by Marisa Kendall / Cal-Matters /April 18, 2024
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The U.S. Supreme Court is about to hear the biggest case about homelessness in decades, and it seems like everyone in California has an opinion.
At issue: whether and under what conditions cities can fine or arrest people for camping in public spaces. The ruling will have nationwide implications for how local leaders manage homeless encampments.
Where does Gov. Gavin Newsom stand on that issue? What about the leaders of California’s major cities? Our law enforcement agencies? Homelessness experts? How about President Joe Biden’s administration?
Good questions! The good news is we can actually answer that. Many people and organizations have filed amicus briefs to the Supreme Court for the case, which means they’ve written out their opinion and submitted it in writing to the Justices for them to consider.
By Jeff McDonald / San Diego Union-Tribune / April 16, 2024
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria acknowledged in a public filing last week that he repeatedly violated the law by not reporting a series of contributions made to charities by outside donors at his behest.
According to the San Diego Ethics Commission, Gloria failed to properly report 10 separate contributions he solicited from private contributors — many of whom donated to For All of Us, the charity he helped set up in early 2021 to support his favored causes.
By Joely Proudfit / San Diego Union-Tribune OpEd / April 18, 2024
Earth Day serves as a poignant reminder of our collective responsibility to the planet. In San Diego, where the beauty and biodiversity of our environment are as integral to our identity as the cityscape itself, this day provides an opportunity not just for celebration, but for deep reflection and learning — especially from the Native communities who have inhabited these lands for millennia.
The Kumeyaay, Payómkawichum, Kuupangaxwichem, Ipai peoples, along with other indigenous groups across the continent, have demonstrated a profound understanding of sustainable living long before the term entered our modern lexicon. For these communities, sustainability was not merely a practice but a necessity, deeply ingrained in their culture and everyday life. They lived within the limits of their ecosystems, embodying an ethic where taking too much was not just frowned upon — it was culturally abhorrent because it compromised the welfare of future generations. This principle, often referred to as the “seven generations principle,” ensures that the needs of the present do not compromise those of the future.
By Katy Jae Waldman
San Diego is a beacon of equality, progress, and acceptance that makes it unlike anywhere else in the world. It is a vibrant and lively place with a diverse and powerful
community. San Diego takes care of its people, and we are proud of it. But unfortunately, the people that keep us clothed, fed, and caffeinated are suffering at the hands of their employers.
Amidst their rapid growth, it has become clear that Better Buzz Coffee is no exception to this. It seems that their pitch decks and investor meetings left out how their wageworkers were to share the spoils of their achievement. Their profits are soaring, but their workers are hurting. We reject that. With the support of The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 135 (UFCW) the baristas, trainers, and shift supervisors of Better Buzz Hillcrest are filing an election petition with the National Labor Relations Board on this day, April 19th, 2024.
We believe that all workers deserve access to benefits, fair wages, and a safe work environment. At Better Buzz Hillcrest, these needs have not been met. We are fighting for the following and more.
Editordude: Several years ago, before the pandemic, I spoke with San Diego historian and archaeologist Richard Carrico at an OB Historical Society event about his well-known book on San Diego’s Kumeyaay native peoples, Strangers in a Stolen Land. What had caught my attention in his book was a map of San Diego County with the locations of major Kumeyaay villages and I asked him about it, as I was at the time on a quest to learn more about them.
It had dawned on me that there are no markers for the major villages — even those that had been in what’s now Mission Valley — and I wanted to enlist Carrico’s assistance in a project I wanted to take on about identifying, locating and commemorating the Kumeyaay’s main villages within San Diego. Needless to say, the project was sidetracked. But here is an article from KPBS that is a beginning to fulfilling that quest.
By Amita Sharma / KPBS / April 18, 2024
Scan the crowd-sourced Historical Marker Database’s 375 entries for San Diego County and you’ll see a lot about Spanish colonial, early American settler and U.S. military pasts.
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By Paul Krueger
The City of San Diego has just sent out public notices for two new projects proposed for West Point Loma Boulevard, one at 5184 and the other at 4954.
A 3-story multi-family building consisting of 8 ADUs is being proposed for the 4500 block of Pescadero Avenue in Point Loma.
(Written for a Black Student Union Coalition Conference)
By Lisa Mortensen / April 7, 2024
Dear Councilwoman Jennifer Campbell,
Year-old law isn’t strong enough on Tier 2 rentals, hosts, enforcement, density and impact on long-term housing.
By David Garrick / 
If the current Board of Directors of what was the Ocean Beach Town Council hold to their plan, they will do a rebrand and morph into the “Ocean Beach Town Council Foundation” and allow the group and name “Ocean Beach Town Council” to dissolve and fall by the wayside.
Yesterday’s Rag announced the upcoming meeting of the Project Review Committee of the OB Planning Board — Wed., April 17 — and recounted how the committee only had one project to review. (Usually, the committee makes recommendations on proposed projects to the full board.)
By Carolyn Chase
Every year, the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists hosts an event called “Walls and Windows” in order “to honor those in our community who have worked hard to expand the public’s right to know by fighting for transparency — and hold accountable those who have stifled these efforts.”
[Editordude: This 5-month 
By Dorian Hargrove / 
Roll up For Cannabis Equity – A monthly column
The Project Review Committee of the OB Planning Board meets this Wednesday night, April 17 at the OB Rec Center, at 6 pm sharp.
This Saturday, April 13th, 2024 at Noon in Ocean Beach !!
From Source:
Steven Mihailovich, writing in the 
Frank Gormlie April 22, 2024 at 11:30 pm on Why San Diego Should Not Be Awarded Anything for Its ‘Bonus ADU’ Program — Not One ADU Unit Has Been Built as Low-Income HousingIN case you haven't noticed, 'build, build, build' has been the developer elite's mantra for decades; to say the 'government is owned by the unions'...
ingrate April 22, 2024 at 9:52 pm on 2 New Projects Proposed for West Point Loma Boulevard in Ocean BeachGet a load of the er load being dumped by Midway Rising in La Prensa: https://laprensa.org/perspective-grift-expands-midway-rising-development-deal 
Mateo April 22, 2024 at 9:45 pm on California Leaders Take Sides in ‘Most Important Supreme Court Case on Homelessness in 40 Years’The Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 eliminated the firewall protection between investment and commercial banking. With FDR's, John...
sealintheSelkirks April 22, 2024 at 8:41 pm on City Approves Affordable Housing Project on Abbott Street in OBHawaii Takes A Stand Against Short-Term Rentals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk9eu9lemIU ___ PHASING OUT STVRs. What a novel idea, eh? sealintheSelkirks 
Joseph April 22, 2024 at 4:10 pm on City Approves Affordable Housing Project on Abbott Street in OBKh, By that do you mean away from you? Shouldn't this project be celebrated? 
Greg April 22, 2024 at 1:56 pm on 8 ADUs in 3-Story Complex Proposed for 4500 Block of Pescadero in Point LomaEveryone forgets about DEMAND when they talk about supply and demand of housing. Disincentivize this kind of behavior, demand drops, prices drops. 
Geoff Page April 22, 2024 at 1:38 pm on California Leaders Take Sides in ‘Most Important Supreme Court Case on Homelessness in 40 Years’And one of San Diego's aspiring leaders running for a city council seat, Colleen Cusack, showed her commitment and is in D.C. with those demonstrating...
Gilbert Field April 22, 2024 at 10:47 am on ‘Hey You! Get Up! We’ve Outlawed Sleeping in Public!’Interesting concept. I would even say that 75% of the cost of a home is the land in SD. Where is all this city land...
Elizabeth Smith April 22, 2024 at 7:00 am on Why San Diego Should Not Be Awarded Anything for Its ‘Bonus ADU’ Program — Not One ADU Unit Has Been Built as Low-Income HousingWait, what?!? 1B in the next four years on bike lanes? 
rich riel April 21, 2024 at 7:38 pm on ‘Hey You! Get Up! We’ve Outlawed Sleeping in Public!’Twenty five percent of all real estate sales prices are land costs. The overall solution to the homeless problem is to bring down housing costs....
Caligirl1960 April 21, 2024 at 7:09 pm on City Approves Affordable Housing Project on Abbott Street in OBThere are high costs to own property,such as property taxes,electricity and water plus the high prices the upkeep of these properties. Do you see the...
