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Tales of a dead fixer and Gina Champion-Cain
Gosh, if you live here long enough, you find out stuff you shoulda known before. George Mitrovich was the community relations director for mega-scamsters J.David Dominelli and Nancy Hoover but claimed never to have known about the pair's $200 million Ponzi operation and was never charged? That's amazing. Was that before or after he became some kind of ordained minister and treacly righteous pontificator, name-dropper and any-Kennedy-acolyte who never turned away from joining the charmed circle of a newbie Mover and Shaker? RIP, George, we hardly knew thee.— September 5, 2019 9:31 p.m.
Lincoln High teacher sued for sex talk
It's true what Eric Bartl says: find a good reporter to talk to. A good reporter will listen to you, will follow up, will question the authorities, will try to uncover what may be getting buried and will determine if there is a story to be printed. But forget about looking for help from KPBS. KPBS' Midday Edition news conversation today completely ignored this Reader story about overt sexual predation by a teacher at Lincoln High School. Wow. KPBS' reporter mentioned last June's administrative personnel rout at Lincoln and alluded to unspecified longstanding "district problems" with Lincoln. She never said a word about Lincoln students' rock-bottom emergency-level under-achievement in reading and math. Instead she moved on to La Jolla secondary students who have been granted an experimental "late-start" time which will allow them to get more morning shut-eye. She concluded with no new information on the unresolved struggle of San Ysidro families to re-gain yanked bus transportation for their kids.— August 30, 2019 2:59 p.m.
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles: Keeping it surreal in the land without bread
This Scott Marks' review of Luis Bunuel's imagination is as wild and wonderful as any Bunuel movie I've ever seen -- and that does not include either "Las Hurdes" or "Bunuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles," so I will hit the Digital Gym to see them both. Very fun reading. I think the times are right, so maybe the Bunuel Institute could bring us a week-long retrospective of the master's work.— August 29, 2019 10:01 p.m.
Lincoln High teacher sued for sex talk
I'd say prominent parties are skating from responsibility here. Superintendent Cindy Marten recently got a gratuitous one-year extension on her unexpired six-figure contract, approved by four out of five San Diego Unified School Board trustees. A few years ago Superintendent Marten and the same four Board members tolerated outrageous interference and damage done by then-trustee Marne Foster who drove out excellent principals at Lincoln High and magnet SD School of Creative and Performing Arts. Only after incidents of financial chicanery surfaced did Foster resign her board position -- with a farewell bouquet of roses from colleagues. But Foster's successor trustee, well-regarded African-American educator Dr. Sharon Whitehurst-Payne, refused to vote in favor of Superintendent Marten's contract extension this spring, citing the (disastrous academic and social) situation at Lincoln High School that led its entire administration (described in this story) to be summarily removed in June. Let's hope District Attorney Summer Stephan is able to prosecute Lincoln High's predator/pimp/teacher Jason Crawford. Let's hope San Diego gets rid of elementary-educator Superintendent Cindy Marten who has proved repeatedly she has no idea how to run urban secondary schools. Let's hope the City of San Diego replaces its discredited Board of Labor Cronies with some new blood. And let's thank school trustee Dr. Sharon Whitehurst-Payne for doing the right thing, along with intrepid Readerwriter Eric Bartl. And great photographs by Matthew Suarez.— August 28, 2019 9:35 p.m.
Where Toni Atkins meets turf lobbyists
"As horses have dropped dead at California tracks...." It looks bad when State Senator Toni Atkins' former legislative director becomes the paid lobbyist for Del Mar racing while she takes campaign money and perks from racing interests. But that sleaziness is trumped -- a perfect word -- when Atkins ex-chief of staff, also now a Sacramento lobbyist, manages to kill off legislation with which his ex-boss was involved. How many more Toni Atkins' proteges with insider knowledge are moving through the revolving door from government service to lucrative private lobbying? There oughta be a law.— August 27, 2019 10:55 p.m.
O.C. billionaire Samueli beats out Philip Anschutz for San Diego Sports Arena
Better a Californian should get rights to the San Diego Sports Arena than billionaire Coloradan Philip Anschutz who is such good friends with Trump's Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch that they are neighbors on some exclusive fancy fly-fishing river out there. I say Go Ducks and preppy-looking Ducks owner Henry Samueli.— August 20, 2019 8:50 p.m.
Faulconer ethics fine revealed after Campland bags sweetheart lease
Glad to see this NewsTicker story run again today, this time with Matt Potter's byline.— August 20, 2019 8:38 p.m.
Conrad Prebys – a modern-day Razumovsky
More likely possibilities, what if the Reader reviewer of La Jolla Music Society's Miro Quartet's Beethoven performance flopped? What if he got past his boy-crush on expressive cellist Joshua Gindele to remember to mention the lively interface among all four musicians, the intimacy of the hall, the perfection of the "accurate" (if not "wet") acoustics. Oh, and what about the quartet's charming and generous encore?— August 16, 2019 2:24 p.m.
Democracy Counts' five apps for election reform
No question that assuring an accurate ballot count is as important as get-out-the-vote efforts. And paper ballots are better than machine voting. Democracy Counts is doing a public service to ensure a fair election in 2020.— August 14, 2019 10:06 p.m.
Jane Fonda helps an old San Diego friend
Dark times for environmental protection. The LATimes' endangered frogs' story was very good, although wildlife officials subsequently discovered that many of the newly-hatched amphibians had been decimated by some public works agency that accidentally plowed them under. Or something like that. Actually, I went back and looked it up. Rare red-legged frogs were encased in cement when a culvert in Leo Carillo State Park was being repaired— August 14, 2019 6:31 p.m.