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Bloomberg and Jacobs open San Diego TV ad wars
For clarity, there was no "violation of the usage agreement," just a redundant posting of my comment, one of which I tried to delete.— January 7, 2020 11:19 a.m.
Bloomberg and Jacobs open San Diego TV ad wars
Please. Sara Jacobs is a carpetbagger candidate for United States Congress -- for the second time. She has no experience that relates in any way to getting elected to any office I can think of, but she is politically ambitious and her grandparents are rich as Croesus, so she can afford TV advertising to help herself. She claims in her ads to have worked for UNICEF and Obama. Georgette Gomez worked for the San Diego Environmental Health Coalition before getting elected to San Diego City Council from one of its poorest districts. She has been Council president as well as its representative on newly reformed San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) which she leads. Gomez focusses on housing, public transportation, development and homelessness. Gomez decided to run for Congress when longtime Rep.Susan Davis suddenly announced her retirement late last year. What Gomez and Jacobs have in common are gender and political party, not equal qualifications.— January 6, 2020 4:56 p.m.
Bloomberg and Jacobs open San Diego TV ad wars
This comment was removed by the site staff.KPBS recruits Julia Dixon Evans from Voice of San Diego
Is Voice of San Diego being left by Irwin and Joan Jacobs to shift for itself? The newsroom at thriving KPBS is named after the philanthropic duo, but the present balance sheet at VOSD doesn't seem to reflect the past hefty interest and funding largesse of the Jacobses when they were propping up charter schools and a non-educator public school superintendent via the fledgling online news site. Fickle donors may create longevity problems for today's "nonprofit" journalism model.— December 30, 2019 9:18 p.m.
Why these nine Encinitas restaurants are closing
Same deal in La Jolla. Mainstay longtime restaurant neighbors on La Jolla Boulevard near Windansea -- Su Casa (Mexican) and Mandarin House (Chinese) are shuttered. Mandarin House had a fire months ago and has not re-opened at this writing and there's no sign of reconstruction or repair. Su Casa is permanently closed. Communities change for the worse in the wake of such losses.— December 9, 2019 2 p.m.
Ex-U-T reporter Lisa Petrillo joins Mara Elliott staff
Actually, Visduh, you paint with too broad and dark a brush. In short order, three SDUSD classroom teachers would cost a lot more than Magee's salary (as reported by resourceful JustWondering.) Magee is compensated as a journalism professional with special expertise in K-12 education. In contrast, union rules guarantee SDUSD teachers built-in "step-and-column" raises every single year in addition to contract-driven raises at regular intervals when contracts are negotiated, regardless of evidence of student achievement. SDUSD Superintendent Cindy Marten and our teachers are protected without professional accountability by life-long Labor operative Rchard Barrera who is a "forever" school board member -- often unopposed in elections -- serving on a 100% Labor-friendly Board. The serious deficiencies in our neighborhood public schools are the responsibility and fault of the governing Board of Education and its hand-picked Superintendent Cindy Marten.— December 9, 2019 1:51 p.m.
Ex-U-T reporter Lisa Petrillo joins Mara Elliott staff
You forgot to mention Maureen Magee, longtime public schools reporter for the Union-Tribune, now fronting for reclusive San Diego Unified Schools Superintendent Cindy Marten. I don't know what Magee makes at the school district, but her boss Marten makes a whopping $350,000+.— December 6, 2019 1:10 a.m.
E-mopeds could be next weapons in S.D.'s high-risk transit wars
Lock-em all up.— November 22, 2019 1:54 p.m.
Harry’s Coffee Bar: led by Harry Rudolph Jr. and the Brooklyn Dodgers
Longtime "Harry's" proprietor Harry Rudolph sadly died some years ago, but his kids took over and now run this wonderful breakfast/lunch restaurant and La Jolla gathering spot. Great food, excellent cheerful service, open from dawn til mid-afternoon, with a counter, booths and tables and free parking in back. A new wrinkle is "Harry's" alcohol license for drinks like Sunday bloody marys with a skewer of bacon, celery and olives (!) Harry's youngest son John Rudolph also has expanded the family's restaurant holdings to include Cass Street Bar & Grille in Pacific Beach and Mike's Taco Club on Newport in Ocean Beach. John expects to close next month on the transfer of another landmark family-run operation, The Venetian Italian Restaurant on Voltaire Street in Point Loma.— November 14, 2019 4:26 p.m.
A week in San Diego without a phone
Good story. More human communication without the cell-phone. More uncertainty too -- although it's generated by dependence on the cell-phone. Still, without it, more time to consider, to think, to remember, to appreciate. That second-paragraph list of cell-phone tasks accomplished is scarily manic and over-the-top. Critical facebook commenter Patricia focuses on "unsafe distances...call for help...especially dangerous...strange location...getting lost...safer." Elizabeth may be a "Luddite wannabe," but Patricia has drunk the illusory cell-phone security Kool-Aid.— November 11, 2019 10:12 p.m.