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Eastern Sierra not Eden
Oh great! The cops are afraid of those they think dunnit. Anyone who assumes that crime in rural areas is minor need to think again. That newspaper editor is nervy in just pointing out the lack of progress. Oh, and what if there is no evidence revealed by the crime lab? Back to Square One?— October 22, 2018 8:21 p.m.
L.A.Times gets Big Willie and Room 20
While I'm not voting in that district, the choice between Nate and Bahnee is a terrible one. Neither should be elected, yet one will be. These primaries are picking the worst choices instead of the best.— October 20, 2018 3:40 p.m.
Bankers Hill Mansion exemplifies both Roaring Twenties exuberance and refined European design
What's amazing for me is that it has survived for over 90 years, through all the wars, growth, craziness, without being butchered or bastardized or just ripped down. A series of owners must have appreciated what they had there and kept it up without destroying its character. Odd that I've no recollection of this home before. There are a number in that vicinity that keep getting featured in the media, but this one has stayed under the radar. So good to know that some older homes and structures in San Diego have been genuinely preserved.— October 18, 2018 7:27 p.m.
Jury awards contractor $200K in Central Avenue Mini Park fight
For every one of these small-fry operations that is used and abused by the city bureaucracy, there's another contractor or vendor who rakes in $ millions for doing or providing little or nothing. Doing business with that corrupt, slobberin' city requires knowing the right people and making the right payoffs. Without those things, you're wide open to being screwed over royally.— October 18, 2018 8:53 a.m.
Jury awards contractor $200K in Central Avenue Mini Park fight
If the U-T has a "good watchdog unit" it is something new; for a very long time it was a lapdog unit that tackled easy targets of little consequence. Actually, it was the Reader that did far more investigative reporting than the U-T, and revealed scandals that the U-T would subsequently take up. One reporter with the Reader who was doing an excellent job of exposing corruption in the city of SD was Dorian Hargrove. Recently he left the Reader to go to . . . NBC7.— October 18, 2018 8:50 a.m.
Without DST — I am confined to my condominium.
It is not at all clear just what Prop 7 would do. Today, under federal law, all states go on and off DST on the same day of the year. There is an option for a state to stay on standard time, something done by Arizona and Hawaii. All other states fully conform. The Prop seems to prohibit California from exercising the option to stay on standard time while other states shift. Someone must think the federal law will change. If it does, and depending on how it does, there could be many outcomes. One might be year-round DST. Another might be no DST at all (something I'm hearing is seriously under consideration.) Back during the "energy crisis" of the early 70's, we stayed on DST all winter at least one year. It was ridiculous how many of us had go to work or school in the pre-dawn darkness. NOBODY seemed to like that, and it was soon dropped. Annoying as they are, those cut-overs twice a year seem to satisfy more folks than they offend. There's all the talk about kids going to school in the dark, and that is a nasty detail. But it isn't due to DST or lack of it as much as it is actions taken by school districts. A whole lot of research has shown that kids do better in school if they don't start prior to about 8:30. Yet, I have seen situations where they were starting at 7:00 am. That was the case not so long ago when I was a teacher (I'm now retired) and had a college-prep chemistry class at 7 am. You need to be fully awake to handle that sort of academic rigor, and 7 am was absurd. Poor kids! (Poor teacher!) Some schools with a special earlier period had some students in their seats around 6:30. To me that's child abuse. When the schools are put on an effective schedule with a decent start time, educational results will improve, the kids will be happier, and everyone should win. As to why it is such a hard sell, I do not know.— October 17, 2018 4:59 p.m.
A San Diego version of MeToo
He is in a serious fix. May we assume that victim's age at the time (under 18) extends the statute of limitations in this case? There's probably little chance the video of the attack is still around and could be found and entered into evidence. We can assume that if anyone still has it, it will soon be destroyed, if it hasn't been already. Well, innocent until proven guilty.— October 16, 2018 4:32 p.m.
SDSU backer kicks in against rent control
Cities adopt rent control when there are many rentals occupied by many tenants and when there are few landlords. San Francisco and Santa Monica were like that in the late 70's and early 80's. We had punishing inflation and for a consumer who was also paying rent, it was pinching. The landlords were raising rents based on their own increasing costs, such as property taxes, and tenants wanted relief. They voted their own pocketbooks when they went for rent control, and in the short run at least got some relief. They weren't concerned about the longer run effects that would not be felt for many years.— October 16, 2018 4:24 p.m.
Dave Myers, rabble rouser
I can only assume that when he ran against Gore he knew it was the end of his career in the department. It took a large does of courage to go ahead and file. BTW, this is the first I read or heard of him being gay. So what? Something was very rotten when the local establishment brought Gore in and appointed him sheriff when Kolender had to quit. The local media were generally silent about Gore's role in the Ruby Ridge, Idaho siege and deaths of innocents there. If the local voters had been told the true story, we'd have heard nothing more about him. Back in the "keystone" Kolender era, he did have a deputy run against him. That guy wasn't a senior member of the department and nobody took his candidacy seriously. I don't recall what happened to him after the election. We can hope that Myers tries for it again. (What we could really hope for is that Gore's record and abuses of his office finally catch up with him, and the electorate decides on a change.) Highly unlikely, I know.— October 16, 2018 4:02 p.m.
SDSU backer kicks in against rent control
Rent control solves nothing, especially in the long term. It might be appropriate in certain places at certain times to deal with temporary rent abuses. Anything beyond five years just makes things worse. San Francisco has had rent control with various degrees of limits on rent hikes for forty years, mas o menos. It still has a problem of high rents and limited supply. Rent control does bring distortions to the rental market. Anyone, and there are not just a few, who has occupied the same apartment or house in SF since rent control was imposed has a huge bargain compared to the open-market price for a new rental. That keeps those who have those lower rents from moving, even if they would want to go elsewhere. To move would have a big cost impact, and for many it just would not be worth it. It also keeps single persons in units that could and should accommodate multiple tenants. If you don't want to share the place, and it is cheap, why get a roommate? So, it ties up the existing supply and keeps new arrivals out or paying very high rents for the small supply of vacancies.— October 15, 2018 1:28 p.m.