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City sued for halting construction on mixed-use project near SDSU
Quite a discussion at the RCC (Rolando Community Council) meeting last night. A bureaucrat or two has been ousted/demoted/whatever-you-do-to-a-completely-incompetent-(at best)-bureaucrat over this, which is really quite an accomplishment in itself. Trouble is, it's the same argument as the pension fiasco. Right, wrong, or just head-poundingly stupid, it's a done deal. Getting it undone will involve endless litigation, and we all know how liberty and justice works around here: he with the most money gets the justice.— May 22, 2013 7:09 p.m.
City sued for halting construction on mixed-use project near SDSU
More or less what I was saying, Divadiver. Your last sentence has been the mantra for most of my adult life. The culture of SDSU is part of what Rolando is. It's occasionally annoying but on the balance positive. If you're at the RCC meeting tonight, introduce yourself.— May 21, 2013 5:49 p.m.
City sued for halting construction on mixed-use project near SDSU
As the two or three people who read my blog might surmise, the house I grew up in and still own as a rental is one block from this project. SDSU and its students have always been a mixed blessing to the area. Marti Emerald has been great, but in general we don't have very high expectations for city employees or politicians. Bait and switch on the planning? What do you expect from... a-hem, public servants... who take their cues from developers? This is the second planned residential high-density housing project within a few blocks of the area. Frankly, whether they know it or not, all concerned would rather have lots of college students in them than... the alternative often found in high-density housing. The population is growing and people have to live somewhere. The project faces El Cajon Blvd. Does anyone seriously wish to argue that there's a more appropriate place for such it? The real issue is parking. PARKING. P-A-R-K-I-N-G.— May 21, 2013 12:27 p.m.
Nothing Really Big Ever Happened Here
Thanks for reading; glad somebody does. I'm really more into modern history, more the sort to wander around the grounds of old Camp Lockett in Campo looking for C-ration cans while wondering what it must have been like on December 7, 1941. There was actually a day in history when the 11th Armored Cav spread out hastily from there, serving as the first line of defense against a land invasion, air raid, or other incursion by Imperial Japan through the Gulf of California at a moment of great uncertainty. The title refers more to my childhood perception that anything not involving cowboys and Indians, soldiers, and such really didn't count as "interesting" or worthy of historical note. Actually, that's sort of the way it is anyway; traditional history is in essence a recounting of one group's aggressions against another and/or the tendency of people to settle differences by force.— May 7, 2013 10:18 p.m.
Nothing Really Big Ever Happened Here
Why is it so damned difficult to find my own blog on this site? No wonder nobody reads it!— May 6, 2013 9:16 p.m.
San Diego State's growing contempt for undergrads
The article really says it all, which might be why so few comments. It partially explains the proliferation of superflous administrative positions with resulting periodic "budget crises," and--believe me--administrators will administer empty classrooms before they'll eliminate one of their own positions. The problem really is that every institution wants "status," and of course the money that comes with it. The original education plan for California, with its clear delineation between the roles of community colleges, the Cal State system, and the UC system, has been twisted beyond recognition.— March 29, 2013 12:55 p.m.
Auld Acquaintance
I can't even find my own blog anymore, except for the fact that I know it's there and can do a search for it.— December 4, 2012 6:46 p.m.
Vending Machines
Fantastic memory for detail you've got! I remember the peanut-shaped benches now that you mention them. Can't remember if the red and white striped bags of peanuts I'd feed to the monkeys and munch on myself came from a vending machine or over the counter. I got into trouble in elementary school once for claiming during a Career Week activity that my ambition in life was to own a bunch of vending machines, live off the change, and hang out at the beach every day. The old bottle dispensing machines at the Mission Bay Yacht Club were my inspiration for that.— May 26, 2012 11:12 a.m.
Slow Your Roll: A Writer’s Cacophony
Have often wondered if the advent of word processing for the masses made for more good writers who otherwise would be too lazy to do it... or just for great forests of mediocre writing. Probably a lot of both. Nice to discover this one, though.— May 21, 2012 11:28 a.m.
Beach Baby
Hmmph! This actually looks like a story now, instead of drunken ramblings.— April 26, 2012 4:15 p.m.