Alianza, a group of prominent Latino business professionals and entrepreneurs, today announced that they have endorsed Nathan Fletcher for mayor, citing his ability to lead the city into a new era through his commitment to innovation and his proven leadership style. “I am honored to have the endorsement of Alizana,” said Nathan Fletcher. “Our campaign is about investing in San …
Harkey, Anderson are San Diego’s Top Taxpayer Advocates for 2011!
How taxpayer-friendly is your local representative in Sacramento? The results are in from the 2011 Legislative Report Card issued by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA), one of California’s oldest and most respected taxpayer advocacy organizations. Based on their legislative votes, San Diego Assemblymember Diane Harkey and Senator Joel Anderson received the highest “A” grades (96.3%) within the San Diego delegation! The Report Card, …
Is a Lynch Mob Coming to the San Diego Union-Tribune?
While the blogosphere and Twitterverse foams at the mouth over the spectre of hotelier Doug Manchester’s reported purchase of the San Diego Union-Tribune today, far more attention should be paid to the other key player on this team: former radio station owner and executive John Lynch. When it comes to newsroom operations, John Lynch is likely to have far more …
What should Rostra 2.0 to look like?
One of the great things about San Diego Rostra is its ability to attract a variety of voices with different political views. Rostra is a center-right site, but local journalists and some well-known Democrats are regular readers and commentators. With monthly hits by unique visitors as high as 20,000, Rostra has become a must read for numerous San Diegans. Where …
Doug Manchester has purchased the SD U-T
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/San-Diego-Union-Tribune-Sold-134046228.html My knee-jerk reaction — GOOD! Not GREAT, but much better than the current left-leaning, wussy interim owners.
DeMaio to Deliver Major Jobs Speech Outlining Breakthrough Economic Reforms
Will Call for 50% of all Permits to be Ministerial Within 5 years, Greater Leadership on Regulatory Reform and Enaction of “Regulatory Amnesty” at Entrepreneurs’ Organization Event What: Councilmember Carl DeMaio will deliver a major speech on his jobs plan to help spur job creation at a meeting with the San Diego business group “The Entrepreneurs’ Organization.” After …
Really. Occupy SD holds moment of silence in solidarity with “the guy who shot at the White House”
Or, instead of Really, maybe we should say WTF? Click the link: watch?v=dL7QRluEeEk&feature=youtu.be As Tony Krvaric wrote on Facebook, “This is an absolutely vile video from tonight’s Occupy San Diego protest outside of Police HQ where they held a moment of silence ‘for the guy who shot at the White House.’ Unbelievable.”
Next year’s CA budget deficit put at $13 billion by LAO. So?
CA Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) projects the 2012-13 state budget deficit at $13 billion. Ho hum. http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/11/legislative-analyst-2-billion-of-mid-year-cuts.html#MTRecentEntries
Banning medical marijuana should be a deemed a criminal act
I wanted to add my own personal commentary to the Bilbray story about his daughter using medical marijuana. It’s rare that I have an emotional attachment to an issue, as most of my positions are based on hard-nosed facts and sensible logic. However, with the issue of medical marijuana — where I differ from most (not all) of my fellow …
Not a CA budget “shortfall” — rather a revenue projection fantasy
One sad aspect of this year’s California school budget “trigger” fiasco was that, for fiscal realists, the “unexpected” budget shortfall was evident the day the CA state budget was passed. This “budget” made unusually bold (a.k.a. moronic) Pollyannaish assumptions about revenue. All economic indicators predicted lower figures, but the legislature was intent on passing a budget — ANY budget — …
County Supervisor Pam Slater-Price Endorses Bonnie Dumanis for Mayor
San Diego County Supervisor Pam Slater-Price today endorsed Bonnie Dumanis for Mayor of San Diego. Slater-Price cited Dumanis’ proven leadership of a large government organization and the ability to build consensus at the District Attorney’s Office as just two of the reasons she believes Dumanis is the best candidate to keep San Diego moving forward. “Bonnie brought efficiency to the …
California Small Business Assocation Backs Nathan Fletcher for Mayor
The California Small Business Association (CSBA), a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that advocates on behalf of more than 200,000 small businesses across the state, today endorsed Nathan Fletcher for mayor, citing his proven commitment to creating jobs and a track record of fostering a competitive business climate for California. CSBA is the first major business organization to endorse a candidate in …
National “Teacher of the Year” Endorses Bonnie Dumanis for San Diego Mayor
International children’s advocate and former national Teacher of the Year Sandra McBrayer today endorsed Bonnie Dumanis for Mayor of San Diego. McBrayer founded the Monarch School in San Diego, the first successful school in the U.S. for homeless youth, and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of a San Diego-based child advocacy organization. President Bill Clinton named McBrayer the 1994 …
San Diego’s Leadership in Clean Energy Must Be Maintained
Stopping SDG&E’s Disastrous Solar-Killing Rate Changes A freight train is heading on a collision course with San Diego’s growing clean energy sector, but most San Diegans don’t even know about it. San Diego Gas & Electric is currently asking the California Public Utilities Commission to allow drastic and sweeping changes to San Diego’s electricity rate structure. The reason: Because of …
Navigating City Bureaucracy ‘Is Like Trying To Get Into A Speakeasy With The Wrong Password’
Local Businesses List Top Solutions To Cut City Red Tape The City Council held the first Regulatory Relief workshop since 2000 last night. Over 100 business advocates showed up to the special evening Council meeting, which has been promoted over the last week by Councilmembers Kevin Faulconer, Lorie Zapf and Tony Young. Dozens of recommendations to cut red tape were voiced directly …
DeMaio Calls for Regulatory Amnesty & Streamlined Permit Processes
DeMaio Lays Out Bold Proposals to Simplify City Rules as City Leaders Hold “Regulatory Relief Day” Carl DeMaio is calling on City leaders to move forward on two major proposals which will implement real regulatory relief by turning around the slow, overgrown, and bureaucratic permitting process at City Hall. DeMaio is calling for a major overhaul of the City’s Development …
UT: Bilbray’s daughter at center of medical marijuana debate
From today’s Union-Tribune… Briana Bilbray’s fight with cancer leads to a different stance from her father’s The young cancer survivor surged with adrenaline as she stepped up to the lectern at Imperial Beach City Hall to defend medical marijuana dispensaries and extol the drug’s therapeutic benefits for chemotherapy patients. Briana Bilbray did not inform her father, who opposes medical marijuana, …
OWS’s Roots: Downward Mobility In The Regulatory Class
I’m cheerfully stealing this meme from Patterico, which has an insightful roundup of opinions about the social motivations of the Occupy Wall Street crowd. The trigger for their rage isn’t really the banking industry, but the increasingly bleak job prospects of the lower rung of the would-be regulators and do-gooders. These types did everything dutiful big government left-liberals should do; …
Remember our Heroes…. Help San Diego’s Armed Services YMCA.. The Avant Garde unit shown here has for 25 years !
If You want to help San Diego’s military families this year, your best bet is with the local Armed Services YMCA. This mission of this “Y” is to help those families “Stress Less and Connect More“, according to human dynamo Brittany Catton, their proactive development director. Pictured above are local heroines, the Avante Garde auxillary, which donated $6,300 to …
SD Occupiers Assault Woman Presumed to be from Tea Party
This is apparently from November 8 when our own San Diego Occupiers assault a woman who films them (on a public street). Anyone who thinks these people truly do have a peaceful agenda are terribly mistaken. The Occupy movement is based on anger, envy, and mob righteousness. The number of videos surfacing of Occupiers spewing hate and vulgarities is never-ending. …
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