.
Papa Doug Manchester's nuptials to be before Christmas
If you didn't get invited, it means you just don't wear enough bronzer to run with Doug's crowd. So, when you get a mail order bride from Russia, does she come COD?— October 25, 2013 3:57 p.m.
San Diego tourism lags other California cities
The area around Old Town has always looked trashy. And, do tourists really come for the parks? That one seems like a stretch (except possibly for Balboa Park museums) . And, have you visited LA's coastal area? San Diego's Mission Bay and nearby Pacific Beach and La Jolla are a wonderland compared to many of the LA area beach offerings. And downtown San Diego's bayfront is still one of the most urban waterfronts you'll find. LA does have the very big draws ala Disneyland, Universal Studios, even Hollywood which has had renaissance of sorts (lots of tourists mingling with the street bums). It wasn't too long ago that San Diego was America's best kept secret as a tourist destination: Los Angeles and San Francisco have a decades-long lead over us in name recognition and top-of-the-mind awareness when it comes to vacation time. The fact that those areas might do a little better than San Diego during tight times should not be surprising. Granted a new stadium isn't going to help, but neither will false clams about the city's fitness or desirability as a tourist destination.— October 23, 2013 7:15 p.m.
Filner pleads guilty to one felony, two misdemeanor counts
"... the City will have closure only when they are removed from office." Yeah as soon as we clear up that JFK conspiracy we'll get to the cartel that made Bubba Bob resign and plead guilty because we know Bob would only do such things for the children (or maybe the "neighborhoods"). Maybe he can now quietly spend his retirement playing video poker with Maureen O'Connor.— October 15, 2013 3:09 p.m.
Miramar's air show and military contractor bash cancelled by D.C. politics?
Ah, the wandering wonderings of the professional conspiracy theorist: "it is certain that cancellation of the show has disrupted the well laid plans of the local business and military contracting establishment to rub shoulders with top Marine and Navy aviation brass at the annual event." Have you ever been to a Miramar air show? Many thousands of San Diegan County families look forward to them and thanks to non-government funding they would have been able to do so again this year, but an Administration to desire to make the "shutdown" as painful as possible led to the cancellation.— October 4, 2013 10:01 p.m.
San Diego overlords and unions — who can stop them?
"Says Norma Damashek, former president of the League of Women Voters, 'Labor unions have lost their way...They have sold out their working-class principles.'” That's an incredible telling statement in a story about labor unions getting higher pay for their members. Isn't that the goal of unions, not "working-class principles" which is merely a euphemism for a fringe leftist agenda? Of course, she need not worry about being abandoned by her comrades because while labor works for higher-paid jobs on projects that may or may not be needed, it also helps elect city councils and legislators who create policies that reduce the number of higher-paid jobs for the "working class." We can see that at work right now in Barrio Logan, where the process has been approved to slowly drive out the last waterfront maritime industries on San Diego Bay. Fear not Norma, despite the unions and because of the unions the working class will continue to be held back so that they remain beholden to government. And while we're all singing the blues about the supposed rotting neighborhoods, have any of you ever bothered to go out into the neighborhoods and see how much they have improved over the last decade or two, along Adams Ave, 30th St, Park Blvd., even nasty old El Cajon Blvd. (and University)? There has been a real renaissance in these outlying commercial districts that in fact happened at the same time Petco was being built, as the Gas Lamp was continuing to grow, as more downtown hotels and condos were being built. When we continue to hear time after time about the supposed neglect and decay, the speakers come across as either very naive or dishonest. This has become the Big Lie in San Diego. But, back to the point, why would that surprise us when labor unions are now accused of selling out because they strive for better jobs for their members? What is the emoticon for bemused head-shaking?— October 2, 2013 8:35 a.m.
Dig a hole: A.C. Lyles, the man from Paramount
Thanks for that - I met him in 1988 at a fundraiser in Los Angeles. A colleague was all stoked about the presence of A.C. Lyles, a name that meant nothing to me at the time. I wish now I'd taken the time to listen to him for 15 minutes.— October 1, 2013 5:07 p.m.
No strikers for Encinitas fast-food
"Might we conclude that by paying more, In-n-Out is more successful?" I think that would be quite hard to prove. The pay might explain why In-N-Out workers are mostly white kids, but it's the food that brings in the customers.— August 31, 2013 6:59 p.m.
Hueso, Emerald reconfirm statements on DeMaio behavior
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