Considering I started my vacation yesterday, let me start by saying this installment of Sunday San Diego will be relatively brief. With that said, if anyone besides fellow FR correspondent Joe Justin can reference my chosen blog title today to anything other than the fact I am penning a short entry while gone, please email me here. I’ll note the correct guessers in a future Sunday San Diego.
Well okay then, here are a few comments about – and links to – some SD news tidbits of note in the last week…
CityBeat’s Dave Rolland does about 30,000 column inches on Aguirre… As if San Diego City Attorney Big Mike needs the press. Be that as it may, Rolland of the left-wing San Diego CityBeat does a fairly impressive, extensive interview with Aguirre. You know the writers at CB think they’re all modern day, alt-journies, especially with questions such as this posed to their subjects:
"In the classic Greek sense of the term, loosely defined, a tragic figure is someone who ascends to power but is brought down by the very quality that brought him up. (That might not be precise, but it works well enough for our purposes.) Sometimes I wonder if you might end up being such a tragic figure, where your tenacity and aggressiveness and maybe hubris might actually wind up doing you in."
Aside from such comical profundities, the interview has some shining moments, certainly if one appreciates Mike Aguirre. Read it…and read it…and read it all here.
Former Senator Dede Alpert lobbying without a steenkin’ badge?… The San Diego Reader’s Matt Potter tries to ferret out the truth. You can peruse it here.
North County Times Focuses on Local Health Care Bonds… Boring stuff, on the surface perhaps, but San Diego-area residents are seeing more electioneering regarding hospital bonds than they have in more than two decades. I know, having just been involved in one. (And, if anyone wants to know the reasons, let’s start with Federal and State unfunded mandates continuously imposed on health care.) NCTimes Staff Writer Paul Sisson pens a good piece for today’s paper outlining why one measure lost while others won.
Have a great Sunday and a superb week. I know I will.