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Did Sanders Order Detective Reprimanded?
Don: well at least the Voice linked to your story this morning. Perhaps they are realizing that there is no future in just being "U-T Light". They know your Li Mandri story has legs and are not able to explain ignoring it any longer. Don, being right is a very powerful thing. Hang in there. What would we do without you?— April 6, 2010 10:47 a.m.
He Promised Investors 2% to 6% a Week; He's Headed to Prison
Don: maybe we should start calling it Rancho Santa Fraud?— November 17, 2009 11:46 a.m.
Cut to the Bone
I thought I was the only one that always picks the wrong parking lot. You got to hear the important stuff - the people.— February 6, 2009 4:04 p.m.
Cut to the Bone
Hi Dorian, I too was there and agree with everything you wrote but would note two additional points: (1) the Mayor left before any public speaker spoke and (2) only the General Fund, where all our services come from, is on the menu. The General Fund is $1.2 billion of a $2.3 billion total expenditure. The rest are so-called "enterprise funds": Development Services, Water, Sewer, Recycling, Refuse Disposal, Golf Course and Airports. Then comes the Pension Administration, that spends $42 million on administration in its plush B Street offices. Then we have the so-called "Internal Services": Engineering & Capital Projects, Fleet Services, Central Stores. Last we get the government within the government, the Redevelopment Agency. It in turn has two governments within a government within a government, called CCDC and SEDC. No wonder the Mayor did not stick around, he had important "enterprises" to run.— February 6, 2009 1:15 p.m.
Aguirre Sums Up Criminal Activity That Led to Pension Deficit
It's on Blog of San Diego: http://www.blogofsandiego.com/Aguirre/Report-35.p…— December 7, 2008 4:27 p.m.
Paulson Raked in $27 Million a Year While Heading Goldman, Says Expert Graef Crystal, Who Opposes the $700 Billion Bailout and Also Opposes Compensation Controls
Burwell: Could you please post the actual tax code? "A special provision in the tax code permits political appointees like Paulson to sell stock tax-free in order to avoid potential conflicts of interest." Like Don I too was unaware of such a code. I suspect most people are. If true I think we should publicize this fact e.g. we should get it on CNN right away. If Paulson is conflicted to this extent, everybody in the country should know - NOW! We don't want it to be like the weapons of mass destruction lie, discovered afterwards.— September 25, 2008 12:44 p.m.
More Wall Street Socialism; Insurer AIG Bailed Out by Feds for $85 Billion. Markets Like It. Will Taxpayers?
Don: is this not the 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act coming home to roost? Both Republicans and Democrats took the financial houses' money and overwhelmingly passed the repeal act introduced by US Senator from Texas Phil Gramm. Even if he wanted to, Clinton could not have vetoed it. It guaranteed the abuses that have taken place and guaranteed this financial crisis. The lessons of 1933 were ignored for greed. Phil Gramm received over $97,000 in political contributions from Enron and his wife Wendy received millions as a board member of Enron. While Gramm was ramming through his Glass-Steagall repeal Act Enron was financing George Bush's run for the Whitehouse with $1.14 million. That should not be forgotten.— September 17, 2008 1:23 p.m.
Bad News for Copley, Good for KUSI: Cox Selling Austin, Other Papers Amid Gloomier Newspaper Environment
Good anlaysis Don. It sounds like it will be a race to the bottom. But if the price follows the revenues, McKinnon may have some competition when it bottoms out. What about an ESOP? It seems to me that the biggest stakeholders in this meltdown (apart from us, the long-suffering readers) are the U-T employees. Would an ESOP work Don?— August 14, 2008 10:55 p.m.
Kroll's Wolves, Who Fleeced the City of $20 Million, Return To Chase Foxes
Don: re Levitt and Turner, of course they would be against anything remotely like an independent auditor. So is Stan Keller - for the same reason. None of their outrageous fees would survive the smell test of a proper audit. All three are charlatans and they wish to see a charlatan appointed as our auditor as they never know when they might get another opportunity to come back and rip us off.— May 31, 2008 11:46 p.m.
AG's Report Clearing Sanders Is a Joke, as Expected. Here's Some Advice: Follow the Money
Sanders' reelection now hangs by the thinnest of threads: Fred Sainz’ credibility. Only somebody so disconnected from reality as Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown would believe Fred Sainz. If Brown really believes Sainz’ scurrilous allegation that Don McGrath made an improper offer to Sanders, to “go easy” on Sunroad in return for 17 budgeted City Attorney positions, he should come down to San Diego and file charges against Aguirre. Otherwise he should withdraw his outrageous allegation. For the State Attorney General, Jerry Brown, to smear the San Diego City Attorney, two weeks before an election, with only the word of a known liar as evidence, is scurrilous in the extreme. It is unprecedented in California history. Brown knows that Fred Sainz does not have a shred of evidence to support his lie. Brown was aware that Sainz told nobody about the incident until now. Then Brown prefaced his scurrilous allegation with the words: “What was not publicly known was this” ..... the standard preface to a known lie. Brown, hang your head in shame. You are a disgrace to your father's great name. You are a bigger liar than Fred Sainz, and that’s saying something.— May 21, 2008 12:04 a.m.