North Of The Fence: South Bay Politics and Events

North Of The Fence: South Bay Politics and Events Posted: 02 Oct 2015 11:42 AM PDT By Barbara Zaragoza Immigration and Crime You might be surprised to learn that border cities continue to be among the safest in the country. Imperial Beach was ranked the second safest city in San Diego County.(Poway came in first.) Also, you are least likely to be murdered in the two border cities of El Paso, TX and San Diego in comparison to 23 other cities in the U.S. Take a look at the FBI data that ranks cities by murder rate. The Pew Research Center found that Asians have supplanted Hispanics as the largest group of newcomers. The organization also reports that views of immigrants are largely split along party lines in America. 71% of Republicans say immigrants in the U.S. are making crime worse, compared with 35% of Democrats.   [Read more...]

shared from San Diego Free Press Oregon College Massacre, More Gun Nut Excuses Posted: 02 Oct 2015 11:15 AM PDT By Doug Porter A very disturbed 26-year-old man killed nine people and injured seven others at a community college in Oregon on October 1st. He was killed in a gunfight with police officers responding to 911 calls. The President made his 15th appearance to address the nation following a mass shooting. He was obviously very angry and frustrated. The blowback from the right edge of the flat-earthers was, as usual, both ignorant and infuriating.   [Read more...]

Are Charter School Directors Bending Pension Rules? Posted: 02 Oct 2015 08:55 AM PDT By Rick Mercurio / Alianza North County Teachers and administrators in California’s public schools earn pensions based on several factors. For some, like Dennis Snyder, the founder of three charter schools in Escondido CA, it adds up to a healthy lifetime benefit, even though his final employer was not a public school district, and even though he found an apparent loophole in the regulations. Snyder’s situation Dennis Snyder worked as a teacher and football coach at Escondido High School starting in about 1965. In 1986 the principal fired Snyder as coach, citing the reason that he was not cooperative with the parent booster organization. Snyder appealed the firing to both the superintendent and the school board, and he lost both appeals. Although he was let go as head football coach, he retained his teaching position. However, in the early ‘90s Snyder switched jobs, becoming executive director of the Escondido Charter High School, which he founded. Heritage K-8 Charter School and Heritage Digital Academy were later founded by Snyder as well. Snyder’s salary as executive director eventually rose to almost $111,000.   [Read more...]

SANDAG’s Gary Gallegos: ‘Transit is not going to work for every person in the region’ Posted: 02 Oct 2015 08:54 AM PDT By Sam Ollinger / BikeSD “We are not going to put everybody on a bike, we are not going to take everybody out of their car, transit is not going to work for every person in the region.” – Gary Gallegos, executive director of SANDAG, San Diego’s Metropolitan Planning Organization. January 8, 2014. “the SANDAG plan is to spend more than half the $204 billion on mass transit, adding five new Trolley lines, 32 new rapid bus lines and 275 miles of new bikeways, as well as 160 miles of freeway lanes intended to help transit and encourage carpools and van pools. The net effect would be to reduce county greenhouse gas emissions by considerably more than state targets.” – UT Editorial Board I don’t know what sort of drugs the UT Editorial Board is consuming, because if they bothered to read SANDAG’s own analysis they would have seen that implementing the existing Regional Transportation Plan (scheduled for a SANDAG board vote on October 9th) in its current form is going to increase the region’s greenhouse gas emissions.   [Read more...]

Geo-Poetic Spaces: Taken Posted: 02 Oct 2015 08:53 AM PDT Lashing out of imperial robes at Saint Paul's pillar where the founder of Christianity was whipped by its father Sun striking me with its scorpion tail One soft drink from heatstroke and Parousia when, "A fisher of men," limped toward me rattling small change in a paper cup   [Read more...]

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