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. …
Your Weekend Local and State News Links
As blog content naturally drops off during the weekend on an all-volunteer site like SD Rostra, we bring you the following political news and blog links as a “portal” for your ease of use during those droughts. If you’d like a link added, please let us know at info@sdrostra.com. Check out a new entry!… California Political Review Our Statewide Media Partner …
Your Alternate Weekend News Links …featuring the Media Research Center
Here are some useful news sources for SD Rostra fans, and enjoyable weekend reading. Batting lead-off for you is Matt Potter, who is the best investigative reporter in San Diego… and the best this town has seen since the immortal Harold Keen, from the 1950s to the early 1980s, on Channel 8 and at San Diego magazine. Harold Keen was the …
DeMaio Taps Public-Private Partnerships to Make Major Mira Mesa Park Expansion
“This Is What the Future of Neighborhood Services Looks Like” For years plans for expanding Mira Mesa’s Community Park have been at a complete stand still due to lack of funding – leaving residents without adequate facilities. That all changed today when Councilmember Carl DeMaio unveiled plans to tap public-private partnerships to fund the construction and operation of a revamped …
City Council Serves Up “Restaurant Relief,” Removing A Burdensome Regulation For Local Businesses
Faulconer: Government regulation putting “too many cooks in the kitchen” When was the last time you heard of the police breaking up a rowdy dance party at Liberty Station’s Corvette Diner? Probably never, but this family restaurant was required to obtain a $3,000 entertainment permit from the Police Department for the right to feature live entertainment (in this case, a …
“It’s In The Voters’ Hands” — Comprehensive Pension Reform Qualifies For San Diego Ballot
One hundred fifteen thousand nine hundred ninety one. That’s how many San Diegans signed the petition to qualify Comprehensive Pension Reform for the June 2012 ballot, the City Clerk confirmed today. The initiative’s authors — Mayor Jerry Sanders, City Council President Pro Tem Kevin Faulconer and City Councilmember Carl DeMaio — joined the Lincoln Club, San Diego County Taxpayers …
SD City Clerk certifies CPR: Taxpayers Association to “leverage all its resources”
San Diego County Taxpayers Association Plans Vigorous Campaign for CPR Initiative (San Diego) – San Diego’s leading taxpayer advocacy group says it will leverage all its resources in the campaign for the Comprehensive Pension Reform (CPR) ballot measure now that the San Diego City Clerk has certified the measure for the ballot with 115,991 valid signatures. The groundbreaking pension reform …
FLASH — Carl DeMaio’s Pension Reform measure QUALIFIES for June 2012 Ballot
Congratulations to Carl DeMaio, Tony Krvaric and everyone else involved in the lengthy trench-fighting process to gather 115,000 valid signatures for this signal reform. Here is Carl DeMaio’s e-mail bulletin just received: “ Moments ago I received the official notice from the City Clerk — our Pension Reform Ballot Measure has qualified for a public vote! Thank you for your role in this …
Win Chargers Tickets and Support Small Business
Last night I held a fundraiser to support two small businesses that have been forced to shut down due to the unsanitary and threatening environment created by the Occupy San Diego Protests. Here’s the story: http://www.youtube.com/user/DeMaio4Mayor#p/a/u/0/7kDFdAcdDvM If you weren’t able to attend, here is another opportunity… Darryl Anderson is going to donate 2 tickets to the Chargers game this Thursday …
Roger Hedgecock Show to begin airing on Talk Radio 760 KFMB-AM after new year
All of the “Changes at KOGO”-related Rostra posts over the last few days, including Jimmy Valentine’s inside info that Roger Hedgecock would likely be departing KOGO for KFMB, culminates in the announcement that Hedgecock is … well … departing KOGO for KFMB. News to Rostra. Not. Jon Fleischman at FlashReport has the press release from Roger. Read it here. Here …
Doug Manchester Interested In SDUT Purchase: VOSD Report
UPDATE: Credit Where Due Dept: Don Bauder of the San Diego Reader discussed the rumor that Manchester was buying the U-T in a Sept. 29 blog post. Bauder properly called it a “strictly a rumor”, but one worth reporting. I think that was the proper way to handle it. The rumor was widely given credence by local insiders, and journalists …
Roger Hedgecock e-mail Today says an Announcement coming tomorrow…But still on KOGO til Dec. 31… Also heard on XM 166
In an e-mail to regular listeners, the Roger Hedgecock show today says this about the program’s future: “STAY TUNED TOMORROW For MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT On The Future of San Diego’s NUMBER ONE RATED Talk Show… The Roger Hedgecock Show is excited to share with you first an important announcement on the future for our show starting next year. Of course, until …
Fabiani: This is ‘perhaps our last and best chance’ to keep Chargers in San Diego
I published a blog post Friday that questioned Mark Fabiani’s criticism of Mayor Jerry Sanders’ Convention Center expansion plan. Fabiani, who serves as special counsel to the San Diego Chargers and is the team’s point man on stadium talks, sent me a response on Saturday. Here it is: Tony, thank you for the opportunity to weigh in on your latest …
The REAL race for San Diego Mayor starts Now — Donna Frye will Not Run in 2012 — VOSD has newsbeat … and Rostra’s Victory Bear approves
Donna Frye won’t make a 3rd try for Mayor in 2012, a bombshell first reported by Liam Dillon at the Voice of San Diego. This is the “Other Shoe” people were waiting to drop, and VOSD says she will also endorse Bob Filner for the top City job. With the earlier exit of Chris Kehoe (reported first by SD Rostra on June …
Another Snuff Video From Global Warming Activists
UPDATE: The poster of the global warming snuff video was getting hammered in the comments from us evil Koch-funded global warming deniers. So he disabled commenting. Fools like that live in their own isolated enclaves of moonbattery in which burning up skeptics is funny. Exposure to the real world must have chilled his resolve. So I suggest you instead look …
Breaking, Part II: KOGO Changes Becoming Clearer
As originally reported and updated on Rostra, big changes are coming to KOGO-AM Radio, San Diego’s foremost news and talk (make that talk with a sprinkling of news) radio station. Several sources including afternoon host LaDona Harvey have confirmed to this KOGO alumna the following lineup, starting on Monday: 9 a.m. – 12 noon: Rush Limbaugh (No change here, KOGO …
Breaking: Chris Reed ends his KOGO run tonight — Roger Hedgecock too?
Readers may want to listen to KOGO-AM 600 today at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. for some announcements. Tonight’s 6-8 p.m. Top Story on KOGO will be the final broadcast for Chris Reed. I couldn’t reach him for comment, although I’m pretty sure Reed wouldn’t be inclined to say anything. I also have a message in to KOGO management for …
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