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County supes sidle up to Trump
Glad that Gaspar lost the Congressional Primary. She is already a huge embarrasment to San Diego County..— June 11, 2018 9:58 a.m.
Ex-Gay Community Publisher Portantino Takes Own Life
DA's Office, if they were conducting a "politically motivated investigation" and/or harassing Portantino, could be culpable for his death. Family and survivors should sue the DA's office. Best way to find out if this guy was being sandbagged and run out of business because he ticked off a few powerful people in town.— December 22, 2010 10:55 p.m.
NY Times Questions For-Profit Colleges' Exploitation of Veterans. Bridgepoint Criticized
Most of these online diploma mills are a waste of time and money. They charge students full tilt tuition for information they could get for free online or pay $20.00-30.00 for a do it yourself book that teaches the student more than these fraudsters. The instructors are each assigned thousands of students to "teach and advise" it is a pathetic joke and an impossible task. The degrees offered are not worth the paper they are printed on and graduates will find that out when they apply for and interview for the better jobs which they will be screened out of or turned down for. These online schools are just a blatant ripoff of the Federal and State student loan programs. They get together as a special iinterest group and hire an army of lobbyists and lawyers and bamboozle the so called "free market advocates" in Congress into ttaking a "hands off approach" to their scams. They know that Congress will only act when the proverbial horse manure hits the fan, so they figure they will cart off as many millions as they can before Congress "catches on to the scam and bans their practices.— December 22, 2010 10:27 p.m.
Chargers: Look at Petco Park Failure
Padres fans feel like they were bamboozled by ownership. Moores gets huge amounts of city land for development downtown and a sweatheart deal at taxpayers expense for the new Petco Park. Moores/Padres promised to spend money and increase payroll once the new stadium was in place to be competitive every year. Padres payroll has gone down since they left the Q and is actually vying with Pittsburgh and KC for the lowest payroll in MLB. The 38M figure the publicly release for 2010 is inflated. Padres payroll was essentially under 30M. New ownership is similar to the old "Gang of 13" from the Tom Werner era----penny pinching----too cheap and essentially financing the purchase of the team off of fan generated revenues and not putting the $$$$ back into the team to build a contender. Fans have stayed away because they are not stupid. They know the team was not "built to win". Moraad was waiting for the team to tank so they could unload Gonzalez and Heath Bell and pocket the $$$$. Fans did not believe the team would make the playoffs with its very thin roster. Once owership shows it is serious, credible and with a long range plan to win, then the fans will be back.— December 22, 2010 10:38 a.m.
San Diego schools, parks, safety suffer to pay for the Chargers
Chargers fans who attend games should help pay for any stadium privately, leaving the over taxed rest of us out of it. I do not have a "dog in the hunt"(aside from being an overburdened taxpayer like many others) and don't get me wrong, I respect those who are actually trying to fix the budget mess, but why have people not "vetted" De Maio and where he came from and how that relates to his so called "reform proposals"?! From reports I have read, De Maio made a bunch of money getting "no bid contracts" from the Bush Administration from his days in DC. De Maio sold old recycled ideas that have been around for decades such as privatizing government services and smaller government ect... sounds like it was stolen from Jerry Brown's 1970's playbook). De Maio then used his Republican Party contacts to secure a few private sector contracts too. De Maio then sold his interest in those firms for millions of dollars to Republican Party operatives. So basically, De Maio's "past success" may be a mirage based on his contacts in the Republican Party and business establishment. Who is really backing this De Maio guy and what do they want??!! Will the private outsourcing of City work be "steered" or "directed" to whoever is backing De Maio?! (similar to the Naval Training Center deal going to insider Corky McMillan??!!) Also, my research reveals to me that "privatizing" is overrated. It goes over well with us voters because it sounds good like "cutting taxes". But many governments have found that "adding a layer" of management seeking to make a profit off government services does not produce the savings that proponents claim in many areas since the private sector needs to make a profit and many of the functions cannot be done "on the cheap" if you want quality work done. The County of San Diego has found that when internal departments competively bid agains the private sector, manytimes it is cheaper to keep the work "in house" at the County rather than privatize it. Private sector firms wanting to make a profit and requiring employess with advanced degrees for many of these specialized contracts cannot pay competitive rates to highly skilled and educated with advanced degree employees and still make a profit. Again, a few departments may be privatized (like gardening and maybe less skilled jobs) but De Maio and many others thinking that privatizing a vast majority of city services are the "majic beans" that will save the city from possible bankruptcy money may be in for a rude awakening.— December 17, 2010 12:43 p.m.
Bankruptcy — Good for San Diego
Former Reagan Budget Director David Stockman is currently working on a book with the working title: "How Misguided GOP Tax Policies Destroyed The American Economy".— December 14, 2010 1:33 p.m.
Bankruptcy — Good for San Diego
Mike Aguirre had good intentions, but took on too many issues at once. I was happy to finally have a City Attorney who was not just a lapdog for the Mayor and Council. If someone like Mike Aguirre with some brains and guts had been in office during the Pete Wilson ERA, then this crazy unsustainable pension plan for City workers would have been objected to loudly and, possibly blocked OR there would have been a major streetfight over it for all the public to see on the record. Didn't Aguirre get the 150M Rocque de la Fuente lawsuit reversed and saved the City 150M??!! I think that is great legal work.— December 14, 2010 1:30 p.m.
Bankruptcy — Good for San Diego
Bermie Sanders is a hero to many. please see Short 15 minute speech link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5OtB298fHY America is going down the wrong road and it must change or our leadership in the world will be over...finished...caput.— December 14, 2010 1:23 p.m.
Bankruptcy — Good for San Diego
Don Bauder for Mayor of San Diego. Don appears to be one of the few who utilizes both the financial & common sense parts of his brain regarding government finances in SD. Too bad he has retired to Colorado. SD's loss is Colorado's gain. When Jerry Sanders first ran for Mayor, a lawyer also ran on a City bankruptcy platform and was supported by Diane Shippione(sp?). It appears that BK is the best plan for SD. Just tweaking things like Sanders or De Maio or others propose will not work. De Maoi's plans are flawed since it targets only certain Civil Service employees and lets Police, Fire, Council and Staff "off the hook". It also does nothing to stop the cronyism and back room deals with the "well healed and well connected" that suck huge taxpayer subsidies out of the public treasury and are one of the primary reasons that the City budget has become a "shell game" moving funds around to cover the shortfalls from backroom deals. Don Bauder is one of the few who see the whole, true picture of the shenanigans(a.k. a. the City budget process) and has the guts to publicly expose it for what it is.— December 3, 2010 11:40 a.m.
No Plea Deal for Madoff; Could Spend Remaining Days in Prison
Don, I read in a few different places, and you won't believe this, that Madoff's son in law worked as an inhouse attorney in the enforcement division of the SEC. Also, Madoff was so much a part of the "Old Boy Network" and leadership of Wall Street that the SEC probably never took the reports of improprieties seriously or, more damaging, may have looked the other way (maybe some of Madoff's in house friends at SEC were benefitting financially from this 30 year setup/ Ponzi scheme). Also, Madoff's lawyer invested and he was still defending him so maybe he got more than his moneys worth back? Can't see how a NY Judge would let Madoff stay free in a multi million dollar penthouse apartment while this is sorted out---Crazy and shows that Justice system may be corrupted too. This case is starting to look and sound like an episode from "24". I just do not see Jack Bauer around when you need him.— March 11, 2009 11:33 p.m.