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Dakota pipeline protesters in La Jolla


Issue afforded no priority by Barack, Donald, or Hillary A group of climate activists lined La Jolla Shores Drive on October 24, calling on president Barack Obama to take executive action to halt construction on a controver- sial oil pipeline in North Dakota. Obama was in town for a fundraiser for the Hillary Clinton campaign.


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in failing to consider their protests prior to approving the project. “There were no climate-change ques-


tions asked during the debates, which we think is pretty shameful,” Disenhouse contin- ued, alluding to uncertainty under the next administration. “A question about the Dakota Access Pipeline could have touched on that as well as the indigenous-rights issue, but instead the candidates haven’t really had to say much on the issue.” Indeed, the Clinton campaign has been


evasive on the issue, saying only that “stake- holders need to get together at this point.” Trump, who also hasn’t taken a stance on the project, has invested between $500,000 and $1 million in Energy Transfer.


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Protesters stood on La Jolla Shores Drive as police prepared for the arrival of President Obama’s motorcade


“The Lakota are at the forefront of pro-


tecting clean water, not just for themselves but everyone else,” said Olympia Beltran, who, along with a group of others from San Diego, traveled to the Standing Rock res- ervation earlier this month to take part in ongoing protests there. “There was a daily military-like police


presence. You had to pass through block- ades to get into the camps,” Beltran said of her trip. “These people are non-violent, they’re peaceful, prayerful. But they’re being arrested, manhandled — the tribal chair was strip-searched on his arrest. The way they’re being treated is inhumane.” North Dakota sheriff’s deputies, mean-


while, have described events there as any- thing but peaceful. Recent protests have led to the arrest of over 100 protesters as the Texas-based developer Energy Transfer seeks to speed up construction. The La Jolla protesters said the proper


approach would be to put the project on hold. “The federal government has already


asked the company building this pipeline to voluntarily stop its work while they address policy as to whether indigenous people have the right to say they don’t want this pipeline on their land,” explained San Diego 350 vol- unteer Masada Disenhouse. “We’d like to see President Obama act on this. He’s got less than 100 days left in office, and he has an opportunity while he’s still president to push climate policy forward, things like stopping new [oil] extraction on federal land.” While the pipeline’s planned route does


not actually cross tribal land, burial grounds the tribe considers sacred have already been disturbed during construction, and tribal members say the federal government erred


A graph in a video released by tronc earlier this year did not include the San Diego Union-Tribune.


tronc takeover by Gannett, advanced another possible scenario. Tronc had been set to hold a Wednesday


board confab to go over the prospective buy- out, said Doctor, writing before the Gannett earnings announcement, but the meeting was abruptly canceled. “The plan on the table sets up a com-


plicated structure to preserve the indepen- dence of the L.A. Times — and to keep one of its major investors around.” Per Doctor, Los Angeles bio-medical


billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong — who in May sank $75.5 million into tronc and was continued on page 33


Tronc’ed again Union-Tribune faces more jobless fears It may be curtains for media giant Gannett’s multibillion-dollar deal for tronc, the Chicago- based newspaper chain that owns San Diego’s Union-Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, leaving employees of the troubled print-based business in more fear for their livelihoods than ever before. The latest take on the fate of the long-


delayed move, rumored for months, comes from Bloomberg, citing unidentified insiders who say that Jefferies LLC and SunTrust Banks Inc., the institutions expected to finance the takeover, no longer want to have anything to do with it. Meanwhile, Ken Doctor, the online colum- nist who started much of the talk about a


Ray Kroc was 26 years older than Joan She was no saint


but came close Joan Kroc gave away Ray’s fortune


By Don Bauder F


or years, I believed that the late Joan Kroc was an angel.


When San Diegans called her “St. Joan of the Arches” (as in the golden arches of the McDonald’s burger chain), I didn’t feel embar- rassed for them. Here was a stunningly beautiful, kindhearted woman who


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inherited $3 billion from her late husband and gave much of it — if not most of it — to needy charities, preferably secretly. When she died at age


75 in 2003, I thought she deserved all the kudos she received — and then some. She was a very talented musician and appeared to be


the type of diva that opera librettists call “chaste,” even though I knew she had had two marriages and a daugh- ter and had enjoyed at least one peccadillo. On the other hand, I


always thought her late hus- band, Ray Kroc, deserved the appellation “no-good bastard,” although I grudg- ingly admitted that he was a helluva good businessman… or, at the least, a very lucky one. He had made “McDon- ald’s” a household word and changed America’s dining habits, although he refused to change his bad habits, such as excessive alcohol consumption and fiery,


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