Cut to the Chase
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| Pub. Date | Title | Subject |
| SDDT 4/03 | Here at Home |
To the extent that wars can be noble, in terms of lofty goals, the Iraq war qualifies. It is also racked up its long list of pain and horrors, following up the initial shock and awe.
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| SDDT 3/3/03 | Operation End Extremism |
… That's what we really need right now: a movement to end extremism. Let's go see what this is about. The moment of hope began to fade when I tuned into the fact that it was a Senate Committee. Environment and Public works – an odd place to go after extremism, I think. But wait. It turns out the extremism they mean are environmental protections. The extremists they mean, it seems, include me.
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| SDDT 2/17/03 | Great cities, great planning... and San Diego |
The following are comments presented to the Land Use and Housing Committee on February 12, 2003, concerning General Plan Update Work program for the Planning Department. The group's purpose is to update the General Plan and Community Plans to become consistent with the Strategic Framework Element, aka “City of Villages.”
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| SDDT 11/02 | Balancing Progress With Preservation |
The following is a condensed version of remarks from a speech I made to a San Diego Chamber of Commerce audience, entitled “Balancing Progress With Preservation.”
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| SDDT 10/14/02 | Reinvent planning |
How did they plan great cities before we had fancy computers to draw colorful maps? Are cities planned better since? These questions were brought into focus recently when I attended a meeting where developers were presenting their ground-truthing for the County's General Plan 2020 update. |
| SDDT 8/5/02 | Housing Hysteria |
Unprecedented discussions about San Diego’s unaffordable housing have taken place since a July 2001 City Council direction that staff create proposal for a "flexible inclusionary housing program with incentives."
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| SDDT 1/31/02 | Who Gives? |
I spent some volunteer hours over the holidays pouring over political campaign donor reports – wondering and learning – who gives?
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| SDDT 1/22/02 | Justice Matters |
District Attorney is up for re-election with a field of three healthy challengers in the March 5 primary.
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| SDDT 12/3/01 | 911: Reduce our Risk |
At the beginning of the nuclear age, utility companies wouldn't go near the nuclear power business because no insurance firm would accept responsibility for accidents. Nuclear proponents lobbied and Congress passed the Price-Anderson Act of 1957. It was to be a temporary, ten-year measure to "encourage the private development of nuclear power." |
| SDDT 6/18/01 | Pollitics | Higher taxes or higher traffic? Which would you choose? The problem is, we are getting both. |
| SDDT 5/7/01 | Management Breakdown at SANDAG |
Debate rages over instituting a new form of regional government in San Diego. Why? If a recent San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) Board hearing is any indication, our current version of regional government simply isn't up to the complex task of deliberating and resolving the critical issues concerning growth management. |
| SDDT 10/27/00 | Political sizing | What's a voter to think if most candidates are saying that they will be the one to actually do something about cleaning up our beaches and bays? |
| SDDT 10/16/00 | Open Secrets | The absolute most excellent site just showed up on the internet. |
| SDDT 10/9/00 | Let the Voting Begin | Has anyone else noticed that advertisements are getting more and more absurd? |
| SDDT 9/5/00 | Driving Technology | Support Cleaner Cars for California (ZEV Program up for review) |
| SDDT 7/14/00 | Energy Prophets | Problems and solutions of energy deregulation |
| SDDT 8/7/00 | Biotech vs Biology? | Sorrento Valley Rd /Torrey Pines State Reserve |
| SDDT 7/28/00 | Exactly what's wrong | Mission Bay / Jet Ski Politics |
| SDDT 7/21/00 | Process over performance | Just part of why our transportation systems are uncompetitive. |
| SDDT 7/10/00 | Ask the Mayoral Candidates | Politics, Environment and The Mayor |
| SDDT 5/15/00 | Blame Game | Wetlands vs. Roads |
| SDDT 5/1/00 | Penciling Out | Energy, Politics & SDG&E |
| SDDT 4/24/00 | Rationale for Regionalism | Smart Growth & regionalism |
| SDDT 4/10/00 | Smart growth showdown | Assumption of Smart Growth |
| SDDT 4/3/00 | Sprawlitics | County rezone of agricultural preserves |
| SDDT 3/13/00 | Putting up | What would a great transportation system be like? |
| SDDT 3/6/00 | Ambush week | Election politics |
| SDDT 2/28/00 | Free To Be Stupid | Election politics |
| SDDT 1/28/00 | Rhetoric vs. Reality | Election politics |
| SDDT 1/17/00 | Sloppy or Sleazy? | Election politics |
| SDDT 12/27/99 | Calendar Coincidence | Technology/internet |
| SDDT 11/26/99 | Influences Past and Future | Growth/sprawl -- the Top 10 influences in American cities |
| SDDT 11/22/99 | Growth Politics | Urban planning/sprawl -- Fanita Ranch |
| SDDT 10/29/99 | Sign of new times | BIG signs not needed |
| SDDT 10/11/99 | Sludge Fund | Mission Bay Park, pollution & $$ |
| Civic Infrastructure | Public participation | |
| SDDT 7/19/99 | More of the same | |
| SDDT 7/5/99 | Permitting Pollution | Jet ski pollution |
| SDDT 6/21/99 | Preventing Pointless Pollution | Stormwater pollution prevention |
| SDDT 6/14/99 | Interesting Times | Environmental revolution? |
| SDDT 6/7/99 | Political Infrastructure | Thinking regionally |
| SDDT 5/31/99 | Civic Salad | Smart growth |
| SDDT 5/10/99 | Beyond Sentiment | Energy victims |
| SDDT 5/3/99 | Still Smarting | Smart growth |
| SDDT 4/26/99 | Pollution Politics Persist | Water pollution |
| SDDT 3/29/99 | Grow Getters | Smart growth? |
| SDDT 1/25/99 | Grow Up San Diego | Population growth |
| SDDT 1/18/99 | Mismatch? | What kind of growth? |
| SDDT 1/12/99 | Political Species | MSCP lawsuit |
| SDDT 1/5/99 | Extinction Politics | Endangered Species Act & MSCP |
| SDDT 11/30/98 | Giving Thanks | Carmel Mountain Preserve |
| SDDT 11/23/98 | Cut taxes, save the world | Harnessing the market for the environment |
| SDDT 11/9/98 | Ballot Box Reality | Review of election results |
| SDDT 11/2/98 | The Devil in the Details | Congress & the environment -- NOT |
| SDDT 10/26/98 | Sprawl Wars | Responsible growth? |
| SDDT 10/19/98 | Political Truth: Just Say Moo | www.manurewatch.org |
| SDDT 10/5/98 | Congressional Attachments | Congress & environment -- NOT |
| SDDT 9/28/98 | Short-Attention-Span Politics | Who has time for politics? |
| SDDT 9/21/98 | Public Trussed | "Poor" Bill Clinton |
| SDDT 9/14/98 | Sprawling America | Suburban sprawl growth |
| SDDT 8/31/98 | Don't inhale or Keep on Breathin' | Alternatives to diesel |
| SDDT 7/20/98 | 21st Century Infrastructure: Builders Wanted | Science, environment & growth |
| SDDT 7/13/98 | Driving Taxes | Vehicle licence fee cuts |
| SDDT 7/6/98 | Planning Happens | Planning & growth |
| SDDT 6/29/98 | Port Misauthority | Port of San Diego |
| SDDT 6/22/98 | A Tale of Two Developments | Growth & development |
| SDDT 6/15/98 | Political education | Transit connections missing |
| SDDT 6/8/98 | Out of Balance | Politics & environment |
| SDDT 6/1/98 | Who's Doing What | Politics & environment |
| SDDT 4/13/99 | Cut Polluter Pork | Cut pollution subsidies |
| SDDT 3/30/98 | Trash tangle | Where does the trrash go? |
| SDDT 3/23/98 | Water Efficiency | State water systems |
| SDDT 3/16/98 | A bay in the
hand is worth a bunch to Busch, or Givin' away the bay |
Mission Bay Park |
| SDDT 3/2/98 | Going, Going, Gone | Endangered biodiversity |
| SDDT 1/12/98 | Fields of Dreams, or People Politics | The ballot initiative process |
| SDDT 1/5/98 | New Year, New Hope | Political justice? |
| SDDT 12/29/97 | In with the new | Year-end summary |
| SDDT 12/22/97 | Responsibility Relief | Regulatory relief politics |
| SDDT 12/8/97 | Tyranny of Choice or The Terms of the Deals | Downtown dealmaking |
| SDDT 11/24/97 | Back of the Bus | Multiple Species Conservation Plan |
| SDDT 11/17/97 | Wets up? | Wetlands protection |
