We remember Mayor Golding, and Kirk Mather whose commentary you printed (“Turning the city into a new county is a viable option,” Beacon, Feb. 19, page 8). We recall that words like grandiose or gargantuan were too small for either of them to use. Not enough heft; not enough panache; not enough self-serving puffery. If we judge correctly by the commentary that week, not much has changed in the big-talking Mr. Mather. San Diego County, Jr., that Mather wants to establish within the city’s boundaries, is a pleasant fantasy. Might Mayor Jerry Sanders become Lord Mayor Sanders? That would put us in step with Lord Mayors Villaraigosa and Newsom. We might enjoy the new adulation, until we discover, as San Diego County, Sr. knows so well, that health care, epidemiology, tax assessment and collection, coroner, a penal system, a court system, schools, agriculture, pest control, recorder (and merging past with future records), weights and measures, mass transit, and a host of other services would rest with San Diego, the former City. San Diego is so far in debt now, sinking so fast, and so bereft of wherewithal that dreams of San Diego County Jr. will just have to be set aside for the future. Essayist Mather might have given us a discussion topic. For many years all we had to talk, talk, talk about is the airport. Maybe now we can talk, talk, talk about a new county, too. Wow! James Varnadore City Heights