Time to look back at SD Rostra’s first year and salute those who won for us the SD Press Club award for “Best Topic-based Blog” in San Diego! This post looks at Rostra’s best from October to December 2009. More, from 2010, follow this week. Please read them over and let us know which are your favorite articles. Excelling in Oct. …
Don’t Mess With the Big Guy in the Red Suit
San Diego Rostra is our region’s leading political blog with several breaking news items to our credit and some swell awards, translating to an impressive growth in readership. So it’s no surprise to this member of the blogpen to learn that Santa Claus himself is one of Rostra’s loyal followers. He’s asked to sit in as a guest blogger with …
Santa Claus’ Special Gift List for some of the ‘SD Rostra’ Regulars
Please add your “gifts” to Santa’s List for fellow Rostrafarians: ________________________________________________________ For Gayle Falkenthal … more shelf space to store the trophies and plaques she copped from the SD Press Club and other societies. Barry Jantz …a peaceful year at Grossmont Healthcare District. Marie Waldron… an abacus, to discreetly count how often she is once again the Majority Maker on the Escondido …
An Example of Government in Action vs. Gov’t Inaction
Crews have been working around the clock to repair and restore the Coastal Rail line to service. This post is not political, but it is informative, and you read it here first! NCTD is pleased announce the completion of repairs along a section of railroad track damaged by considerable storm erosion. Crews from NCTD, Transit America, and Herzog worked around the clock to …
It’s Official — Crystal Crawford (D) files papers to seek the 74th Assembly District seat in 2012
Former Del Mar Mayor Crystal Crawford quietly filed paperwork in the last 48 hours to seek the “open” 74th State Assembly seat in 2012…when the GOP’s Martin Garrick will be term-limited. Rostra’s ‘North Pole’ last week reported rumbles Crawford might try the race, but filing of a Candidate Intention Statement (Form 501) by Crawford on Tuesday makes it official. SD …
“Inland Empire” added to Rick Amato’s radio Audience starting January 11
San Diego-based radio host Rick Amato will soon be heard on San Bernardino and Riverside counties’ most prestigious radio station [KTIE am-590] starting Jan. 11th at 8 p.m…. Rick will continue to air on KCBQ’s am-1170, with a switch to a 7:00 p.m.starting time begin- ning January 3rd. KTIE is the “Lakers basketball” station for the Inland Empire, and their …
DHS cover-up begins for Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s murder
Life in the field for Border Patrol Agents is often lonely work, as police officers most agents patrol alone in their vehicles as they travel remote territory off the beaten path. Agent Brian Terry was different; he served as a Marine in the Middle East during wartime, loved law enforcement and was selected for the elite BORTAC (the SWAT of …
Rail Service notice
Per the North County Transit District: COASTER and Amtrak train service between Oceanside and San Diego is cancelled until further notice due to severe weather conditions. Severe weather is also impacting the SPRINTER light rail line between the Oceanside Transit Center and the El Camino Real Station. A bus bridge is in place to bypass the Coast Highway and Crouch Street …
San Diego businesses turn to ICE IMAGE Program to ensure legal employees
A little known employment verification program run by ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) is spreading throughout San Diego County and the country. IMAGE (ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers) is a relatively new tool for employers in the fight against illegal immigration. While the E-Verify program is widely known and now used by hundreds of thousands of businesses nationwide …
Regional Appointments in the news!
Local elected officials routinely serve on various regional or sub-regional Boards or Joint Power Authority Boards, and usually the appointment of Council Member X or Mayor Y to such mundane tasks is a matter important only to them. Not so regarding the appointment to SANDAG from Oceanside and Encinitas this year! This has gone full blown political…read it here. The Mayor …
Here We Go Again
Anyone ever notice when there are budget cuts to be made, the politicians and bureaucrats generally pick those items to cut that are the core services (ie public safety, roads, education, parks) instead of going through the budget line by line and cutting administration? Why would that be? Because these folks don’t want to change the way they do business …
L.A. pedophile gets 104 months prison for sex with 14-year-old Cambodian girl
A Los Angeles man was arrested and charged with “renting” a 14-year-old girl in Cambodia was convicted and sentenced to 104 months in federal prison. Michael Dodd was ordered to by the court to pay restitution of $9,500 and will be saddled with 10 years of supervised release. A clearly angry U.S. District Judge John Walter said this was “one …
Judge allows illegal aliens to sue ICE agents
A Connecticut federal judge ruled against the government and will allow illegal immigrants to sue ICE agents for civil rights violations. U.S. District Court Judge Stefan Underhill ruled Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are not immune from lawsuits if they are anchored on Constitutional grounds. The civil rights lawsuit, brought by 11 alleged illegal immigrants claim they were unlawfully …
UT first credits SD Rostra for scoop on Supervisor’s race … then deletes the reference
Five days ago Jim Sills broke a story here on Rostra that Santee activist Rudy Reyes would again challenge County Supervisor Dianne Jacob in 2012. In a story two days later, Union-Tribune reporter Michele Clock initially credited SD Rostra for the newsbeat, per this summary sent from “Google Alerts”… County supervisor races start to shape up – San Diego Union …
Earliest Race Returns Show Rider In Front
While San Diego’s voters won’t be casting ballots for months to come, there’s still plenty of competition among current and aspiring officeholders. In a head to head battle at the Scripps Ranch Four Mile Run last Sunday, December 12, Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher and would-be officeholder Steve Rider both finished in the top three of the 30 – 34 old mens’ …
Ron Roberts Voters came from All corners — Republican Supervisor swept Minority Neighborhoods — 66% in George Stevens’ old council district!
It’s no surprise Ron Roberts won Linda Vista, where he grew up (61%) , nor Mission Hills, his home the past 3 decades (59%). But when his very best neighborhoods were All in the late, great George Stevens’ city council district 4… Well, now That is a real surprise! Impressively, Ron Roberts won West Encanto (predominantly African-American) with 65%, Paradise …
Rider fact-checked by Voice of SD. Verdict — “Mostly true”
Recently I was “fact-checked” by the Voice of San Diego. Got a “Mostly True” verdict. Fortunately, Voice also goes into some detail on the San Diego city Walmart ban and efforts to overturn it — a “two fer” as far as I’m concerned. I missed out on getting the top “True” rating because I did indeed leave out what the Voice of …
W-w-weather Is Not C-c-climate
That’s the standard disclaimer of believers in anthropogenic global warming whenever there’s a period of unusual cold: you can’t discern climate from singular weather events. And it’s true, although some AGW believers sing a different tune when the weather is unusually warm. In those cases, we’re told, the warm weather is a foretaste of what we can expect from global …
DREAM Act dies a quiet death in the lame duck
On a rare Saturday lame duck session the Senate voted to kill the DREAM Act- ending Democrats bid to give tuition breaks and amnesty to children of undocumented immigrants. The vote this morning fell short of the 60 votes required (55-41) and witnessed Democrat defections. The passionate floor debate by Democrats failed to resonate with emboldened Republicans . Now immigration …
CA vs other states fact sheet rev. 12-17-2010
Here’s the link to my latest dreary updated CA comparison. Please don’t read and drive. http://open.salon.com/blog/richard_rider/2010/12/17/breaking_bad_ca_vs_other_states_-_revised_121710 Three items of note: 1. A major tort reform organization rates CA the 2nd worst “judicial hellhole” in America — extremely anti-business. 2. Our net domestic CA out-migration continues, slowed only by our depressed CA housing market. 3. We are now tied with Michigan …
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