Month: March 2011

For the 2011 OB Planning Board Elections the following people have officially announced their candidacies:

District 1 — Nancy Taylor (incumbent), Tom Gawronski
District 2 — Scott Waschitz (incumbent)
District 3 — No candidate
District 4 — Craig Klein (incumbent)
District 5 — Brittany Taylor
District 6 — Jane Gawronski (incumbent)
District 7 — No candidate

If you haven’t checked out Google Art Project yet, you’re in for a treat. The site uses a technology similar…

Defend the Dream Action

Please join the MoveOn National Call to Action to Defend the American Dream. This is in solidarity with our fellow American Workers and Americans in distress.

Locally, the Rally will be on Tuesday, March 15, after work at 6 PM at the San Diego County Administration Building at 1600 Pacific Highway.

This article was published by the Center for American Progress.

By Donna Cooper | February 22, 2011

House leaders are unfortunately restricting their proposed budget cuts for the remainder of fiscal year 2011 to nonsecurity discretionary spending in an attempt to tame a $1.3 trillion deficit. This approach is especially shortsighted since the Federal Treasury loses twice as much revenue due to tax breaks than Congress appropriates on all nonsecurity discretionary spending.

At times the local planning committee for Ocean Beach acts in relative obscurity. Not by choice, however, for the individuals who serve on the 14-member Board want all the attention they can get. And rightly so – for the Board – which holds two open meetings every month – is really the ONLY publicly-elected body in OB, and is the expression of the people’s will in our little village. It’s annual election – which is this Tuesday, March 15th – is open to every resident, property owner or businessperson in Ocean Beach.

OB Planning Board Election – Tuesday, March 15th – from 4 to 7 pm If you’re a resident, property owner,…

By Kit-Bacon Gressitt / Excuse Me, I’m Writing blog / March 14, 2011 Of the many things I’ve learned since…

What is peace? Is it merely the absence of war? Or, like Switzerland and Costa Rica, the refusal to use aggression as national policy? Is it micro or macro; harmony in the family or tranquility in our nation’s inner streets? Is it a noun or a verb? Something one has, like a bank account or a house, or is it something one does, a way of life?

Occasionally, our in-house photographer is set loose from his keyboard duties, and is able to scour Ocean Beach for interesting…

As a result of the 8.9 earthquake and subsequent tsunamis in Japan, the 40 year old Fukushima No. 1 nuclear…

Like much of San Diego’s media, we joined the “Tsunami watch” down at the shore of Ocean Beach this morning. The horrible tragedy in Japan had generated enough energy under the Pacific Ocean that it was supposed to travel to the West Coast moving at the rate of 500 miles an hour, and hit San Diego’s coast around 8:40 a.m.

On March 28th, the San Diego city council will be voting on an ordinance that, if passed as written, will close down every medical cannabis facility in the city and would make it virtually impossible for them to reopen. In response, the San Diego chapter of Americans for Safe Access partnered with Canvass for a Cause to launch the “Stop the Ban” campaign in order to educate the public about the ordinance and to mobilize grassroots opposition.