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Drop the shovel — more court for Plaza de Panama plan
I agree with the criticisms of the Jacobs Plan as a whole and the merits of SOHO's lawsuit, but it seems the main point here—and the one that will make it rain for Cory Briggs—is Prop B. Prop B is specifically intended to limit the issuance of municipal bonds for boondoggles by requiring a public vote for any project that isn't just a repair or expansion of *existing* and *vital* infrastructure, such as water and sewers. Our civic bleaters are proving exactly why it was necessary to pass it, as they pretend putting taxpayers on the hook for their billionaire bipartisan campaign contributor's vanity project is "no different" than replacing a broken main.— February 22, 2017 1:44 p.m.
Street repair must wait until wire undergrounding?
And then the next excuse will be that they need to wait for the sewer line and water main replacement to be done. How long ago were they talking about "working smarter" by "doing everything at once," so they wouldn't have to rip everything up several times? We saw how well that worked in Golden Hill: the different trades work kept conflicting each other so nothing got done *for years*. The city fits all the classic symptoms of a procrastinator: fear of outcomes, paralyzed by complexity, lack of motivation, and especially perfectionism and unrealistic expectations, inevitably followed by deflected responsibility, hostility, and laziness. The simple fact is that streets and other infrastructure need *constant* maintenance and money, but our civic leaders keep trying to figure out how they can crack the code that lets them only *sometimes* have to worry about spending money on this unglamorous stuff--and more on gaudy crap like football stadiums and Centennial Bridges that get their names on brass plaques.— February 16, 2017 11:30 a.m.
MTS responds to Baja Rail charges
"This legal action *currently* has no impact on the sublease with Baja Rail"? Why won't MTS answer the $1M/year question: Why the hell are they allowing PIR to keep holding the lease, let alone use it as an asset in bankruptcy court? PIR and its predecessors repeatedly broke and should long ago have lost the lease. And if MTS is so certain that Baja Rail is the best vender, then due diligence dictates they cut PIR out of the loop and deal directly with Baja. Schupps disclaimer suspiciously pivots on the word "currently." If it turns out they are going to allow Baja Rail to pay less than $1M/year for the sublease, then yes this legal action does *currently* have an impact, and there needs to be an investigation into criminal malfeasance on the part of MTS officials.— February 4, 2017 12:25 p.m.
Likely not the last binational railroad story
MTS is entrusted with the U.S. stretch as a public asset and therefore compelled to maximize its use to and returns for the public. But instead, they've let Alemany and the Forty Thieves break the lease by skipping every performance-based test, and let the railway continue to disintegrate, just so long as they got the $1M annual payment. So far, one *could* defend this as simple incompetence. But now MTS is letting this broken lease be claimed as a private asset, and the entire $1M a year/99 year deal bought out at bankruptcy rates of pennies on the dollar, with the difference pocketed by the swindlers, as a reward for literally doing nothing for over three years? At this point, one can only assume that there have been kickbacks to high MTS officials, as reaching this height of absurdity requires a criminal intelligence that garden-variety stupid can't explain.— February 2, 2017 10:56 a.m.
Trump goes swamp fishing
Hoover famously promised "a chicken in every pot." That was a year *before* the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. Now with the Dow finally touching 20,000, Trump is putting "a fox in every henhouse." How long will it be before *we* run out of poultry and eggs?— January 29, 2017 11:45 a.m.
Goldsmith loses, Briggs wins
I almost wish Jackass Jan were still in office, if only so we could see him simmer with rage at being outwitted and outlawyered once again. We need to add up all the money Goldsmith cost taxpayers filing lawsuits that actually *were* frivolous and make him pay it all back.— January 21, 2017 1:22 p.m.
NFL supposedly upset with Chargers' move
Looks like the NFL owners voted for the *option* for the Chargers to move, because blackmailing is their official policy; but didn't want them to move, because that would upset their balance of terror. Now the whole sham has been exposed, a precedent set for saying "NO!" to stadium hostage negotiations, and the value of other teams could depreciate as the Chargers become a liability to the league. Did I miss anything?— January 21, 2017 9:37 a.m.
Today the saddest day ever for Chargers fans
Now our next concern should be that our sleazy, breezy, Cover Mayor doesn't go secretly promising our tax dollars to relocate some other, *any* other NFL team, so that he can claim he kept San Diego a pro football town (at our expense).— January 12, 2017 1:20 p.m.
Regents Road bridge, deleted
What the HELL is going on with the city council and these community plan updates?! Not satisfied with putting taxpayers on the hook for a lawsuit to defend their Uptown plan update fiasco, the *very next day* after that suit was filed, they voted for a University City update that is also against what the community wants and in violation of CEQA. Guess we can expect a lawsuit on every update going forward, because council members keep putting their own political and campaign donor agendas ahead of acting on behalf of their actual constituents.— January 9, 2017 1:30 p.m.
Uptown preservationists sue city
Since it wasn't included in the article here, [here's a link to the full lawsuit][1]. Hopefully the trolls will read it, so it might at least appear they're informed about what's really going on before they rant again. [1]: http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/wp-content/uploads…— January 8, 2017 11:55 a.m.