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Investor-owned utilities with sky-high rates
Don, Could you put that last sentence all in caps with italics for visual emphasis? Brown didn't spawn this mess, but after inheriting it he made it worse, not better.— July 21, 2018 3:40 p.m.
County unemployment rate rises sharply
Don, I"m a skeptic of these employment and unemployment stats, especially as they move from month to month. The jobs report seldom meshes well with the unemployment figures. This swing looks like a measurement issue to me, and not a real change. And I definitely don't think it ever fell as low as a real 2.9%.— July 21, 2018 3:34 p.m.
Faulconer vacation rentals voted down —UPDATED
The not-so-strong mayor got pasted today. And it's about time. Oh, this vote will be challenged in court for years, but the clowncil did the right thing. Now the slog in the legal trenches will begin, and undoubtedly enforcement of the new regs will be blocked for months or years. With every passing day, Kev-boy comes across as less relevant in the city. He's touted as having higher-level political ambitions, but in this "deep blue" state, just what are they? I'd also like to point out to the constituencies of Cate, Sherman and Kersey, that it is time to reexamine why they voted for them. If they're all for Airbnb, and all that stands for, then they should love them. If they want to live calmly and fairly quietly in their 'hoods, then those three should be sent back to private life ASAP. As Bam said not so long ago, "elections do have consequences", and in SD, those consequences can be extensive (and expensive) indeed.— July 16, 2018 9:17 p.m.
Publication takes fun jabs at posh exurbs
Those comments were scarcely up to the standards of the publication. Neither was very telling, and were not amusing. If someone really wanted to skewer RSF or any of the others mentioned, they could. RSF provides plenty of ammunition every week.— July 16, 2018 4:59 p.m.
Have a fraud or environmental complaint?
Anyone really surprised here? It's the same sort of buck passing and confusion that has been everyday procedure at City Hall since the 70's (and maybe longer, but that's before my time.) In the 70's the city attorney, and I think the DA too, set up consumer fraud departments in the aftermath of the Nader and other disclosures. There was a particular female attorney in the city operation, one who had a subsequent career as a judge, who was known as a real attack dog. (I mean that as a compliment.) One repeat offender who operated a string of appliance stores was actually jailed after a long string of consumer frauds. After Prop 13 passed in '78, the cost cutting in local government resulted in much less emphasis on consumer abuses, and I was not aware if any of those things ever got attention afterward. Apparently that was still alive and kicking until now. But the city can make up many ways to stiff the voters. This all suggests that the current city attorney, whatever she does, would like to see that sort of mundane complaining go away. When will the city ever gets its act together?— July 12, 2018 7:05 p.m.
For pennies, you got stake in marijuana company
That brings up--and I'm going off-topic here--the matter of penny stocks that once were priced above the penny stock cutoff of say $10 or $5. The number of such issues that drop that low and then subsequently recover is painfully small, as I understand the situation. I had one stock that actually came back, but recall it being the only one that did that. So, now we can wonder about GE, which has been as low as $12.61, and closed today at 13.99. That's dangerously close to the penny stock category, and a huge comedown for a company that was a blue chip stock for decades.— July 11, 2018 3:49 p.m.
For pennies, you got stake in marijuana company
Good point. The trip in the cloudy water took an hour or more. I doubt that I could have remained calm, breathing through a tube, my face in a mask, for that long. (They might have used an old tried-and-true medication, morphine.)— July 11, 2018 12:25 p.m.
For pennies, you got stake in marijuana company
Yep, can't understand why I forgot that one, 'specially since it seems so popular now. And you're right about the users.— July 10, 2018 7:54 p.m.
For pennies, you got stake in marijuana company
So, 'way back in time almost forty years ago this dude did hard time. Seems as if he didn't learn much from the experience. Well, either that or he's suffering from dementia, and can't remember it. There is mucho dinero to be made from pot/marijuana/weed/grass/cannabis (did I miss any of the names?) legalization. But it will go to those who really know the ropes of this transition from illegal to legal. And the dubious opportunity offers many openings for fraud. An "investor" looking for a killing in weed needs to tread very lightly and trust just about nobody.— July 10, 2018 5:47 p.m.
Testing surges again at corporations
There are many, many tests that can be used to measure something. But how does the user determine if the test is valid? The answer is usually that the user cannot actually find out. One test that has been around for generations is the Wonderlic Test, and it has been used by employers for that long. But does it validly measure "cognitive ability", whatever that means, with some certainty? Oh, the business that sells it keeps changing the questions, and it is reliably reported that it was designed in a way that most test-takers cannot finish it in the short time allowed. Makes you wonder (pardon the pun) doesn't it? Unless the tests have been extensively tested and validated, they have no place in the hiring process. A physical fitness test is one thing, but one with tricky questions, like the one you mention, can be most misleading. Businesses and other organizations that make extensive use of such tests may end up with poorer hiring decisions than those which just rely on intuition. Anyone heading into the hiring process should have a queasy feeling about such testing.— July 10, 2018 8:02 a.m.