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On "Jacob Calls For Investigation Of Sempra"
Wow... you just inspired some blog posts... at least CPUC won't let SDG&E bill us for the free asbestos dusting...— December 8, 2010 2:21 p.m.
The Horrible and the Miserable
Welcome to the rat-poison regiment. You at least got surgery. My 4-way bypass and 20+ stent implants are delayed until somebody at UCSD gets rich developing nano-scale robots that can do the job without blowing out my right coronary aneurysm. Personally, I'm not looking forward to that surgery all that eagerly because it will most likely prove to be a personal empirical experiment, answering the question as to the existence of God on my failure to make it back to the world. May you survive to see your next birthday. I should be so luck to live another decade to see 60.— December 8, 2010 2:04 p.m.
City to Spend $200,000 in Kessler Suit
Apologies... I was responding to a now-deleted comment here that was a solicitation for new students at South U. and Virginia College as private for-profit trade schools. Apparently, the poster's account is now deleted?— December 8, 2010 11:08 a.m.
Gary Aguirre forces hand of SEC
Thank you for continuing to follow this story. It helps to illustrate the problems of having government regulators who are too close to those that are regulated... or not regulated as in this case. There is a widespread pattern of not-so-innocent parties referring to allegations against them as "baseless" when all that is protecting them is their own lack of disclosure, sometimes masked as "trade secrets" or other proprietary information. Sunshine can be an effective disinfectant.— December 8, 2010 10:40 a.m.
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This ad to nothing belongs where? Classifieds? Better yet, SD on the QT?— December 8, 2010 6:05 a.m.
Chargers to Play 2012 in L.A., Says Columnist
Was that place anywhere near a private for-profit educational institution that refuses to publish its schedule of tuition and fees in a publicly-accessible location? What to think of schools with a 35% graduation rate... and that out of only 155 students? http://www.southuniversity.edu/pdf/student-consum…— December 8, 2010 5:59 a.m.
City to Spend $200,000 in Kessler Suit
I don't know about going to a Virginia College program that can't meet Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation standards. South University, maybe... but there are others a lot closer to San Diego than Georgia. Perhaps one is unfamiliar with Mr. Bauder's previous writings on "military friendly" private for-profit educational institutions?— December 8, 2010 5:44 a.m.
On "Jacob Calls For Investigation Of Sempra"
A time line of SDG&E acts and omissions leading to the guilty verdicts cited above: http://stickywebs.com/wiki/index.php?EncantoGasHo… When Sempra calls something "baseless", it usually means that despite the evidence, Sempra's Office of General Counsel found a legal way to avoid responsibility and/or guilt.— December 8, 2010 midnight
Bankruptcy — Good for San Diego
RE John Kaheny's comments on alleged success of the SDCERS investments this year: Hard to say this isn't all hype by Kaheny... or maybe he has access to all those secret Wikileaks documents on SDCERS that aren't ordinarily allowed to see the light of day. Here's a link to the latest quarterly report found at the SDCERS website... dating from June 2009. Seems there's no such reporting for the last five quarters. Correct me if I'm wrong, but even SAP's infamous OneSD bookkeeping system isn't that far behind on churning out data. At least, not yet. https://www.sdcers.org/investments/Quarterly%20Re… Oh... and for anybody who's interested, SDCERS reported investment return for all of 2009 was -19.2% (that's NEGATIVE 19.2 percent, nearly a loss of a fifth), or -3.5% for the three-year period including 2006-07, well before the Crash of 2008 while DJIA was somewhere around 14000 (p. 2, SDCERS Comprehensive Annual Financial Report 2009). By that measure, SDCERS would have had made just about 25% to get out of the red, from 2009 to now. Not even Kaheny gives them that much credit. Current employees should be wondering where that SDCERS June 2010 annual report actually ended up... or maybe Wikileaks has the only copy.— December 7, 2010 4:33 p.m.
City to Spend $200,000 in Kessler Suit
RE "The matter is on the consent agenda so it is all but certain to pass. The recommendation is for the city to spend the $200,000 to retain the Brown Law Group in its defense. But Janice Brown, founder and senior partner of the firm, has already been representing the city in the case in court since August": Perhaps the action with the capped payment to Brown Law Group signals settlement negotiations underway, as a decision to set a new trial date (where a jury trial should cost far more for Brown's participation than the stated amount) won't happen until at least the scheduled hearing mentioned in the blog post. Roughly half of today's agenda seems to be authorizations for payments to law firms... business as usual?— December 7, 2010 11:20 a.m.