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Handicap placard abusers on notice
A potential amendment to your idea would be having a couple different categories of placards, with different color schemes. One, the main Blue with the White symbol, for those with obvious visible disability (Wheelchair, crutches, etc.) Another, a White with a Blue symbol, for those with non-visible disability. Those with breathing issues, or heart problems, or other issues, unable to walk long distances without having difficulty. These would be required to have paperwork accompanying the placard to present to law enforcement officers upon request for verification. (This should keep most busybodies from assuming someone is cheating) Said paperwork should not list the actual medical reason, but should have the person's name and doctor's info for verification.— October 16, 2015 3:47 p.m.
Big trouble in Eastlake III
I'm curious. The article refers to "the activists". Are they the residents that are going to the board meetings, looking for answers? The article makes it appear almost negative, in the way it describes activists getting another seat on the board. (Without knowing who are being referred to as activists, I'm not really sure.) Hey, I'm all for members of the public trying to get involved, picking up the slack where board members may not be doing. I note the info about petitions to recall the entire board. (New board member activists as well?) I see that Reed appears to be trying to ascertain details about what the HOA is paying for. If so, why would members be trying to recall him as well? As for the mention of McCann, Reed wanted to enlist the aid of McCann to resolve some of the property issues. Did Reed contact McCann? (Or any of the other Chula Vista Board Members? Can he ask others, or is it only McCann covering that area?) It was noted that McCann's wife signed the recall petition, but if Reed is actually attempting to aid the HOA with these matters, why would McCann not assist in this aspect? (I don't see this article as attempting to slight McCann. It doesn't say anything that McCann did or did not do, only that Reed wanted to get his help, but....)— September 30, 2015 2:16 p.m.
Sweetwater district sued from Texas
Curious... I do believe I have seen someone post under the name Erupting in the past, on stories posted by Luzzaro. However, we seem to have someone posting on this story as Eruption. Appears to have signed up this week, and has only posted twice on the Reader, here in this story. It appears to be that someone has created the similar name to troll the site and harass Mr. Hargrove, as someone has called it. ( I may be wrong, but that is what it looks like.)— September 18, 2015 7:50 a.m.
Sweetwater district sued from Texas
Elevation- my apologies. I was offering my point of view on the "false information" part of your statement, keeping an open mind as to the possible reasons it may have been given. I had not realize you asked me a direct question, and not a rhetorical one. I suppose spending 3-4 hours with a lawyer giving a statement could be considered a long time. It would depend on whether the lawyer was merely getting the details from me as I could best remember them, or if he was hounding me until he got the desired results he wanted to twist them into. As for the choice of schools for your kids, I don't know those schools well enough to make a good recommendation. If your kids have an aptitude for science, math and technology, I would probably lean towards High Tech Middle and High, if they could get in. I'm not sure on the Alpine schools. Charter or public? Public may be limited. From what I recall, there is no public high school as Grossmont District hasn't built the campus in Alpine as promised with bond money that was voted on. The public middle school may dead end, sending kids back west to another Grossmont school.— September 17, 2015 9:17 p.m.
Sweetwater district sued from Texas
Would not necessarily say false information was provided. An event may have happened to which the employee may have perceived there was harassment where none existed. Or, harassment may have actually happened, but not enough evidence was found to support the allegations. (He said / she said) I don't know. I wasn't there.— September 17, 2015 2:27 p.m.
Sweetwater district sued from Texas
I'm not sure the details of the case. I vaguely remember some sort of harassment complaint on Bleisch by a teacher or staff, around the time the district was denying spending extra money sprucing up CPM for the visit by Duncan. I don't have any opinion one way or the other on this. Not until I can read more on the lawsuit. As for Elevation and his posts here, I do remember a post by him on The Star News site a while back stating something big was going to break soon. I guess this was it. I do find his posts here along the lines of a playground taunt. *"I know something you don't know"* Not much details, a lot of hot air. Regarding the "investigation by a credible law firm", that really doesn't mean much. Lawyers would argue whether a glass is half-full or half-empty. We've seen "recommendations" in the past that have gone in two directions. The second law opinion, withheld by McCann years back, that suggested the district could terminate Gandara with cause is one that comes to mind. And lawyers don't have to work pro bono on cases. It just seems more impressive. Does not necessarily mean it is a winning case. The only thing now is to wait and see the outcome of this, keeping an open mind. Let me get my popcorn and drink ready. This might get interesting.— September 16, 2015 10:53 a.m.
Big bust at the Grape 'Street dog park
"*Beginning with an April 22nd coordinated sting during which 12 tickets were issued, 26 citations were handed out within three weeks, frustrating many park visitors who claim they’re being collectively and indiscriminately punished for the actions of a small minority of irresponsible dog owners.*" Would the people claiming to be indiscriminately punished for the actions of the small minority happen to be any of the 26 cited for not following the posted rules?— July 1, 2015 10:52 a.m.
Only a fence between them
Looking online at API scores shows the schools are doing well. CVLCC dropped a bit since this last year, but it still had a score of 849. By comparison, only 2 of Sweetwater's high schools have done better. The elementary school's scores have risen in that time as well, so the students don't appear to be affected negatively at all, education-wise.— February 26, 2015 10:08 a.m.
Only a fence between them
Thanks. That's a good start.— February 25, 2015 4:19 p.m.
Only a fence between them
The link, as you have posted, did not seem to work. It looks like www. needs to be entered in front of the address to work. I started checking some of the board agendas to look for verification. (Wow, 200+ page pdfs take a bit of time to download, but they are so much more detailed than Sweetwater board agendas.) I searched a couple of them, but did not see any reference to creating a high school. Could you point out a specific meeting that you found such a reference in 2012? (Don't need the very first, but at least a meeting where they discussed would help me find a reference) Also, unless I've missed a comment (possibly made and removed?) I don't see what I would consider a personal attack.— February 25, 2015 2:57 p.m.