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L.A. Times scoops U-T on SDSU football rape case
A U-T climate of SDSU cheerleading complicity sent this story to the Los Angeles Times for due-diligence reporting? Unusual, but a good idea and maybe part of LAT scrutiny of irregularities at other California State campuses. Customary stonewalling of local press by SDSU President Adela De La Torre to avoid hot water? Commonplace. Allegations of gang rape by party-hearty SDSU football players? No surprise there either. But I was amazed by the Godfatherly tone taken by fixer/mover-and-shaker, SDSU alum and Board chairman Jack McGrory about what appears to be a cover-up on his watch. I'd like to be a fly on the wall when McGrory meets with SDPD Chief Nisleit and "Adela" to "wrap this up." A personal note about SDSU's iffy quality of life, even pre-Pandemic: I met a lovely girl a few years ago who'd entered SDSU in August as an enthusiastic freshman resident in an SDSU dorm. By Thanksgiving break, she'd felt compelled to move out to avoid routine, extreme, anti-social dorm behaviors and to live more safely and quietly with a local friend of her family..That's pathetic.— June 3, 2022 5:42 p.m.
Gonzalez-Fletchers take aim at Sidiqa Hooker
Surely there is no politician slimier than Carl DeMaio.— June 2, 2022 2:13 p.m.
Sempra funded anti-lobbying attack group against Saldana
Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds: Sempra money flows wherever its interests are best served. In this instance, Sempra, Mayor Gloria, the Mayor's flack Rachel Laing and a bunch of developers and "consultants" want to eclipse best-in-field Lori Saldana. But after the last four years in Council District 2, regular voters there deserve to have highly-qualified Lori Saldana represent them on City Council. They just need to turn out and vote.— June 2, 2022 2:04 p.m.
Netflix down, Union-Tribune up?
More doom-scrolling speculation about print journalism's prospects from Matt Potter. Meanwhile, I just realized that kinda corrupt California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, presently running for election, was the author of 2018 legislation (signed by ex-Governor Jerry Brown) to decriminalize street vending in our big cities. Previously, large California municipalities all had laws against such practices. It seemed the tacky booths along our beaches and throughout Balboa Park had just popped up overnight, but the onslaught was delayed by three years of Pandemic. Now we await new local regulations to deal with state-sanctioned commercialized public sidewalks and visual blight.— June 2, 2022 1:32 p.m.
Joe Holley gets Pulitzer after leaving San Diego
Even if a shared late-in-life Pulitzer is involved, some trips down memory lane are not worth taking, especially when they highlight/glorify/graphically describe pre-MeToo sexual harassment of a local woman writer by a jerk who skated off to Texas.— May 19, 2022 3:47 p.m.
San Diego to get $125 million for its Symphony Hall
Terrible idea, Visduh. You must be a rich person to propose building an entirely new symphony hall in San Diego. Even if it were financially possible -- a dubious notion -- by the time it ever reopened, the audience of silver-haired classical music aficionados would have long gone to their reward. Let's cut to the chase as best we can at our advanced age and get symphonic music onstage indoors for the appreciative audience that's still living and driving carbon-fueled cars downtown and paying an arm and a leg to park in a premium-priced ACE lot.— March 7, 2022 12:54 p.m.
San Diego to get $125 million for its Symphony Hall
Visually and acoustically, the best place to sit in the entire hall is the pricey "Grand Tier" which is the first few rows of the balcony where there is no overhang. Let's hope this big renovation brings a better listening experience to more people at a lower cost. It is unfortunate the place will be closed for such along time. I think re-opening is slated for late 2025. Too bad they couldn't have taken advantage of the pandemic hiatus to do their reconstruction.— March 4, 2022 5 p.m.
San Diego’s booziest university looking to up its game
It's tragically true what they say about San Diego State's "long-running intoxication problem," it's terrible history of fraternity houses as bad neighbors and the routine alcohol-and-drug mayhem that leads to fraternity kids' deaths or emergency hospitalizations. Former City Manager and present day political fixer Jack McGrory, boozily pictured here, has grown children of his own and maybe ought not be the influencer to promote a legislative exemption allowing alcohol advertising and sales on the premises at SDSU's new Snapdragon Stadium.— February 28, 2022 9:36 p.m.
U.S. Navy ship crews working 10-20 hours some days
Considering this report about exhaustion from long hours for the military, one wonders about the circumstances and condition of the crew on the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier that lost an in-coming fighter jet overboard to the South China Sea in late January. Public video of the disaster was unauthorized and leaked. That same ship has just returned to San Diego after a long deployment. Maybe we will hear more details now.— February 16, 2022 8 p.m.
Split Pulitzer verdict on Union-Tribune's Bill Gore treatment?
Apologies for misspelling your name. Obviously, I was referring to the writer of the piece in my original comment, not to you. Why would you undertake criticism of my comment and legalistically defend the Reader's chronic U-T sniping and its unique corner on marijuana advertising? Maybe you should disclose that you yourself write for the Reader occasionally, and that there should be a cease-fire if not solidarity among journalists when their profession is under siege.j— February 8, 2022 5:05 p.m.