Who will replace Alan Bersin on the airport board?

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Who will replace Alan Bersin on the airport board? – See Under the Radar
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man ofthe San Diego County lican Darrell Issa’s workers got $995,540 com-
Regional Airport Authority pared to the previous year’s $944,030. be no stopping it: citrus greening, or
is on.Insiders say Republican Ofcourse,staffremuneration was not lim-
huanglongbing.The fearsome citrus-killing
mayor Jerry Sanderspicked ited to salaries.This January,
Bersin,a Democrat,for the Issa aide Jason Scismwent bacterium,first seen in China several years.Now farmers
Alan Bersin airport spot in November to the Consumer Electron- in the early 1900s,has spread and government scientists
2006,largely because ofhis ics Show in Las Vegas,cour- steadily across the conti- in California are scrambling
political largesse.Bersin,who married into a tesy of$1612 from the Con- nents.It recently hit Brazil as they prepare for— and Insect trap
moneyed family,has long maintained his power sumer Electronics Associa-
base by spreading the wealth around to local tion.Listed purpose ofthe
politicos,including maximum contributions junket:to “tour the show area
of$320 each to the 2008 campaigns ofCity Duncan Hunter discussing new technologies
Attorney Jan Goldsmithand Mayor Jerry and the impact ofpolicy on
Sanders and to the failed city attorney bid of technology.”Last August Scism went to an
then–city councilman Scott Peters.Bersin’s Aspen,Colorado,conference on “telecommu-
father Arthur,recently deceased at 91,also nications and intellectual property policy”with
contributed heavily to the mayor and council, $2097 from the Progress and Freedom Foun-
as did a family development partnership,which dation,backed by the likes ofMicrosoft,Cox
gave $22,500 to San Diegans for City Hall Enterprises,and Verizon.
Reform,a Sanders-run political committee,in
the months immediately preceding Bersin’s Fat cats On April 13,San Diego–based
board appointment. Sempra Energy gave $25,000 to the campaign
At the time ofBersin’s appointment,the air- in favor ofProps 1A through E,Governor Arnold
port job came with a tidy $150,000 salary,which Schwarzenegger’s five measures on the May
was later stripped away by the state legislature ballot. Prop 1A
after a public outcry.But even without the would hike state Earl Rutz
money,the position is accompanied by plenty sales and income
ofperks,including free meals and junkets as taxes by an esti- and is now wreaking devas- hopefully deflect— a sim- atively harmless Asian cit-
well as the power to influence lucrative devel- mated $16 billion. tation on the orchards of ilar invasion. rus psyllid,or Diaphorina
opment plans for the airport and its surround- The same day, Florida,where some mag- The local alarm comes citri — and last June,this
ings.So insiders are counting on the mayor— Chargers owner nates worry that the $9 bil- with good reason.Huang- little insect appeared in
who is said to harbor the desire to run for Alex Spanos,the Happy Days postage stamp lion industry could become longbing travels via an insect Tijuana.Three months later
statewide office— to award the plum to a lawyer Stockton-based commercially defunct within vector— the otherwise rel- continued on page 8
or developer capable ofgen- builder who is seeking a taxpayer-subsidized
erating campaign cash.Some stadium somewhere in San Diego County,con- Neal Obermeyer
say Sanders may choose tributed $100,000 to the pro-tax cause,accord-
Democrat Steve Peace,the ing to state filings.… Seven lawyers with the down-
ex–state senator who now town firm ofCoughlin Stoia Geller Rudman &
works for Padres owner John Robbins gave a total of$9250 to the Democra-
Mooresand is a member of tic Senatorial Campaign Committee on Febru-
the mayor’s Ad Hoc Airport ary 28.… Happy Days,the 164-foot pleasure yacht
Regional Policy Committee, Steve Peace belonging to David Copley,soon to be ex-
which has pushed a contro- owner ofthe Union-Tribune,has left the Mediter-
versial $12 billion airport makeover.Peace has ranean and turned up in the Puget Sound ship-
close ties to Sempra Energy and other heavy yard ofDelta Marine,near Seattle,where it was
financial hitters who could readily fill Sanders’s launched in 2006,spawning rumors about
campaign coffers. whether the vessel is up for sale or just in dry
dock for another luxury refit.The ship is reg-
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Games Gangs Play the vehicle. The gunman 2. “The suspected shooter
By Dayn Richardson,4/17/09 then fired several more was described as a male
Clairemont — A search shots, none of which hit Latino 16 to 20 years
by gang investigators of anyone. The suspected old with a shaved head
the San Diego Police shooter was described as and tattoos. He was
Department began on a male Latino 16 to 20 wearing a Padres shirt
Tuesday for a male years old with a shaved and blue jeans.”
teenager who shot and head and tattoos. He was Yeah, that narrows it
wounded a 20-year-old wearing a Padres shirt down...he should be in
man at a Clairemont and blue jeans. The vic- custody in no time.
recreation center. tim was brought to a hos- By magicsfive 9:27 p.m.,
The victim was stand- pital and is expected to Apr 19
ing with friends near the have a full recovery. 3. In the article they didn’t
basketball courts at the Comments say anything about the
North Clairemont Com- 1. Gang-bangers are noth- shooter being a gang
munity Park on Bannock ing but domestic terror- member or that this
Avenue around 9:10 p.m. ists, and ought to be shooting happening in
Monday night when they treated as such. In fact, a area where gang activ- 4. It stands good to rea- before they lost their lease Surfliner No. 769. A lot of
were approached by we need to start using ity is high. So why the son that a 16-20 year and closed the business baseball fans, most of
another group of males, the death penalty way title games gangs play? old Latino male with in July of 2006. In the them wearing Bosox T-
said San Diego police Sgt. more often than we do Oh wait i know why tattoos and a shaved weeks before closing, Julio shirts, were headed for
Bob Dare. At least one in this because they said the head who is in a group told customers that they Anaheim to see the Angels
of the men in the group shooter was a latino of people who shoot had originally owned the vs. Red Sox game. Many
issued a challenge and male with a shaved at an innocent and/or property but had sold it other train-ticket hold-
the victim started to walk head and tattoos. I unarmed person then years ago and leased it ers were seemingly there
away, but one of the men guess every latino with drive off is a gang mem- back. He said the new to entrain for Orange and
pulled out a weapon and a shaved head and tat- ber. Even if he isn’t a owners had resold it and Los Angeles County hol-
shot the victim in the toos is a gang mem- gang member he should that a pawnshop would iday gatherings.
back, Dare said. ber. You people are a be treated as if he were. replace the restaurant. The train appeared
The gang members bunch of stupid azz I do not like white gangs The pawnshop used down the line at 10:02,
then got into a small white racist dorks!!!!! either. The Bird Rock the restaurant building two minutes ahead of
car when someone in the By SpliffAdamz 9:59 Bandits got off easy in and operated for about a schedule. When it stopped
park threw a soda can at a.m.,Apr 20 my opinion. year before having a clear- and the doors opened,
By poff12:32 p.m., ance sale in 2008. Even the conductor appeared
Apr 20 while the pawnshop oper- on the platform and
5. magicsfive: LOL...very ated, the sign remained. announced that only those
funny! (And so true). The building stood with connections to flights
Also, I could not agree empty for several months from LAX and passengers
more with post #1 in and was gradually dis- headed for parts north of
terms of the domestic mantled. The walls were Los Angeles would be
terrorist comment...not knocked down during the allowed to board. There
so much revving up the first two weeks of April was no room on the
death penalty. But I 2009. coaches for anyone else,
respect your right to A demolition worker he declared in frustration.
make that point. at the site said he had no As some passengers
By lallaw 4:05 a.m., idea what would be built pressed for standing room
Apr 21 there next. for the short distance to
Julio died of kidney Orange County destina-
Julio’s Gone, Not failure at age 80 in Novem- tions, the conductor said,
Forgotten ber 2007. “If a hundred people get
By Linda Cox,4/17/09 killed, I will go to jail.”
City Heights — All that Amtrak Manage- He said “they” didn’t give
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remains of Julio’s Mexi- ment Train Wreck him enough coaches. an D
can Restaurant is the tall By William Harper,4/15/09 Before he reboarded ie
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sign at the corner of Uni- Solana Beach — The day the train, the conductor R
versity Avenue and 45th before Easter, Saturday, said there would be ead
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Julio Arreola and his train station was crowded north in 45 minutes. ril 2
brother Olimpio ran the with people awaiting the Dozens of grumbling cus- 3
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Julio’s sign remains on University and 45th restaurant for 35 years northbound Amtrak Pacific continued on page 10 00
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C I T Y L I G H T S C I T Y L I G H T S C I T Y L I G H T S C I T Y L I G H T S C I T Y L I G H T S
Green from the quiet nature ofthe when an infected psyllid They take on a taste of reducing acreage from says that the state faces two
disease, Blakely explains; gnaws into the leaves or bark kerosene or turpentine, 750,000 acres to 650,000 particular challenges.First,
threat
once huanglongbing infects ofa tree to feed.The insect according to anecdotal today.Some reports have the latent period ofthe huan-
continued from page 6 a tree,it lurks for a latent also lays its eggs on the tree, reports, and an infected suggested that as many as glongbing bacterium after
a psyllid was found in San period of several years — and while the progeny ofan orchard is good for literally 100,000 more acres could infection makes locating the
Diego,in an insect trap in a often five or six — before infected psyllid will not carry nothing — not even fruit be infected. disease in its early stages
lemon tree near the Sweet- symptoms appear.“Once the huanglongbing bac- juice.By the time a tree is The unfurling disaster in impossible,though the bulk
water Reservoir,south of you see the symptoms,the terium,the nymphs are likely found to be infected,adja- Florida has cast a dark ofthe Citrus Research Board’s
Lemon Grove.Since then, disease has usually spread to be hatched into a tree cent trees have almost cer- shadow over California’s cit- current work is aimed at
hundreds have been detected all through the orchard.” upon which the parent insect tainly been attacked as well. rus industry,where some early detection.One poten-
near the reservoir and to the There is no cure for cit- has fed;thus,the next gen- The only remedy for a sick 4000 growers produce a quar- tial solution would be a sen-
east,in Jamul,Ocotillo,El rus greening,making the eration picks up the bac- tree is to uproot and burn it ter ofthe United States’cit- sory apparatus fixed to a
Cajon,Tecate,and Dulzura presence ofthe huanglong- terium.As they mature and along with its neighbors. rus crop and most of the robot that travels through
as well as Imperial County bing bacterium in combi- move outward,the insects Vast groves in Florida nation’s fresh fruit. Ted an orchard,“sniffing”each
and south of the border, nation with a psyllid infes- can spread the disease liter- have come to such ruin. Batkin,president ofthe Cit- tree for organic compounds
though the insects have all tation a recipe for disaster. ally as fast as the wind blows. According to the Florida rus Research Board,based released by the bacterium.
tested negative for the bac- “So we really have no The first symptom to appear Department ofAgriculture in Tulare County,says that The second challenge is
terium and the disease has choice now but to act under is an irregular yellow blotch- and Consumer Services,the his organization has had to presented by the thousands
not yet been seen in trees. the assumption that the dis- iness that spreads over the Asian citrus psyllid appeared put several projects on the of backyard citrus trees in
“But that doesn’t mean ease is already here,”says leaves of a single branch. in Florida in 1998,presum- back burner,including devel- San Diego alone that could
it’s not already here,”says Earl Rutz, who grows 20 The discoloration moves to ably introduced from Brazil, opment ofimproved irriga- harbor the Asian citrus psyl-
Bob Blakely, director of acres ofValencia oranges in the trunk of the tree and where the insect was already tion and harvest techniques, lid. To educate residents
industry relations with Cal- the Pauma Valley.“Basically, advances to other limbs.The well established.Symptoms fertilizing methods,and con- about the importance of
ifornia Citrus Mutual,a trade we have to control the fruits develop into oblong ofcitrus greening were first sumer-research studies,in identifying and eliminating
organization. psyllid.” irregular shapes and even- seen in Brazil in 2004 and a order to focus entirely on the insect,the Citrus Research
Such uncertainty derives Huanglongbing spreads tually turn blotchy green. year later in Florida,which fighting the Asian citrus psyl- Board has hired Nuffer Smith
produces 70 percent ofthe lid and huanglongbing. Tucker,a San Diego public
United States’citrus crop. Earl Rutz,who sits on the relations firm,to conduct
Big beautiful wo Most of the fruit is juiced. Citrus Research Board as outreach,and a website —
me Since 2005,huanglongbing chair ofthe disease commit- californiacitrusthreat.org—
n
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has destroyed roughly 16 tee,calls the situation in Cal- has been launched to portray
AND THE MEN WHO LOVE THEM percent of the state’s trees, ifornia an “emergency”and continued on page 12
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