It’s Wednesday, March 4, 2026. This is what John Riley thinks.

Thoughts on Iran War

Trump’s War against Iran has me thinking. 10 years ago, I would have condemned this war effort categorically, but I’ve changed.

I realize that you need to take on evil and defeat it.

Iran is evil. The religious leadership slaughtered tens of thousands of Iranian protesters. Women are treated like second class citizens. Iran funds organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah which commit terrorist acts against Israel. Iran held American hostages for 14 months. Iran should have been dealt with an exceedingly long time ago, by both Israel and USA.

But the way Trump is going about it is all wrong. There is no moral case made to the American people. The US objective is not clearly defined. What exactly are we trying to achieve? Plus, Congress hasn’t approved war per the Constitution. It’s another of these warmongering adventures pushed by an all-powerful POTUS.

The end does not justify the means.

Yet still, I am happy to see the Ayatollah eliminated. I am happy to see Iranian leadership taken out. I would be thrilled if the Iranian regime collapsed. I don’t even know yet what might replace it, but at least there is an opportunity for real change. The people in Iran seem ready to oust the clerics and install a more secular state.

I’ve got to be careful I don’t fall for my own wishful thinking. What I want isn’t necessarily what I’ll get.

I have this utopian future vision of the Middle East:

• without religious rule
• without sharia law
• without centuries old conflicts
• without terrorism

• with protection of individual rights
• with a productive economy
• with peaceful trade
• with professional diplomacy
• with friendly tourism
• with democracy

It’s nice to think of such things. But let’s be realistic. It’s not going to happen. It certainly didn’t happen in Iraq or Afghanistan. Why should I expect otherwise?

So many mixed feelings about this war.

BTW, just a few observations.

It seemed like it was just yesterday when MAGA was American First. They didn’t want regime change wars, forever wars. Many of the key voices like JD Vance or Tulsi Gabbard have kept quiet or are quickly changing their tune.

It goes to show you that very few people have true guiding principles. Most just want to be a winner. Far too many will flip on their positions quickly. Most are not grounded in any sort of philosophical framework.

Another thought. As a taxpayer what exactly is your Fair Share of war spending? What if you strongly oppose this war? Should you or I be on the hook for the tab? It’s a fair question to those that demand taxpayers pay increasingly higher and higher amounts.

Rethinking Jimmy Carter

This Iran War brings up the history of America’s relationship with Iran and naturally that leads us to 1979. This was when the Iranian Revolution ejected the Shah of Iran and installed a brutal Muslim theocracy. Revolutionaries invaded the US Embassy and held sixty-six hostages for up 444 days.

This was the Jimmy Carter era, and his reputation took a horrible beating. I remember I was 14 years old. America was in the doldrums. The economy sucked. We had inflation. Then the hostage crisis. Jimmy Carter never stood a chance against Reagan in the 1980 election. People just wanted change. People wanted to feel good again.

But upon reflection, I have really come around to support Jimmy Carter. He was the Great Deregulator. Carter deregulated oil prices, airlines, trucking and telecommunications and BEER!, wanted to withdraw from South Korea, sought disarming of nuclear weapons, peace accord with Israel and Egypt… and did extraordinarily little damage compared to other POTUSs.

“America has the greatest economic system in the world. Let’s reduce government interference and give it a chance to work.” -President Jimmy Carter

Looking back now, President Carter should have been more aggressive trying to get the hostages back. I remember a failed secret mission to save the hostages. Carter should have done so much more not just to win back Americans held against their will, but to confront this evil Iranian religious zealotry that robbed Iranians of their rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Eastern Sierras, Good Friends, and Checkpoints

It’s that time of year again where I visit my old college friends on a trip to North Lake Tahoe and Reno. It’s an annual excursion of 8-20 guys each year. We were all UC San Diego fraternity mates back in the 1980s. Many of us are still close. But for some guys, we only see each other on this specific trip. It has turned into a memorial for our friend Brad who passed away a few years ago. Lots of good vibes and brotherly love.

In case you are wondering, the group skis every day, but I just join them for dinner, drinks, and craps for 2 nights.

I really enjoy this trip, but for many different reasons. I really like the drive up the 395. The Eastern Sierra Nevada Range is spectacular, especially in the winter. Fresh virgin snow in meadows on the side of the road. Old throwback Americana towns. The climate goes from metropolitan to high desert to alpine and eventually back to a metropolitan area. So much to see but also so much quality time to myself.

I really value that time. I allow myself to decompress, listen to podcasts and turn off the noise of demands of others. I give myself time to think and wonder and dream.

I do have one observation that I want to discuss. As I am returning and crossing into the State of California near Topaz Lake there is a fruit inspection checkpoint. Why is this not staffed? Don’t get me wrong. I don’t like the checkpoints. I’m happy to drive straight on through. But why isn’t it staffed? Is it seasonal?

Speaking of which, there’s a fruit checkpoint when crossing the CA border on the I-15 near Las Vegas and it is rarely open. Plus, what happened to the immigration checkpoint in Camp Pendleton or Fallbrook/15? Those are rarely staffed at all.

Count me as thankful. Those checkpoints are a waste of time and money. They delay my travels. Frankly, I wonder if they are even consistent with the 4^th Amendment that protects people from unreasonable search and seizure.

The trip was great. Looking forward to next year!

Rewatching Peaky Blinders

Since the new Peaky Blinders movie is coming out soon, I decided to enjoy myself by rewatching the TV series. I’m just into Season 2 and this show is fantastic.

It’s amazing how much better I understand a series when I watch it again. I am much more aware of plot lines, details and subtleties. I didn’t remember the “Irish Job” killing Eammon Duggan. I didn’t fully understand the depth of PTSD that these men experienced in WW1. Their trauma, coping mechanisms and rage are so intricately linked to their gangster lifestyle. I didn’t fully appreciate how Tommy Shelby’s mind worked. I didn’t see the depth of the dichotomy of Good vs Evil morality and ruthless Winning vs Losing, and how that conflict came up repeatedly.

About 5 years ago while traveling with family, we took a Peaky Blinders tour in Liverpool England. Many of the scenes were filmed there. I remember our tour guide being a real personality. He even dressed like Tommy Shelby. He brought along images from the series that corresponded to our location in Liverpool. It was nice to reconnect those places on the show to the real-life views in Liverpool. It was also fulfilling to remember those good vibes and shared experiences with my wife and son on the tour. I wish my daughter could have joined us.

Looking forward to watching the rest of the series.

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It’s Friday, January 9, 2026. This is what John Riley thinks.

Minneapolis ICE Murder

Video review (like the NFL)

Different interpretations based on political POV

JD Vance – don’t believe what your eyes show you, Orwellian

Authoritarian

I have no problem with illegal immigrants.

Trump’s Venezuela Plan

Removing Socialist Dictator, replace with another. Gangs enforcing anti-USA policies.

More trade, less war is best – Trump does opposite

Sphere’s of Influence? Western Hemisphere vs Russia/Euro vs China/Asia

New era of global power?

Greenland too?

What if USA annexed all nations in North and South America? It would be a mess. We all have different views of utopia.

Better to create a free trade zone, support rule of law, champion liberty.

What’s next?

Individualism vs Collectivism

Zohran Mamdani quote

Definition of Each

Slide of examples

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#nyc #zohranmamdani #individualism #collectivism

#illegalimmigration #ice #kristinoem #minnesota #minneapolis

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It’s Thursday, December 4, 2025. This is what John Riley thinks.

Michael Dell giving away $6.25B …. to replace Social Security?

• Libs still angry about it.
• They want higher taxes.
• They want to make him donate instead to low income only, etc.
• Libs don’t see voluntary charity by billionaires as noble. Goes to show you that they don’t really support altruism as much as they think they do. They just want to tear down their imaginary oppressors.
• Could this be a replacement for Social Security?
• Trump Account = $1,000 for every newborn when you open account
• Dell donating $6.25B gives some children under ten $250 seed money but only in zip codes with median income below $150,000.
• Others can donate up to $2500 of pretax money to specific child accounts.
• Managed by US Treasury. US equity index funds
• Charge no more than 0.1%
• Assuming a 7% return, the $1,000 seed money becomes approx. $3,570 in 18 years.
• Magic of compound interest
• Some states like CA, CT, DC pilot similar programs
• https://apnews.com/article/trump-accounts-kids-michael-dell-1831095c23ead75b67edc65ead5309fd

Travel Bans. Trump revoking citizenship or legal resident status.

• In response to Afghan shooting National Guardsman
• Pausing immigration from nineteen restricted nations.
• DHS Secretary Kristi Noem wants to expand this to 30-32 nations.
• President Trump has recently vowed to “denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any foreign national who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western civilization”, as part of a broader, ongoing immigration crackdown
• MAGA says they only object to ILLEGAL immigration. You sure?
• Trump’s choice to revoke citizenship or legal resident status shows this was just a bigoted, racist policy from the start.
• It’s a clear virtue signal to MAGA base.
• Too many have lost sight about America’s founding values and history.

Tom Steyer CA YIMBY Hero?

• Candidate for CA Governor. Former Dem Candidate for POTUS.
• Billionaire. Made billions as hedge fund investor.
• Now investing in liberal/environmental causes.
• He gets it. We need to build more. Wants to deregulate new construction.
• He’s a billionaire Dems like, but we’ll see. Will they vote for him for Gov?
• Sometimes he tries too hard to virtue signal that he is a commoner.

Costco sues Trump over tariffs.

• Want to be well positioned to get refunds should SCOTUS overrule tariffs.
• POTUS has no authority. Rightful lawsuit. There is no emergency.
• Great to see Corporate America fighting back.
• So many Costco goods, especially non-food items, are imported.
• Tariffs are a terrible economic policy.

Elon Musk Grok AI is Mind Blowing

• Voice activated while driving.
• Very conversational. Friendly.
• Asking questions about podcast. Sharing ideas.
• Will challenge you. Will brainstorm with you.
• Can customize tone and voices.
• Ancestry research was very surprising.
• Trying to think what I might ask it to help me with

Billionaires aren’t the reason you’re broke.

• So many divisive posts on X trying to get people angry with each other.
• Many politicians using social media teams putting up questions or screeching about issues to stir the pot.
• So much is about division Us vs Them, Rich vs Poor, Citizens vs Illegal Immigrants
• Bernie Sanders example. Zero sum assumption is FALSE.
• Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg make money by offering value to customers.
• But hey, if you want to end the green tech subsidies for Musk, then go for it.
• The billionaires aren’t stealing from you. They are trading with you. They help build and expand the economy.

Vanessa Springett to replace Tony Blain in Poway?

• Spoke recently to Poway Democratic Club
• Candidate for D2 to replace Tony Blain
• Jared Wilson too? New names?
• Good to see Vanessa jumping back in the arena.

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It’s Wednesday, November 19, 2025. This is what John Riley thinks.

What is everything so expensive?

• Because govt tax and regulation policies distort the market.
• Overall: Money Printing
• Housing: NIMBY, Tariffs
• Food: Tariffs
• Transportation: Tariffs, Fuel Taxes
• Why are poor and working class not allowed to use same tools as wealthy?

Who will replace Poway Councilman Tony Blain?

• New update – waiting on his return to Poway?
• City Council weighing April vs June election. Standalone or with June primary?
• Next election speculation: Vaus pick, Springett/Wilson, Tony Russo, who?

Ken Burns American Revolution documentary angers MAGA.

• MAGA angry with information about George Washington owning slaves, pushed in face.
• Project today’s values backwards. Fighting for freedom but not for everyone. Noble ideals but flawed execution. Our founders were heroes but not angels. Our founders lived in contradiction.  The times of the day were different. The Revolutionary War was still a huge step in the positive direction for freedom.
• Civil War is an eye-opening new idea for me.
• Project 1776 values forward. Seeing themes of that time in context today. Project forward.
  • Reinforcement of Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
  • People demand freedom.
  • People angry about taxes/tariffs
  • People thinking in terms of “liberty for me, but not for thee.”
  • Equality of rights

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It’s Thursday, October 30, 2025. This is what John Riley thinks.

Trump is Bailing Out Argentina?

Many Americans are complaining about the $40B for Argentina while the US government is shut down and SNAP & ACA subsidies will stop.

Not a bailout. Argentina running surpluses.

Decelerated inflation from 20% per month to 2% per month (Oct 2025)

Deregulation – eliminated import licenses, lifted prices controls, removed rent control.

Attracted foreign investment.

Increased economic activity. Economy and wages growing.

Reduced poverty from 52.9% to 40%.

Then what is the $40B for?

$20B currency swap to shore up confidence in “international investors” after previous regional elections indicated Milei’s side may lose nationally.

Currency stabilization, political support/lifeline, geopolitical strategy, economic stabilization.

The other $20B is from private sources to help achieve similar objectives.

Ultimately a way for Trump to save foreign investors and build geopolitical alliances than a desire to help the people of Argentina.

BTW, there is plenty of money available for ACA and SNAP subsidies. The govt spends $7T per year. Just open up the govt.

Better solution = work to eliminate poverty, not continue to prop up safety net programs.

Embattled San Diego Homeowners Fighting ADUs

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1934223690485389

Poway Councilman Tony Blain Indicted. Will He Survive Recall?

Embattled Poway Councilmember Tony Blain was charged with four felonies and a misdemeanor Friday, less than two weeks away from his recall election.

The District Attorney’s Office charged Blaine with perjury, asking for a bribe, soliciting a bribe and destruction of public papers, as well as a misdemeanor for stealing a campaign sign.

The charging document says Blain committed perjury on or about Sept. 24, 2024, by allegedly swearing in a complaint to the Fair Political Practices Commission that he was a current Poway Councilmember before being elected.

Blain is also accused of one count of asking for a bribe and another of soliciting a bribe. In those charges, the D.A.’s filing says between Dec. 22, 2024, and Jan. 9, 2025, he allegedly agreed to vote for appointing Councilmember Peter De Hoff as deputy mayor in exchange for De Hoff’s vote in favor of a special election to fill a council vacancy.

The complaint also alleges that between Dec. 7, 2024, and Sept. 18, 2025, Blain knowingly destroyed “communications relating to city business that were subject to discloser under the California Public Records Act” and took steps to “evade compliance with that Act.”

https://www.kpbs.org/news/politics/2025/10/24/poway-councilmember-tony-blain-charged-with-four-felonies-ahead-of-recall

Deployed overseas? What is legal process?

Recall likely?

Blain supporters because he is anti-Vaus. LOL

My Ballot, Prop 50

Harry Levine, Pomerado News, Just Sayin’ Op-Ed

It’s not a vote for or against gerrymandering. WTF?

Biblical reference Eye for Eye? Turn other cheek?

It’s neither. It’s a matter of standing up for principle in fair elections.

Pick a different battle.

Lessons in Pursuing Happiness – Win-Win Matrix

Common Moral POV:

Are you a good person who wants to help his fellow man or a Lying, cheating bastard?

Reinforced by centuries of religion.

But are those the only two options? If you are not one, does that mean you must be the other?

Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute, Podcaster opened my eyes to a different way to see this.

Win-Win Matrix.

Lots of confusion

What is “selfish”? Are there two kinds of selfishness?

What is “good”?

What is sacrifice? Are there two kinds of sacrifice?

What should we strive for?

This is a model I hope to use moving forward to discuss a wide variety of different topics in the podcast.

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It’s Friday, October 17, 2025. This is what John Riley thinks.

Trump Gaza Ceasefire

It’s a ceasefire and hostage exchange, not peace.

Will it hold? I have doubts.

Trump sees it as a rebuilding effort, not 1 vs 2 state solution.

Trump is a con man.

America is an Idea – No Kings

Immigration/ICE, Blood and Soil

Inalienable Rights

Education System Failing

Rush is Touring Again!

All-time favorites

Incredibly happy for Geddy and Alex

Anika Gilles

Pursue Happiness, don’t sacrifice your interests because of Neil.

Neil tribute

Rooting for new drummer

CA Prop 50 – Gerrymandering

Is gerrymandering a good policy?

Principles vs Pragmatism

Pick Your Battles

GOP vs Dem vs Independent

CA SB79 – High Density Housing near Mass Transit

What is it?

Newsom signs it

Housing Crisis

Implications in San Diego County (San Diego, East County, Poway)

Visit San Diego in a Half Day

Old Town

Petco Park

Seaport Village

Cabrillo Monument (skipped)

Mission Bay Boardwalk, Roller Coaster

La Jolla Cove, Children’s Pool

Mt Soledad

Torrey Pines State Reserve

Dinner at Jakes, Del Mar

Poway City vs Country

Is Poway’s motto The City in the Country dead? Is it a contradiction? Or both?

Great article on Substack

https://carfreeamerica.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-blandville-the-cost-of

Europe understands how to do Urban Cities and Rural Country. In America, many cities combine the two and get disastrous results.

Americans want it all. Single family home, big yard, city conveniences, quiet neighborhoods, open space, fast roads, retail stores, jobs, etc.

We get Big Box stores with giant parking lots, too much traffic, unwalkable neighborhoods, and a complete obliteration of any semblance of country.

We have created Blandville.

Blend of urban and rural

Soulless, sprawling, overly wide streets, dead downtown, huge setbacks, car-depending, under-utilized parks

Not vibrant or charming

Stroads

Neighborhoods with lots of useless open space

Restaurants and coffee shops banned by zoning.

Highly walkable banned by zoning

Lack of community energy

Minimum parking requirements for retail and create big unfilled lots.

Height limits (Poway and Coastal Commission)

Opposition to density around traffic stops

Europe has vibrant, dense downtowns…  rural countryside, and small villages with small downtown energy.

Results are non-human, no energy, disconnected.

Poway’s city motto has been dead for 20+ years. It harkens back to a time in the past.

Recommend making Poway Rd a narrow, diagonal parking, downtown feel Poway Street.

Redirect traffic to actual Roads (Twin Peaks, Scripps Poway Parkway, Espola, Pomerado, Community?)

Recommend allowing mixed use in neighborhoods (multi family, retail, restaurant, coffee)

Poway Tony Blain Recall

Finally get to vote

Does he survive?

#SanDiego #poway #trump #sb79 #housing #prop50 #gerrymandering #gaza #inalienablerights #strongtowns #stroads #tonyblain #propertytax

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It’s Wednesday, October 8, 2025. This is what John Riley thinks.

Pete Neild shares his passion project documenting the songs and stories of his life. Regular people write autobiographies, but Pete is not a regular person. LOL.

Pete has created a set of YouTube playlists that include hundreds of his video recordings along with accompanying music that sets the mood for special memories in his life. Each video is accompanied by a PDF link of a 1–3-page story that describes in greater detail the meaning of the music and how it is linked to his special memories.

This started out as road trip music when he picked up his custom Corvette from the factory in Bowling Green KY. It has grown to include a wide range of other stories involving Navy, Poway, Maui and much more.

Pete enjoys both driving to these background songs and taking in the full audio experience while floating in his backyard pool.

This is the first time I have ever witnessed someone outlining, documenting, and cross referencing their key moments in their life linked to videos and music encapsulated in YouTube playlists. Have you heard of such a thing?

Thanks Pete!

Here is the link to the YouTube Playlist currently called “DRIVING CALYPSO”, note that the name might change but it will not affect the link to the playlist.

Here is the link to the PDF of the PowerPoint slides music selection slides (all 8 of them):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BKL7_i0SdXSw5CZ7-RY9u87Bmt2SvHnB/view?usp=drive_link

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It’s Wednesday, June 18, 2025. This is what John Riley thinks.

WHEN PROTESTING BACKFIRES.

• Anti-ICE protesters forcibly block traffic, then get near runover by a car driver.
• LW, inconvenience, deal with it.
• RW friends want to run over the protesters and wipe them out (damn right!).
• Hypocrisy – protesting right to freely travel in America.
• The other guy has rights too.
• Piss off others.
• Local law enforcement
• Ayn Rand quote
  • Civil disobedience may be justifiable, in some cases, when and if an individual disobeys a law in order to bring an issue to court, as a test case. Such an action involves respect for legality and a protest directed only at a particular law which the individual seeks an opportunity to prove to be unjust. The same is true of a group of individuals when and if the risks involved are their own.
  • But there is no justification, in a civilized society, for the kind of mass civil disobedience that involves the violation of the rights of others—regardless of whether the demonstrators’ goal is good or evil. The end does not justify the means. No one’s rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others. Mass disobedience is an assault on the concept of rights: it is a mob’s defiance of legality as such.

CONNOR BOYACK:

• The most revolutionary act in today’s world isn’t protesting in the streets—it’s raising critical-thinking kids who question political authority, who are skeptical of media, and who operate independently and self-sufficiently.
• https://x.com/cboyack/status/1935424278239031335

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? Trump phones?

• You’ve got to be kidding.
• Tariff guy going into phone business.
• Made in America? Rig the system.
• Trump University? Trump Vodka? $2.9B Crypto Wealth?
• then finding a way to personally profit from it. Will this go down like Trump University? Trump Vodka? Trump Steaks? Or will this go down like the $2.9T in crypto assets his family has amassed.
• Trump has no principles other than enriching Trump.
• There is no consistent policy philosophy guiding his world view.

END THE WAR ON DAY 1?

• Trump took office to end the wars. There were 2 then. Now there are 3.
• “Day 1” promise = BS detector
• Trump is a Con Man. More power, less democracy.

MAGA LIBERTARIAN REGRET.

• Libertarians that jumped ship to support Trump. Innovative Strategy to get something.
• Dave Smith example. Get us out of foreign wars!
• Now Iran vs Israel with Trump bravado.
• Con man to get vote.
• We tried to warn them. Trump is not trustworthy, does not really care about freedom.

WORLD WAR 3?

• Israel vs Iran conflict.
• Israel meets all of their objectives in 1-2 weeks.
• Another WMD lie?
• Some want a regime change (Tulsi!)
• Trump threatening to assassinate Iran religious leader.
• What if irrational actors jump in?
• America should oppose Iran and its leadership for a variety of reasons including US Hostage Crisis, Human Rights, separation of church and state.
• Iran is the greater villain.
• US leadership needs to be as a vocal supporter of our inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
• This cannot turn into a war involving American troops.
• Trump likes proving he is better than everyone thinks he is.
• Trump and his bravado are going to make this worse.
• Unconditional surrender.
• Stay focused.

NO KINGS OR QUEENS.

• LWs love No Kings Protest.
  • Bernie
• Over 5M people
• Energy in San Diego.
• Considered attending.
• Next time bring a card table, microphones, and a video camera.

FAREWELL TO KINGS?

• Did the protest make that big of a difference?
• Protesters broad community support, affinity, affirmation.
• Move the needle? I don’t think so.

JUNETEENTH INDEPENDENCE DAY #2.

• ALL slaves understood that they were free. Free at Last!
• Did not learn as a student.
• Celebrate as Independence Day #2

AMAZON AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

• Amazon’s CEO, Andy Jassy, addressed his employees.
• transformational power of AI.
• expected layoffs at Amazon.
• Agents that you can speak to in natural language that will do tasks for you using a range of AI tools like writing a business plan, writing computer code, running errands, etc.
• Moving Fast. Amazon already has 1000 initiatives underway.
• The big message to me in this article is to fully embrace AI.
  • 60-year-old
  • Tool to achieve higher goals.
  • Be innovative.
  • Rote work effortless.
  • Stay productive.
  • Don’t cling to old models.

ED FRANKLIN – NO LIMITS.

• New episode. Proud.
• Talk about similar things, but in very different ways.
• Result = being better, achieving success and ultimately pursuing your happiness.\
• This podcast gave me greater confidence that my Pursue Happiness message has an opportunity for success. I just need to keep reinforcing the idea using current events.

#SanDiego #poway #tonyblain #donaldtrump #tariffs #freetrade #americafirst #davesmith #edfranklin #juneteenth #amazon #ai #nokings #libertarian #aynrand

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It’s Wednesday, June 4, 2025. This is what John Riley thinks.

WHEN YOU JUST FIGURE OUT THAT Trump is a con man then everything makes sense in its own weird way.

• The bombastic ideas. The uneducated policies. The subtle racism.
• None of these policies really matter to him personally.
• Do you think Trump gives a crap about illegal immigrants taking jobs or getting free govt services?
• tools to rally his base, distract voters, and remain in power.
• Trump has no political principles. It’s obvious.
• Trump’s real agenda is something different. This is what a con man does.
• Note his sons were a big part of the Bitcoin show a few days ago.
• But he needs to remain in power as POTUS to make those goals work.

TACO TRADE WARS.

• Trump tariffs are on. Trump tariffs are off. Circus.
• Nations don’t trade. People and corporations do.
• Trade Deficits = aggregation of who is buying more from whom.
• Trade deficits don’t matter. Grocery store.
• Canada and China are ripping us off!
• MAGA political strategy, rust belt swing states, Electoral College strategy.
• Meanwhile Eric Trump and Don Jr doing billion-dollar real estate deals.
• Trump trade “deals” help Trump kids’ real estate deals.

ART OF THE STEEL.

• Trump steel tariffs from 25% (Biden) to 50%.
• Trump announces deal with steel works.
• Promises $5,000 bonus and no layoffs.
• Steel products more expensive.
  • Domestic manufacturers raise prices.
  • Manufacturers that require steel parts pay more.
  • More jobs lost than gained.
• So why Trump doing it?
  • It’s politics.
  • Strong loyalty with a powerful voting bloc in the swing states of the Rust Belt.
  • It’s all about staying in power.
• Keep your eye on the other hand, namely “deals” his children are making around the world due to Trump’s power and popularity.

REPLACE INCOME TAX WITH TARIFFS?

• End federal income tax for people making less than $150,000/yr.??
  Point of tariffs is to lessen trade which lessens tariff revenue.
• Numbers don’t add up.
  • Bottom 90% pay 60% of taxes.
  • Income tax revenue $1.7T
  • Bottom 90% pay $1TRoughly speaking, we are talking about ending federal income taxes for people in the Bottom 90% which makes up approx. 50% of total individual tax revenue, or approx. $850B/yr.
• Trump tariffs project $200B-$500B revenue per year.
• If you increase the tariff rate, then imports drop more and so does revenue.
• Doesn’t add up.
• It’s voter manipulation. It’s an Electoral College Strategy.

TRUMP BRAIN DRAIN.

• Trump driving away international college students (free speech)
• nonsense policy to appeal to MAGAs, hate elites.
• International students with STEM degrees should get a Green Card.
• Trump policy pushes talent away to empower rivals.
• Brain drain idea where America is the Loser.
• Missed educational opportunity to teach American values.
  • future high-impact international scientists, business people, politicians, and journalists around the world.

POWAY

TONY BLAIN RECALL.

• BREAKING NEWS:
  • John Couvrette
  • There were three uniformed police officers from the District Attorney’s office. They detained Tony Blain and searched his car after the City Council meeting. I did not see any arrest. Since the DA started interviewing multiple people regarding Tony’s alleged vote trading and extortion several months ago, the DA has declined to comment on the Tony Blain matter. This is the first public action I am aware of regarding the DA’s office investigation of Tony Blain.
• Other recall efforts in Poway sputter.
• Tony Blain recall campaign is well run.
• Messaging is consistent and on target. The evidence is presented clearly. I have seen the message in direct mail, email, website, YouTube and on Facebook. I am sure the message is on other platforms too.
• Signature Drive:
  • John Couvrette
  • Ed Franklin – we need 25% of the 9,700+ registered voters. We are half way through the 90 days and are more than half way to our required signatures. Momentum has picked up – however there is still an effort required to get us across the goal line.
• I’d sign the recall petition, but I don’t live in District 2.
• I don’t see how Blain can survive this.

TONY BLAIN FOR POWAY MAYOR SIGN SPOTTED ON ESPOLA.

• You must applaud Tony for staying on offense. LOL.
• What does Blain want to do as mayor that he can’t do as a council member?

SUNSHINE IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT.

• Transparency in govt is a good thing.
• official communications should be done on official channels.
  • so, the public can see it.
• Politicians are going to have private communications.
  • including private official discussion that violates the Brown Act.
• Be vigilant in identifying it and calling it out.
• That’s what is happening with Blain.

WITCH HUNT?

• Some locals upset Poway suing Blain.
  • Abuse of taxpayer dollars?
• Some see this exercise as a Witch Hunt.
  • In a political context, a “witch hunt” refers to an intense and often unfair public campaign or investigation, typically aimed at exposing perceived wrongdoings or disloyalty, but often used to harm opponents. It can involve elements of moral panic, mass hysteria, and the scapegoating of individuals or groups. 
• Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend?
• Addendum: withdrawn proposal to allow council members to fine each other, likely another way to shut down Blain.

GOOD OLD DAYS?

• Was Poway better in the 1970s? Some say yes.
• Local politics is best when things are calm and quiet.
• Local leaders of high character focusing on the basics.
  • Poway used to be that way.
• Recalls on Blain, DeHoff and Vaus.
• What happened in Poway?
  • Housing

TIRE SHOP OR HOUSING?

• Poway NIMBYs are freaking out about the proposal to put in a 16-unit apartment building on Poway Rd in place of a tire shop.
• Usual complaints.
  • More traffic!
  • More stress on infrastructure!
  • Not enough parking!
• Commercial property like a tire shop is going to have much more traffic going in and out during all times of the day.
  • Employees, customers, and vendor delivery trucks.
• Compare that to the traffic in and out of a neighborhood with 16 homes.
• We are talking about a negligible difference, and most likely a decrease.
• This is just more NIMBYism.
  • more control over others
  • more hating on Poway City Council.
• As an aside, I was shocked that they built those original apartments next to a tire shop that has very loud pneumatic tools and compressors.

JOHNNY FOR POWAY MAYOR?

• Some of my political “Facebook Frenemies” were considering what a John Riley for Mayor reality might look like. LOL.
• Comments all over the place. LOL
• Well, let me set the record straight. I am not running for Mayor.
  • There may have been a time in my life where I would have considered the possibility, but no longer.
  • It’s much more enjoyable and productive to discuss, comment and influence our community with my John Riley Project.

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It’s Wednesday, February 12, 2025. This is what John Riley thinks.

Topics:

• Tony Blain Blowing up Poway.
• Potential Recall of Poway Councilman Peter DeHoff
• Escondido Immigration Rally and America
• Trump Troubles with Tariffs and Trade

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It’s Wednesday, January 8, 2025. This is what John Riley thinks.

What an enjoyable conversation with Pete Neild as we discuss his innovative approach to listening to citizens and representing the neighborhoods in Poway District 1.

Hiram Soto: San Diego County must hold special election. Poway should as well.

#SanDiego #poway #lifetimefitness #thefarm #propertyrights #stevevaus #caylinfrank #jennymaeda #brianpepin #peterdehoff #jaredwilson #tonyblain #vanessaspringett #peteneild #candycanecourts #hiramsoto

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It’s Tuesday, December 10, 2024. This is what John Riley thinks.

What a great conversation with Amit Asaravala as we review the recent Poway 2024 elections!

Amit is president of the Poway Democratic Club.

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It’s Wednesday, October 30, 2024. This is what John Riley thinks.

If you are interested in a long form article, you can visit my recent blog post:

If you want to cut to the chase, here’s my short list:

PRESIDENT – ABSTAIN.

US SENATOR – ABSTAIN.

US REPRESENTATIVE CA48 – ABSTAIN.

STATE ASSEMBLY CA75 – ABSTAIN.

COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD – ABSTAIN.

PALOMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRUCT A4 – HAMILTON-BLEAKLEY.

COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS D2 – ABSTAIN.

PROP 2 – NO – $10B SCHOOL BONDS

PROP 3 – YES – CONSTITTUIONAL RIGHT TO MARRIAGE.

PROP 4 – NO – $10B WATER BONDS

PROP 5 – NO – 55% THRESHOLD FOR LOCAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING BONDS.

PROP 6 – YES – ENDS INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE IN PRISON.

PROP 32 – NO – RAISE MINIMUM WAGE.

PROP 33 – NO – EXPAND LOCAL GOVT RENT CONTROL POWER.

PROP 34 – NO – RESTRICTS SPENDING OF PRESCRIPTION DRUG REVENUE.

PROP 35 – NO – PERMANENT FUNDING MEDI-CAL.

PROP 36 – NO – FELONY CHARGES FOR CERTAIN DRUG AND THEFT CRIMES.

MEASURE G – NO – HALF CENT SALES TAX INCREASE

MEASURE H – YES – FARM IN POWAY – LIFE TIME FITNESS.

Plus, comments on Poway District 2 and 4 races.

That’s my 2024 ballot.

Vote Harder.

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It’s Wednesday, July 10, 2024. This is what John Riley thinks.

Irrationality in Politics

It’s an election year and the propaganda is thick. Candidates and their supporters put forward outrageous lies or completely irrational ideas in the hope of supporting their candidate or defeating others.

The news media has been helpful in pointing out some of this, but in other ways complicit in spreading the disinformation.

It’s easy to get caught up in the flurry of irrationality, particularly if you are a partisan for the Democratic or Republican parties.

Tribalism is so strong, that people completely throw reason out the window. It is more important to remain loyal to one’s tribe than to dig for the truth.

What ever happened to “Question Authority?”

What ever happened to “Think for Yourself?”

Instead, politicians, the media, and their supporters all are reading from a common set of talking points.

Examples:

• Biden’s mental state, Marie Kondo
• Trump’s criminal past and demands for dictatorship.
• Mass deportation
• NIMBY vs Property Rights
• Housing prices are rising because corporations are buying all the homes or too many vacant homes.
• Social Security, Project 2025, blame GOP, denial about fiscal crisis.
• EV myths (can’t drive long range, burn fossil fuels, etc.)

Many people mistakenly believe these common political myths…  or they throw them around as scare tactics to frighten or trick voters.  In fact, none of these myths are true.

Republicans are for small government, spending cuts.

Republicans are for getting the govt out of your personal life.

Republicans are for low taxes.

Republicans are conservative.

Bush tried to privatize Social Security

Clinton reduced the national debt.

Democrats are against corporate welfare.

Democrats are for equality.

Democrats are pro-choice.

Democrats are fiscally responsible.

Democrats are liberal.

None of these are true.  But many people still think they are.

It’s irrationality!

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Amateur Actors Needed

Poway Historical and Memorial Society will produce a play.

“A Hearty Poway Legend”

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It’s Wednesday, July 3, 2024. This is what John Riley thinks.

Poway News

• Term limit campaign suspended.
• Haters hating
• People in denial about the cause of the housing crisis
  • Housing crisis because of lack of inventory
  • System rigged for landlords, investors, homeowners.
  • They love NIMBYism, drives up prices.
  • Then other people can subsidize the rent.
• More micromanagement
• July 16th

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General News

• Debate performance.
• Debate reaction.
  • Biden drop out.
  • If drop out, can he hold job down now?
  • Irresponsible for Dems to stick with him given threat of Trump.
• Supreme Court Cases
  • Chevron (fisherman, eviction moratorium, vaccine mandate, immigration, etc.)
    • Separation of power: legislative, executive, judicial
    • Regulatory state, unaccountable, conflict of interest
    • Fisherman
    • Eviction moratorium
  • Trump Immunity
    • Law and Order POTUS
    • Qualified immunity (POTUS, police)
    • Kavanaugh, Alito said Nobody above the law.
  • Homelessness
    • Cities can remove homeless.
    • Local control
  • Reminds me of the Ben Sasse comments: Schoolhouse Rock, separation of powers, etc.

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My Independence Day Stories

All through my youth, the 4^th of July always represented summertime and fireworks. It was never Independence Day to me. Always 4^th of July.

• Watching fireworks on the street in front of Burlingame house as a kid.
• That great trip every year to the Red Devil fireworks stand.
• Fuzzy memories of seeing fireworks in Guerneville.
• 9 years old in Kearns Utah. Only allowed sparklers and caps.  We used a hammer to blow up caps, often a whole role at a time.
• Learning about illegal fireworks at around 11 years old. Here stories about people blowing up toilets with M-80s.
• The Bicentennial quarters.
• About 12-13 years old we knew a guy who knew a guy and we would get some firecrackers and bottle rockets.
• Around 16 years old make the trip to China Town and buy fireworks. Do a deal in a back alley.
• Big fireworks show at La Jolla Cove freshman year at UCSD. Big fireworks show a much bigger thing here in San Diego than I remember in Burlingame.
• Fireworks from Kate Sessions Park with synchronized music
• Shooting bottle rockets from UCSD A-2 into B-16. Must have been left over from the summer.
• With the kids, always attending a softball or baseball tournament somewhere.
• Watching fireworks from our home in North Poway.  Little by little they would not get high enough over the hill to see them.
• Driving to Flaming Gorge WY and seeing the fireworks store right when we passed the state line.
• Then having leftovers back in Poway. I took them to the hazardous materials dump site. I always wondered if the workers there actually kept them.

Then as I became more politically aware and learned more about the true meaning of America’s founding, I really started to focus on the Declaration of Independence as a radical, innovative, groundbreaking idea. That we all have rights that precede the govt. And the govt’s role is to secure those rights.

Excerpts from Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Objections to the King:

• He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
• He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
• For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
• For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
• He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us

Thank you.

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It’s Wednesday, June 26, 2024. This is what John Riley thinks.

Developments at Life Time Fitness at The Farm in Poway

• Constant Micromanaging of Life Time Fitness (square footage, traffic, wages, parking, fees, etc.)
• Measure P reset
• New Life Time plan considered by City Council July 16^th
  • Will Council approve package? Approve it to go to ballot? Or reject it?
  • Updated application submitted May 29^th.
  • Not a minor modification. Will require a majority vote of the people. (Nov 5^th)
• Chris Cruse recommended contacting the council and making memes. Good Idea!
• Sent email to council, everyone responded except my representative! Read letter. Share responses.
• Poway City Council (councilmembers@poway.org):
  • Seems there is another movement of opposition to the Life Time Fitness facility in The Farm. Certain community organizers are encouraging Powegians to write to the City Council expressing opposition.
  • I would like to offer an alternative point of view.
  • I support Property Rights. People across Poway shouldn’t have the right micromanage how a property owner chooses to manage his/her property.
  • America’s founding values are expressed in our inalienable rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Property rights are a natural extension of your right to your own life. If one cannot use their property resources for productive purposes (particularly if there are no damages created to others), then an interference in one’s property is an interference in one’s right to their own life.
  • Legally speaking, I realize that the Measure P situation likely means that it will need to go to a public vote. But from a moral point of view, I object.
  • Also…  the proposed plan by Life Time looks pretty good to me and my family. In fact, we were just discussing this over the weekend. Both my wife and daughter are hopeful the project is approved. They like all of the proposed amenities.
  • Thank you.
  • John Riley
  • Responses
    • Caylin Frank
      • Hi John, Nice to hear from you. Thank you for your thoughts. My understanding is that the voter initiative requires major modifications to go back to the voters so I feel that needs to be honored. But I understand your perspective on it. Hope you are doing well! Caylin
    • Brian Pepin
      • Hi John, Hope you’re doing well! Thanks for emailing. I always appreciate your perspective; I’ll take it into consideration when LifeTime presents their proposal to the City Council this summer. Thank you. -Brian
    • Anita Edmonston
    • Hi John. Good hearing from you – I hope you’re doing well! And thanks for weighing in on the Life Time Fitness proposal from your point of view. I appreciate your insights. As you are aware, the application is currently under review by city staff and council has not yet received a report or recommendation. I will be taking all input into consideration if/when the matter comes before council. In case you didn’t already receive the attached information directly from the city, I am including it here. It provides additional background on the application, the process, and its relationship to The Farm development. Best regards, Anita Edmondson
  • Steve Vaus
    • Thanks John – good to hear from you. SV
  • Peter DeHoff (my representative in District 3)
    • No Response. LOL
• Made a meme.
  • Support Property rights. How to frame it?
  • First political issue I considered was School Choice.
  • Then abortion while in college.
    • Adult topic! (some discussion at Catholic Church as a kid)
    • Growing up!
    • Your body is your own. You own you. Your choice.
    • Not that different from School Choice issue. Your life, your choice.
  • Property rights are a natural extension of your right to your own life.
  • Karen micromanaging
  • Made a meme: My Body, My Choice (show on screen)
  • Reaction was over the top. LOL.
    • It’s a pro-woman, pro-choice message. Yet they take offense.
    • Objection to body as property. People thinking I approve of slavery. LOL.
    • Your body is yours. Your body is your property. You own you.
      • My Body, My Choice (possessive)
    • Same is true of your property.
      • If one cannot use their property resources for productive purposes (particularly if there are no damages created to others), then an interference in one’s property is an interference in one’s right to their own life.
    • Property? Or Control?
      • Certainly, they want to control and micromanage other people’s property.
      • But they don’t want others to micromanage or control their body.
      • It’s hypocrisy.
    • These people are not liberal.
      • Oxford definition: relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.

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Presidential Debate excluding RFK.

• Pet Peeve
  • Unlimited options in America, Diversity in America, but not in Presidential Debate.Coke or Pepsi
  • Pick one! Or you are wasting your vote.
• Where is the Independent Candidate?
  • Almost always just Rep vs Dem. Never mind that in 2022, 43% of U.S. adults identified as independents, 27% as Republicans and 27% as Democrats. Independents first outnumbered supporters of both major political parties in 1991 and have continued to do so since then, except in several years between 2004 and 2008. (Gallup Poll Jan 12)
• Debate history.
  • 1980: Reagan vs Carter vs John Anderson
    • First time only Reagan vs Anderson. Carter absent.
    • Second time Reagan vs Carter. Anderson not invited.
  • 1984: Reagan vs Mondale (funny moment)
  • 1988: Bush vs Dukakis
    • abandoned League of Women Voters
    • in favor of Commission on Presidential Debates – Corporate America
  • 1992: Bush vs Clinton vs Perot
  • 1996: Dole vs Clinton
    • Raised poll threshold (5% to 15%?)
    • Perot left out by commission “no realistic chance” (self-fulfilling)
    • Perot and Harry Browne on all 50 state ballots
  • 2000: GWB vs Gore
  • 2004: GWB vs Kerry
  • 2008: Obama vs McCain
  • 2012: Obama vs Romney
  • 2016: Trump vs Clinton
  • 2020: Trump vs Biden
  • 2024: Trump vs Biden
• If a candidate is not on the presidential debate stage, they are not considered a serious candidate. Then they are largely dismissed by the media and voters.
• So why not RFK?
  • Claim he has not qualified on enough state ballots.
    • Never mind the fact that neither Trump nor Biden are qualified (they are not the nominee yet)
    • Turned in signatures, but states have not processed them all.
  • Claim he didn’t rank high enough in polls.
    • Was excluded in some polls.
    • Qualified in other national polls, but not accepted.
• So now we are stuck with two decrepit old guys with awful policies.
• Here we go again….  Neither candidate represents most Americans.

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A few quick hits.

• SCOTUS decision on social media.
  • Says it is legal for the federal government to contact and pressure social media companies to take down disinformation.
  • This is a violation of the 1A.
  • Who decides what is disinformation?
  • I like Community Notes in X.
• Trump floated idea of replacing income tax with tariffs.
  • Tariffs are a tax on the American people. (Trump lies, says China pays it)
  • Tariffs benefit the few at the expense of the many.
  • Tariffs make products more expensive, thus subtracting cash that could otherwise be spent or invested in economy.
  • If a foreign nation is subsidizing products, we should buy as much of it as we would like.
  • I like the idea of abolishing income tax.
  • I would replace it with a dramatically smaller govt funded by fees and pro-choice funding.
• Trump floated idea of giving college grads (2 year or 4 year) an automatic green card
  • Great idea! Shocked Trump would recommend this.
  • We need more workers in America
  • We should invite those already here getting educated to stay to help build America
  • His recommendation was more broad based than my original proposal of only SALT bachelors degrees
  • MAGAts quickly complained.
  • Trump spokesperson backtracked.

Thank you.

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It’s Wednesday, June 12, 2024. This is what John Riley thinks.

Donald Trump and the Libertarian Party

The headlines in the media are about the rowdy libertarians booing Trump. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg in what made this event so nuts.

Libertarians were trying to negotiate with a con man. They were hoping that by supporting Trump, Trump would in turn support some of their causes.

There can be no advancement of liberty when dealing with an authoritarian con man. It’s like Chamberlain trying to appease Hitler. It’s like negotiating with terrorists.

Breaking Down Political Myths:

• Trump lowered taxes for the middle class!
  • Trump raised tariffs. Trump raised income taxes by limiting SALT deductions. Trump wants to raise tariffs much, much more. Don’t tell me Trump lowered your taxes.
• GOP says, “Prices have now risen by 20.1 percent since Biden took office.”
  • Prices will rise even more when Trump radically increases tariffs.
• Heather Cox Richardson: Just a reminder that what has driven us into debt is not Social Security and Medicare, but rather the George W. Bush tax cuts and the Trump tax cuts, both of which disproportionately benefited the wealthy and corporations.
  • Even with those tax cuts, revenue is up. The problem with debt is mostly a spending problem. With rare exception, they run deficits nearly every year, even before those tax cuts.
  • Trump and Bush tax cuts impacted revenue about $200B/yr. each, yet the deficit is nearly $2T.
• Biden: Time for billionaires to pay their “fair share”!
  • Never defined, never explained, just means more.
  • What is a fair share?

Ireland Vacation Highlights

Our Ireland vacation was splendid. Beautiful countryside villages and small fishing harbors. Mizen Head, Garnish Island, Cliffs of Moher, Kinsale Scilly Walk were highlights in Ireland.

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It’s Wednesday, June 5, 2024. This is what John Riley thinks.

Poway Term Limits

What are your thoughts on term limits? We have them for President, and in many state and local political races. But not here in Poway. Now Tony Blain is circulating a petition to get term limits on the November 2024 ballot. Is this the right approach? Or can “term limits” simply happen by voting against the incumbent?

Terminated Poway Unified Superintendent, Marian Kim-Phelps, Wants her Job Back

Imagine getting fired from your job as the top school official in the 3^rd largest school district in San Diego County because you got into a bullying war with the local mean girls? That’ what happened with Kim-Phelps. She said she was fired unjustly, and she has hired an attorney. Why is PUSD always in the news for the wrong reasons?

Relevant Articles:

Fired Poway Unified superintendent asks judge to reinstate her, block disclosure of why she was fired.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2024-06-04/fired-poway-unified-superintendent-asks-judge-to-reinstate-her-block-disclosure-of-why-she-was-fired

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• Homelessness
• Housing (SB10, high density, ADUs)
• Energy (SDG&E, solar)
• Mass Transit (SANDAG, EVs, busses, trolley)
• Election Reform (Rank Choice Voting, Democracy Dollars)

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Recorded Friday, January 12, 2024.

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Relevant Articles:

2023 Year in Review: Top news stories in Poway

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Look Ahead: Poway leaders see challenges and opportunities for the city in 2024

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2024-01-03/challenges-and-opportunities-ahead-for-city-of-poway-in-2024

San Diego Community Forum

• Minimum Wage for Fast Food Workers
• San Diego Sales Tax Increase
• Poway Housing Development
• Elizabeth Warren Wants More Housing

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It’s Wednesday, October 25, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

San Diego is the Most Expensive City to Live in USA.  Surprised?

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/paradise-at-a-price/san-diego-is-the-nations-most-expensive-city-to-live-in/509-c89305d5-9ecf-451a-b530-d42fd357de75

San Diego Leaders Consider Sales Tax Increase. They want to make San Diego more expensive.

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/san-diego-city-consider-sales-tax-hike-november-2024-ballot/509-9273498d-80bb-4307-8487-7086de6156f7

Cedar Fire 20 Year Anniversary. We remember and consider the impact on housing.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2023-10-22/san-diego-housing-building-standards-cedar-fire

San Diego Socialists Want to Socialize SDG&E. This won’t solve the problem.

Poway Community Meeting for Life Time Fitness. Likely Heading to 2024 Ballot.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2023-10-23/poway-residents-seek-to-hear-facts-about-plans-for-life-time-fitness-center

Poway Needs to Change Its Motto. “City in the Country” no longer applies.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2023-10-18/our-readers-write

Anti-Trump podcaster Fired from Government Job. This is a First Amendment Violation.

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It’s Wednesday, October 11, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

Poway Raising Cane over Raising Canes Chicken Restaurant

The Poway City Council gave their thumbs up to a chicken restaurant replacing a vacant lot. Some Poway locals are upset. They say it makes Poway less walkable and encourages more carbon emissions. Will these people ever be happy? Who should decide what gets built on private property?

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2023-10-09/city-council-supports-adding-a-raising-canes-restaurant-on-poway-road

San Marcos Bike Park

Great move by San Marcos to transform an empty lot in a city park into a bike park with berms and jumps for riders of all skill levels.

https://thecoastnews.com/new-bike-park-coming-to-bradley-park-in-san-marcos/

Teacher Quits Job to Work at Costco, Make 50% More

A teacher was unfulfilled in her job and still feeling stress from teaching through the pandemic. She decided she had enough and went to work at Costco. Now she makes 50% more than she did as a teacher. Why don’t teachers make more money? Should you seek fulfillment from your job?

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/business/money-report/31-year-old-quit-her-teaching-job-now-she-works-at-costco-and-boosted-her-income-by-50-ive-never-been-happier/3310031/

Steve Garvey Makes it Official. He’s Running for Senate in CA.

The Garv is officially getting into politics. Does a Republican have a chance in California? I doubt it. But it’s interesting to me when sports and politics intersect.

President Biden and FTC to Crack Down on Junk Fees

Who likes junk fees? You know, those extra “convenience fees” that are added to your price for concert tickets, sporting events, hotel rooms and rental cars. Biden and the FTC want to make junk fees illegal. But isn’t the government the worst offender?

https://www.10news.com/ftc-proposes-ban-on-junk-fees-to-put-end-to-hidden-charges

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• Are Republicans and Democrats significantly different?
• Should I think unions for my lunch break? Or do I decide?

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It’s Wednesday, October 4, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

Midway Rising Dumps Middle Income Homes, Hotel

The San Diego Sports Arena construction project now has a few changes. Due to mortgage rates and other economic conditions, they are dropping 2,500 “middle income” housing units and replacing them with “market rate” housing. What do you think? Is this a betrayal of the deal made with the City of San Diego?

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-10-02/midway-rising-scraps-hotel-and-middle-income-homes-from-sports-arena-project

El Cajon Housing Crisis Fix?

Mayor Bill Wells and the City Council have a plan to expand Granny Flats, aka Accessory Dwelling Units. This should be a great program to provide more affordable housing, right? Their plan will only benefit 6 property owners. Why not just deregulate construction?

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/east-county/el-cajon/story/2023-10-02/el-cajon-approves-600-000-for-adu-loan-program-to-increase-affordable-living-options

California Governor Gavin Newsom Vetoes Unemployment Pay for Striking Workers

Should striking workers be eligible for Unemployment Benefits? Gavin Newsom vetoed a plan to do just that, but not for the reasons you might think.

Escondido Considers Cannabis Tax, Hotel Tax, Parcel Tax

There is trouble with the City of Escondido’s budget. They need to raise revenue and/or reduce expenses to erase their structural deficit. The city is conducting a survey to see if locals would consider allowing cannabis dispensaries so the city can enjoy a special tax. They are also considering a Transient Occupancy Tax and a Parcel Tax. Escondido voters have already rejected a Sales Tax increase.

https://thecoastnews.com/escondido-survey-to-gauge-public-interest-in-cannabis-other-taxes/

Laphonza Butler to replace Dianne Feinstein as California Senator

Laphonza who? This progressive activist has been appointed by Gavin Newsom to replace the recently deceased Dianne Feinstein. It seems that we hear she is Black, a woman, and LGTBQ well before we understand her background and experience. What exactly should qualify a candidate for this position?

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/california/calmatters/how-laphonza-butler-could-reshape-californias-senate-race/509-e5a18788-0d58-43a0-b78c-e252d108d608

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• Government Grocery Stores
• Automation
• Thomas Sowell
• San Diego Taxi vs Uber

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It’s Wednesday, September 27, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

SANDAG Mileage Tax Scrapped

Voters opposed this privacy intrusion and higher cost of living from SANDAG. Elected politicians listened.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2023-09-22/the-people-hate-this-san-diego-leaders-vote-to-forgo-road-user-charge-in-future-transportation-plans

Uber and San Diego Yellow Cab Taxi Join Forces

Capitalism is more about cooperation than competition. This partnership is a win for both companies and consumers that need a ride.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-09-26/call-an-uber-in-san-diego-and-you-may-get-a-taxi

I Need a Bathroom… NOW!

A San Diego technology company, Rest Space, has come up with an app that gives you access to private restrooms while in downtown San Diego or on the road. It’s like Airbnb, but for restrooms.

https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/bathroom-rental-app-aims-to-make-it-easier-to-find-restrooms-in-downtown-san-diego/

California Politicians are Considering an Increase of the Minimum Wage for Fast Food Workers

What do you think of a $20 minimum wage just for fast food workers? Local economists in San Diego offer their opinions. So does John.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-09-22/econometer-should-the-minimum-wage-for-fast-food-workers-be-raised

California Bullet Train Update

15 years later, still a boondoggle.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/editorials/story/2023-09-27/california-bullet-train-2008-business-plan-high-speed-rail-subsidies

Target Shutting Down Stores due to Crime

Shoplifting is becoming a national sport. Now Target is opting out of communities where they are getting ripped off. Can you blame them?

Federal Government Suing Amazon

Is Amazon a monopoly? Should they be broken up? Or is Jeff Bezos an American hero?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ftc-faces-big-test-in-amazon-suit-alleging-its-retail-site-is-illegal-monopoly-162915306.html

Are they really going to Shut Down the Federal Government?

No. It’s all political theater.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/shutdown-countdown-us-congress-has-four-days-fund-government-2023-09-27

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• Pledge of allegiance
• Gas prices and EVs.
• Andrew Yang self-driving trucks

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It’s Friday, September 22, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

$6/gallon – San Diego gas prices

It’s insane what gas costs these days. How are you coping with this? Is there a way to avoid it all? Yes, there is! John will show you the way.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-09-20/its-just-ridiculous-san-diego-gas-prices-near-6-a-gallon

San Diego Water Rates going up 20%

The San Diego Dept of Water is in chaos. Their billing system is a shambles. The infrastructure is crumbling. Plus, they need more money for their Pure Water initiative. Rates are going up and people are really upset.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/local/story/2023-09-19/council-oks-san-diego-water-rate-hikes-of-almost-20-percent

Pacific Beach Entrepreneur cashing in on deal with Coach Prime

Imagine selling sunglasses one at a time, barely getting by, and then suddenly sales are up 1000%. That’s what happened to Chase Fisher when he signed a deal with Coach Prime in Colorado.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/sports-columnists/story/2023-09-19/blenders-sunglasses-pacific-beach-deion-sanders-colorado

Poway Chieftain: Politics Harming Us

Columnist Harry Levine suggests we find leaders that will avoid trying to harm the other team. Instead, he wants to see candidates that understand and recognize the Common Good.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/editorial/just-saying/story/2023-09-18/just-sayin-todays-politics-are-harming-us

Driverless Trucks with a Driver Just in Case?

California law makers are considering a plan that would require a human in driverless trucks. This is an example of a law that drags down progress just to protect jobs.

Government Grocery Stores in Chicago

Supermarkets are shutting down in Chicago due to theft and homelessness. Now the Mayor wants the government to get into the grocery business.

Iowa Requires Pledge of Allegiance

Is the Pledge of Allegiance anti-American? I think so. But that doesn’t stop nationalists from indoctrinating kids in schools.

https://www.kwwl.com/news/politics/iowa-house-passes-bill-requiring-pledge-of-allegiance-in-schools/article_c35af84f-60dc-5523-87a3-5c31e5130c57.html

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• Sports talk radio at the Mighty 690
• Captain Charles MacVean, Seawolf
• Pt Loma Gay Marriage
• North Park Micro Units
• Poway Development
• San Diego Vacancy Tax
• CA flavored tobacco ban backfire

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It’s Wednesday September 6, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

Poway Road Canyonization

Powegians are freaking out about all the development along Poway Rd. The 4-story Fairfield development is going in at the site of the former Poway Bowl and thrift stores. A recent letter to the editor said it was the “canyonization” of Poway Rd with tall buildings on either side.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2023-08-29/our-readers-write

North Park Micro Units

An apartment building in North Park has an innovative approach to helping solve the San Diego Housing Crisis. Their micro units of approx. 600-800 sq ft offer an upgraded, minimalist living environment. The complex has very few parking spaces. They hope residents will use mass transit, bikes, or walking.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-08-27/micro-unit-apartment-building-north-park

San Diego Vacant Homes

Are evil rich people squatting on vacant homes and keeping them off the market? Well, there are 16 million vacant homes in America and only 500,000 homeless. That makes sense in the Rust Belt, but not in San Diego. Less than 1% of housing units are vacant for more than 6 months a year. Even if they were fully occupied it would barely put a dent in the housing crisis.

https://sdhc.org/news-release/residential-vacancies-study-published/?fbclid=IwAR0STswGoFGw2zCkLIhpJ1kbuiL4sIFFDiz6mEHo96MDqBveJdJ4LBdbBag

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/editorials/story/2023-08-11/san-diego-housing-package-gloria-sb-10-homelessness-poverty

Pt Loma Gay Marriage

A pastor at Point Loma Nazarene University was fired from his post for disagreeing with church doctrine on gay marriage. Wait…  didn’t Christ preach about loving thy neighbor? Why is the church so slow to evolve?

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/religion/story/2023-08-18/san-diego-nazarene-pastor-fired-for-same-sex-marriage-stance

Ben Kalasho, former El Cajon Councilman, wanted for arrest

Former El Cajon City Councilman, Ben Kalasho, is wanted by the police. He and his wife were busted for contempt of court and failed to show up for his 8-day jail sentence. This is a guy that used fake social media profiles to disparage local residents and business…  while he was on city council. He also runs the Miss Middle East USA Pageant and reportedly failed to pay the winner the prize money….  And, get this, offered another contestant a rigged win if she slept with him. Where is Dog the Bounty Hunter?

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2023-09-01/arrest-warrants-issued-ben-kalasho-el-cajon

Escondido Joor Muffler Man

Every time I drive through Escondido I smile when I see that big statue of the guy holding the muffler. It’s a time warp to another era. The Joor Muffler Man was recently featured on CBS Sunday Morning’s website.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/story/2023-09-01/joor-muffler-man-in-escondido-gets-some-national-press

National City Bike Lanes

More bike lanes! Hooray! Cities are evolving as suburban areas become more urban. Plus, with the e-bike revolution, more people are riding bikes.

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/national-city-looking-to-add-more-bike-lanes-with-new-master-plan/509-3c784b27-5733-4fb7-9059-58a348998c2f

Snapdragon Stadium experience

I went to Snapdragon Stadium for the first-time last Saturday. What a great experience! Really nice concessions, amenities, digital signage, and sight lines. The Aztecs football program deserves our support!

Flavored tobacco ban backfires

California politicians screwed it up again. Voters approved a measure to ban flavored tobacco products mostly to discourage tobacco usage amongst children. Guess what happened? People are still buying it on the black market or out of state, but now California is out $300M in tax revenue. Prohibition does not work.

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It’s Wednesday June 28, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

Poway Social Security Fraud

A Poway man defrauded the Social Security system and the VA system of over $830,000 over 3 decades as he schemed to collect using his dead mother’s name. WTF? Crazy story. Social Security will not be solvent starting in 2034. Poway seems to be in the news for all of the wrong reasons.

Gavin Newsom’s CA Budget – Winners & Losers (housing, climate, auto dealers, education)

California had to spend less than they wanted due to the pending deficit. The CA budget is loaded with examples of winners and losers. Isn’t that what government policies always do? Some win at the expense of others.  Some lose, so others can win. What ever happened to free trade and win-win outcomes?

Tragic Teen e-Bike Death in Encinitas Collision

While we mourn the loss of a young man in an e-bike accident, we look more broadly at the innovation in the e-bike market. Could this be a solution to help cities transition from suburban to urban? Do we have enough bike lanes?

Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey is Running for County Board of Supervisors

Maybe you have seen Richard Bailey’s social media and direct mail messages. He has a lot to say about “The San Diego Comeback”. Why is a mayor of little ol’ Coronado commenting about issues beyond his city? Because he is running for office!  Plus we discuss some proposed tax increases under consideration.

Jim Desmond and SANDAG Congestion Freeway Tax

They are already planning to charge a per-mile tax for road usage. It’s not a bad idea, but it will be difficult to implement fairly. Now San Diego is considering a Congestion Tax for freeway usage to subsidize mass transit. What’s going on here? This is a tax on the many to benefit the few. Mass transit ridership is in decline, so why are we subsidizing it?

Paloma Aguirre, Imperial Beach, and the Problem of Tijuana Sewage

Seems this sewage problem in the South Bay has going on for decades, yet they still can’t fix it. Now the County Board of Supervisors has declared a state of emergency. San Diego congressional delegates are pushing President Biden to solve the problem. Meanwhile some beaches in Imperial Beach have been closed for a year and a half.

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria: Corporate Welfare vs Road Repair

Todd Gloria flip flopped. City officials and business leaders lobbied for San Diego to host a design event. Todd Gloria vowed to ensure it was privately funded. Now he is singing a different tune. He wants to use taxpayer dollars to subsidize corporations in town in order to generate more tax revenue. Should the city be run as a business? Should those resources instead be used to repair roads?

San Diego Community Forum

We discuss San Diego homelessness, eminent domain, Poway’s Billion Dollar Bond, Steve Garvey as a California Senator, and this kerfuffle over Democrat vs Democratic.

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Relevant Links:

A Poway man’s mother died in 1990. He accepted $830K of benefits in her name for 32 years.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2023-06-27/poway-social-security-fraud-mother-guilty

Winners and losers in the California budget deal

https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/06/california-budget-winners-losers/

San Diego County leaders call on Biden to fix Tijuana sewage crisis

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/story/2023-06-27/san-diego-county-supervisors-emergency-tijuana-sewage

Politics Report: GOP Rivals Scuffle for Supervisor Race

Encinitas teen, 15, killed in e-bike crash described by family as high achiever and athlete

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2023-06-26/15-year-old-boy-dies-after-e-bike-crash-in-encinitas

Jim Desmond Congestion Pricing

San Diego is spending $3 million on a design event. Is it worth it?

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-06-23/san-diego-is-spending-3-million-on-the-world-design-capital-is-it-worth-it

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No Limits – Overcoming Limitations

We can often be our own worst enemy. We create our own roadblocks that prevent us from succeeding. Sometimes it is driven by fear. Other times laziness. But most often, it’s due to not doing what is best for yourself.

Clarity – What do you want?

It’s not easy figuring out what you really want. Yet so many people go through life drifting from day to day without having clarity of purpose. Take the time to define what you really want. Set clear goals. Then you stay focused on achievement.

Be Better – Constant Improvement

Growth is a constant process of learning, failing, and learning again. We need to always push ourselves to attain higher goals and better outcomes. But it requires tremendous thought and work to do it properly.

Podcasting – What works?

It’s one thing to get behind a microphone and talk about a topic for an hour on a podcast. How is that working for you? Ed Franklin and I discuss branding, messaging, podcast show format, and the work required to distribute your message across social media and other channels. Podcasters are more than just mere podcasters. To do it right you have to craft your brand and communicate your message to your target audience. The podcast is just one of many channels to deliver your message.

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It’s Wednesday June 7, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

Poway City Council Observations

I hadn’t been to a city council meeting in a while. It was great hearing some of the issues hashed out by both public speakers and elected officials. As a podcaster, it was special meeting some folks that listen or watch my show. Nice to make those human connections.

Poway chooses to replace Barry Leonard with an Appointment/Election Hybrid

Poway has a history of appointing people to council to fill out a person’s term. I figured this was the route they would take in replacing resigning councilmember Barry Leonard. The public was overwhelmingly for an election. Steve Vaus proposed a hybrid model. They will appoint someone with a pledge they will not run in the November 2024 election.

Money in Poway Politics

California’s new SB1439 bill requires that elected officials recuse themselves from voting on issues that involve a donor that gave over $250. But $250 is the campaign donation limit for Poway. Does that mean SB1439 is moot in Poway? Or do indirect funds to PACs and non-profits count too?

Life Time Fitness Update at The Farm in Poway

The Poway City Council says they cannot do anything since there is no formal proposal before them. That’s true. But locals know the developer’s plan is to put in a Life Time Fitness center that likely violates the voter’s will with Measure P. Mayor Vaus says there is a lot of misinformation swirling in social media. Is JRP part of the problem? LOL

Poway Bans Homeless Encampments

San Diego implemented a rule that authorities can remove homeless encampments if there is a shelter bed nearby. Now Poway has enacted a similar rule. After all, the San Diego homeless could end up in Poway.

Archie Moore, Any Body Can Youth Foundation

What a great fundraiser hosted by the ABC Youth Foundation for troubled youth. I attended a very well run and safe youth boxing match at St. Augustine High School. Bravo to the athletes, families and organizers that made this event possible.

San Diego Finally Repairing Roads in Rancho Bernardo, Westwood

The Witch Creek Fire was in 2007 but the damage to the roads has still not been resolved. The reconstruction has been over for some time, but then authorities had trouble coming up with the $5M to fund this project in the Westwood community of Rancho Bernardo. Why is it so hard to get local government officials to focus on their primary tasks?

Steve Garvey for CA Senate?

Former Dodger and Padre, Steve Garvey, is flirting with the idea of running for US Senate as a Republican. After his career ended in 1987, he considered running for senate, but his flirting with extramarital affairs derailed his political future. These days that’s no longer a disqualifier.

Ed Franklin Livestream Podcast, Tuesday June 13^th at 7pm

Join Ed and I as we discuss podcasting and a wide range of other topics. We’ll take your questions and comments in the livestream.

San Diego Community Forum

We discuss San Diego roads, Cox Cable, cutting the cord, Carlsbad Gay Pride Flag, Highway 56, mass transit, electric vehicles, Poway politics and Rickey Henderson.

Closing Quote

From Chrissy on The Sopranos (not original author): “Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

#SanDiego #homelessness #homeless #ranchobernardo #BarryLeonard #SteveVaus #republicans #democrats #Poway #Padres #sb1439 #dodgers #SteveGarvey #WitchCreek #Westwood #ArchieMoore #AnyBodyCan #lifetimefitness #stevevaus #sopranos

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Relevant Links:

Poway inches closer to approving ordinance to remove homeless encampments.

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/poway-approves-ordinance-to-allow-city-to-remove-encampments/509-d8081253-1560-4925-9d24-374ade3762ee

16 years after Witch Creek wildfire, San Diego begins rebuilding damaged Rancho Bernardo roads.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2023-06-05/16-years-after-witch-creek-wildfire-san-diego-begins-rebuilding-damaged-rancho-bernardo-roads

Baseball legend Steve Garvey considering US Senate bid in California, energizing beleaguered GOP.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ap-gop-democratic-california-los-angeles-b2349896.html

Ed Franklin: Podcaster & Inspirational Public Speaker

https://www.edfranklinnolimits.com/

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It’s Wednesday May 31, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

Debt Ceiling Circus: Republicans and Democrats Fiscally Irresponsible

All this drama with threats of blowing up the economy. What does Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy do? They agree to eliminate the debt ceiling (not raise it, eliminate it) without any serious spending cuts. These two parties are sinking America.

Campaign Finance Reform Will Impact La Mesa, Poway, other San Diego County Cities

A new law from Sacramento demands that politicians recuse themselves from votes if they are voting on a bill that involves a political donor of over $250. How will this be policed? Corporations donate tens of thousands of dollars to politician’s non-profit organizations (see Poway Mayor Steve Vaus and La Mesa Vice Mayor Colin Parent) allegedly to win political favors. Corporate dollars also flow into Political Action Committees to drive campaign ads. Interestingly, government employee unions are given a pass. They can donate as much as they want, and politicians can return the favor with a vote for a raise.

How will Poway replace Barry Leonard?

Poway has a history of filling vacancies on city council with an appointment. Poway folks see this as a violation of democracy. We will find out Poway’s plan at their meeting on June 6.

San Diego Padres no longer on Bally Sports

We discuss the chaos created by the Padres Bally Sports breakup, including reviewing various streaming options.

Santee Drive-In May Shut Down

Many of us have warm feelings for drive-in movie theaters. But the one in Santee may be about to close. The property is in escrow. The plan is to replace the drive-in theater with a huge warehouse. People’s movie content consumption habits have radically changed.

San Diego Community Forum

We discuss homelessness in San Diego, Highway 67, the terrible quality of San Diego roads, a payroll tax to subsidize housing and much more.

#lamesa #SanDiego #homelessness #homeless #housingfirst #jimdesmond #ranchobernardo #santee #drivein #BarryLeonard #SteveVaus #ColinParent #POTUS #debtceiling #nationaldebt #deficit #KevinMcCarthy #republicans #democrats #Poway #PUSD #Padres #BallySports #DirecTV #MLBTV #barryleonard #campaignfinance

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No, the Santee Drive-In hasn’t sold. But it’s moving in that direction.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/east-county/story/2023-05-30/no-the-santee-drive-in-hasnt-sold-but-its-moving-in-that-direction

Politics Report: Campaign Finance Rocked by New Law

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It’s Wednesday May 24, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

The City of Carlsbad is Banning Gay Pride Flag on City Buildings

The LGBTQ community is upset that the Gay Pride Flag cannot be presented on city buildings in Carlsbad. But what is the role of local government? Does the American flag already protect gay rights in the first place? No doubt this flies in the face of the woke agenda, but I think we should support equal rights for all, not special rights for this group and that group.

Carlsbad Bans Prayer at City Meetings

Why do some cities have invocations to start a city meeting? Is this a violation of the separation of church and state? While we’re at it, why do they pledge allegiance to the flag before a meeting? I like this move by Carlsbad.

San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond and Homelessness

The County of San Diego wants to buy more hotels to house the homeless. After all, it’s free money from Sacramento! Is this the solution to homelessness or are they just sweeping them under the rug? There are still mental health and addiction issues that need to be addressed.

Tax the Rich to Subsidize San Diego Housing

The idea is to tax large businesses on their payroll for employees earning $150,000+ per year. The money would go into a fund to subsidize housing for others. Would this solve the housing problem or just make matters worse? Taxing payroll will just increase demand when there is already not enough supply. It’s not a solution.

San Diego Housing Prices Continue to Increase

Despite higher interest rates, housing prices are still going up. It’s because there are not enough houses for sale. Until they start building more, we will continue to have a housing crisis making it really tough for first time home buyers.

Rancho Bernardo Sink Hole

There’s a huge hole on Escala Drive in Rancho Bernardo. Why is it so hard to get this fixed quickly? The City of San Diego is trying to get emergency approval and pass environmental regulations. It’s going to take over 2 months to fix it if we’re lucky.

Santee Allows More Tattoo Parlors

Microblading is a hot trend to enhance eyebrows. The technique is like tattoos, and this is causing Santee to deregulate the rules in their city. Will this attract a bad element? Or is this just people pursuing their happiness?

Lemon Grove Allows More Cannabis Dispensaries

It’s still illegal in El Cajon, but Lemon Grove is opening their economy for more cannabis dispensaries. But Lemon Grove has a serious revenue problem for their city coffers. Is this a move to free up their economy or just generate more tax dollars for the city? Looks like both.

#lamesa #gaypride #LGBTQ #prayer #1A #carlsbad #SanDiego #homelessness #homeless #housingfirst #jimdesmond #ranchobernardo #lemongrove #santee #cannabis #tattoo #kusi #termlimits #TheFarm #LifetimeFitness

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Relevant Links:

Carlsbad Bans Gay Pride Flag:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/carlsbad/story/2023-05-23/proposal-to-display-commemorative-flags-including-pride-flag-fails-in-carlsbad

Carlsbad Bans Prayer at City Council Meetings

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/carlsbad/story/2023-05-17/no-more-prayers-for-carlsbad-city-council

Jim Desmond: Housing First Objection to Solve Homelessness

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessness/story/2023-05-23/county-joins-city-of-san-diego-plan-to-buy-hotels-to-house-homeless-people

Tax the rich to subsidize housing?            

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-05-19/should-san-diego-consider-a-payroll-tax-like-seattle-to-fund-housing

SD Home Prices Increase

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-05-23/people-waiting-for-prices-to-come-down-will-be-disappointed-san-diego-home-prices-rise-again

Rancho Bernardo Sink Hole                                                         

https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/rancho-bernardo-sinkhole-repair-to-take-several-more-weeks

Santee Tattoo shops:                                     

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/east-county/story/2023-05-12/longstanding-ban-on-tattoo-shops-in-santee-likely-to-be-lifted

Lemon Grove/Cannabis:                              

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/east-county/story/2023-05-05/lemon-grove-advances-2-new-cannabis-dispensaries-here-are-the-details

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It’s Wednesday May 10, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

La Mesa Vice Mayor Colin Parent Facing Conflict of Interest Accusations

Colin Parent runs an organization called Circulate San Diego that works to support sustainable neighborhoods and mass transit. He is actively soliciting contributions from corporate donors. What happens if he must vote on an issue before the La Mesa City Council?  Is it a conflict of interest? Or is it just really bad optics?

KUSI Sold. What is the State of San Diego Media?

Long time independent TV station KUSI was just sold for $35 million to a large media company. KUSI has been a long-time pillar of the San Diego community doing a great job covering local news. How will their station change with new management? We also look at the consolidation of print media and the financial chaos in radio.

Term Limits for Poway?

In a recent Opinion article in the Poway Chieftain, Tony Blain is calling on the City of Poway to enact term limits on the mayor and city council. Most cities in San Diego County already have term limits. Why not Poway?

San Diego Community Forum: Property Rights, Highway 56, Amazon Fresh, Poway Life Time Fitness

In our Community Forum segment, we hear from livestream viewers and YouTube commenters. The people of San Diego have something to say about what is happening in their local community.

#poway #PowayChieftain #circulatesandiego #colinparent #lamesa #kusi #termlimits #stevevaus #EVs #electricvehicles #TheFarm #LifetimeFitness #hwy56 #climatechange #sandiego #barryleonard #PPR

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La Mesa vice mayor, now running for state Assembly, solicited $700,000 in donations to his own nonprofit.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2023-05-07/la-mesa-colin-parent-circulate-san-diego-behested-payments

Guest column: Poway term limits would encourage transparency and innovative ideas.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/story/2023-05-10/guest-column

KUSI, longtime independent San Diego TV station, to be sold to Nexstar for $35M.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-05-08/kusi-longtime-independent-san-diego-tv-station-bought-by-nexstar-for-35m

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It’s Thursday May 4, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

Poway Resignation: Councilman Barry Leonard Steps Down

In a surprise, Barry Leonard has decided to step down due to “changes in life”. Leonard had been rumored to be a future mayoral candidate. Interestingly, Leonard covers Poway’s District 2, which is where The Farm – Life Time Fitness controversy is brewing. How should Leonard be replaced? Appointment or election?

Widen Highway 56: Good for commuters, but bad for environment?

City leaders finally broke down and agreed to widen a portion of Highway 56. They are upset that the area was not built with mass transit in mind. Will this solve the congestion or just encourage more car use, and thus more pollution?

Nathan Fletcher Replacement Election Announced

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors announced that Fletcher would not be replaced by an appointment. This will go to an election in August. Right wing activist Carl DeMaio still predicts that Fletcher will recant his resignation.

Amy Reichert Running for Fletcher’s Seat

Can a moderate Republican win a district that is held by a progressive? Reichert will put this tot the test. Reichert wants to address San Diego’s high cost of living, homelessness, and public safety.

Amy Landers is an Escondido Super Hero

The restrooms in Escondido’s parks are disgusting. The city claims they don’t have the funding to solve the problem. Now Amy Landers is doing deep cleans of these bathrooms on her own, and sharing the results on TikTok.

Dane White’s Budget Problem in Escondido

Escondido is mired in deficits and their city services are suffering. They have tried multiple times to increase the sales tax rate, but the voters say no. What can Escondido do to fix their budget? Perhaps they need to ask themselves hard questions about the fundamental role of local government.

Fast Charging an EV in 5 minutes? It’s possible with EV Battery Swapping.

Electric Vehicle technology is moving at the speed of light. Now a new company is partnering with EV manufacturer Fisker to install stations that remove and replace your battery.

Imperial Beach Election Rules

Different cities have different election rules when it comes to fundraising limits and signage. Now Mayor Paloma Aguirre wants to create limits on fundraising and stricter sign rules. Is this a scheme to protect incumbents from the efforts of challengers?

San Diego Community Forum: Poway Unified, SDG&E, EVs, Homelessness, San Diego Roads

In our Community Forum segment, we hear from livestream viewers and YouTube commenters. The people of San Diego have something to say about what is happening in their local community.

#poway #sdge #homelessness #NIMBY #sandiego #ranchobernardo #PUSD #powayschools #potholes #toddgloria #EVs #electricvehicles #TheFarm #LifetimeFitness #hwy56 #climatechange #sandiego #nathanfletcher #amyreichert #escondido #danewhite #barryleonard #imperialbeach

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Relevant Links:

Poway’s Barry Leonard Resignation:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2023-05-03/poway-city-councilman-barry-leonard-announces-his-resignation-tuesday-at-meeting

Widen Highway 56:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2023-05-03/san-diego-56-widening-carpool-lanes

Voters will decide re: Nathan Fletcher:
https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2023/05/02/voters-will-decide-who-will-replace-nathan-fletcher-as-supervisor/

Amy Reichert to run for Nathan Fletcher’s seat:
https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2023/05/03/2012-gop-candidate-amy-reichert-joins-supervisor-race-for-nathan-fletcher-seat/

Amy Landers Cleaning Escondido Bathrooms:
https://voiceofsandiego.org/2023/05/03/north-county-report-she-was-horrified-by-the-state-of-park-restrooms-so-she-did-something-about-it/

Escondido Budget Crisis:
https://voiceofsandiego.org/2023/05/01/escondidos-budget-deficit-has-taken-a-toll-on-the-city-that-may-take-years-to-correct/

EV Battery Swapping:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/this-new-electric-car-could-charge-in-the-time-it-takes-to-fill-a-gas-tank-thanks-to-battery-swapping-tech/ar-AA1aKlOM?li=BBnb7Kz

Imperial Beach Election Rules:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/south-county/story/2023-05-04/imperial-beach-exploring-creation-of-local-campaign-rules

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It’s Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

Poway Unified School District first amendment case before Supreme Court

Poway School Board members Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff and TJ Zane (no longer in office), blocked their constituents from speech on their social media pages. Christopher and Kimberly Garnier have been long time critics of the school districts policies and demanded that the school board hold corrupt superintendent John Collins accountable. Should public officials be able to thwart free speech on their social media accounts, even when they discuss policy issues?

Coronado and Oceanside School Districts sue Facebook, Google, TikTok and Twitter

Of course, social media is impacting children. It has an addictive quality and sadly some kids engage in cyber bullying. Is this the time to sue technology companies? Or is this a teaching opportunity on how to best integrate social media in your life? Focus on reason, rationality, and not living second handed.

San Diego Renter Protections

If a property owner fulfills the terms of the lease agreement, but then decides to have the tenant vacate the property, does that make them a bad person? San Diego officials want to force landlords to pay 2-3 months of rent if they evict a tenant for no-fault. Sometimes landlords want to upgrade the property, move back in, sell the property, or just move on from troublesome tenants. Landlords have property rights, right?

Renters upset about Ratio Billing for Utilities. Pay your fair share!

In older apartment buildings, there are no specific electric, gas, and water meters for each unit. So, property owners use a formula to share those costs amongst the tenants. Now tenants are upset that they are paying more than they should. Isn’t this how socialism and collectivism always seem to work? Some pay more than their fair share. Others freeload off others.

SDG&E Rates Based on Income are Nonsense

In a recent letter to the editor, a Poway resident expressed his frustration with SDG&E’s proposal to base electric rates on income. Is this another income redistribution scheme?

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria has had it with homelessness.

Public officials are facing a moral dilemma. Do they push out the homeless from encampments since they are there illegally and don’t have property rights? Or is doing so inhumane? Seems like Todd Gloria is ready to get more aggressive to push the homeless out.

Should the government buy housing for the homeless?

The San Diego Housing Commission is planning to buy 3 Extended Stay America motels at the price of $383,000 per unit to house the homeless. Promising idea?

San Diego Electric Vehicles Surging

Over 10,000 EVs were sold in San Diego County in the first quarter of 2023. California now has over 1.5 zero emission vehicles. It’s clear what direction this is headed. Get on board or get left out.

LA Times Opinion Article: Give up on EV?

An LA Times editorialist is fed up with the challenges of charging their EV on road trips. But is it really that hard? If you have a home charging station, that should satisfy 90% of your needs.

San Diego Community Forum: Low Riders, SDG&E, San Diego Roads, Rancho Bernardo Cannabis

In our Community Forum segment, we hear from livestream viewers and YouTube commenters. The people of San Diego have something to say about what is happening in their local community.

#poway #sdge #homelessness #NIMBY #sandiego #ranchobernardo #urbnleaf #PUSD #powayschools #potholes #lowriders #nationalcity #eviction #rentersrights #coronado #oceanside #socialmedia #toddgloria #EVs #electricvehicles

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Relevant Links:

Poway Unified School District and Supreme Court:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2023-04-25/supreme-court-poway-social-media-officials

San Diego Renters Protection – prevent renters from eviction: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-04-25/san-diego-gives-initial-approval-to-stricter-renter-protections

Letter to editor about SDG&E Rates:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/story/2023-04-26/our-readers-write

Increase in sales of EVs in CA and San Diego:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-04-25/california-hits-1-5-million-in-zero-emission-vehicle-sales

Give up on EVs because of charging hassles?
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-04-23/commentary-its-not-easy-being-a-green-motorist-in-california

Ratio billing for utilities:
https://voiceofsandiego.org/2023/04/26/ratio-billing-in-apartments-leaves-renters-in-the-dark-about-utility-costs/

Todd Gloria and San Diego homelessness:
https://voiceofsandiego.org/2023/04/25/todd-gloria-wants-you-to-know-he-has-had-it/

San Diego paying $383K per unit to house homelessness: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessness/story/2023-04-25/san-diego-to-pursue-buying-three-hotels-to-house-homeless-people-at-a-cost-of-383-000-per-room

Oceanside and Coronado school districts suing social media companies: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2023-04-14/oceanside-coronado-lawsuit-social-media-youth-mental-health

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It’s Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

SDGE electricity rates based on your income level.

SDGE plans to create a flat rate based on your income level, but with a lower variable rate based on usage. The plan is to offer income relief for low-income people and save money for big energy users. Wait, what? I thought they wanted us to conserve. I think it’s a scheme to generate more revenue in response to the vast number of customers that are signing up for solar energy.

California Mass Transit – Fiscal Cliff!

Is mass transit the right long-term answer for California? Ridership numbers are down and govt subsidies are drying up. How are they going to pay for this?

Colorado River Water Rationing coming soon.

If the states can’t work out an agreement, then the federal government will step in and decide for them. There’s not enough water coming down the Colorado River to satisfy a growing population. Conservation isn’t the answer. Humans need to manufacture, recycle, capture, and store their drinking water.

La Mesa Vice Mayor Colin Parent running for State Assembly

More fall out from the Nathan Fletcher scandal. Politicians are shifting and capitalizing on opportunities. Now Colin Parent announces a run for State Assembly. Parent is an advocate for mass transit, affordable housing, and safe, walkable neighborhoods.

County of San Diego provides “surplus property” for the Homeless

If you really think about it, homelessness is the result of government policies that limit housing growth, prevent high rises, and prevent evictions. And don’t get me started on PTSD caused by politicians sending American troops into immoral wars. In a refreshing change, here is a short term solution to help get homeless people off the streets and into safe accommodations. These are govt buildings that are no longer used.

UCSD and SDSU Students protest banning homeless encampments.

Mustard Seed Project students are advocating for humane solutions to help the homeless. But are their feel-good ideas preventing us from getting to a solution?

UCSD Chancellor gets $500,000 raise.

Pradeep Khosla was considering a higher paying university job elsewhere, so the UC Board of Regents stepped up to give him a $500,000 raise to keep him. The money is coming from wealthy donors that want to see his leadership continue at UC San Diego.

Palomar Health Nurses to get a $100,000 retention bonus.

Looking for a secure job with good pay and benefits? Consider nursing. There is a bidding war for nurses in San Diego as Kaiser Permanente prepares to open a new hospital in San Marcos. Palomar Health is fighting hard to prevent their nurses from jumping ship.

Low Riders Rejoice! Cruising ban lifted in National City

National City passed legislation to make cruising legal again. The Low Rider community is overjoyed as they can celebrate art, culture, and family in their community. This is the United States of America. How can life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness be illegal in the first place?

Poway School Bond already cost us $1 Billion.

In a Letter to the Editor at Pomerado News, Poway resident calls out Marian Kim-Phelps’ plan for a school bond when we haven’t even started paying for the last Billion Dollar Bond.

Rancho Bernardo is getting a Cannabis Dispensary

Despite local objections, the San Diego Planning Commission is allowing the Urbn Leaf cannabis dispensary to open in Rancho Bernardo. Is this going to “bring the wrong element” to RB? Or is this a legitimate business that sells medicine that offers people pain relief?

San Diego Pothole Robot Survey

If you see an unusual white van prowling your neighborhood, don’t be alarmed. That might be San Diego’s new high-tech vehicle that measures pothole size, road smoothness, and other variations of crumbling roads. The City hopes to get a treasure trove of data to show them which roads need the most help right now. Do they really need to make it this complex?

San Diego Community Forum

Our livestream viewers and YouTube comments discuss a range of issues including greedy landlords, school district finances, vacant homes to solve homelessness, and much more.

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Relevant Links:

• SDGE flat fee based on your income. Is this for real?
  • https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-04-10/a-fixed-monthly-charge-is-coming-to-your-electric-bill-will-it-make-ca-rates-more-affordable
• CA Transit Fiscal Cliff – ridership down, govt subsidies drying up.
  • https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2023/04/09/californias-transit-agencies-face-fiscal-cliff-as-ridership-and-funding-drop-after-pandemic/
• Colorado River Water Cuts coming to California.
  • https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2023/04/11/feds-propose-cuts-to-california-other-states-water-supply-from-colorado-river/
• La Mesa Vice Mayor Colin Parent announces campaign for State Assembly
  • https://sdnews.com/parent-running-to-represent-79th-assembly-district-in-2024-election/
• Affordable Housing – Surplus Property offered by County of San Diego
  • https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/local/san-diego-county-government-news/story/2023-04-11/county-to-create-affordable-housing-with-25-million-surplus-property
• Students Protest Homeless Encampment Ban
  • https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessness/story/2023-04-10/homeless-advocates-protest-proposed-encampment-ban-as-harmful
• UCSD Chancellor $500,000 Raise
  • https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2023-04-11/ucsd-chancellor-pay-raise
• Nurses get $100,000 retention bonus from Palomar Healthcare
  • https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/story/2023-04-11/palomar-to-make-100-000-incentive-payments-to-nurses-for-three-year-commitments
• National City ends cruising ban. Low Riders rejoice!
  • https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/south-county/national-city/story/2023-04-05/national-city-ends-cruising-ban
• Letter to the Editor about PUSD School Bond
  • https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2023-04-12/our-readers-write
• Rancho Bernardo Cannabis block denied.
  • https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2023-04-07/san-diego-planning-commission-denies-appeals-against-cannabis-outlet-in-rancho-bernardo?fbclid=IwAR0-MhjW5Zl8I3HwRUqEMMRd0FbWS08ez_70cbD8MDvOaMwlvFdNC-ivH4g
• Worst Potholes in San Diego
  • https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2023-04-11/san-diego-road-assessment-potholes?fbclid=IwAR0zKu_6foDqaBqaAilKaz5-Lca0fBJAvqDsMIWkw17i2iaYyf72hjHFXuo

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It’s Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

Aztecs make San Diego Proud

So much love for the San Diego State men’s basketball team as they make the March Madness finals, but lose to UConn. Can you feel the energy in San Diego around this team? Feels really good.

Nathan Fletcher Needs to Resign Now

Last week I praised Nathan Fletcher for seeking mental health help. But now the other shoe dropped, and we see a serious sexual harassment mess. Fletcher is a disgrace. But why is he postponing his resignation until May 15^th? How will he be replaced on the San Diego Board of Supervisors.

Homelessness Politicized by GOP

CA State Senator Brian Jones understands that homelessness is a key issue for voters. Jones is proposing a plan to clear out homeless encampments near schools, parks and churches. Is this a good plan? Where will these people go?

Poway Unified School District Preparing for a School Bond

In a recent op-ed, PUSD superintendent Marian Kim-Phelps made the case that school facilities are crumbling. They need more funding to upgrade and repair their infrastructure. Phelps is making the case for a future school bond funded by taxpayers. This would be on top of payments for the Billion Dollar Bond. Can PUSD self-finance their plan? I think so.

San Diego Schools, Poway Unified Enrollment Declining

Interesting data as less students are attending San Diego schools. It’s due to a number of factors including a transition to homeschooling and private schools, families moving out of state due to high cost of living, and some upset with the politicization of curriculum. Less students = less funding. What can public schools do to attract more students?

La Mesa Permitting and Signage Dysfunction

The City of La Mesa is struggling to process building permits to allow businesses to start and homeowners to install granny flats. This is frustrating residents and local politicians are demanding change. Meanwhile, La Mesa is considering LED electronic signage, but locals are upset about “visual pollution.”

San Diego Community Forum

We take comments and questions from our livestream audience as well as YouTube comments. Topics include Life Time Fitness at The Farm in Poway, homelessness demographics, free trade, Poway schools, cannabis dispensaries, PTSD, and baseball.

#poway #lamesa #nathanfletcher #mentalhealth #homelessness #NIMBY #sandiego #ranchobernardo #lifetimefitness #PUSD #powayschools #PTSD #BrianJones

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Relevant Links:

‘Resign immediately’: Desmond calls on Fletcher to step down now, not May 15, amid misconduct accusations.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2023-04-03/jim-desmond-nathan-fletcher-resign-immediately

Republicans press Democrats on combating homelessness.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2023-04-05/republicans-pressing-democrats-on-combating-homelessness

Back to School: Is the B-word a bad word?

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/editorial/back-to-school/story/2023-04-05/back-to-school-is-the-b-word-a-bad-word

Appeals opposing Rancho Bernardo cannabis outlet go to county commission Thursday

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2023-04-04/appeals-opposing-cannabis-outlet-in-rancho-bernardo-to-be-heard-on-thursday

San Diego County schools are still losing students, but fewer than early in the pandemic. Here’s how each district is faring.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2023-04-04/school-enrollment-declines-are-slowing-down-three-years-after-start-of-covid-19

La Mesa is overhauling its permit process after a review found the city lags behind others

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/east-county/story/2023-03-31/la-mesa-is-overhauling-its-permit-process-after-a-review-found-the-city-lags-behind-others

La Mesa explores digital billboards, sparking debate underway in other parts of the county

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/east-county/story/2023-03-31/la-mesa-council-meeting-digital-billboards

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It’s Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

Aztecs/Padres Buzz

Wherever you go there are people wearing Aztec gear and Padres gear. Shirts and hats are flying off the shelves as San Diego gets ready for a big sports weekend. The San Diego State Aztecs made their first Final Four and are only 2 wins away from a national championship. The San Diego Padres made the MLB Final Four last year and hope to win a World Series in 2023. Petco Park and Viejas Arena are special San Diego venues offering great excitement and fun.

Nathan Fletcher Seeks Treatment for Mental Health, Substance Abuse

Huge political news in San Diego as County Board of Supervisors, Nathan Fletcher, steps down from office. Fletcher needs to take time to address PTSD, trauma, and alcoholism which he has struggled with for years. He was considered a lock to win the next election for State Senate and succeed Toni Atkins. We discuss mental health, selfishness (the good kind), and pursuing win-win outcomes.

Homelessness in San Diego is Expanding

New data shows more people are becoming homeless than are finding homes. The housing crisis continues to be a huge problem that is largely caused by local officials. We discuss the data, the demographics, and some of the solutions.

San Diego Community Forum: Poway, Rancho Bernardo, La Jolla

We take your comments and questions in our San Diego Community Forum. We discuss Poway schools, Rancho Bernardo Roads, the proposed Life Time Fitness facility in Poway, the Escondido Mayor, La Jolla’s Black’s Beach, and immigration.

#poway #lajolla #nathanfletcher #mentalhealth #homelessness #NIMBY #sandiego #ranchobernardo #lifetimefitness #PUSD #powayschools #PTSD

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Relevant Links:

With Fletcher dropping out to seek treatment, the race to succeed Atkins is unexpectedly wide open

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2023-03-27/nathan-fletcher-treatment-toni-atkins-senate-seat

Opening Day a go on Bally Sports San Diego after Diamond Sports makes Padres payment

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/story/2023-03-29/padres-assured-bally-parent-company-to-make-payment-ahead-of-deadline

Over past year, number of newly homeless has outpaced those who are housed, report shows.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessness/story/2023-03-15/its-been-a-year-and-the-number-of-newly-homeless-again-outpaces-those-who-are-housed

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It’s Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

La Jolla Independence

The rich people in La Jolla want to secede! They want to leave San Diego. What could be driving them to do this? Is there plan even achievable? We break it all down including taking a tangent talking about zip codes in San Diego.

Poway Fitness Club Causing Fits at The Farm

The Farm in Poway project is well underway and there are still a vocal minority in town that is angry about it. Now the project spokesperson, Kevin McNamara, wants to change the plan to make the proposed fitness club 10x bigger! Life Time Fitness has a plan that will change the landscape of the commercial and open space plan for The Farm. But wait, didn’t Kevin promise there would be no changes to the plan if the voters approved? The NIMBYs in Poway are now complaining about a violation of democracy and the added traffic and pollution from customers going in and out. The drama!

Todd Gloria declares Juneteenth a Paid Holiday for San Diego City Workers

The more I learn about Juneteenth the more I realize this is America’s Independence Day #2. This is a holiday that should be celebrated in a nation that exalts our inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Good for you Mayor Todd Gloria. Will other San Diego area cities follow suit?

#poway #lajolla #nationaldivorce #balkanization #sandiego #ranchobernnardo #lifetimefitness #juneteenth #toddgloria

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Relevant Links:

Life Time proposes a fitness center for Poway’s The Farm

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2023-03-15/life-time-looks-to-open-fitness-center-location-in-the-farm

San Diego makes Juneteenth, celebration of slavery ending in America, a paid city holiday

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2023-03-21/san-diego-juneteenth-paid-city-holiday

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Poway Cronyism

We saw so much money flowing into Poway’s November election. Turns out that one of the main people behind one of the most influential Political Action Committees ends up getting appointed by Mayor Vaus to a city committee.

Rancho Bernardo Roads

Pete Neild enjoys driving his Corvette Calypso all over San Diego. He can vouch that Ted Williams Parkway and Carmel Mountain Road are a mess. Pete also thinks the Poway roads are not as good as some people think.

Blacks Beach Immigration Tragedy

Pete and John comment on the tragic loss of 8 lives as immigrants attempt to land at Black’s Beach in La Jolla. This invites discussion of immigration and Friendship Park in Imperial Beach.

Silicon Valley Bank’s Mess is impacting people in San Diego

We breakdown the Silicon Valley Bank cluster, wonder how the FDIC is covering it all, and comment how the mess is affecting people in San Diego.

President Biden’s Visit to San Diego

Joe Biden’s recent trip to San Diego was quite the spectacle. Air Force One lands at North Island and then Osprey’s take POTUS to the Del Mar Polo Fields to meet with foreign leaders. The Biden visit closed down airspace for a time and caused the San Diego State Aztecs plane to be late for their March Madness trip to Orlando FL.

Nuclear Submarine Agreement: USA, UK, Australia (AUSUK)

Pete is a submarine veteran so we had some interesting discussion of the nuclear powered submarine deal between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. This led to further discussion of keeping the peace in the South China Sea and the trade routes from East Asia to the Indian Ocean.

Ukraine Russia War

There was plenty to comment about the conflict in Eastern Europe. Pete spent time in the Black Sea area when he served in the military. We also discuss the “don’t get involved” crowd as it relates to this conflict and America’s entry into WW2.

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Pete’s Sea Stories Project: https://www.seestories.online/

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David Leland joined me to discuss the San Diego State Aztecs as they enter the NCAA Tournament in 2023. We break down the Aztecs roster, their strong 2022-23 season, and how far we project the Aztecs to advance. Plus, we share some of our own March Madness bracket picks. David has the San Diego State Aztecs getting to the Sweet 16 and Texas winning it all.

Thinks this could be the year for the San Diego Padres

David also shares his thoughts on the Padres 2022 season and their outlook for 2023. We discuss Fernando Tatis Jr.’s comeback, the Manny Machado contract, Juan Soto having a big year in 2023, and breaking the San Diego Sports Curse.

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It is Wednesday, February 22nd. Here is a roundup of news stories in and around San Diego County. Here is what John Riley thinks:

Is SANDAG’s Mileage Tax moral or practical?

This mileage tax proposed by SANDAG is causing plenty of discussion for San Diegans. We are already paying property taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes and income taxes to fund roads, highways and freeways. Now they want to add another tax. Didn’t SANDAG pass the TRANSNET sales tax increase decades ago to fund this?

How are they going to charge per mile? Seems like we will either have GPS devices tracking our driving patterns and this raises valid concerns about privacy.

Their plan is already charging a grandma in Rancho Bernardo a sales tax increase so a student from a rich family can take the trolley to college at a low price. Is that moral?

Are trains and subways the right vision for the future? Or will self-driving electric vehicles offer a better solution that can function as individualized pods that get you right to your destination while also working in a swarm like mass transit?

Climate change activists are suing to stop Mira Mesa’s long-term housing plan

Mira Mesa recently announced a 30-year growth plan and Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation, or CERF, is suing the City of San Diego because the plan does not match up with their climate plan for carbon emission reduction. Now climate goals and housing goals are stalled while lawyers sort this out. Are these groups counter productively harming their own interests?

Will the GOP kill Social Security?

Social Security has been in the news since the State of the Union address when President Biden accused the Republicans of wanting to slash Social Security spending. Sure, there are a few Republicans that want to do this, but do you think the GOP has the cajónes to actually do it? Is it in the GOP’s best interest to cut spending for their senior citizen voter base? We break down the controversy and discuss the morality and mechanics of Social Security.

Referenced Links:

Chris Cate Tweet, Feb 21: You know what. Screw it. Let’s just not build anything anymore. What housing crisis?

Enviro Law Group Sues San Diego for Missing Climate Goals in Mira Mesa

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It’s Wednesday, January 25th. Here’s a roundup of news stories in and around San Diego County. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

Sorry San Diego. Housing is not a Human Right.

The City of San Diego’s City Council unanimously passed a resolution declaring housing as a fundamental human right. How can that be without violating the rights of others to provide it or fund it? Turns out that they really didn’t mean it. They just call the statement aspirational. Sheesh. We have a legit housing problem, but is this the way to solve it?  Besides, what is a right anyway?

University City to more than Double in 30 Years

Mira Mesa recently announced a 30-year growth plan. Now University City has done the same. University City wants to grow from 27,000 housing units to 57,000 housing units. They expect to do this with five focus zones with high rise apartments and transforming strip malls into mixed use residential/commercial space. Local residents are freaking out, as expected. San Diego’s economy has radically grown. How can housing keep up?

Escondido’s Housing and Commercial Development Plans

The old Palomar Hospital is being transformed into a 510 unit development called Palomar Heights with apartments, homes, markets, and a sky bar lounge. The Harvest Hills development near the San Diego Zoo Safari Park is in the planning states for 550 units. The North County Transit District is actively taking bids to add housing and more commercial property at their transit hub. Plus there are plans to convert the vacant Sears space at the Westfield Mall into a Costco. Escondido has already built so much new housing in their downtown area and more is on the way.

Referenced Links:

San Diego declares ‘housing as a human right’ but does it mean anything legally?

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-01-24/san-diego-declares-housing-as-a-human-right

Can University City handle twice as many people, jobs and homes? That’s what San Diego has planned for it.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2022-12-24/university-city-growth-plan

Opinion: San Diego’s plan for University City will make it unrecognizable and unlivable

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/story/2023-01-09/university-city-community-plan

Here’s what’s being built in Escondido

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/escondido/story/2023-01-15/heres-whats-being-built-in-escondido

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Poway 2023 Plans

• Mayor Steve Vaus: public safety, water infrastructure, Lake Poway upgrades.
• Deputy Mayor Barry Leonard: ramp up new council members Peter DeHoff and Brian Pepin, water infrastructure, commercial amenities at The Farm in Poway, Poway Center for the Performing Arts.
• Councilmember Caylin Frank: Poway Community Park improvements, expanding programming and services at Mickey Cafagna Community Center, water infrastructure, Poway Center for the Performing Arts.
• Yet no talk about: Poway Road development, Fairfield Project, Outpost, traffic safety, Twin Peaks development, Town Halls, thrift stores, homelessness, Big Stone Lodge, Poway’s identity crisis, climate action plan, affordable housing

Poway Unified School District 2023 Outlook

• Trustee Ginger Couvrette: Career and Technical classes, increased visual and performing arts funding, supplemental learning tools acquired during distance learning.
• Yet no talk about: school infrastructure improvements, another attempt to pass a school bond, CRT/Race/Equity, bullying.

Poway Kiwanis Outlook 2023 Plans

• President Heather Skale: Holiday for Heroes, Key Clubs at Poway High and Cathedral High, Aktion Club for developmentally disabled adults, pancake breakfasts at Villa de Vida/Little League/veterans, serve Community Food Connection/San Diego Blood Bank/Valley Elementary homework club. Also, scholarships for high school seniors, sponsor Miss Poway Pageant, Kiwanis Cup Poway vs Mt. Carmel Football Game.

Rancho Bernardo 2023 Outlook

• Rancho Bernardo Community Dynamo Robin Kaufman: upgrading street medians on Rancho Bernardo Rd and Pomerado Rd, Earth Fair, Chalk it Up!, Patriot Pet Contest, Safety Fair, Santa Snow Day in the Park, pedestrian safety, street quality survey, proposed cannabis outlet, construction at The Trails, Charter Communications/Spectrum utility power revisions, Rancho Bernardo Community Park, RB Off-Leash Dog Park.
• Yet no talk about: specific call outs of Carmel Mountain Road potholes and erosion, Seven Oaks street erosion.

Referenced Links:

• Poway leaders look ahead to 2023
  • https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2023-01-04/poway-leader-goals
• Rancho Bernardo to see improvements, events coming to community in 2023
  • https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2023-01-04/rancho-bernardo-to-see-improvements-events-coming-to-community-in-2023

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San Diego: The Need for more Water Infrastructure

• The feast and famine cycle of droughts and floods in California
• Assemblyman Vince Fong
  • https://www.kusi.com/san-diego-leaders-call-for-critical-investment-into-water-infrastructure/
• Positive Developments in San Diego County with Desal Plant, Pure Water recycling, expansion of San Vicente Dam.
• Some cities installing cisterns beneath parks to capture and store water.
• Poway making progress on water infrastructure.

SDG&E: Gas Prices

• https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-01-06/if-natural-gas-prices-across-the-country-are-dropping-why-are-they-soaring-in-san-diego
• Wholesale prices up more than 300% since January 2022
• A household gas bill that came to about $105 last January is now estimated to leap to about $225 this month. That’s an increase of 114 percent. 
• Prices are about current conditions and a view of the future
• It almost always comes down to supply and demand. But often there are policies that affect each.
• Demand high in the West (rain, snow, cold) – but mild weather in the East
• Approx 90% of supply comes from out of state
• Less supply – U.S. LNG exporters boosted shipments to Europe by more than 137% in the first 11 months of 2022 from the same period in 2021, according to data from Kepler, supplying more than half of Europe’s imported LNG and helping the region weather a more than 54% plunge in piped shipments from Russia.
  • https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-lng-exports-both-lifeline-drain-europe-2023-maguire-2022-12-20/
• Biden administration considering ban on gas stoves. Due to asthma or climate change policy?
• San Diego County Cities are already banning gas in new construction: San Diego, Encinitas, and possibly Del Mar.
• What can you do? Be energy self-sufficient. Solar, battery, LED. Wear a sweater. Control what you can control.

Carlsbad: Traffic Calming, Roundabout

• https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/carlsbad/story/2023-01-09/opinions-sought-on-roundabout-for-tamarack-and-carlsbad-boul
• City asking for input for roundabout at Carlsbad Blvd (PCH) and Tamarack Ave.
• Carlsbad already has one roundabout in development at Carlsbad Blvd and Cannon Road.
• Discussion of roundabouts in Poway.

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Submarine life is not easy. Tight quarters. Disciplined schedules. Everyone depending on someone else. It takes a high degree of trust and teamwork to make for a successful mission.

Charlie shared many great stories involving his crew and some of his missions. It seemed that Admiral Hyman Rickover came up frequently in our discussions. Rickover was a demanding leader that enjoyed keeping his subordinates off balance, so they would be provide direct and truthful answers.

Trust came up so often in this podcast conversation. Admiral Rickover extended a great degree of trust to Charles MacVean, but only after first testing his character and conviction. Rickover had confidence in MacVean’s skills and capabilities. He just needed to believe that MacVean believed he could accomplish the task at hand.

Charlie shared stories about the history of the USS Seawolf and the innovative nuclear experiments and challenges they faced.

The stories of MacVean sitting down with his crew members to learn about their family and aspirations was moving. For many of these crewmen, this was a career they valued because they felt truly cared for. They had a mission, a purpose in life. The military saved many of these men’s lives and catapulted them into upstanding men in society.

This is a podcast conversation Pete Neild and I have been talking about for over a year. I am so pleased that we had a chance to get meet Charlie and enjoy his stories and words of wisdom.

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• Carlsbad: Skyrocketing water desalination costs due to environmental regulations
• San Diego Beaches:  No more beach fires?
• Imperial Beach: Mayor Aguirre bringing the fun back
• Carmel Mountain Ranch: Carmel Mountain Road is a disgrace
• Border: Governor Newsom rips the GOP on immigration

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• National City: Cannabis Lounge, first for San Diego County
• Carlsbad/UCSD:  UCSD gets $10M grant, Smartville Inc Carlsbad gets $6M from US Dept of Energy
• Escondido: Dane White, Youngest Mayor in Escondido history, 33
• Mira Mesa: City to double housing forecast
• Oceanside: City Council allows high-density apartment project

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Ted Leitner talks about Jerry Coleman, Tony Gwynn, Rickey Henderson, Steve Finley, Carl Weathers, Steve Fisher, Brian Dutcher, Smokey Gaines, Jim Brandenburg, and so many great stories about sports broadcasting for the Padres, Chargers, Clippers, Aztecs, and KFMB Channel 8.

Ted talks about the honor of his induction into the San Diego Padres Hall of Fame.

So many stories. Ted talks about his upbringing in the Bronx and the difficulties he had in life due to his relationship with his father. Ted also traces his career history from Oklahoma to Hartford to Philadelphia and eventually to San Diego.

Who else? Howard Cosell, Russ T. Nailz, Alex Spanos, Bob Hope, Keith Hernandez, Al Bernstein, Michael Tuck, and so much more.

This was so much fun!  Ted Leitner is a San Diego treasure.

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Here’s what’s going on in and around San Diego County. Here’s what John Riley thinks on Friday, Dec 2^nd.

Dateline:

• San Diego: Is the $160B San Diego Commuter Rail worth it?
• East County: Sheriff tipping off Cannabis Raids
• Imperial Beach: Housing is #1 issue, senior poverty
• Lemon Grove: Buy 1, Get 1 Free Campaign
• San Diego: Vacation Rental Lottery comes up short
• San Diego: Home Prices drop fourth most in America

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Show Note: San Diego Padres Hall of Fame announcer and San Diego media icon, Ted Leitner, will join me for a livestream podcast interview, Tuesday, Dec 6^th at 7pm. Mark your calendars.

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San Diego News Headlines:

1. Rancho Penasquitos: Merge 56 Expansion (Camino del Sur and Hwy 56) – the locals are angry with the changes to build taller buildings and add greater density.
2. Poway: Amazon Fresh fully automated grocery store closed indefinitely
3. Escondido: Lake Hodges dam crumbling
4. San Clemente: freight railroad traffic suspended along ocean hillside
5. Oceanside: group petitions court to stop artificial surfing lagoon project
6. Carlsbad: Man walks into lagoon to avoid police
7. San Diego: Airbnb lottery application period ending, regulations to limit homeowners
8. San Diego: 9 sailors suffer minor injuries fighting fire as USS Abraham Lincoln cruises off coast.
9. La Mesa: citizens demand more advanced notice of new housing developments
10. Lemon Grove: Buy 1, get 1 Free
11. El Cajon – Man taken to hospital after lighting himself on fire while on roof in El Cajon
12. New York: Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac musician/songwriter, dead at 79
13. Washington DC: Respect for Marriage Act passes Senate
14. Qatar: US defeats Iran, Liberty Rising

Live Q&A in the Community Forum

Plus, in our Community Forum we had discussions about the old dirt road from Penasquitos to Carmel Valley before Highway 56 was built, closing Starbucks in Ocean Beach, the high price of rent in San Diego, the challenge of so much vacant commercial real estate due to people working from home, and so much more.

Thanks to the livestream audience for so many great questions and comments. We value your input!

Show Note: San Diego Padres Hall of Fame broadcast, Ted Leitner, will join me for a livestream podcast interview Tuesday Dec 6th at 7pm. Mark your calendars!

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We discuss, analyze, and comment on:

• The races for Poway Mayor and Poway City Council and what is in store for Poway’s future.
• The very tight race still in Poway Unified School District Area C. Will Heather Plotzke win a close one over Patrick Batten?
• The need for Ranked Choice Voting and Term Limits.
• Poway Unified Superintendent Marion Kim-Phelps likely feeling encouraged about another run for a Poway school bond since school bonds in Lemon Grove and San Diego just passed.
• The remarkable legal career of newly elected judge Pete Murray.
• A breakdown the San Diego County measures including cannabis taxes, sales taxes, school bonds, trash pickup, building height limits, term limits and much more.
• A breakdown the California Propositions including the right to abortion, gambling, arts and music in education, the cost of medical care, and all the rest.

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We break down the early returns from the San Diego Registrar of Voters. We comment on the individual races and candidates, as well as a little bit of commentary on the national election night stories.  Plus we have all sorts of fun with discussion of electric vehicles, ranked choice voting, the movie Poltergeist, and the good bad and ugly of the year 1972.  Yeah, it was a long one and we got a bit punchy.

This was so much fun!  I hope you can enjoy it with us.

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Only 75% of PUSD Students Read at Grade Level

Frida shared with me her frustrations with PUSD’s reading curriculum. 25% of PUSD students are not reading at their grade level. According to Frida Brunzell, PUSD is still teaching reading using a flawed method invented in the 1960s. There are innovative and proven alternative methods to teach reading, but establishment interests, book publishers, and fear of change prevent school leaders from making the necessary corrections.

We discussed dyslexia and how this is afflicting students here in our school district. When dyslexic students fail to learn to read, their likelihood of struggling in life or ending up in prison increases dramatically.

Bullying is a Serious School Safety Issue

Frida Brunzell also spoke at length about the problems of bullying on school campuses. Students are now recording the incidents and sharing them on social media. This further terrorizes the victim as they re-experience the trauma and continue to get ridiculed. Sadly, school officials are not taking strong action to combat bullying.

Frida Brunzell is fluent in 4 Languages, has a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering

We also discussed Frida’s backstory growing up in Sweden, attending college in Germany, and living in England and France as a young adult. Frida is fluent in 4 languages and has a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering. Frida has also been very active as a PTA leader at both the school level and the district level.

Students of Color at Poway Unified

Frida also shared her thoughts about racism in Poway schools. As a parent of bi-racial Black students, she shared some of the difficulties her children have experienced. This led to further discussions of the Instagram account Black at PUSD, equity, inclusion, changes in curriculum, and CRT. Frida Brunzell helped start the JEDI group that stands for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

We also discussed PUSD’s COVID policy, failing school infrastructure, the potential of a future school bond, PUSD’s budget, and arts and music education.

Frida wants to be a school board member that asks tough questions and is a voice for constituents in her community.

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Poway Elections Drama

We discuss the Holly Oak community’s objection to the new development along Poway Road, as well as the “solidarity press conference” that was organized and then later cancelled. We discuss the proposed housing development, housing density, architecture, street entrances, and an overall frustration with Poway city leaders on communication.

Then Pete and I shared our thoughts on the recent Amit Asaravala podcast. We discussed changing voter registration demographics in Poway as well as the huge influx of outside money into this election cycle. We break down more of the specifics on the money spent by PACs, developers, and locals, including the financial data on the Democratic endorsed candidates. Amit is the President of the Poway Democratic Club.

We share predictions and comments on each race. Do the challengers have enough to knock off an incumbent? Or an incumbent endorsed candidate? Will this election cycle be different?

California and San Diego County Propositions

Then Pete and I break down the California Propositions. So many topics there including abortion, gambling, kidney dialysis, EVs, wildfire protection, tax increases, and cigarettes. Plus, we examine the local San Diego County measures covering topics of cannabis, taxes, school bonds, childcare, trash pickup, building height limitations, and childcare.

Wow, so much in this podcast. Almost 3 hours! We even had an argument amongst members of our livestream audience. Oh, the drama!

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Poway Campaign Finance

The financial data was the most eye-opening. Individual people can donate up to $250 for a specific candidate. Amit Asaravala shared that even on the individual level, Poway candidate Brian Pepin has raised approximately $70,000. This is far greater than the typical $10,000 to $15,000 we would see in a typical district election. Over 80% of his donors are from outside of Poway.

Meanwhile, there are political action committees involved in Poway politics attempting to influence the outcome in our local races. These PACs do not have a campaign limit and they receive big dollars from developers, housing contractors, and other individuals. Then the PACs cycle the money to other PACs who end up creating negative campaign ads against candidates that they oppose. Often these ads are heavily distorted and meant to scare the public. Community Voices, the San Diego Police Officers Association, and the Lincoln Club are players in this space.

Poway Voter Demographics

We also discussed the changing voter registration numbers for Poway. Our “City in the Country” has been a strong “red” city for a long time, but now things are changing. The Democrat voter registration has almost caught up with the Republicans. In fact, more Powegians voted for Biden than Trump in the 2020 election. Could this mean that the Poway Democratic Club’s endorsed candidates might have a serious shot at beating Steve Vaus and the other GOP candidates?

We also discussed Delta Esparza’s candidacy, Hiram Soto’s former employer Alliance San Diego, Kevin Juza’s text messaging campaign, and PUSD candidate Frida Brunzell.

Special thanks to our livestream audience for the great comments and questions.

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Amit Asaravala Info:

Poway Democratic Club: https://www.powaydemocraticclub.org/

Pomerado News / San Diego Union Tribune: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/people/amit-asaravala

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asaravala/

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Poway History

We take a walk down memory lane discussing the different businesses that have come and gone along Poway Road. Did you know the site of the Evans Tire used to be a drive-thru dairy where people could get a gallon of milk, a pack of cigarettes, and a six-pack of beer without getting out of their car? We talked about the history of the Poway Bowl, including its original location in the current U-Haul building.

Poway Business

Ed is the former President and CEO of the Poway Chamber of Commerce. We discuss the activities of local businesses in the 2017-2020 era, including the chaos caused by the pandemic.

Poway Politics

We also discuss Poway’s founders, the original layout of streets in Poway, the current chaos of development around town, some of the political candidates running for office in 2022, old stories about Poway leaders, and a projection of what Poway might look like in the future.

Ed Franklin No Limits Podcast

Ed hosts the “Ed Franklin No Limits” podcast. Ed enjoys discussing overcoming limitations, self-esteem, storytelling, and excuses. 

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Lack of Trust from Poway Officials

We started by discussing Tony’s experience at the Green Valley Civic Association and Poway Chamber’s Candidate Forum. His competitors were stressing safety as their key priority. Tony disagrees. He feels there is a serious lack of common-sense policies, transparency, trust, respect, and honesty from City Council and city officials. Tony Russo expressed how the people of Poway are angry and frustrated.

Poway Housing Development

We discussed at length the development projects underway in Poway. Tony felt that city officials have not effectively communicated the status of The Outpost project. He was disheartened by the mistakes made by city officials and developers, as well as how those failures were communicated to the people of Poway. Tony did not feel The Outpost was carefully reviewed by city officials and that was led to the water problems that undermined the project. Russo shared his thoughts about how council members would blame the developers rather than looking inwardly on errors made by city officials.

Tony shared his thoughts on The Farm in Poway and the frustration of Stoneridge neighbors as they see new homes being built close to their property. He asked why The Farm is being built so quickly, yet some of the projects on Poway Road are moving much more slowly.

Big Money Invested in Poway Politics

Tony Russo expressed his surprise at the tremendous amount of money being spent to fund one of his competitors and other candidates in Poway. The organization Community Voice appears to be taking donations from developers and other influential people in Poway. Those dollars are provided to the San Diego Police Officer’s Association who use those funds to create attack ads on specific candidates.

Questions from Poway Voters

We took so many great questions from the audience including conversations about the Martincoit-Stone Canyon intersection, district boundaries, the Poway Senior Center, and if Poway’s slogan “The City in the Country” still matches with today’s reality.

Tony Russo Supports Small Businesses

Tony was a small business owner and wants to see greater support from the city, or at least a reduction in red tape that slows businesses down. We discussed the plight of a fish market that is struggling to open his business but has been waiting on city inspectors to approve their permits. Tony Russo wants to support small businesses in Poway.

We also discussed the issue of water rates, the Poway boil water ordinance, and the new water infrastructure project.

Tony Russo is a family-oriented person. He talked at length about the joy he gets from supporting his three children, his involvement as a youth sports coach, and special memories of his mother.

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#Poway #TonyRusso #Election2022

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Yuri wants to make “Poway the City in the Country” again. He wants to stop unfair housing mandates from Sacramento and let Poway make decisions for Poway’s own future.

We spoke about many of the development projects going on in Poway including the Outpost, Fairfield, and The Farm in Poway.

Yuri Bohlen shared his plans to improve senior services and the homeless.

Yuri felt passionately about the thrift stores displaced by the Fairfield development project. He wants to work with Poway Councilperson, Caylin Frank, to help these thrift shops find a new home.

Yuri wants to improve communication with the people and get their input on housing development with a Residential District Review committee.

We spoke about the increase of crime in Poway, particularly home thefts and catalytic converter heists. Yuri shared his thoughts on making Poway a safer city.

Yuri Bohlen was a candidate for mayor in 2018 and has done his due diligence in the past 4 years. He is much more informed on the issues, including detailed city council agenda items and the broader topic of property rights.

Even though Yuri is running for mayor, he is often a vocal supporter of current Poway Mayor, Steve Vaus. We explored this apparent dichotomy giving Yuri an opportunity to clarify this issue.

There was all sorts of great questions and comments from the livestream audience, including the “social media drama” that play out in the local Poway Facebook groups.

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The US Marine Corps

Patrick shared his background growing up with a single parent facing tremendous financial challenges. He discussed his time at San Diego State University and his career as a US Marine in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.

Educational Curriculum

We discussed his “Brilliant at the Basics” curriculum proposal focusing on reading, writing, and arithmetic. This led to further discussion of vocational education, critical race theory, and home economics courses. We also covered options available to students at PUSD to attend Design 39, JROTC at Westview High School, Spanish and Mandarin bi-lingual immersion programs in elementary schools, and 4H specialty classes at Poway High School.

PUSD Finances and School Bonds

Patrick Batten spoke about Poway Unified School District’s financial condition, the broken air conditioning at Rancho Bernardo High School and Bernardo Heights Middle School, the failed Measure P bond, and the infamous Billion Dollar Bond. We also spoke about teachers/administrator union endorsements and how those relations impact financial budgeting for the district.

COVID and Education

We spent a good amount of time covering the way Poway Unified managed the COVID crisis including district communication challenges, masks, remote education, and how other schools successfully got students back in school sooner than PUSD.

There was so much more covered in this podcast interview including the role of parents in education, the school board listening to constituents, Poway Federation of Teachers, Poway School Employee’s Association, Contractor’s Union, school safety, school board dynamics, school infrastructure, technology in education, book banning, STEM, and mental health services for students.

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Delta’s family background growing up in South LA to immigrant parents. Delta was the first person in her family to achieve a college degree. She later went on to a master’s degree and a career in computer science in the defense industry.

Delta Esparza shared her experiences visiting Poway’s trails, open spaces, restaurants, and the Poway Bowling Alley for years as a resident near Camino Del Norte and Paseo Lucido. She valued Poway so much, she purchased a home here in 2019 and began establishing her roots in our community. But as she began witnessing the changes in Poway, she realized that something was awry. She looked around for viable candidates that represented her values but could find none. So, she took the brave step to enter the race herself.

We discussed her thoughts on Poway’s General Plan and the overall vision the mayor has for the city. She shared her positive experiences in nearby cities like Carlsbad and Escondido that had strong, community-driven City Plans that were being implemented consistent with that vision. Why is Poway falling so short?

Delta Esparza strongly values getting the residents of Poway involved. She wants to open the dialog and encourage input in less formal settings like town hall meetings and small gatherings. She does not think the Poway City Council properly listens to the people of Poway.

We covered her thoughts on development all over Poway including along Poway Road, Twin Peaks Road, on the side of Twin Peaks, The Farm in Poway, The Outpost, and much more.

Delta shared so much more including her vision on the Poway Center for the Performing Arts, Poway’s lack of a Climate Action Plan, city infrastructure, traffic calming measures, parks, recreation, and the overall community vibe she wants to encourage in Poway.

Thanks to the livestream audience for so many great questions and comments. We value your input!

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#Poway #DeltaEsparza #Election2022

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Delta Esparza for Mayor of Poway
https://www.deltaforpoway.com/

Delta Esparza for Mayor of Poway – Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/deltaforpoway

Delta Esparza for Mayor of Poway – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUM6n5M3x3cYW_VbyFlpaqQ

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Kevin’s family background in Indianapolis, Northern California, Minnesota, and eventually coming to Poway.

His career as a business consultant/coach and his volunteer roles in the Poway community.

His thoughts on City Planning, the city’s General Plan, smart development, negotiations with developers, and the construction projects on Poway Rd and The Farm. We dove deep on issues to address The Outpost development (aka The Hole in the Ground) and the alleged violations of developers at The Farm building too close to other people’s parcels.

Kevin really focused on common sense solutions and transparency of policy details for the people.

Kevin Juza shared his concern that Poway does not have a Climate Action Plan. He wants to have an open conversation to understand what the people want and then put together a plan that reflects the desires of the community.

We discussed the issues facing District 3 including Twin Peaks, Old Poway Park, trails, open space, and ADUs (Granny Flats). Kevin shared his concerns about how walking paths and trails are often disconnected or getting disrupted by development. Kevin wants to preserve those paths and expand them.

We got into the lack of affordable housing in Poway, it’s impact on first responders and other workers, and the challenges that may be coming from Sacramento. This then led to a discussion about the Big Stone Lodge property, it’s non-viability as a housing site, and its historical significance in Poway. (and our brain freeze failing to remember the name of the facility. LOL.)

Kevin Juza shared his thoughts on addressing water infrastructure, strategies to capture and preserve water, ideas on lowering water rates, and the possibility of a water infrastructure bond in Poway’s future.

With a city council of five people (4 council members plus a mayor) and three of those spots up for election, we discussed various scenarios of what the council dynamic would be like with new voices offering innovative ideas and perspectives.

We also got into crime, the Poway Candidate Forum on October 11^th, the newly constructed, walking path along Espola, and what Kevin loves about Poway.

Thanks to the livestream audience for so many great questions and comments. We value your input!

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#Poway #KevinJuza #Election2022

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Kevin Juza for Poway City Council
https://kevinjuza.com/

Kevin Juza for Poway City Council – Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/Juza4Poway

Kevin Juza – LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinjuza

Kevin Juza – Twitter
https://twitter.com/kevinjuza

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Hiram’s family background in Mexico

His career as a journalist at the San Diego Union Tribune and how that shaped him on the issues of transparency, integrity, and digging for the truth.

His surprise that a Poway Councilperson was appointed for an open seat who had only lived in Poway for a few months. This circumvention of the voters and a weak democratic process were the catalysts for him to become a candidate.

We spoke about the development throughout Poway and his approach to finding the right balance of development, infrastructure, affordable housing, and traffic.

Hiram Soto was very passionate about the lack of a Climate Action Plan for the City of Poway. He wants to bring solar power to City Hall and convert city vehicles to EVs to save money and improve the environment. Plus, he wants to help educate homeowners and businesses about the rebate opportunities from the State of CA to convert to solar.

Hiram shared some of his experiences on the campaign trail including his positive experiences meeting people throughout the city, some demanding “get them all out!,” and some of the shenanigans of sign stealing.

It was remarkably interesting when Hiram Soto shared many of the attacks on his candidacy, not only within our city, but also by KOGO 600 talk show host Carl DeMaio.

We also got into redistricting, crime, the Old Poway Guard and much more.

Thanks to the livestream audience for so many great questions and comments. We value your input!

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#Poway #HiramSoto #Election2022

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Hiram Soto for Poway City Council
https://www.hiramsoto.com/

Hiram Soto for Poway City Council – Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/hiramforpoway

Hiram Soto for Poway City Council – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQIZkrGWelcCvB6ct-lmeQw

The Powegian
https://www.thepowegian.org/

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Urbn Leaf, a marijuana dispensary, wants to move into the long abandoned El Torito restaurant location in Rancho Bernardo.  As you might imagine, the locals are not taking this Rancho Bernardo marijuana situation sitting down. We cover the story, the objections by the RB Community Planning Board, the objections by residents and the churches, and the comments from notable community leaders Robin Kaufman, Patrick Batten and Marni von Wilpert.

It seems to me that many people continue to see cannabis as some sort of Reefer Madness drug that corrupts society rather than the medicine that it is. We examine the benefits of cannabis as well the community standards when it comes to more dangerous drugs like alcohol.

Poway Political Candidate Podcast Interviews

Be sure to mark your calendar for these podcast interviews with local political candidates:

• Tuesday Oct 4^th at 7pm – Hiram Soto (Poway District 1)
• Monday Oct 10^th at 7pm – Kevin Juza (Poway District 3)
• Wednesday October 12^th at 7pm – Yuri Bohlen (Poway Mayor)
  • PROGRAM NOTE: This has been rescheduled to Wednesday October 19^th at 7pm.
• Friday October 14^th at 7pm – Delta Esparza (Poway Mayor)

These interviews will all be livestreamed on both the John Riley Project YouTube page and Facebook page.  You can participate in the podcast and ask questions by typing in your comments and questions in the chat.

I am also hopeful to livestream the Green Valley Civic Associate Candidate Forum Tuesday, October 11^th at 6pm in the Mickey Cafagna Community Center.

I also discussed my recent meeting with Poway District 3 candidate Kevin Juza. We had a wonderful discussion about major issues in Poway including the Poway Road Development, Climate Change Plan, Fiscal Transparency, the potential of a Poway Water Bond and more. Be sure to tune into the Kevin Juza interview podcast Monday Oct 10^th at 7pm to hear him explain his position on these issues and more.

Vacation in Eastern Canada

I also share some of the highlights of our recent 2-week adventure in Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and Maine. We had a great experience!

#Poway #Cannabis #RanchoBernardo

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Rancho Bernardo board, residents still object to cannabis outlet’s proposed location

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2022-09-21/rancho-bernardo-board-residents-continue-objection-to-cannabis-outlets-proposed-location

Poway Candidates Forum

https://www.gvca.info/news/2022/8/22/poway-candidates-forum

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We break down the story and the short-term fixes PUSD is working on to solve the problem. We also take a look at their finances including $475M in revenue, $11M surplus, and an $83M in reserves.  Why can’t they spend that money to buy a new air conditioning system?

We take a closer look at the candidates for Poway School Board, Poway City Council, and Poway Mayor.  Can the school board candidates solve this problem?

Plus, we share some thoughts on the Matt Araiza story.

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Every time I visit his Postal Annex store, we always talk sports. It’s a real joy.  So, we finally decided to actually do this as a podcast!

Topics included:

Growing up in Toledo OH and attending Detroit Tigers games at Briggs Stadium.

Moving to Los Angeles and growing up in Bell CA.

Sharing so many great LA Dodgers stories about Tommy Lasorda, Jeff Hamilton, Tom Niedenfuer, Jackie Robinson, Al Campanis, and the Greatest of All Time Vin Scully. Dennis also shares the time Dodgers NL MVP Matt Kemp came into his Postal Annex store for a passport photo. Plus, there’s Dennis’ story of being at Dodger Stadium on opening day when Fernando Valenzuela made his unexpected MLB debut filling in for an injured Jerry Reuss and then throwing a complete game shutout.

Dennis Butts shared his story witnessing in person LA Rams QB Vince Ferragamo magical comeback in the NFC Championship game including his pass TD pass to Waddy Davis. Dennis was there in Cowboy Stadium.

Plus, we talked about the LA Lakers and Dennis being there at the Great Western Forum when the Lakers beat the Pistons to clinch the 3-peat. We also share our memories of the great Kobe Bryant and the tragedy of his passing.

We took a walk down memory lane as Dennis shared his experiences as a sports broadcasting student interviewing Wally Joyner in the Angels locker room.

Dennis Butts shared personal stories of how he met his current lady companion and how the two of them purchased their Postal Annex store in the Target Shopping Center in 2015.

His Postal Annex store offers:

• UPS, FedEx, USPS Shipping with excellent rates
• Packaging supplies–boxes, packaging peanuts, tape, bubble envelopes
• Private mailbox rental offering safety, security and privacy
• Notary public services (commissioned and insured)
• Passport photos
• Live Scan processing (fingerprint, background check, etc.) – LEAST EXPENSIVE IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY
• Document copying and printing in color or black & white
• Mailing services
• Key duplication
• U-Haul truck rental
• Office supplies
• Gifts
• And many more services, all under one roof.

Postal Annex
14781 Pomerado Rd
Poway, CA 92064
858-668-0777

Monday-Friday 8am-6pm, Saturday 9am-5pm, Closed Sundays

The Poway/Target Postal Annex has EXCELLENT reviews!

• 4.6 on Google
• 4.5 on Yelp!

The service by Dennis and his team is first class.  You will love it there.

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Biden’s Plan to Cancel Student Debt

Liberals in Congress are pushing Biden to cancel $10,000 of student debt. But is that enough? Bernie and Warren want $50K in relief. We break down Biden’s student debt plan, who gets it, and how much. Meanwhile Chuck Schumer says that canceling student debt is the moral thing to do.  But is it moral to shift your debt burden on to innocent people today or in future generations?

College Tuition (and Student Debt) is too Damn High!

Cancelling debt may offer relief, but it doesn’t solve the core problem of the high price of college tuition. We explore a number of ways to reduce the cost and expand access, such as:

• Expanding access to online learning at accredited universities.
• Allowing tax deduction of the full amount of college tuition.
• Ending the practice of making student debt ineligible for bankruptcy
• Consider niche online skill development outside the scope of college that are much more affordable like Skill Share.

Why is the Price of Clothing so Inexpensive at Costco?

Costco clothing makes up a significant part of my wardrobe.  Good quality and very affordable. What’s not to like?  But how is it possible for Costco to offer a pair of jeans for just $9?  When the so many industries like higher education, housing and healthcare are soaring in price, apparel is getting less expensive. We explore some of the key reasons why.

Fernando Tatis Jr. Apologies to Teammates and Media

I don’t know about you, but I thought Tatis’ apology was sincere and humble. This could be a key turning point in his character development and maturity. I am for offering forgiveness. How about you?

Join us Thursday at 3pm when we break it all down on Lee Hacksaw Hamilton’s livestream podcast.

Poway Election Preview

We take an early look at the political races in Poway including Mayor, City Council, School Board and one judge position.  Who are the incumbents? Who are the viable challengers?  Who are some of these new names?

#StudentLoanForgiveness #Costco #Poway

Related Links

Student loan help for millions coming from Biden after delay

https://apnews.com/article/student-loan-forgiveness-Biden-63cf586156ad9cf7f71fe3656cf898f8

If You’re Not Buying Clothes from Costco, You Might Want to Start

Poway Mayor and City Council Candidates

https://poway.org/DocumentCenter/View/9328/Candidate-Roster-Updated-8122022_?bidId=

Poway Unified School Board Candidates (and many others races)

https://www.sdvote.com/content/dam/rov/en/election/2022Nov/Candidate_List.pdf#

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Juan Soto and the San Diego Padres

We break down the big trades AJ Preller and the Padres made for Juan Soto, Josh Bell, Brandon Drury, and Josh Hader. The Soto/Bell deal may go down as the biggest trade in MLB history. Plus, we take a look at the Eric Hosmer situation and how that ultimately impacted Luke Voit.

MLB Trade Deadline Life Lessons

I was doing some thinking and realized the MLB Trade Deadline is much more than simply teams making deals.  It’s about organizations getting better.  It’s about teams making an honest self-evaluation, and then re-allocating assets and re-prioritizing initiatives. It’s about calculated risk taking and knowing when to go all in.  It’s also about profitability, brand building, franchise valuation, and Legacy. So many great life lessons here about how we can take charge of our own lives and make disciplined self-improvement decisions.

Lee Hacksaw Hamilton Podcast

Plus, I re-share my story about connecting with legendary sports talk host and NFL play-by-play caller Lee Hacksaw Hamilton. A podcast episode from 3 years ago leads to an email, a breakfast with Hacksaw at IHOP, and now helping Hacksaw launch his own podcast. Tune in Thursdays at 2pm on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter for the livestream. Or download “Lee Hacksaw Hamilton” wherever you get your podcasts.

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Hacksaw and the History of Sports Talk Radio

Lee shared his Long Island roots and the start of his radio news/DJ career in his college days on a radio station in Appalachia.  After a great run broadcasting pro hockey in Cleveland, he took his talents to the desert to announce Arizona State football and basketball. Hacksaw also hosted a sports talk show on KTAR in Phoenix shocking the locals with critical comments of ASU’s football suspension, the Suns getting blown out in the first round of the 1981 NBA playoffs, and the ineptitude of Bowie Kuhn during the 1981 MLB strike.

This was the start of the “Best 15 Minutes in Radio.” This was the start of “Putting Topics on the Table.”  “React!”  Lee was determined to grab his listeners by the throat and hold them for 4 hours of compelling sports talk radio.

Hacksaw’s reputation in Arizona led to a 1986 phone call from the Noble Broadcast Group in San Diego to be the San Diego Chargers play by play guy and start a sports talk show on the Mighty 690.  At the time the station was broadcasting rock n roll and Wolfman Jack. Little did they know that things were going to radically change in the next few years.

Lee was the only sports guy in the entire station, and he started with a blank slate.  How in the hell was he going to pull this off? He started by creating a 9-hour NFL Sunday broadcast with a 2-hour Countdown to Kickoff pre-game show, the live game, and then a post-game show with caller participation.

The Mighty 690 Sports Talk Radio

Meanwhile, every afternoon drivetime Hacksaw hosted his talk radio show using many of his provocative techniques to drive listenership. Lee was a sensation bringing sports facts, stats, and opinions in the late 1980s. He was the internet before the internet was a thing.

After a brief transition to sports and news talk, the station went 100% sports starting in 1989. The Mighty 690 was the 3^rd radio station in America to go all sports, and the first on the west coast. 690 had a “blowtorch signal” that carried Lee’s show from “Baja to the Canadian Rockies”

As 690 went all sports, many new voices took the microphone to create a wide variety of opinions and styles on sports talk:

Jim Rome came on board to start his Scrub Saturday show. He later got the night shift right after Hacksaw’s show, working on developing his style, his smack, and his clones. Rome later went on to national fame, but did you know Hacksaw was first offered the national gig prior to Rome but he turned it down.

Steve Hartman joins the station and with Lee’s recommendation he was paired up with former Monday Night Football producer Chet Forte.  Two loudmouth guys: one young, one old, one west coast, one east coast.  It was perfect.

Steve Mason and John Ireland took on the morning show and later saw their careers take them to new places.

Scott Kaplan and Billy Ray Smith joined the station creating a strong show and a loyal listening audience of Great Friends.

The Coach John Kentera joins the station sharing his wealth of knowledge of local high school sports, plus offering his commentary on the San Diego pro and collegiate sports teams.

Hacksaw on the Chargers: I root for Herbert to Win, but Spanos to Lose

As a long time voice of the San Diego Chargers play-by-play, and as an NFL junkie, Hacksaw was right at home broadcasting the Chargers every Sunday.

We retrace some of the magical moments of the Chargers Super Bowl season including stories about Bobby Ross, Stan Humphries, Stan Brock, Tony Martin, Dennis Gibson, and the playoff run against the Dolphins in Steelers. We reminisce about the good vibes as both the team and the community both came together in a very special way.

After the 1997 season The Mighty 690 lost its broadcast rights to the team, breaking promises made to the station and to Lee personally to stay on as the play-by-play guy.  Hacksaw was very disappointed with the decision, but he bounced back and was the play-by-play guy for the Seattle Seahawks for 3 seasons.

So, how does Hacksaw feel about the Chargers now? He says he wants the kid quarterback Justin Herbert to go 17-0 and the owner Dean Spanos to go 0-17.

San Diego State Aztecs and the PAC-12

In the podcast episode we get into the new Snapdragon Stadium, Lee’s disappointment that the Soccer City proposal did not win thus guaranteeing an NFL stadium option, and the possibilities of the Aztecs joining the PAC-12.

Could this be the start of a new podcast platform for Lee Hacksaw Hamilton?  “Agree or disagree?”  “I want to talk sports with you!”

#Hacksaw #LeeHamilton #Mighty690 #Chargers

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Corporations are Price Gouging!  Really?

Prices are up most everywhere: gas, food, labor. Inflation is now at 9.1%. I haven’t seen it this high since I was in high school over 40 years ago.

Some are calling this price gouging or corporate greed, but is it?

Businesses are always seeking to maximize profit. That’s what they do. That’s their fiduciary responsibility to taxpayers.

So why are prices up now?

There is High Demand. $6T of freshly printed stimulus money is still flooding the market driving demand ($4T Trump, $2T Biden). People are returning to “normalcy” after the pandemic and traveling on vacation. There has been pent up demand for travel and leisure as people hunkered down during the pandemic. Plus, interest rates have been artificially low for decades driving further demand.

At the same time there is Limited Supply.  The Supply Chain is still sputtering. There are shortages of goods and key parts required in manufacturing. There continues to be a worker shortage as workers make positive, strategic changes to their career plan. But still the labor participation rate is far too low. Then there are cases where there is a shockingly low amount of competition (spoiler alert: typically due to government regulations). Oh, and did we forget the massive government shutdowns of the economy which reduced production?

We all know from Economics 101 that when demand is high and supply is low, then prices go up.

So, are corporations actually greedy?  Or are they just responding to market conditions and incentives.

Today is a great time to sell a home.  Demand is high and inventory is limited (albeit things have relaxed a bit in the last few months). In a market like this sellers can get top dollar when they sell their home.  If you were selling your home, would you take the highest bid for your home?  Does this make you greedy?  Or are you just responding to market conditions and incentives?

Gasoline is over $6 per Gallon in California

I normally don’t pay much attention to gas prices since I drive an EV. But with so much complaining about gas prices I have started paying attention. Wow!

Prices are high.  Really high.  Premium gas is often over $6.50 per gallon in my community. This must be those greedy oil companies price gouging, right?  After all, corporate profits for oil companies are at an all-time high.

Let’s break it down.

There is high demand for gas.  We are coming out of the pandemic and there is pent up demand for travel. More people are commuting to work as companies ask employees to work in the office. Plus, it is summertime when prices always go up due to higher demand and the requirement here in California for the summer blend gasoline due to environmentalism.

At the same time supply is low.  Refineries are still not operating at full production.  Surely this must be some sinister plot by oil companies to limit supply, right?

During the pandemic gas prices plummeted due to low demand. Oil companies were losing money. So, they shut down refineries and slowed down production. After all, why produce more product when you are losing money doing it?

Now suddenly the economy opens back up and it is taking a while for these refineries to catch back up. It’s difficult to find workers. We still have that trucker shortage problem.  Plus, never mind the fact that California is making it illegal for owner operators to do trucking.

Then ask yourself, why are there few if any new refineries?  Surely when demand for gas is so high and profit opportunity is so great, you would expect entrepreneurs to enter the market to produce more gasoline, right?  Or less competitive oil companies would see this as an opportunity to produce more supply at a slightly lower price to grab more market share.

But that’s not happening.  Why?  Never mind the fact that the regulatory code makes building new oil refineries incredibly difficult and expensive.  At the same time President Biden has said “I promise you, we are going to end fossil fuels”. California Governor Gavin Newsom and the Sacramento legislatures have made it illegal to sell brand new, gas-powered cars starting in 2035. Given these regulatory realities, do think oil companies would want to invest in a new refinery?

These oil companies are just responding to market dynamics and incentives.

Gavin Newsom Announces that California will Produce Insulin.

The high cost of insulin is well known.  Insulin can cost $25-$300 per vial (without insurance). Patients need up to 6 vials a month. That can add up quickly.

Meanwhile, prices for insulin have risen 54% from 2014 to 2019.  Why?  And why did this start in 2014?

Consider Obamacare which was just ramping up in 2014. More insurance creates more demand. At the same time, it provides a mechanism to insulate patients from the true cost of the product. They don’t care what it costs. They only care what their co-pay is. As demand increases, so do prices.

Meanwhile there are only 3 primary makers of insulin.  Just 3.  Wow.  Why only 3?  With insulin profit so great, surely there should be a surge of entrepreneurs entering the market to compete.  But that’s not happening to a great degree.  Government regulations make it very difficult and expensive for new competitors to enter the market.

Now Gavin Newsom has announced that California will produce their own insulin.  What? California can’t even build their high-speed rail passenger train without going way over budget and way behind schedule. Now we expect them to make insulin?

This is way outside the core competency of government. This also invites the question of the proper role for government.

I believe this will end up becoming a problem because government is not motivated by the profit motive. Instead, they will make decisions for political reasons to gain votes. This program, if it launches at all, will likely end up in a deficit and require taxpayers to subsidize on-going production.

But my progressive friends are overjoyed.

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Shout Out to Randy Wussler

Randy Wussler, a local here in Rancho Bernardo, just completed a Cross Country bike ride of 3,272 miles while raising money for Juvenile Diabetes Research. What an accomplishment! What a personal victory!  Congratulations to Randy.

Disclaimer: I worked with Randy about 20 years ago. He is a first-class dude.

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The End of Roe vs Wade

The most divisive issue in our culture has been flipped on its ear thanks to SCOTUS overturning Roe vs Wade. Now individual states can establish their own rules. States have been preparing for this outcome with some states reinforcing the right to choose and other states doing the opposite. Huge demonstrations are happening across America. I thought this would never happen. I was wrong.

As a student at UC San Diego, the abortion issue was the first political topic I wrestled with. I saw the logic and righteousness in the idea of being in charge of your own life, particularly the idea of body sovereignty. It has shaped how I see a range of issues today. Your right to manage your life is fundamental.

The World’s Smallest Political Quiz

Are we going backwards? If so, in which dimensions. We discuss the Nolan Chart invented by David Nolan in 1969. This chart abandons the traditional left wing vs right wing spectrum. Instead, it introduces a paradigm of looking at individual freedom in 2 dimensions: your personal life and your economic life. This chart is captured in The World’s Smallest Political Quiz. I invite you to try it to see where you line up. You might be surprised. I certainly was!

What is a Right?

There are rights of free speech and freedom of the press. There are guns rights, women’s rights, and gay rights. There are rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Some think healthcare is a right.

So, what is a right?

A “right” is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man’s freedom of action in a social context. There is only one fundamental right: a man’s right to his own life. All the other rights, like freedom of speech or property rights, are its consequences or corollaries. 

This means that many things some declare as rights are not actually rights. For example, a right to healthcare can only be provided by violating the rights of other people to provide the service or fund it.

A lot of people think it can be anything they want, but here’s a test:

If someone else has to give you something, rather than just not harming you, it’s not a right.

Billy the Kid Review

I really enjoyed the Epix series Billy the Kid and recommend you consider it. His story as the son of Irish immigrants leaving New York City to risk a trip westward is similar to what my own Irish ancestors did. People traveled with little resources across treacherous terrain and dangerous circumstances for a better life. They bet on themselves. They believed in themselves.

Billy lived from 1859-1881. This is a transformational time in human history. The Industrial Revolution and Capitalism were producing innovative, life-improving technologies. Immigrants from all over the world flocked to America to seek opportunity. America expanded west and built a nation.

This series tackles many powerful values like justice, integrity, independence, trust, and honesty. These are all issues I enjoy discussing in my podcast.

I give it a big thumbs up but warn you it can move a bit slow at times. IMDB rates this series a 7.0. Rotten Tomatoes gives this an audience score of 82%.

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Housing Crisis

We examine the housing crisis and the unintended consequences of central planning. Despite do-gooders’ best efforts to make housing affordable, we have homelessness and insane housing prices. We explore the $1 million per unit “low income” housing units and the regulations that make them so expensive.

It’s nice to see open-minded people changing the rules in San Diego. A 443-unit apartment building is going up in downtown San Diego near Petco Park. This complex will only have fifty-two parking spots. Where will people park? Can this work? It sure can for renters that will be enjoying rental prices 20-25% less expensive than comparable units in the same area. This building with micro-units will serve as a quasi-affordable housing complex.

Then we take a closer look at the Oak Knoll housing project in Poway that is under review by the City Council. Local activists Chris Cruse and Hiram Soto have objections to this “sardine can” housing complex. Is Poway “governed by the whim of developers” or is allowing this construction consistent with property rights? Are property owners and developers allowed to pursue their happiness, or should their rights to do so be violated?

SCOTUS and School Choice

I don’t know about you, but I am incredibly pleased about the Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow school vouchers at private religious schools. Unlocking government’s near monopoly on education will open up a wide range of innovative schools offering a range of specialized curricula.

If Pell Grants and the GI Bill can be used as a voucher at private, religious universities, then it seems consistent to allow school vouchers to do the same in K-12 education.

Netflix Series Dark

I really enjoyed series about four families in a small German town dealing with missing children, complicated relationships, a suspect nuclear power plant, and mysterious caves. This show took it all to a great sci-fi level by introducing a time travel plot line that made the story lines complex and enjoyable. Philosophically I was disappointed with their focus on fate and determinism, but free will wins at the end of the final season. I strongly recommend this series. Critics widely praise it: IMDB 8.7, Rotten Tomatoes 95%. English overdubs and subtitles work very well.

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We then discuss financial planning for retirement and the shocking low savings rates in America. Is this due to a false sense of security that government will save the day? Is it a huge financial education deficit? Is it weak long-term thinking?

It’s time again to hear the Chicken Little rants of progressives that the Republicans are going to kill Social Security and Medicare. We hear this every election cycle when in reality Republicans have expanded both programs. The GOP are considering a bill to sunset all federal government programs every 5 years with the idea that they would be reaffirmed, optimized, or phased out. There is no way the GOP would cut these important programs that their senior citizen constituents depend on. It would be political suicide.

Then we discuss the Federal Reserve’s plan to increase interest rates in order to cool off the economy to fight inflation. This will lead to layoffs, bankruptcies, and further damage. Sadly, the inflation we are experiencing is a self-inflicted wound by printing and flooding the market with $6 trillion of new money. I present additional ideas that the government can enact to minimize the impact of inflation. I also offer personal recommendations for investors, businesses, and individual consumers to survive and thrive in an inflationary environment.

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We can’t remain in this Rinse and Repeat Cycle of mass shootings and refusing to do anything about it.

I have a different approach that can bring the right wing and the left wing together. It’s an approach that goes back to the themes of our nation’s founding. It’s an approach that can work.

Matthew McConaughey recently appeared at a White house Press Briefing calling for both sides to rise up above politics. He said we have a life preservation problem on our hands. We have a chance to reach for and grasp a higher ground. McConaughey said that we need to return to American Values. Say what you will of McConaughey’s politics, but he is right.

What are our American values? Let’s take a look at our nation’s founding document, The Declaration of Independence. America’s founding values are laid out clear as day:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men…

There it is. Govt’s role is to protect our right of liberty, but also our right of life. This is the zone where the gun rights and gun violence issues run into conflict.

Let’s be objective for a moment. What is the purpose of a gun? A gun is a weapon. A gun is built to injure or kill another living being. A gun’s purpose is partly to violate our inalienable right to life.

So how can our rights of life and liberty be reconciled? It is important to differentiate offense and defense.

A gun for defense is consistent with our right to life. If you are about to be attacked, raped, robbed, or killed, a gun for self-defense will give you some form of protection. A gun for self-defense, like a handgun, is absolutely consistent with our inalienable rights.

On the other hand, if you buy a gun to go on offense with the intent to kill a single person, or a classroom of nineteen fourth graders, that action is a violation of their right to life.

I used to oppose gun control laws because they are an infringement of the second amendment. But how does it make sense to arm someone with a semi-automatic rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition without any questions or qualifications? This is a threat to our right to life.

Most everyone agrees mass shootings are partly a mental health problem. Why should it be legal to sell guns and ammo that can be used for a mass shooting without a background check or some other qualifier?

Gun control laws to address guns used on offense is absolutely consistent with our inalienable rights. Those gun owners still have the liberty to acquire the weapon if they meet those qualifications. Plus, they will always have the right to purchase a weapon for self-defense.

Plus, majorities in both support certain gun control laws. Preventing those with mental illnesses from purchasing guns has the support of 85% of Republicans and 90% of Democrats. Requiring background checks is supported by 70% of Republicans and 92% of Democrats.

But still gun control laws are not going to solve the entire problem of gun violence. But they can move the needle. They can make some difference.

At some point we are going to have to address gun rights and the Second Amendment. As long as there is language that says, “shall not be infringed,” there is always going to be an active and vocal gun rights group justified in their right to acquire an arsenal. If we don’t revise the Second Amendment, we are going to remain mired in this repeat pattern of mass shootings. This is a big ask and will require leadership.

The problem is not going to be solved at the political level. We need to go upstream to address culture and philosophy.

We need a leader that can articulate America’s founding values within the context of the 21^st century. We need a leader that can properly explain the role of govt in a nation that values our rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

By invoking our nation’s history and founding values, we will have a compelling message to bring American Patriots together. The right leader can America’s right, left and center.

Will we get a leader that can use the bully pulpit to address the gun violence problem? Is there a leader brave enough to be a champion on this issue?

Sadly, today our politicians are cowards that abdicate their responsibility. They are only interested in staying in office to protect their wealth, power, and influence.

Who is this charismatic and intelligent leader that can deliver us to the promised land of life and liberty?

#Uvalde #GunRights #SecondAmendment #GunViolence

Data on gun deaths

• Mass shootings get all of the attention, but only represent about 1-2% of gun deaths.
• In 2020, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (24,292), while 43% were murders (19,384), according to the CDC. The remaining gun deaths that year were unintentional (535), involved law enforcement (611) or had undetermined circumstances (400).
• In 2020, handguns were involved in 59% of the 13,620 U.S. gun murders and non-negligent manslaughters for which data is available, according to the FBI. Rifles – the category that includes guns sometimes referred to as “assault weapons” – were involved in 3% of firearm murders. Shotguns were involved in 1%. The remainder of gun homicides and non-negligent manslaughters (36%) involved other kinds of firearms or those classified as “type not stated.”
  • https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/
• Four-in-ten U.S. adults say they live in a household with a gun, including 30% who say they personally own one
  • https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/13/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/

Handgun deaths

• There has been an average of 32,000 gun fatalities in America each year from 2003 to 2010. Of those deaths, 63% were suicides and accidents, leaving approximately 11,000 homicides a year. Of which, more than 13% were gang-related. Of the remaining homicides, victims of mass shootings made up only 1.5% – equating to 0.1% of all gun deaths and 0.3% of all homicides.
• https://fee.org/articles/gun-violence-would-plummet-if-we-just-called-off-the-drug-war/

More Links

• Matthew McConaughey calling for both sides to rise up above politics. We have a life preservation problem on our hands. We have a chance to reach for and grasp a higher ground.
  • https://twitter.com/BridgeUSA_/status/1534321972645076993
• McConaughey, restore American values
  • https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1534250470423814146

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Change is uncomfortable. For some people, change is a threat.

“Patriots” are fearful that immigrants are pursuing their happiness. This is the land of freedom, right?

We hear this white supremacy rhetoric from politicians that push border walls, travel bans, and referring immigrants as invaders.

It’s downright evil.

The right wingers fear it, but the left wingers often gleefully embrace it. They like the idea that whites are no longer the majority.

The Great Replacement Theory is foolish collectivist thinking.

It’s obsession over political identity groups rather than individuals.

Great Replacement Theory is a direct contradiction of our inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

My family immigrated from Ireland in the latter part of the 19^th century. Like so many immigrants of that time between the Civil War and World War 1, they came here seeking a better life for their family. They embraced America’s founding values of our inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These rights are for EVERYONE.

Now the children of immigrants are fearful of immigrants. The children of ancestors pursuing their happiness want to block immigrants desire to do the same thing.

It is only natural that future generations will replace current generations. It is only natural that a nation that prides itself as a “Shining City on a Hill” is going to attract immigrants from all over the globe.

America is a nation of immigrants. Let’s embrace this fact. It’s what makes America truly special.

Pay Your Fair Share to Fight Inflation

The “moderate” Democrat President Biden tweets that corporations must pay their fair share in taxes to fight inflation. I double checked to make sure this wasn’t a Bernie tweet.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos rightfully called out Biden for this disinformation and misdirection.

Then we hear from the new White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre completely flail responding to a reporter calling out Biden for the same nonsense.

The fact is that this inflation is a monetary policy problem caused by the printing and distribution of $6 trillion in new cash. Getting out of the problem is going to be painful.

These politicians simply won’t address reality and will instead manipulate the people with this kind of messaging while claiming to fight against disinformation.

Kudos to Jeff Bezos for calling out this B.S.

Baby Formula Crisis

There are huge shortages of baby formula. 40% or more of supply is unavailable. How did we get into this mess?

Government COVID policy certainly played a role. Parents hoard baby formula like toilet paper. Then demand decreases and so does production. Then suddenly the economy opens up, but production has been downscaled and can’t meet the demand. Manufacturing plants and trucking companies cannot find workers.

Meanwhile, less adults are having babies during COVID. Then as the economy opens back up, there is a surge of new babies and even greater demand for formula.

Then a large plant gets shut down and we have total chaos.

But if we dig deeper, we realize there are many government policies that distort the market.

• Tariffs of 14% or higher on imports to protect domestic dairy industry.
• Restrictions on imports from Canada due to NAFTA.
• FDA seizing baby formula like the DEA doing drug busts because baby formula is not properly labeled.
• Government buying approximately 50% of product inventory at extremely low prices for the WIC welfare, thus creating a disincentive for entrepreneurs to enter the market to compete.

Government created the mess. Yet we hear politicians wagging fingers at corporate monopolies.

In a nation that believes in liberty, there would be many baby formula manufacturers and importers that can increase supply to meet demand.

Related articles

Scott Lincecome, Substack, Capitolism

https://capitolism.thedispatch.com/p/americas-infant-formula-crisis-and?s=r

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Pete Murray’s View on Criminal Justice Challenges

• 900-1000 case back log in San Diego Courts largely due to pandemic-related issues and how the judicial system has to address the backlog while still protecting the accused’s right of a speedy trial.
• Increase in property crime, murder, and many other categories compared to pre-pandemic trends.
• The aggressive swinging of the pendulum from “tough on crime” to less accountability for criminals.
• The importance of good judges to make justice work, and how bad judges can undermine the entire system.
• Some of the unscrupulous ways that some DAs will add duplicitous charges as a bargaining chip to get a suspect to plead guilty.
• Criminal justice reform and strategies to be smart on crime, smart on homelessness, smart on drug abuse and smart on mental health issues.
• The serious criminal activities involving elder abuse and Medicare/Medicaid fraud, plus some fun discussion of Jimmy McGill’s work on the Sandpiper case on the TV series Better Call Saul.
• Expressing the magnificent work and integrity of good police officers, but also holding bad cops accountable for their actions.
• The Collaborative Courts for mental health, homeless, theft, and drugs with the goal to treat them and move them out of the criminal justice system, including the Veteran’s courts incredible success with reducing recidivism to zero.

Pete Murray’s Legal Experience and Background

• SCOTUS judge-select Jackson, her experience as a public defender, and Pete’s experience as a defense attorney in his private practice.
• Pete’s background as a Navy Pilot, Deputy District Attorney in San Diego, Deputy Attorney General, and private practitioner, and the breadth of experience that provides to be a highly qualified judge.
• Pete’s independence as a judge, not being beholden to any special interest groups.
• Pete’s experience in all aspects of criminal law including felonies, misdemeanors, juvenile justice, probate, family law, domestic violence and much more.
• Pete’s time teaching high school students about the US Constitution and the importance of “We the people…”
• Duke University, The Final Four, and the qualities of Coach Mike Krzyzewski that made him a great leader of men.
• Some of his adventures on the campaign trail and his endorsement list.

Plus, so many stories of actual cases involving actual people and the massive impact that the criminal justice system has had in their lives.

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Seven Cures to a Lean Purse

The First Cure: Start thy purse to fattening.

Arkad (Richest Man in Babylon) advises saving 10% of your annual income to start building up your wealth (or purse). “For every ten coins thou placest within thy purse take out for use but nine. Thy purse will start to fatten at once and its increasing weight will feel good in thy hand and bring satisfaction to thy soul”.

We discuss automated deduction and my personal revelation that wealth is independence.  It’s not simply saving to buy, saving for rainy day, saving for retirement. It is saving so I have freedom to do what I want, when I want, with whom I want, without regard to the cost.

The Second Cure: Control thy expenditures.

Arkad advises against luxury expenditures that ultimately become confused as necessities. “The gold we may retain from our earnings is but the start”, and, “What each of us calls our ‘necessary expenses’ will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary”, and, “Confuse not the necessary expenses with thy desires”.

We discuss personal strategies of electric vehicles and solar to save money.  We comment on the terrible leadership from the Federal Government. I recommend a list of expenditures that should be cut from the federal budget.

The Third Cure: Make thy gold multiply.

Arkad advises to invest and to compound the investment return from these savings. “The earnings it will make shall build our fortunes … Learn to make your treasure work for you. Make it your slave. Make its children and its children’s children work for you”.

We discuss my 401K story from the early 1990s.

The Fourth Cure: Guard thy treasures from loss.

Arkad advises against taking a risk of loss and investing get-rich-quick schemes: “Is it wise to be intrigued by larger earnings when thy principal may be lost? I say not. The penalty of risk is probable loss. Study carefully, before parting with thy treasure, each assurance that it may be safely reclaimed. Be not misled by thine own romantic desires to make wealth rapidly”.

Arkad also advices that you seek advice from those that are knowledgeable with money. “Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings or who followeth the alluring advice of tricksters and schemers or who trusts it to his own inexperience and romantic desires in investment.” Arkad’s advice here is about avoiding get-rich-quick or very aggressive wealth creation strategies.

We discuss the length of time it takes to save money. Manage your money carefully and make wise choices.

The Fifth Cure: Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment.

Arkad advises buying versus renting your principal residence, and to use your residence to establish a business. “I recommend that every man own the roof that sheltereth him and his”, and, “Nor is it beyond the ability of any well-intentioned man to own his home”.

We discuss the housing crisis in California and San Diego, especially for first time homeowners.

The Sixth Cure: Ensure a future income.

Arkad advises on having a pension and future retirement income. “Therefore do I say that it behooves a man to make preparations for a suitable income in the days to come, when he is no longer young, and to make preparations for his family should he be no longer with them to comfort and support them”.

We discuss the benefits of having a financial planner.

The Seventh Cure: Increase thy ability to earn.

Arkad advises to keep developing your own skills to increase your investing wisdom and also to increase your earnings power. “The more of wisdom we know, the more we may earn”, and, “That man who seeks to learn more of his craft shall be richly rewarded”.

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Will they enact an Oklahoma abortion ban? It’s looking that way. We break down all of the new abortion laws passed in Oklahoma, Missouri, Michigan, Kentucky, Nebraska, and Colorado as states prepare for the potential overturn of Roe vs Wade. Should abortion be “legal, but rare”? Or is abortion a fundamental part of a woman’s inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

JRP Studio: ATEM Mini Pro and Go Pro Hero 9

We just upgraded our video gear. I share the evolution of the podcast studio video gear from the Mevo to the Sony a6400 to our new video switching system and the Go Pro Hero 9. This will be a fun segment for the audio-visual geeks in the audience. The studio is looking good now to host more in-studio guests.

Should Free Speech Require Permission?

We talk again about the Trump/MAGA Poway Protesters and the Poway Sign Ordinance. Turns out these protesters are violating the law, but the City is not enforcing it. We discuss how people will conflate the issues of free speech with the consequences of free speech and use that irrationality to try to ban free speech.

Hacksaw Loves Pancakes

I had the opportunity to have breakfast with legendary sports radio star, Lee “Hacksaw” Hamilton. I share a bit about my encounter and my history with the Mighty 690 and the Mighty 1090.

Padres Opening Weekend

We also talk about the San Diego Padres opening weekend series in Phoenix against the Arizona Diamondbacks. The trades for Sean Maneaa and Tyler Rogers, AJ Preller’s aggressive plan, Blake Snell’s injury, and Mackenzie Gore and much more are discussed in this episode.

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Abortion access under renewed threat in Oklahoma and Missouri

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/09/politics/state-abortion-legislation-round-up-oklahoma-missouri/index.html

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The US Senate just approved making daylight savings time permanent for the entire nation. Will the House pass it? And what’s the deal with the California vote in 2018 to end this clock changing nonsense? I’m tired of the twice a year clock change, are you?

Ukraine and the New McCarthyism

Hosts on The View want the government to investigate Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard for “spreading false Russian propaganda. What ever happened to free speech and freedom of the press? We take a closer look at the Ukraine-Russia conflict and discuss whether the US military should get involved.

Fernando Tatis and Baseball Happiness

Tatis broke his wrist in a foolish motorcycle accident. Sure, it is a maturity issue, but this kind of behavior is not in his long-term self-interest. Tatis is his own worst enemy in his own Pursuit of Happiness.

Poway News Update

We revisit the failed recall of Steve Vaus, reactions from people in the Stoneridge community, a follow-up on the Pete Neild podcast where he declined to run for Poway City Council, and my own meeting with declared candidate Brian Peppin. Plus, I share my own experiences in a unique Poway backyard where Padres pitchers visit the Pitching Guru Dom Johnson. Plus, my personal positive recommendation of Alex from A-Tech Appliance Repair.

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Referenced Articles

Make Daylight Savings Time Permanent:

• https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/15/politics/senate-daylight-saving-time-permanent/index.html
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/12/opinions/daylight-saving-time-legislation-markey-rubio/index.html

Padres pitchers ready for spring training thanks to work in unique Poway backyard (Annie Heilbrunn)

• https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/story/2022-03-11/padres-pitchers-ready-for-spring-training-thanks-to-work-in-unique-poway-backyard

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We also discuss Admiral Bernard Clary, USS Pintado, sacrifice, and much more.

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Pete also shares his meeting with Hiram Soto.  Hiram is a local activist, journalist, and recently announced candidate for District 1.  Hiram and Pete share many sensibilities and thoughts about the City of Poway.  Can these two candidates merge into a single, more powerful candidate?

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Russian troops are at the Ukrainian border and invasion is imminent! Biden is trying to negotiate but doing so on weak footing. Meanwhile Trump is calling Putin a “genius” for his strategy. What in the hell is going on here? While these political leaders are consumed with tribalism, they are missing the opportunity to oppose Putin on the moral basis of our rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Justin Trudeau Emergency Orders Violating Individual Rights

The truckers had a righteous cause opposing the vaccine mandate, but their “Freedom Convoy” ended up violating the liberty of Canadians to pursue their happiness. It was a mess and now Trudeau is making it worse. Trudeau’s emergency powers are leading to police brutality in the streets and the seizing of financial assets with out due process or trial. How can you pursue your happiness in an environment like this?

The Failed Recall of Poway Mayor Steve Vaus

They never got enough signatures to get the recall on the ballot. I really wish the recall spokesperson Chris Olps could have joined me on a podcast conversation to make the case for the recall, but he never responded to requests. So, I break down all of the grievances and share my thoughts and comments. It is interesting that the primary objection of the recall proponents is the massive development in Poway. That development is an example of Poway property owners and future Poway residents pursuing their happiness. We look at tribalism here in our hometown of Poway, “The City in the Country.”

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Recall Vaus – Save Poway
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Recall effort against Poway mayor falls short by 1,500 signatures, organizer said
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Have you been on an auto dealer lot lately? The prices for cars are all out of whack. The supply chain crisis has created huge distortions in the price of cars.

I am in the market for a new EV and every option is selling for thousands of dollars above MSRP! In many cases, the EV is not available for as much as 9 months. What exactly is going on?

We discuss the market forces that are driving these crazy prices. Plus, we talk gas prices, the benefits of driving an EV, if I will get a new EV, and why in the hell Pat Johnson has five cars.

Presidents Day: Who is your Favorite POTUS?

Who is your favorite president? We discuss Presidents Day and some of the best presidents are in our lifetime. Comments about Washington, Lincoln, Coolidge, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden. We also discuss the Presidents holiday itself and how we got robbed when they combined two holidays and made it into one!

Plus, discussion about Eileen Gu, my YouTube channel’s huge boost in subscriptions, the Beijing Olympics, and much more

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My alma mater UC San Diego was just awarded a $500,000 grant from the NFL to study the impact of cannabis as a pain relief medication.

Isn’t the answer obvious?

We take a look at the UCSD study and discuss well known examples of players suspensions for marijuana or opioids. We also take a broader look of cannabis as a medicine and question my hometown’s policy of keeping dispensaries illegal.

Canadian Truckers Protest

Then we discuss the Canadian Truckers protest. The left wingers are outraged by the chaos caused by these deplorables. Meanwhile the right wingers are fired up and gleefully causing disruption. I share an alternative point of view that both praises and slams the truckers. It all comes down to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. But for whom?

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“You do not have the right to parade through the public streets or to obstruct public thoroughfares. You have the right of assembly, yes, on your own property, and on the property of your adherents or your friends. But nobody has the “right” to clog the streets.” Ayn Rand

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Canadian truckers block a key border crossing, as their protest morphs and drags on

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/08/1079212789/ottawa-trucker-convoy-protest

NFL Gives UCSD $500K to study whether cannabis helps athletes manage pain

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/science/story/2022-02-08/ucsd-nfl-cannabis-study

Eileen Gu won the gold in the Big Air freestyle event Tuesday while competing for China in the Winter Olympics. But this episode is much more than her athletic feats.

Gu’s “right double 1440 safety” scored a 93.75 and vaulted her into first place. Her lead didn’t last long. She headed to her last jump needing at least ninety-three points to leap from third to first. Her final trick, called a left double 1620 with a safety grab, scored 94.5 points and landed Gu a gold medal.

This is a remarkable story of personal achievement. After all, shouldn’t these celebrations of athletic success be what the Olympics are all about?  Sadly, too many people make this all about nationalist ideals and pitting one nation against another.

Gu, an American citizen born in San Francisco, has been the target of a flood of hateful comments because of her choice to represent China in the 2022 Beijing Olympics…  a decision based on her love of her mother who was born in Shanghai and raised in Beijing.

In Eileen Gu’s press conference, she discussed her gold winning performance in musical terms by describing the rhythm and motion of the jump. She discussed how this was about her own efforts to “break your own boundaries” and to highlight her character and perseverance on an international stage.

This is a young lady that is pursuing her happiness in all dimensions of her life as an Olympic gold medalist, recent admission to Stanford, a piano prodigy, and a Louis Vuitton model.

We also discuss Eileen’s mother Yan Gu who emigrated to America, received a post graduate degree, and settled in San Francisco. She also was pursuing her happiness in a nation that historically has welcomed immigrants.

California Lifting Mask Mandates

We also discuss the recent lifting of the mask mandates in California for vaccinated people. The timing is interesting considering the recent, mask less photo ops of California Governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, and high-profile Democrat Stacey Abrams.

Joe Rogan’s Big Offer from Rumble

Finally, we get into the huge Joe Rogan story and his new $100 million offer from Rumble.

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Eileen Gu Press Conference Highlights

How happy are you on a 0-10 scale? We discuss the topic of The Happiness Dashboard. This system (similar to the Wheel of Life) provides a framework to score your happiness in every major category of life:

1. Finances
2. Career
3. Physical & Mental Health
4. Fun & Recreation
5. Physical Environment
6. Family & Friends
7. Romance
8. Growth & Learning

This exercise helped me break out of a mental rut. The result was greater focus and energy to pursue my own happiness.

John Riley Project: Pursuing Happiness

I also share my thoughts on the John Riley Project and the pivot I want to make in 2022 to provide more content around Pursuing Happiness.

We also discuss a range of other issues including Ukraine, Joe Rogan, Neil Young, Inflation, COVID, MLB Hall of Fame voting, Micah Pietila-Wiggs, University of New Mexico, Little League World Series, Poway development, PUSD student depression, NFL playoffs, BMX, and Ayn Rand.

“This is Worth Living For”

The maintenance of life and the pursuit of happiness are not two separate issues. To hold one’s own life as one’s ultimate value, and one’s own happiness as one’s highest purpose are two aspects of the same achievement. Existentially, the activity of pursuing rational goals is the activity of maintaining one’s life; psychologically, its result, reward and concomitant is an emotional state of happiness. It is by experiencing happiness that one lives one’s life, in any hour, year or the whole of it. And when one experiences the kind of pure happiness that is an end in itself—the kind that makes one think: “This is worth living for”—what one is greeting and affirming in emotional terms is the metaphysical fact that life is an end in itself.

Ayn Rand

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Poway Unified School Officials Seeing Rise in Student Depression and Anxiety

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2022-01-24/school-officials-seeing-rise-in-depression-and-anxiety-in-students-due-to-pandel

• Poway Synagogue Shooter gets Second Life Sentence in Federal Court
• Development Moves Ahead in Poway
• Recall Effort Begins Against Poway Mayor Steve Vaus
• $2.5M Secured to Fix Wildfire-damaged Streets in Rancho Bernardo
• Residents Rally to Stop a Sexually Violent Predator from Moving to Rancho Bernardo
• Community Mourns Rancho Bernardo Father and Teen Son Killed in Poway Car Crash

COVID Testing Chaos

In our second segment I share our adventure dealing with COVID testing on a family vacation to the United Kingdom. The Omicron variant is raging. We are seeing a surge of new COVID-19 cases. This has resulted in a chaotic testing process with shifting objectives as the plan rolled out. We discuss the testing regiment that we had to endure just to get on an airplane. Plus we share highlights of our British Adventure.

New CA Laws for 2022

Finally, we discuss the new laws enacted for 2022. How will these new laws affect your everyday life? Many new laws will definitely have a positive impact. Other new laws are proper corrections of previous flaws in the system.

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Top 2021 stories: Recall effort begins against Poway mayor

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2021-12-30/top-2021-stories-recall-effort-waged-against-poway-mayor

Top 2021 stories: $2.5M secured to fix wildfire-damaged streets in Rancho Bernardo

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/rancho-bernardo/story/2021-12-30/top-2021-stories-2-5m-secured-to-fix-wildfire-damaged-streets-in-rancho-bernardo

Top 2021 stories: Residents rally to stop a sexually violent predator from moving to Rancho Bernardo

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/rancho-bernardo/story/2021-12-30/top-2021-stories-residents-rally-to-stop-a-sexually-violent-predator-from-moving-to-rancho-bernardo

Top 2021 stories: Community mourns Rancho Bernardo father and teen son killed in Poway car crash

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Poway synagogue shooter gets federal life sentence

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2021-12-28/poway-synagogue-shooter-federal-life-sentence

Top 2021 stories: Development moves ahead in Poway

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2021-12-30/top-2021-stories-development-in-poway

We also explore a wide range of issues in Poway including the Mayor Vaus recall, the 2022 election, development along Poway Rd, slow vs fast growth, and the concept of representative government. A special guest joined us to discuss all of the above, including a possible candidacy for city council in 2022.

Finally, we broke down the recent Elon Musk interview with the Wall Street Journal. There were so many topics covered including the federal government deficit, the role of government in the economy, Tesla, SpaceX, autonomous driverless cars, infrastructure, EV charging stations, estate tax and so much more. We even had some fun commenting on the trend of political and business leaders with their unusual hairstyles.

Somewhere in the podcast episode we also comment on the new COVID mask mandate in California and the approval of SANDAG’s $160B regional transportation plan. This podcast episode is all over the place!

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San Diego Parking Wars

Then we explore the City of San Diego’s new parking rules that relax parking regulations for restaurants and high density living. This plan gives restaurants the choice of Al Fresco dining permanently in lieu of parking spaces. We look at San Diego’s new parking regulations within the context of the city’s climate change plan and SANDAG’s utopian transit initiative. Join us as we explore the positive impact this same policy has had in Los Angeles where neighborhoods are more walkable, friendly, and full of energy.

Poway’s Irish Pub Closing

We also discuss the recent notice that Poway’s Irish Pub will be closing. Locals in Poway are upset and there are petition drives being circulated to save the pub. Is this situation an example of the evil character of property owners? Is this dog-eat-dog capitalism or simply part of businesses reaching agreement in lease contracts? Are landlords villains by nature? We discuss this topic and the broader changes occurring on Poway Rd.

Fire Phelps and Redistricting

Plus, we get into the initiative to fire Poway Unified School District Marian Kim-Phelps and the redistricting process in the City of Poway.

Too much good stuff!

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L.A. Finally Lets People Eat In Parking Lots

San Diego adopts new policy wiping out parking requirements for many businesses

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2021-11-16/new-san-diego-policy-eliminates-parking-requirements-for-many-businesses

Solana Beach passes rule to boost solar, EV chargers and battery storage

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2021-11-15/solana-beach-passes-rule-to-boost-solar-ev-chargers-and-battery-storage

This Colorado community was proof an all-electric, net-zero future is possible. Now that vision is under siege

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/11/us/colorado-geos-neighborhood-net-zero-climate/index.html

Then we have a wonderful time discussing San Diego State Aztec punter Matt Araiza. Matt is a graduate of Rancho Bernardo high school and has become a national sensation for his incredible bionic leg breaking NCAA punting records. We discuss his backstory and his own pursuit of happiness.

We also break down the season opening wins for UCSD and SDSU basketball. I share my own joy as a UCSD graduate finally experiencing my school having success at the Division 1 level.

Then we discuss a range of San Diego news topics including housing development in Rancho Penasquitos along the I-15 freeway, the Aztec football stadium, and the record setting prices of homes in 3 zip codes in San Diego County. We also go down the rabbit hole discussing redistricting in the City of Poway and Poway Unified School District as we prepare for the 2022 election cycle.

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Poway Unified to keep next board meeting virtual after reports that trustees received death threats

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2021-11-10/poway-unified-decides-to-keep-board-meetings-virtual-after-trustees-receive-death-threats

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Son Pleads Guilty to Stabbing Orange County Neighbor Over Dispute About Trash Cans

Why college football’s must-see attraction is a punter from San Diego State

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32591242/why-college-football-see-attraction-punter-san-diego-state

San Diego Boasts 3 of the 100 Most Expensive Residential Zip Codes in the United States

Squid Game is the hot new show on Netflix. We explore the characters, the plot line and wonder why this is the most watched show in Netflix history. Then we get into the symbolism of the show. Is it a reflection of capitalism? A reflection of socialism? Are viewers channeling their own debt anxiety through these characters?

Finally, we take a look recent Poway news including the recall effort of Poway Mayor Steve Vaus. We also discuss the 40% hike in water rates and the efforts of Poway community organizers to legally block the hike.

So much good stuff!

#SANDAG #SquidGame #Poway

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San Diegans back $160B highway, transit overhaul by razor-thin majority, poll finds

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2021-11-01/san-diego-transportation-poll

SANDAG to examine possibility of free public transit for all

https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/sandag-to-examine-possibility-of-free-public-transit-for-all

Recall effort launched against Poway Mayor Steve Vaus by political opponent

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2021-10-29/recall-effort-launched-against-poway-mayor-steve-vaus-by-political-opponent

Poway to hold hearing Tuesday on increasing water, wastewater rates

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2021-10-28/poway-to-hold-hearing-tuesday-on-increasing-water-wastewater-rates

Ed Franklin No Limits Podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/edfranklin-nolimits/id1553490805

We break down all of the reasons for the Supply Chain Mess. Who is to blame? The government, of course! They are distorting the market with artificially high demand and artificially low supply.

Prices go up. We get product shortages.

Our discussion explores bailouts, stimulus, stay-at-home orders, and easy loans. We discuss the impact of business shutdowns, early retirement, immigration, career changes, and tariffs. Plus we get into housing, trucking, college, automobiles, microchips, healthcare and much more.

Trucker Stories

Then I share stories of my childhood being raised in a trucking family. I describe the challenges of an owner-operator. We discuss how trucking companies outsource the financial risk to naïve business owners. There used to be great pride of being a truck owner. We get into Smokey and the Bandit, CW McCall, CB radios, and listening to San Francisco Giants games all over Northern California. I also share my terrifying experiences driving over the San Mateo Hayward Bay Bridge as a 10-year-old in a semi-truck.

Poway News Update

I also offer a range of news updates on hot topics in Poway including the new plan for The Outpost, the lights at Starridge Park, the new Poway water infrastructure plan. Then I also share thoughts on Poway Water Rates, the Sports Arena site, and both San Diego State Aztec and UC San Diego Triton sports programs.

SEO

Finally, I share my initial insights with the SEO tool ahrefs. Plus, strategies to get your website to rank highly in Google.

#SupplyChain #truckers #Poway #SEO

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Ahrefs:  https://ahrefs.com/

In-n-Out Burger shutdown in San Francisco: 
https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/San-Francisco-In-N-Out-temporarily-closed-16546332.php

Pete Neild’s Corvette Calypso site:

https://www.calypso-c74pjn.com/

For the past 2-3 decades we have seen SDSU rise up both athletically and academically to create a national brand that is respected from coast to coast. SDSU regularly boasts some of the highest numbers of student applicants every year. At the same time, the Aztec men’s basketball and football programs have a combined winning percentage ranked second in all of the United States in D1 sports.

Yet UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, and other universities have kept SDSU out of the Pac-12 conference.

We break down the historical roots of the 2-tiered (actually 3-tiered) higher education system in California and how this battle between San Diego State and Cal/UCLA has been raging for over 6 decades.

I also reflect on my own experiences as a graduate of UC San Diego, my rooting adoption of SDSU athletics, and UCSD’s transition into D1 sports.

We also get into research funding, the SDSU Mission Valley campus and SDSU’s future goals for academic, research and athletic excellence.

Special thanks to Paul Garrison for his research on this topic. His article in the East Village Times is the inspiration for this podcast episode.

#SDSU #PAC12 #SanDiegoState #AztecforLife

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We break down the City of Poway’s plan to open up Starridge Park to Poway Girls Softball, including the objections from the local neighbors.

Are neighborhood Poway parks just for neighbors? When is a public good not good for the public? We break it all down.

We also get into Poway infrastructure improvements, Poway water, and all of the development projects occurring in Poway.

Shout out to Hiram Soto and his new venture: The Powegian. https://www.thepowegian.org/

We discuss the Facebook whistle blower and the way the Facebook algorithm works to serve up content in their news feed.

OMG. Facebook is delivering content that people want and making money at it!

What is government’s role? Is this about protecting the children or giving politicians greater power to control the narrative?

We also discuss upcoming Poway elections, candidates Brian Pepin and Tony Russo, and the potential of a recall of Poway Mayor Steve Vaus.

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Mike Smith and Pete Neild join me to discuss their recent trip to Maui as they retrace the events that led to that fateful day. They eventually make it up to the top of Haleakala in a Corvette, a destination they were unable to fulfill that fateful day while on motorcycles

As they retell their reliving a near death experience story, we discover so many cases of coincidental numbers, bizarre Google maps interpretations, and other signals from the beyond.

This should be an Art Bell episode.

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The Promise Kept

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NtEl4P-6ZT-nSjFqOBtr7WyndO-Ehev7/view?usp=sharing

The Corvette C8 rented on Turo.com:
https://www.calypso-c74pjn.com/not-calypso

Turo.com – The World’s Largest Car Sharing Marketplace
https://turo.com/

We discuss email marketing, SMS text marketing, podcasting, sales skills, communication, setting expectations, how businesses can best organize their culture to encourage more revenue generation and many other sales and marketing tips.

John and Ed share their thoughts on various aspects of the book Good to Great including the Hedgehog Concept, Selling the Mills, Flywheel Concept and Getting the Right People on the Bus.

We remember Verne Marston and the splendid work he offered for the Poway Chamber of Commerce.

John shares his thoughts on the upside of the Poway Road development and the upgrades provided for our local community, housing market and local business.

#NoLimits #EdFranklin #Poway

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardefranklin

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ed.franklin.9

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/edfranklin1962

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/edfranklin-nolimits/id1553490805

#NoLimits #EdFranklin #Poway

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardefranklin

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No Limits YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/edfranklin1962

No Limits Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/edfranklin-nolimits/id1553490805

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If you would like to participate in one of these Happy Hour podcasts, please visit https://johnrileyproject.com/contact/.  These will occur Fridays at 4pm as my schedule permits.

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#Afghanistan #Biden #Independence

Relevant Links:

Biden Afghanistan Speech Highlights

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bidens-speech-afghanistan-key-quotes-2021-08-16/

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#infrastructure #RecallNewsom #Poway

Relevant Links:

Five things you didn’t know were in the infrastructure bill

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/10/politics/five-surprising-items-in-the-infrastructure-bill/index.html

Larry Elder’s outspoken conservative radio rhetoric is under scrutiny in recall election

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/story/2021-08-10/larry-elder-views-newsom-recall-race

Transparent California Salaries in Poway

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2019/poway/

Coronado Mayor Challenge Scott Peters

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2021-08-09/coronado-mayor-files-paperwork-to-challenge-peters

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#Highway395 #Tahoe #Tonopah

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The Audible version of the book “Father Joe, Life Stories of a Hustler Priest” is now available.  The audio version is narrated by Kathryn and includes audio segments by Father Joe.

Kathryn also has a children’s book “Father Joe’s Six Golden Seeds” opening up Father Joe’s message of compassion, forgiveness, respect, helping others and empowerment.

#FatherJoe #HustlerPriest #StVincentdePaul #KathrynCloward

Book Info:

Father Joe Hustler Priest:  https://fatherjoehustlerpriest.com/

Amazon site to buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Father-Joe-Stories-Hustler-Priest-ebook/dp/B08Y95FJPS/ref=sr_1_5

Father Joe Info:

Father Joe’s Villages:  https://my.neighbor.org/

Kathryn Cloward Info:

• Kathryn Cloward Website: https://kathryncloward.com/
• Kathryn the Grape Website: https://kathrynthegrape.com/

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#entrepreneur #businessownership #selfemployed

Referenced Links:

What Percentage of Businesses Fail and How to Improve Your Chances of Success

https://www.lendingtree.com/business/small/failure-rate/

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#workershortage #YOLO #TakeThisJobandShoveIt

Referenced Links:

Retail workers quit at record rates for higher-paying jobs: ‘My life isn’t worth a dead-end job’
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/nation/story/2021-06-21/retail-workers-are-quitting-at-record-rates-for-higher-paying-work-my-life-isnt-worth-a-dead-end-job

The Hop Stop – Poway

https://thehopstopsd.com/

Pitchers Sports Bar – Rancho Penasquitos

Regus

https://www.regus.com/en-us

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#CaliforniaReopening #Juneteenth #RecallGavinNewsom

Referenced Links:

What you need to know about California’s reopening

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/15/us/california-reopening-covid-explainer/index.html

Inspiring Company Mission Statements

https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/inspiring-company-mission-statements

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#FlagDay #PledgeofAllegiance #ConnorBoyack

Referenced Links:

Connor Boyack: Why I Do Not Pledge Allegiance to the Flag

Libertas Institute: https://libertas.org/

Tuttle Twins: https://tuttletwins.com/

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#RanchoPenasquitos #TheJunipers #housingcrisis

Referenced Links:

The Junipers:  http://www.connecttheglens.com/

Dreamwell Homes:  https://www.dreamwellhomes.com/the-junipers/

Penasquitos Northeast Action Group:  https://www.savepq.org/

Apple Expanding in Rancho Bernardo:  https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2021-04-26/apple-to-expand-san-diego-engineering-hub-boosting-workforce-to-5-000-over-five-years

The Farm in Poway:  https://www.thefarminpoway.com/

Why is California Housing So Expensive?  https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/california/calmatters/why-is-housing-so-expensive-in-california/509-e463dd3f-4041-43b9-8983-4226caee88e2

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#originstory #logo #superhero

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#BlackWallStreet #TulsaRaceMassacre #Networking

Referenced Links:

Biden decries ‘horrific’ Tulsa massacre in emotional speech
https://apnews.com/article/tulsa-race-massacre-biden-6c24f5e351ceceddff2292178d146ef9

The Devastation of Black Wall Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1921. A wave of racial violence destroys an affluent African-American community, seen as a threat to white-dominated American capitalism.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-devastation-of-black-wall-street/

How to Network Like You Really Mean It
https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/8-things-power-networkers-do-make-connections.html

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#RulesforLife #ContentMarketing #EVs

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#NearDeathExperience #NDI #ComaDreams

Referenced Links:

2013 – The ride of a lifetime; circumnavigation of Maui.  https://youtu.be/bvmak0AV_jg

THE Trip – Lahaina, https://youtu.be/nNHiDBscMWE

North West Coast – https://youtu.be/wUmeEwFtJ9s

The Turn – https://youtu.be/ecgUdhKban0

The Iao Valley – https://youtu.be/BsLXgLTyIcU  Mike in the lead 1:17

 “The Day” – Lookout stop https://youtu.be/dQ7bpRwIIp8

OUR last Ride: https://youtu.be/VUbU2OgfJPo 

The “Tee” Shirt 20 45N 156 15W – https://youtu.be/ucyRlB3EJ10

Mountain View Bible Church: https://mountainviewsd.org/

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#YOLO #AynRand #PursuitofHappiness

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