SUMMATION: Updated data from reputable (even pro-labor union) sources show that the mortality risk for police and firefighters is lower than most people think. It’s even significantly lower than I found in previous research just a few years ago — when the police and firefighter mortality figures were both about 16-17 deaths per hundred thousand — vs. the (current) national …
A moratorium on everything
Read below the letter from a constituent to his council members, then consider the ramifications. Linkage fees are already in play. Next, let’s also “throttle back on construction permits” to address the water crisis. In fact, let’s do all we can to ensure owners can’t use their property and businesses can’t expand. That will save water, moreso as businesses locate …
New Kiplinger study rates California “THE worst state to retire in”
The hilariously mislabeled “Golden State” USED to be ranked “only” number two. But no more. The new Kiplinger study is out. California is now ranked as the worst state to retire in. Easily the lowest percentage of people over age 65. We “beat” ’em all – NY, NJ, etc. https://www.fidelity.com/insights/retirement/10-worst-states-to-retire-2014
“Must read” post — but you’ll be happier if you don’t
If you’re feeling upbeat about tomorrow’s Charger game in Denver, let me bring you back to earth. Regardless of whether or not “we” win or lose, you’ll still be saddled with California’s problems. Can anyone IMAGINE what CA would be like without the good weather? Here’s a new link to my latest and greatest “CA vs. the Other States” fact …
If you use only ONE criteria to decide who to vote for . . .
If I had to select a single criteria as the basis for how one should vote, I would rely most on public employee labor union endorsements. Unions do great work researching the candidates, and making their selections. For them, making the right endorsements is perhaps their highest priority. Let the unions do all your legwork for elections. Whoever the unions …
Is California going to harass our high-tech companies into leaving the state?
Here’s an unsettling article from Spectrum Location Solutions, discussing California’s unswerving commitment to driving away businesses from the Golden State. In the last couple decades, the CA legislative anti-business campaign focused on manufacturing firms — “dirty businesses” (all manufacturing is dirty, by CA political standards). But today the new targets seem to be the cash generating, clean, high-tech companies. Brilliant. …
California is nation’s “worst judicial hellhole” for 2nd year in a row
UPDATE: The American Tort Reform Association ranks California the “worst judicial hellhole” in U.S. for 2nd year in a row – extremely anti-business. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce ranks CA higher – “only” the 4th worst state (unfortunately, sliding from 7th worst in 2008). http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/12/17/california-ranks-1-in-20132014-judicial-hellholes-report/ and http://www.instituteforlegalreform.com/states/california
Fletcher is down, but not out. He’ll be back.
With his amazing failure to make the San Diego mayoral runoff, Nathan Fletcher is down. But not out. No way! Fletcher has demonstrated his fealty to the Democrat Party — enough that they WILL find an office for him in a suitable district. Think not? Reread his STUNNING labor union questionnaire — seven pages of detailed questions with Nathan answering …
This will shock you…Nathan Fletcher is a liar
So first, Nate was the only one in his family who went to college. Then it turned out his own mother went to the very same school Nate did. Nate’s response was that she only went for one semester, so if you asked her, she’d say she didn’t go to college. Except on her Facebook page, she does, in fact, …
Throwback Thursday: DeMaio Sends the “Cat Tax” to the Litter Box
Government will always thirst for more money to feed its spending addiction. Months after I led a coalition to defeat the Prop D Sales Tax, city bureaucrats cooked up another way to get our money: THE CAT TAX. We can fight and win against big government when make our case on over-reaches like the Cat Tax. There are other bad …
When it comes to Nathan Fletcher campaign mailers, look behind the curtain
Saturday (26 October, 2013) I received not one, not two, but three big, glossy, expensive mailers for the upcoming San Diego mayoral election. All three were touting Nathan Fletcher for the position. [NOTE: Since I published this piece, one person said they got 4 Fletcher mailers that day, but the record goes to a friend who got FIVE.] I was …
Brown Signs SB 7, Chooses Unions over Cities
Labor Unions used to be able to claim “Unions Built America”. Now however, many Labor Unions use their political buying power to pervert the system to further their own greed. Governor Brown has signed SB 7 into law. This allows the state of California to withhold funds to Charter Cites who, by right and by charter, refuse to pay prevailing …
Some seldom-considered reasons why subsidizing a new Charger stadium is a bad idea
The Chargers (via the media that usually profit from having professional sports teams in town) are blitzing San Diego, trying to get a new stadium largely at taxpayer expense. Naturally I oppose such a subsidy for millionaires (players) and billionaires (owners). There are many arguments against such subsidies, and I’ve voiced them over the years. For instance, we taxpayers foot …
San Diego Mid-Town Trolley Per Mile Cost Today More Than Five Times 2002 Estimate – S.O.P.
I came across the 2002 estimated cost of the [San Diego] “Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project” — the so-called light rail line from Old Town to points north. It was $30 million per mile. http://www.lightrail.com/projects.htm#San_Diego Doubtless because of “galloping inflation” (geezers will recall that term — used by President Richard Nixon to describe the 4.7% inflation in the early 70’s that …
New Downtown San Diego Library Is a $185 Million Obsolete Monument to a Bygone Era
The new San Diego central library is opening downtown with great fanfare. It’s a monument to learning and knowledge. Well, that’s SUPPOSED to be what it represents. But in reality, this expensive new already-obsolete building is a monument to an era that is ending — a structure that in a few years will have little more utility value than a …
SD Fire Dept union boss willing to let people die, rather than implement emergency response reform?
I’ve been advocating for 2 man fire/emergency response teams since the tragic 2003 San Diego “Cedar” brush fire, when I first became interested in firefighting operational reforms. It’s simple — two 2-man teams properly stationed apart in one fire station’s “district” = shorter response times than one 4-man team. Lives are saved. Of that, there can be no doubt – and …
Is Qualcomm’s $400K salary to Fletcher even legal?
NOTE: This article is an expanded version of a comment I made here earlier. Short answer to the question above — probably legal, BUT . . . . Turns out that the Qualcomm job that Nathan Fletcher landed after his run for mayor in 2012 reportedly pays an absurdly high amount — $400,000 a year. That would provide a comfortable …
SDRostra oldie-goldie — Filner’s extensive commie connections
Just for fun, here’s the link to one of my PREVIOUS posts on SDRostra — detailing Bob Filner’s extensive connections with and sympathy for socialists and communists. The reader comments afterwards were fun, especially from Rolland with CityBeat (who announced that this was a good time for him to put his fingers in his ears so he couldn’t hear me …
My “Modern Family” – Helping Me Make The Decision
I’m spending the weekend with my family weighing an important decision. No decision made yet!
97% of the nation’s net job creation in the last 6 months is part-time work
I was reminded this morning of an unsettling (to put it mildly!) unemployment figure that crossed my desk early last month from a reputable source. This report slipped between the digital cracks in my computer, but now I’m getting it out there. Here’s a salient excerpt summarizing this news, from a Forbes article: “Over the last six months, of the …
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