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Revised WEBA Application by SDG&E Not Yet Available
UNABLE TO POST NEW BLOG ENTRIES: Until my posting problems at sdreader.com are resolved, all of my subsequent posts that I would have posted here will now be at http://blogs.myspace.com/a2zresource— July 16, 2010 7:51 a.m.
Ballpark Study Confesses: "We Hastened and Greatly Worsened the Glut"
If there was so much of a positive economic impact from Petco Park, then why in the blue blazes does CCDC need the Redevelopment Agency to have $288 million in HUD community development block grant-funded loans and not-so-legally accumulated interest forgiven by San Diego City Council members when they are not wearing their Redevelopment Agency hats? And since the Reader site is not allowing me to post new blog entries this morning (I had a good one on recent U-T editorial love fest with Sunrise Powerlink), Tuesday's City Council item 335 "Ceasing of interest accrual on [Redevelopment] Agency debt to the City and extinguishing of Agency CDGB and HUD Section 108 Debt to the City" was returned to staff by unanimous consent, the only item that doesn't list any council member moving or seconding any motion for action or the lack of it.— July 16, 2010 7:32 a.m.
Forest Supervisor Approves SDG&E Sunrise Powerlink
RE #2: There appears to be some connection between the Sunrise Powerlink project, $83 million in prepaid rent for half of that line's capacity by Boston-based Citizens Energy, and something called Sempra LNG's Energia Costa Azul project in Mexico...— July 14, 2010 12:07 p.m.
Forest Supervisor Approves SDG&E Sunrise Powerlink
RE #1: If WEBA is approved by CPUC, then the additional overhead line costs involving uninsured wildfire legal expenses will certainly be passed on to SDG&E customers. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/encanto-gas…— July 14, 2010 12:02 p.m.
Moon Ownership, Popcorn's Aroma
RE Moon & Mars: Buried in bowels of the San Diego County Public Law Library, there are volumes of UN space treaties with commentary on how outer space is for everybody and thus nobody... but not actually enforceable from the early 1960s on except by those powers with true space-lift capability...— July 13, 2010 11:49 a.m.
1.2 Million SDG&E Residental Customers to be Billed by Time-of-Day/Week
RE #2: SDG&E appears to understand that it doesn't have to pay out a cent for confiscated electricity from home generation as long as homeowners are scared off from applying to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as Qualifying Facilities. RE $3: At least the blog postings and comments that do come in provide some sort of record on the search-engine term "SDG&E" for news...— July 13, 2010 11:44 a.m.
How Lobbyist Tried to Sway Pat Kruer
This does not appear to be about Dr. Susan McCabe, Full Professor of English, University of Southern California, but rather the owner of McCabe & Company, also of Los Angeles and Sacramento: http://www.mccabeandcompany.net/ The latter McCabe "developed an expertise in land use matters as Principal Consultant to the Assembly Energy and Natural Resources Committee, as a member of the California Coastal Commission, and as executive director of an environmental organization concerned with coastal land use issues. Ms. McCabe has represented dozens of clients as a legislative advocate in Sacramento drawing on her grasp of diverse issues, strong bipartisan legislative contacts, and in-depth knowledge of the legislative process. Ms. McCabe also specializes in consulting and advocacy for a wide range of clients with projects before the Coastal Commission. Her Coastal Commission client base ranges from major landowners with mixed-use projects, to individual homeowners seeking permits for their homes, to local governments advocating public works projects or processing local coastal programs and amendments. Ms. McCabe received her Master of Public Administration and her Bachelor of Arts in Community Health from California State University Sacramento" (from the company website). Note her prior self-admitted term(s) as a Coastal Commission member, which should be an ethical bar to lobbying current members, but apparently is not.— July 12, 2010 3:17 p.m.
1.2 Million SDG&E Residental Customers to be Billed by Time-of-Day/Week
RE Peaker Plants: See Eric Wollf's short report at: http://www.nctimes.com/business/article_afcf17e7-…— July 12, 2010 3:02 p.m.
Judge Confirms Ruling; Sanders Must Give Deposition
RE "Sanders's deposition will be limited to certain topics. I doubt if the Sunroad scandal will come up": Because Hiz Honor has had this semi-formal policy in place where no news emits from the City unless Hiz Honor's ofice had a chance to clear it for public consumption, the situation appears to be that Judge Meyer's lack of formal deposition limits would allow Kessler's attorney to raise questions about the well-guarded normal order of City practices regarding contacts with all sorts of developers, contractors and other vendors in an attempt to discovery how much mayoral involvement there normally is in how City workers interact with those vendors, etc. Judge Meyer did refuse to grant City's motion for mayoral protective order on the ground that Hiz Honor has facts that cannot be obtained from any other source, facts germane to Kessler's allegations. Judge Meyer did instruct the City Attorney's office that it had the opportunity to raise objections if it felt the questioning strayed too far away from relevancy, where Judge Meyer would later rule on sustaining the objection or not. Clearly, Hiz Honor's news release prior-clearance policy does make him a unique source of facts not otherwise obtainable by Plaintiff... and evasive mayoral answers may only result in more depositions of lower-level city personnel as they are implicated by Hiz Honor's testimony or lack of it.— July 12, 2010 11:56 a.m.
Little Italy Association Recommended for Parking Contract
Wasn't another San Diego parking district matter in the news recently, one where oodles of dollars were spent per parking spot over a period of many years? I thought that the press was on to end that City-district contract...— July 12, 2010 11:40 a.m.