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Zonie gets sick after Coronado swim
Might it be a good idea to shower and lather up with 2% hexachlorophene surgical soap after swimming anywhere near the border. Swimming in sewage is a dicey proposition.— August 21, 2018 6:02 p.m.
Live in Alpine? Get a generator.
Replacing those wooden poles with the new steel poles is a great idea, and SDG&E can do no less in light of the outrageous rates we pay for power. But the folks in Alpine are oh, so right; the timing is all wrong. If they have AC in Alpine, it is because they need it. The past month and a half has been just plain hot, and sticky most of the time too. No power means the refrigerator doesn't run, heats up, and food starts to spoil. And a whole host of other inconveniences. I thought electric power was supposed to be for convenience and modern life. For all the claims it makes about caring for its customers, SDG&E does whatever is most convenient for itself.— August 21, 2018 5:02 p.m.
Larry Lucchino, switch hitter on ballpark subsidies
Lucchino was doing the bidding of the boss when with the Padres. Later on, he was actually being intellectually honest when the WSJ quoted him. However, if he wants to have a career in baseball--not as a player of course--he has to play the game the way it is played now. That means shopping for the best deal the team can extort from a host city. As JW has described above, all this mis-allocation of resources is a cultural phenomenon. Cultures do evolve, and I see the beginnings of a change in the role and place of sports. Everyone needs physical activity, and sports are a great way to achieve that. But now we see these spectator sports appealing to those who don't engage at all. Universities that proclaim themselves to be temples of knowledge still have to field winning teams in football and hoops, lest they lose the link with alumni. If the tide is turning, it will not recede much within my lifetime, but the trend looks good.— August 20, 2018 5:24 p.m.
The get-away driver was 18
It is very likely that she could walk if she had just pulled over immediately when the cop car hit the lights and siren. Dumb, dumb, and dumb in her choice of friends.— August 18, 2018 9:14 a.m.
Headlock on man with hammer
He came very close, I'd guess, to being shot down with a real firearm. Assaulting a cop with a hammer would have given the other cops ample justification to use deadly force. And was we know, when they can use it, they often do.— August 18, 2018 9:09 a.m.
SDSU prez De la Torre gets raise to $441,504
You are totally correct. But try to convince school boards and those who decide salaries for college administrators those so-called high power educrats are out of line. The system seems to brainwash the decision-makers into thinking that nobody can run the operation unless the pay starts at about a quarter million bucks a year. What should happen and what will happen are poles apart, and this will continue--the new elite rules!— August 16, 2018 8:47 p.m.
Local home listing prices dropped 20 percent in June
We all keep speculating about why home prices are so high here in light of average household incomes. When they soar, it is speculation driving the prices higher; when the speculators stop buying and start unloading, the prices seem to drop. Much of this runup-and-then-drop pattern is what is called "noise" in securities markets, which trade daily. For reasons that are no longer clear to me, San Diego and environs is still seen as a sort of Paradise, and who will quibble about the price of a home in Heaven? None of this has made much economic sense in a very long time, and my only conclusion is that it isn't an economic matter at all. It all has to do with emotion and a desire for something that the place cannot really deliver. But SD comes closer to delivering than just about any other spot in the US, and that's "close enough."— August 16, 2018 7:55 p.m.
City Auditor heads for the hills of Beverly
San Diego's major loss and a huge gain for Beverly Hills. That city didn't hire him to be a lap dog; they had to know his reputation, and still want him. Even though it is a rich city it doesn't want waste and fraud, which is what SD has had in abundance for so long.— August 15, 2018 3:08 p.m.
SDSU prez De la Torre gets raise to $441,504
This choice of a new president of SDSU stinks to high heaven. She was right in the middle of a scandal that led to the firing of the chancellor of UC Davis. While the UC was investigating the matter, De la Torre refused to cooperate and stonewalled the investigation. While her boss went down, she (who was vice-chancellor) came out with her job intact, and then used it as a stepping stone to an even bigger job. I'd always thought that the CSU system regarded Cow Poly SLO as its crown jewel campus. Apparently that's not the case in that this new hire is now the highest paid campus president of all twenty-plus in the system. Alex, nobody really knows what they do. Some do darned near nothing. They might be worth it if they could get max efficiency out of the operations, but nobody really knows what efficiency in academia looks like. Any suggestion of stretching scarce dollars is seen as antithetical to teaching, learning, research and academic freedom.— August 15, 2018 2:55 p.m.
Move over, Ivy League. West tops universities
Forgive me for my continued skepticism of these rating systems and the results they produce. This system of ratings seems simpler and more transparent than many, but I still doubt those starting salaries. There is no way to verify salary claims made, and I've always questioned them, in that those who do well may tell the truth, but those who do not tend to inflate. Locally we can brag a bit about this high rating; let's just not take it too seriously.— August 15, 2018 6:53 a.m.