{"id":404319,"date":"2026-07-19T12:44:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/404319\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T12:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:44:27","slug":"city-hall-should-stop-flying-new-flags-just-to-see-who-salutes-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/404319\/","title":{"rendered":"City Hall should stop flying new flags just to see who salutes \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like both the City Council and the mayor are governing our city by following that old adage, \u201cLet\u2019s run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Either one or the other comes up with a new idea for revenue. Then they announce it, possibly institute it and wait to see if we, the constituents, will salute it or tear it down.<\/p>\n<p>If enough San Diegans salute it, it stays; if not, they lower the flag and try another. Parking charges at Balboa Park, additional hotel taxes, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I, for one, am getting tired of seeing new flags flying.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Gillchrest, Otay Mesa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It seems like both the City Council and the mayor are governing our city by following that old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-404319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}