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Don't tell them you are a reporter
Yup, right here: https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2014/may/17/t… Looks like the people who were taxed may not have gotten refunds.— March 26, 2018 5:40 p.m.
Don't tell them you are a reporter
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2018/m… Ms. Severson also looks like this: a smart, skilled lawyer.— March 23, 2018 12:57 a.m.
Can't blame North Chapel plan on Corky
One big difference: museums are nonprofits open to the public for some nominal fee. Restaurants are pay to play and it's likely that McMillin will be in on profit sharing.— March 8, 2018 5:15 p.m.
School improvements cut Normal Heights park space
I have not seen homeless people moving in there. I see moms with babies watching their older kids, local kids playing soccer informally, people practicing frisbee and softball, people flying drones, friends meeting halfway for a carry-out meal, dog walkers, people before and after church services, and parents just getting a minute to breathe. The park in the midst of a densely packed neighborhood, lots of apartments all around. During heat waves, it fills up in the evening with families cooling off. It is not known as a homeless 'hang out' but even if it was, they are part of a large number of diverse people who value and enjoy the little bit of green in a park they can walk to.— March 5, 2018 5:06 p.m.
Trash-can salvage 101
I have to believe that if someone took the city to small claims court, grand jury report in hand and pictures and video of a trash bin being thrown, they could make the city pay for the bin. It would make a lovely class action suit as well. The grand jury report has pictures of smashage and cracked lids that look exactly like ours - and everyone else's. https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/apr/06/s… https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/gr…— March 2, 2018 3:32 p.m.
Suspended Sierra Club's appointed leaders back SDSU
**"The idea that this parcel simply must be handed whole cloth to some group or another is the most pernicious lie of all."** ***- Cassander*** Exactly.— March 1, 2018 9:18 p.m.
Suspended Sierra Club's appointed leaders back SDSU
Wouldn't that be a great place for permanent housing for our homeless? On the trolley line, and the homes/apartments could be tailored to their needs. No nasty retrofits or tents. The NIMBY response would be minimal and there's easy access for service providers. It's a crisis, right? So before we build any more luxury homes and stores - and that's what's really being fought over - let's use this public land to solve a public crisis. And by all means, Canyonlands can do a river park - with all those developer impact fees for parks that haven't been created.— March 1, 2018 9:13 p.m.
Is latest trans-border sewage spill news?
One clarification: The water that comes through when it rains is a mix of storm water run-off and includes whatever is picked up in the streets (hence the sediment problem). It is not all sewage like the spill in February 2017.— February 21, 2018 2:20 p.m.
Would disbarred Bill Lerach dare practice law again?
Don, I hold both views. He did illegally pay his plaintiffs, who otherwise would have done the work of two lawyers for free. And there were dubious suits. But he also was a champion for people who were cheated and against monstrous corporate behavior. A person actually can see it both ways.— January 31, 2018 1:23 p.m.
Would disbarred Bill Lerach dare practice law again?
Three things worth remembering about Bill Lerach: Shortly after the courts dismissed his hard-fought shareholders suit against **Worldcom** for not proving there was accounting fraud - his suit that was was decried as a shakedown - the Securities and Exchange Commission investigated the company and found pretty much that Lerach was right. Massive fraud. The corporate officers were never held accountable and the company went into bankruptcy. Thousands of shareholders lost all their savings. When CalPERS, the state retirement fund, realized its enormous losses from Worldcom, it sought and retained Lerach, who recovered $200 million from the financial professionals that enabled the Worldcom fraud. In the 1990s, Lerach's firm represented a large group of former General Dynamics/**Convair workers** in San Diego (the company made them all ''managers') after the company withdrew the retirement benefits promised to the managers. For free. He lost but laid the legal groundwork for the follow-up lawsuit. He took no money. Lerach's firm sunk tens of millions of their own dollars into the **'Joe Camel' Big Tobacco** lawsuits because he was outraged by cigarette companies pandering to children - future addicts. They fought tenaciously at their own expense for years - a whole floor of a downtown building for documents - until the Attorney Generals from a bunch of states joined in and extracted huge settlements for public benefit. Every time you hear the county is using 'tobacco money,' that's money the public wouldn't have but for Lerach and his firm.— January 26, 2018 11:22 a.m.