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. …
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 …
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