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Gavin Newsom carries water for billionaire benefactor
I was surprised and disappointed when Governor Gavin endorsed small-fry Todd Gloria for Mayor of San Diego. I wondered why Newsom would involve himself in San Diego's political morass, but now we know: Jacobs money. Politics is like a drug for the kingmaker as well asthe politicos. It's hard to walk away.— August 11, 2019 6:42 p.m.
Captain of industry puts the axe to La Jolla’s Lorax tree
There is spirited discussion happening at La Jolla Parks and Beaches advisory group about "re-purposing" the wood salvaged from this tree. One person actually suggested carving it into a breaching whale in situ.— August 6, 2019 7:07 p.m.
Todd Gloria returns scandal-tainted Hertzberg cash
Surely it is a notable first when a gay state legislator and candidate for Mayor of our city rejects a four-figure campaign donation from a straight male state legislator and colleague who has been accused of thrusting his groin into a female state legislator during an "exuberant" hug. Nonetheless, I think it's a sign we may be heading into uncharted waters with the mayoral candidacy of Todd Gloria.— August 2, 2019 8:58 p.m.
GOP launches right-ward San Diego News Desk
AlexClarke, where the heck do YOU live? You have to admit -- well, maybe you don't -- there are many wonderful things about San Diego beyond our swampy politics. Ocean breezes in July, beaches in August and September, sunsets in December, celestial displays at night when the marine layer moves out, universities galore, countless theater and music opportunities.— July 31, 2019 10:45 p.m.
Mike Pence’s puzzling Pride pics
Thanks, dwbat, I KNOW it's supposed to be satire, but sometimes it's so close to real that the line between real and fake is impossibly blurred. I do wonder how that's good for the country. Looking much like these jokey Reader Instagrams of Vice President Mike Pence with costumed Pride celebrants, I saw the photo from the New York Times of our Vice President making serene small talk with the uniformed Border Patrol officer at the chain-link fence of a crowded Texas migrant asylum detention camp. Ultra-groomed Pence stands chatting, just feet away from throngs of motley unshaven male migrants packed like sardines inside, carrying those those distinctive silvery mylar blankets that are standard issue. I guess if it had been a cartoon, it would be funny. But in this form, Mencken makes a joke of Real News, and I know that's not good for the country.— July 28, 2019 3:56 p.m.
Mike Pence’s puzzling Pride pics
Walter Mencken's Mike-Pence-at-Pride Instagram pix are funny, but surely this is Fake News. How do you get away with it? Is it good for the country?— July 26, 2019 12:31 p.m.
Why San Diego Opera is not like the national theater of Chile
You slam the long-time arts philanthropy of the Ford Foundation and recommend that unions in the United States follow a Chilean model? In fact, part-time employees doing full-time work are the salvation of every capitalist organization that seeks labor at the lowest possible wage with the fewest possible benefits, one pillar of the presently fashionable "gig economy." This column, coming after the bizarre lazy non-review of "Despereaux" at the Old Globe, leads me to ask the Reader to ask itself if it doesn't need to find a real arts and music writer.— July 26, 2019 12:09 p.m.
Leonard Cohen’s “So Long Marianne” muse
Who knew Leonard Cohen's music was the soundtrack for "McCabe and Mrs. Miller?" I also didn't remember it was a Robert Altman film. I had to buy a CD replacement for my old DVD of that gorgeous, romantic, tragic movie with Warren Beattie as schlepper and Julie Christie as the opium-smoking bordello madam in a muddy new town being built in the snowy Oregon woods. No wonder it was so great. Thanks, Scott.— July 25, 2019 4:34 p.m.
San Diego border agents face fentanyl death risk
Vis, we have no confidence, many doubts and wish the Union-Tribune would follow your recommendation.— July 23, 2019 10:56 p.m.
San Diego border agents face fentanyl death risk
In a recent interview in the San Diego Union-Tribune, former Border Czar Alan Bersin endorsed Trump's controversial plan to establish extra-territorial "secure" refugee camps for U.S. asylum-seekers on the edge of southern Mexico, in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Bersin also praised the Border Patrol, but he didn't mention anything about dangerous fentanyl stockpiles or the fact that the ACLU is suing the government over this new bad idea that is contrary to existing American asylum law.— July 23, 2019 4:21 p.m.