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Mayor Dedina welcomes Marines to I.B.
This should enrage and alarm every citizen. No administration has *ever* deployed active duty troops within our own borders, and for damn good reason: it crosses the red line from our being a free country to one occupied by our own military. That's why any previous disasters and crises, even civil disturbances, only ever called up the National Guard. Once we get used to seeing full-time soldiers in the streets, it's just a matter of time before we become numb to our loss of liberty and their use against other so-called threats. But thanks Serge and everyone else rolling out the red carpet across this red line. Your service to the Fatherland will be noted.— November 12, 2018 12:05 p.m.
Phil Rath fined again
He was fined $5,000 on a minimum of $122,000 in income? That's not even 5%. I'm sure Rath Miller spends more on stationery. Unless there is some further consequence with teeth, such as being barred from bidding on public contracts or serving on public boards, there's every incentive to simply budget for ethics violation fees as another sunk cost of doing business.— November 9, 2018 10:50 a.m.
The slow end of the Kalasho regime
For someone who claims to be such a political mastermind, Kalasho ignores Machiavelli's most important advice to rulers: never believe your own hype. If the YouTube thing doesn't work out, perhaps he can get a job in the current president's administration? It's a perfect fit for incompetence and arrogance.— November 9, 2018 10:30 a.m.
Duncan Hunter's smoke-filled spending
Here's hoping that Hunter loses next week, so he can get a job with Block pushing cancer on his own time and pay for his mistresses out of his own pocket.— October 31, 2018 11:01 a.m.
John Cox or Venezuela
Both Trump and the GOP keep using Venezuela as a red herring for what they allege Democrats will do to the country. Which is particularly cynical, as the Republicans are actively turning us into Honduras, a military-backed kleptocracy, whose citizens are now fleeing for safety. How long before other world leaders campaign against their opponents, claiming they will turn their countries into the United States?— October 24, 2018 1 p.m.
Cops endorse SDSU West, get $5K from SoccerCity foe
Both sides are promising a chicken in every pot. Too bad the birds being cooked belong to the people, whose pots will go empty and won't get anything in return.— October 23, 2018 2:23 p.m.
Scandal for profit
I've noticed that this repeats that Trent Seibert died of unknown causes. Well as of 10/17 they've been made known: the Harris County coroner concluded "Primary Cause of Death - Hypertensive cardiovascular disease, Contributory Cause of Death - Chronic ethanolism." https://ifs.harriscountytx.gov/Pages/CaseStatus.a…, Case ML18-2978.— October 22, 2018 10:42 a.m.
Jury awards contractor $200K in Central Avenue Mini Park fight
The reason the city is able to get away with being such a deadbeat is precisely illustrated near the end: "APR’s contract with the City precludes them from collecting attorney fees so their compensation will barely cover their litigation expense and they will remain with their financial losses." In the private sector, these kinds of 'heads I win, tails you lose' clauses may be stricken during negotiation or ruled invalid for failing the test of adequate consideration. But the city knows it can count on one-sided indemnification. This lack of consequence for failed duty of care would be bad enough. But what this article reveals is even worse: that **it incentivizes the city to commit insurance fraud to pay for projects it has un- or under-funded**. I'd like to see an investigation into how often and for how much the city has made surety claims against contractors. The immediate victims here may have their hands tied, but their underwriters don't.— October 18, 2018 10:58 a.m.
November's ballot looms, but June cleanup continues
Pease is the left's version of Carl DeMaio— October 18, 2018 9:46 a.m.
Dave Myers, rabble rouser
Even if I had never met Dave Myers, I'd say that anyone would be a better sheriff than bully Bill Gore. But since I have met him, the realization of just how awful his loss was for the people of San Diego is even more acute. Hopefully Myers will keep up his civic engagements and continue to run for office, so that if the electorate finally realizes how they've been played by the establishment, he'll still be around to serve.— October 16, 2018 12:11 p.m.