SAN DIEGO – New Council District lines drawn for the City of San Diego will likely create more competitive elections and shift the balance of power at City Hall. Those are the major findings of a new study published today by the National University System Institute for Policy Research (NUSIPR). On August 25, 2011, the seven members of the City …
Wonk Wednesday Welcomes Sean Karafin to the San Diego Scene
Rostrafarians, isn’t it just like a cool breeze on an unseasonably warm evening when you find out there’s a new wonk at work in San Diego? In a fittingly timed announcement on Wonk Wednesday, Sean Karafin has been named Economic Policy Analyst for the San Diego County Taxpayers Association (SDCTA). Karafin brings formal education in economics, and experience working with …
California and San Diego Ignore the Right to Bear Arms and Personal Protection
Guest Commentary by Michael Schwartz After weeks of waiting to see if Governor Jerry Brown is indeed the friend of gun owners he proclaimed to be while on the campaign trail, we now have our answer … he’s not. Gov. Brown signed into law AB144 which bans carrying loaded or unloaded pistols throughout our state. Regardless if you’re hiking in …
DeMaio Heads to Texas
Today I’ll depart for Texas with a delegation of San Diego business leaders. Our mission: figure out why Texas keeps taking San Diego jobs – and come back with ideas on how to stop it. -Carl Joins Business Leaders To Study Job Creation San Diego mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio will join a delegation of business leaders tomorrow for a three-day …
A few words about reader comments
We are compelled to be clear about how Rostra’s automated spam filter treats reader comments. Most of the comments made on the blog go into a pending filter, with some of them going into spam. It’s either that or have hundreds of inappropriate automated spam comments, many with offensive language, appearing on the blog. We get about 1,000 spam comments …
Please Join Speaker John Boehner In Support of Congressman Brian Bilbray
Please Join Speaker John Boehner In Support of Congressman Brian Bilbray U.S. House Committee on Energy & Commerce Saturday, October 15, 2011 Congressional Circle Roundtable Reception 6:30 p.m. General Reception 7:00 p.m. Hosted by Scott & Susan McMillin and Mark & C’Ann McMillin at 1045 Loma Avenue, Coronado, CA 92118 RSVP call Karolyn Dorsee/Dorsee Productions at (858) 756-2027 • email: …
Attack on historic Initiative system VETOED… Gov. Brown swats down AB 651….. a Major setback for San Diego’s Labor Council — but Republicans cheered!
California’s freedom-loving system of Voter initiative, Recall and Referendum celebrates its 100-year birthday this week. A bid to stifle it with new Government controls was shot down in flames when Jerry Brown vetoed AB 651 with a succinct message shown above. The Veto was a setback for the San Diego -Imperial Counties Labor Council which backed AB 651, per the official State Senate analysis. …
Assemblyman Jones scores with Second Amendment event in Alpine
Over 70 residents of the 77th Assembly district attended a Second-Amendment Awareness Event hosted by Assemblyman Brian Jones on Friday, September 23, 2011 at the Lemon Grove Rod and Gun Club in Alpine. The function included approximately 25 volunteers who donated their time and expertise to instruct novice shooters about accuracy and safety. The focus of the event highlighted the …
Is the U.S. – like Europe – doomed by its distributionist schemes?
Is our nation economically doomed like Europe? I’m not a doomsday guy, but logically the answer is eventually YES. Two factoids indicate that we are at or past the “tipping point”: 1. 48.5%, of the population lived in a household that received some type of government benefit in the first quarter of 2010. http://tinyurl.com/3lqyslj (WALL ST JOURNAL) 2. 51% of …
Herman Cain and Morgan Freeman: Whose Comments Better Fight Racism?
Originally written by Bob Siegel and published by Washington Times Communities. SAN DIEGO, October 6, 2011—Who says our country can’t handle a black president? Even before the election of Barack Obama, America proved its ability to embrace far more; a black God! True, it came from the fictitious film, Bruce Almighty, but Morgan Freeman gave one of the best portrayals of …
Surprising Veto by Jerry Brown – SB 469
I was alerted by a tweet from my councilmember Lorie Zapf that Governor Jerry Brown has vetoed the anti-Walmart legislation sponsored by Juan Vargas, SB-469. Despite any rhetoric to the contrary, this bill was designed to make it harder for cities to approve Walmart supercenters that sell groceries, in direct competition with the largely unionized grocers like Ralphs, Vons and …
Dangerous Questions From Darrell Issa
“We want to know what and when they knew it.” — Rep. Darrell Issa on new subpoenas to be issued regarding Fast and Furious, on “Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace.” More from Issa: “But more importantly, we have to understand — at what level of the authorization really come? It wasn’t an ATF operation. They were part of that. …
Tea Party and Occupy – Some Common Ground? UPDATE
Update below the fold. Temple of Mut has a great round up on the Occupy (insert your city here) events yesterday. Fellow SLOBs W.C. Varones and Left Coast Rebel both attended the San Diego event yesterday. W.C. has great video and LCR has revealing pictures. They are worth a review, because this movement is complex and even self-contradictory at times; …
Brown signs DREAM Act part two — Will give illegal aliens taxpayer money for college
California Governor Jerry Brown finally signed the Golden State’s version of the DREAM Act. Part two of the controversial bill will release taxpayer money to illegal aliens seeking to attend public colleges without proving their immigration status to financial aid offices. The move will allow prospective illegal alien students to compete with American citizens for precious college financial aid. Keep …
S.D. Unified refuses to release tentative full list of targeted campuses
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/oct/06/school-closure-plan-trickling-out/ I worked for this district for 25 years, so I know something about the history. I’ve seen the district cut and reorganize several times, claiming each time that now it’s a mean and lean machine, then gradually bringing office and bureaucratic positions back to the prior point. The district justifies the huge salaries to the bureaucrats that tend to …
Christopher Columbus news Links, honoring Spain’s “Admiral of the Ocean Sea” — October 12, 1492
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 undisputed …
Down with Corporations!!
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Former rivals are now on the Same Team … Martin Garrick endorses Marie Waldron for State Assembly
Five years ago, the race for the 74th Assembly District came down to Martin Garrick and Marie Waldron. On June 6, 2006 , Mr. Garrick won a close victory … but on October 6, 2011, the same Martin Garrick happily endorsed the same Marie Waldron to succeed him, saying: “It is so important we send principled conservatives to Sacramento to fight …
DeMaio Emerges from Business Summit with an “Action List for Job Creation”
Suggestions Include: Cut Red Tape, Speed Up Permit Processing, Invest in Infrastructure, Partner with Business Groups Councilmember Carl DeMaio wrapped up the first in a series of “Job Creation Summits” with San Diego business leaders armed with a list of what he calls “cutting edge ideas that will make San Diego the leader in innovation, entrepreneurship, and job creation.” “We …
Nathan Fletcher’s Budget Plan of Action
For years, leaders at all levels of government have played budget shell games, relying on accounting gimmicks to cover-up a failure to address the underlying structural problems. This has been true over the last decade in San Diego. While the current mayor has made progress addressing this problem, it is clear that moving forward San Diego needs a new approach …
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