4 San Diego Reader February 23, 2017
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Nobody Cares about the Chargers I just read your article, “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” (February 16 cover story). For the Reader’s information, nobody in San Diego gives a shit about the Chargers any- more. Maybe you shouldn’t either. Or maybe you should go up to L.A. and hang out with the Chargers, because if you like the f—ing Chargers so much, why don’t you go up there and f—ing hang out with them? Nobody in San Diego cares
about the Chargers anymore, Reader! If you keep writing stories about them, nobody’s going to give a shit about you either. Buncha dorks! Name withheld via voicemail
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Blame It On Trump I read your story, “It’s Got- ten Rough” on Ocean Beach (Neighborhood News, Feb- ruary 16). It’s kind of inter- esting, what’s been going on lately. I guess we could blame
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Were They Asked? I look forward to picking up my copy of the Reader every week. The team really puts together some compelling stories, but I’ve never felt the need to respond until now. I’m concerned about the
use of a “private security force” supplied by a for-profit organization to deal with transients in Pacific Beach (Neighborhood News, “This Calls for National Public Safety,” February 9). While I can appreciate the desire to put these individuals to work, I also found myself wonder- ing if and how many of these disruptive individuals were invited to Ms. Zapf ’s plan- ning meeting. Were they asked if they
would be interested in clean- ing up after a community who has declared them a nuisance for a menial wage? Were they asked how, given different circumstances, they may like to spend their time? Chances are that they weren’t, and that we’d prob- ably be surprised by their answer, if shown a bit of compassion. I hope I’m wrong and will
look forward to hearing back from Lorie Zapf ’s office as well as Discover Pacific Beach, having written them a similar letter. Thank you and keep up
the great work! Katie Hillcrest
A Question of Funding The article, “Trolley-Stop Talk” (Neighborhood News, February 9), was interesting but the first sentence of the article caught me by surprise. It indicates that the planned trolley station at Balboa Ave- nue is not yet funded. I have followed infor-
mation, news releases and Transnet promulgations extensively for the last few years. I have never read anywhere that the entirety of the MidCoast trolley was fully funded. What is your basis for the claim that the Balboa trolley station is not yet funded?
Mike Feori Bay Park
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