Editor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website.
State Capitol correspondent Steven Greenhut reported on Page A-2 that State Sen. Mark Leno’s bill to require a kill switch that would enable owners to turn off stolen cellphones is running into controversy. Approved by an Assembly committee, the San Francisco Democrat’s bill did not pass without a fight. For example, Assemblyman Brian Jones, R-Santee, argued that Leno ought to let the free market decide how to handle the problem without mandating any single solution.
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Columnist Diane Bell, in a column starting on Page B-1, reported that her optometrist, David Geffen, says the late baseball great Tony Gwynn had “cross-dominant vision,” explaining that while most left-handed people also are left-eye dominant, that was not so with Gwynn. He was left handed, right eye dominant. Batting left-handed that meant his dominant right eye was closer to the pitcher. It’s debatable however whether that was a factor in his incredible batting ability.
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The chair of the Federal Reserve Bank, Janet Yellen, in an AP story appearing on page C-4, has said she sees no reason, at this point, to raise short-term interest rates. Yellen also said the Fed will decrease the rate of its long-term bond purchases
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Sports columnist Nick Canepa in a column beginning on pave D-1 sided with those who want to change the name of the Washington Redskins to something that is unoffensive to Native Americans, but says the team’s owner, Dan Snyder, “has millions tied up in his brand” and “appears to be more stubborn than the now-infamous Donald T. Sterling.” … Sterling also appeared in the U-T’s digest column to wit that his wife, Shelly Sterling, was seeking a court injunction against the Los Angeles Clippers owner against harassing her, her lawyers or the doctors who says he is mentally incapacitated.
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San Diego Jewish World staff