Nicholas Andre Dance Company
Corrections
In last week’s “Front Lines” story (“Stream of consciousness”) about a Bonsall-based spiritual organization called The Stream, Dave Maass incorrectly reported that the group’s workshops cost as much as $145. They actually cost more than double that. According to The Stream's one-page schedule of “Living with Reality” seminars, there are currently 16 “levels” of classes available, with the first costing $385 because it includes a copy of founder Beth Green's book. Subsequent classes, a level each, cost $370 apiece. “Combo workshops,” which cover two levels, cost $530. Green says she’s designed 21 levels of courses, which, using these numbers, would cost a grand total of $7,700. The $145 seminars involving issues such as “Men and Sex” are supplementary sessions.
Also, on last week’s “City Week” page, we published a photo of La Trappe beer without a photo credit. The image belongs to Bernt Rostad, whose photography can be viewed at www.flickr.com/photos/brostad.
Do like Jerry Jones
I say if the Chargers want a new stadium let them finance it, like Jerry Jones did in Dallas [“Editorial,” Dec. 23]. Let’s see how committed they really are to San Diego. Otherwise, no way. We need other things a lot more, like staffing and equipment for police and fire departments and other infrastructure improvements, than we do another facility that’s only used part-time.
Ken Lundgren,
El Cajon
New stadium? ‘Hell no’
About “Time to punt?” [“Editorial,” Dec. 30]: With the Chargers’ request for public money, once again we’re hearing how it will be great for the city. Seaport Village, The Gaslamp, Horton Plaza, Petco Park, the Qualcomm renovation, the Convention Center expansion, Liberty Station and more—we’re all sold with the promise they would be great for the city. We’ve seen this movie before and we know how it ends: The team owners and the developers make out like bandits while the city and the taxpayers are left holding the bag.
What’s more infuriating this time is that the Spanoses have the unmitigated gall to ask for corporate welfare at a time when we’re still trying to recover from a deep recession, taxpayers are already tapped out and the city is drowning in red ink. The Spanoses have sunk below lawyers, used-car salesmen and politicians and stooped to the level of Wall Street CEOs. I like football as much as the next guy, but if the choice is between giving the Spanoses corporate welfare and the Chargers leaving town, I say, “Hell no, let ’em go.”
Dan Jacobs,
Mira Mesa
Football and marijuana
Quite aside from other reasons to oppose a move by the Chargers using redevelopment money [“Editorial,” Dec. 30], the proposed site east of Petco Park won’t work. There isn’t enough space for a 70,000-seat stadium. And Imperial Avenue is only half the width of Friars Road. Imagine the traffic jam if the Chargers and the Padres ever had a game on the same day.
Also, white men have spoken with a forked tongue for hundreds of years. Evidently members of minorities are equally adept at doublespeak. Obama’s failure to eliminate or reduce crackdowns on marijuana clinics [“The Front Lines,” Dec. 23] is one example. There will always be a conflict between various states’ approval, and the federal government’s laws against marijuana until the feds change regulations to make pot use a misdemeanor offense, not a felony. So many doctrinaire bozos in the U.S. are against it that it may never happen here. It would make even more sense for Mexico to decriminalize marijuana. If pot were even semi-legal, use of harder drugs would wither away. And Mexico could become a safer destination for tourists in the future.
Deuel Woodward,
Chula Vista
