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The Nora Vargas announcement on Friday that she’s departing the San Diego County Board of Supervisors instead of serving her final term is the biggest local political shocker since … well … since only a couple years ago, when Nathan Fletcher resigned his own Supervisor seat. Not only rare, unprecedented Aside from incumbent County Supervisors either a) occasionally losing re-election, …
Update from Registrar, 11/15/24… In Friday’s update from the Registrar of Voters, Esther Sanchez gained over 56 percent of the added 814 votes. For the first time, she now leads Ryan Keim by a 31-vote sliver. To be very clear, the 56.26 percent the mayor took in added ballots is the highest percentage she’s garnered thus far, indicating Sanchez was …
Following last Thursday’s successful and visually stunning Chinook helicopter lift of the region’s tallest cross over otherwise inaccessible terrain in Rancho San Diego, the 36-foot, ten ton steel structure was raised by crane and bolted into place Friday afternoon. The large Chaldean Holy Cross, made possible by Samad and Evone Attisha and their family, is a memorial for persecuted Christians …
On November 7, special election day in the District 4 County Supervisor’s race, I asked several dozen local wonks if they’d like to take a guess before polling closed at 8 pm on the percentage of the vote Monica Montgomery Steppe and Amy Reichert would each receive, with those closest to the mark getting bragging rights. As it currently stands, …
If you missed Steve Breen’s farewell cartoon in The San Diego Union-Tribune yesterday, it’s worth seeing, along with his departing message. I shared it on Facebook, resulting in a couple messages from those who apparently don’t always appreciate Breen’s politics. As a student of journalism and the history of journalism, I came to love the history of editorial cartoons in …
In an LA Times commentary on the flawed legacy of recently passed NFL great Jim Brown, longtime sportswriter Bill Dwyre tosses in something about Junior Seau that caused me to stop, sit up, and re-read it several times: “…Seau, age 43, tortured by the brain-damaged effects of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, had shot himself in the chest so his family would …
Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey posted this a few hours ago today (Sunday in San Diego). We should all be very proud of him… Everest Recap It’s almost 1am in the morning. Most of the team is about to leave camp 4 at approximately 26K’ in elevation and begin their final push for the next six to eight hours to reach …
Following a week of illness and recovery, Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey continues his Everest summit quest. This was posted to his Facebook page today, Wednesday… We’re back 🏔️ After a week delay due to illness, I arrived back in base camp around 12 pm today. Within minutes of landing, the expedition leader said “pack your gear, you’re going up tonight.” …
Continued tracking of Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey’s ascent of Mount Everest. This was posted to his Facebook page today, May 3… Everest Day 11, 12, and 13 (I think) Recap Mountaineering is a slow sport. A lot and, at the same time, not very much at all has happened in the past two or three days. There is a saying …
Continued tracking of Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey’s ascent of Mount Everest, these latest updates both over the weekend on his Facebook page. Please note that on Tuesday, the mayor will take part in the Coronado City Council meeting via satellite, which is likely the highest altitude government meeting ever. Not to mention the highest elected official. Everest Day 8 and …
Continued tracking of Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey’s Mount Everest expedition. This was posted three days ago… Everest Day 6 and 7 Recap After six days, I smell. Most of my gear, including some fresh base layers, is already at basecamp. So for now, and for another 24 hours, my one set of clothes for hiking and one set of clothes …
See the first post for an initial synopsis of Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey’s attempt to scale Mount Everest. Here’s Bailey’s second entry, posted two days ago, covering days three to five of his trek to Everest Base Camp: Everest Day 3, 4, and 5 Recap Day 3 – woke up after a ten hour sleep to an amazing sunrise illuminating …
Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey is in the midst of pursuing his lifetime dream to ascend Mount Everest. I will be tracking his progress, as he posts updates to his Facebook page every few days. His good friend, Brad Gerbel, is also keeping closely abreast of Bailey’s attempt to scale the summit. Brad writes on Tuesday of this week: “Bailey competed …
There’s a house across the street from yours. You know for a fact the people living in it are spying on you. It’s been going on for at least the last two decades. It’s not just nosy neighbors, simply watching you from behind curtained windows, like Mrs. Kravitz. No, these people are using the most sophisticated cameras, listening devices, and …
As is my custom for well over 15 years on this night… And it came to pass in those days,that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, …
A few days ago I posted an article noting that simply having a Republican mayor in a city doesn’t guarantee that person a seat on the San Diego Association of Governments board. Last week, Vista Mayor John Franklin nominated himself as the city’s representative to SANDAG, but his city council colleagues — a majority of them Democrats — denied him …
On election night, two area Republican mayors were excitedly congratulating themselves on some of the cities around the region electing new GOP mayors, most particularly John McCann in Chula Vista, Dane White in Escondido, and John Franklin in Vista. These two mayors’ shared view, at least in the flurry of election night, was that the majority hold by Democrats at …
As is my custom on this night for over 15 years… And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, …
A knock-down community fight earlier this year ended with a judge rejecting the State-proposed placement of sexually violent predator Douglas Badger in a Mt. Helix home. Now, the State of California in its wisdom is proposing Badger’s placement in Rancho Bernardo, by the Country Club and up the street from the Rancho Bernardo Inn. See the Sheriff’s Department notice, posted …
Among the mixed emotions of sadness and outrage resulting from the last two days, also comes the inevitable. The flurry of press releases and statements hitting my email and social media feed, pumped out by elected officials at every level, as well as the candidates trying to defeat them, and by local party organizations. Every one of them with the …
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