SAN DIEGO (SDJW)– San Diego State University President Elliot Hirshman told graduates of SDSU’s College of Health and Human Services that they are prepared “no matter what the future brings,” reported the U-T’s education writer, Karen Kucher. “You have accomplished much here and you have the capacity to learn and to grow and to meet challenges we cannot even envision.” While San Diego State University was able to begin its round of graduation ceremonies, Cal State San Marcos, under wildfire siege, had to postpone its ceremonies to May 24-25.
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District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis was the subject of two critical articles in the Union-Tribune. In a watchdog piece by Joel Hoffman, it was reported that her claimed 94 percent conviction rate may be an inflated percentage when compared to the methodology used elsewhere in the state of California. The report said the D.A. has an 81 percent score on felonies brought by her office and if one eliminates those cases ending up in misdemeanor convictions the figure is 71 percent, giving Dumanis approximately the same conviction rate as other district attorneys around the state. … In the letters to the editor section meanwhile, Robert Phillips, a retired district attorney from Custer, S.D. wrote that he is suspicious that Dumanis won’t comment on whether before beginning an investigation of former Chula Vista Mayor Steve Padilla, she asked him to appoint a friend to the City Council. Nor, wrote Phillips, has Dumanis provided sufficient documentation concerning prosecutions in Chula Vista.
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Also in the U-T’s letters to the editor section was a communication from former San Diego Charger Ron Mix, who now practices administrative law. He endorsed for reelection Judge Lisa Schall, whom he described as “the embodiment of the type of civil servant we want to administer justice; scholarly, patient, respectful to attorneys and litigants and well-prepared.”
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Donald Sterling is no San Diegan, and, in fact, he more than proved that years ago when he moved the San Diego Clippers to Los Angeles. But he has enough of a connection to San Diego to report that he was the subject in the U-T of a cartoon drawn by John Cole of the Scranton Times-Tribune. It shows a man in a “race” hole neck deep with dirt all over his oversized tongue. The caption: “If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop talking.” .. Elsewhere in the U-T , language guru Richard Lederer noted that Sterling is an NBA team owner and Adam Silver is the NBA commissioner. “I sugest that they make up and start a company together. Its name? Sterling Silver.”
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Actor Brad Zimmerman, in an online Times of San Diego story, says what makes audiences connect with My Son The Waiter: a Jewish Tragedy “is that it’s true. I really had to struggle as a waiter until I was in my mid-5t0’s.” The show opens May 28 and runs through July 6 at the Lyceum Theatre.
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Preceding compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff