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KPRI finds Jesus
Once they buy these stations, it doesn't cost much to run them since there is zero local content and no ad sales people. How many employees will KPRI need now, if any?— September 29, 2015 10:02 a.m.
KPRI finds Jesus
Yep, and one night a week a high school kid by the name of Ken Leighton came by to read news about his school. I hear he never amounted to much and the last I heard he was seen stumbling along Coast Highway in Oceanside asking people how to get to Hill Street.— September 28, 2015 10 p.m.
San Diego killer drones for North Dakota
"Big Sky Country of North Dakota" - "Big Sky Country" is the nickname of neighboring Montana— September 22, 2015 8:24 p.m.
What's next for Union-Tribune real estate?
Who says there's no money in the newspaper business? He's getting something like $50 million for the real estate. Platinum paid $35-50 million for the UT, sold it for an estimated "over" $110 million. Manchester now sells for total $135 million and still has some stake in the real estate he just sold. It looks like the UT could have generated as much as $75 million total "profit" for the last two owners and I'll bet Manchester's got some sort of deal that gives him a share of future profits.— September 11, 2015 8:54 p.m.
San Diego tourism marketing...like advertising birthday cake
"Can someone name another industry where you get government to approve a "fee" on their clients/customers and then gets to keep the fee to promote its own business and enhance their profits." Yes, agriculture.— August 20, 2015 7:58 a.m.
Old Town's old pepper trees targeted
Those are not native trees: they damage sidewalks, leave messy berries all over and generally are a nuisance. They used to be common for landscaping in housing developments and if you've had one in your yard or - as was common - in the sidewalk median strip, you know first hand the problems with these tree-sized weeds.— August 16, 2015 11:45 a.m.
The real Hollywood
Great story: did you heado to Pink's for a dog after that, or perhaps Dupars?— August 16, 2015 11:37 a.m.
Polls by Lincoln Club, Chargers diverge widely
9 out 10 people surveyed said they do not trust polls. "Fabiani points out that Nienstedt was paid by the Lincoln Club, which has been attacking the Chargers through Facebook ads" Did Fabiani also point out that Baselice and Hart were paid by the Chargers, which has been attacking local officials? Nienstedt has many, many years of polling experience and if he was going to cook the numbers it seems like he would have come up with something than 51%. When you factor in the typical error rate in these polls, the "favorable" number could be as low as 46%. Conversely the other polls could be as high as 35% favorable. While Nienstedt's clients might want to tout their numbers as showing support, John's been around enough to know that 51% (or 46%) is cutting it too close for comfort and it's not the kind of numbers that let one conclude, "The people want this." Polls such as this are easily manipulated to skew the results by changing the wording just a bit. The Charger's guy asks, "Do you favor or oppose spending at least $375 million of taxpayer money..." Imagine changing that to "Would you be in favor of limiting the public contribution to a new stadium to no more than one-third of the total cost?" It would be interesting to see what Neinstedt actually asked. Bottom line: none of these numbers look too good for proponents of public financing and it appears the Chargers goal was to come up with numbers they can later tout as reasons for moving north.— August 13, 2015 9:50 a.m.
No to Ridgewood Park eucalyptus cell phone tower
"shall not be used for any but park, recreation or cemetery purposes" So, legally what are "park...purposes?" It is easy to find public "parks" that have hotels in them, many more that have small concessions selling food, others with rentals of bikes,beach gear, etc. There are parks with easements for power lines owned by for-profit companies. So to say you can't sell anything in a park is not correct. It's expected that a park concession sells things appropriate for park visitors, but if you've ever been to the gift shop in a National Park you know even that is not always the case. In today's world cell phones are not just a nicety, they are the center of our communications infrastructure. Do cell towers serve the public interest? Do they serve visitors to public parks? The answer to both is a big "yes," no matter how much some of us hate to see folks in the great outdoors who are looking down at the screen and not looking up at the view. The NIMBY's not only fail to understand the shades of gray in interpreting any law, but also accuse the council and mayor of personally making a buck from cell towers. I suspect that if and when they get their day in court they will end up inadvertently helping to establish that the list of legal "park purposes" is much longer than they'd thought.— August 7, 2015 10:18 a.m.
Radio star Lucia has lost home; lives with son
"His screechy voice on AM radio..." We have to give Ray his due here: he is, or was, quite the singer - no screechiness at all - in the 1970's when he was a school teacher who performed weekends under the name Rocky Lucia as part of the nightclub duo ONE with Gary Williams. Hope he set aside some money for old age.— August 6, 2015 9:42 p.m.