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Nikolette Kristina Gallo had pleaded guilty in June to the March 11th hit and run incident at OB’s entrance that killed Sho Funai. On Friday, July 27th, she was sentenced by Judge Dwayne Moring to one year in prison, plus the standard five years of probation.
The 19-year-old Gallo had admitted that she had drank alcohol and smoked marijuana prior to the crash at the end of I-8. It left Funai, an engineering student at UCSD, without a life.
At their Wednesday night meeting, OB Planners will decide on whether to call for an immediate moratorium on variances granted by the City of San Diego on 25 foot front lots. At 6:55 pm on the Planning Board’s agenda for August 1st, is Information Item 002 – which is when and where the full Board takes up the recommendation of its sub-committee on the matter.
The sub-committee – formally called the Project Review Committee – is recommending that the Board request an immediate moratorium on variances in certain areas of Ocean Beach. The areas include the RM 2-4 zone, the FEMA 100 year Flood Plain A, lots without alley access, and on substandard or 25 foot front lots. The Project Review sub-committee took up this issue at its last meeting on July 18th and decided then to bring their recommendation to the entire Board.
OCEAN BEACH PLANNING BOARD
PUBLIC NOTICE & GENERAL MEETING AGENDA
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 – 6:00 p.m.
Ocean Beach Recreation Center – 4726 Santa Monica Ave., Ocean Beach
6:00 pm – Call to order
• Quorum/ Introductions
• Agenda modification and approval
• Minutes modification and approval – June 6, 2012 …
(Come inside for the rest of the agenda.)
If you’re looking for an easy hike with a mixture of vistas, Torrey Pines State National Reserve is a cheap and spectacular option. Arrive early (about 6:30 a.m., no later than 7 a.m.) and there is free public parking available outside of the official Reserve parking lot; otherwise it’s $15. I recommend a jacket because it starts off chilly.
One of the most beautiful parts about this early morning adventure is watching the sun wash over the land. It’s inspiring.
New Comfort Station Opens to Rave Reviews … But the Stalls Don’t Have Doors
OB Rag T-shirt Contest to Find Hidden Text (scroll down)
It’s been nearly a month now since the new public restrooms at the foot of Brighton Avenue in Ocean Beach opened. And the innovative, design-busting “comfort station” opened to rave reviews from City Hall to San Diego CityBeat. The crazy and weird and cool design elements of the building and its immediate vicinity are far-out, dude.
Here’s a sampling of what the new facility has to offer: …
by John Lawrence / San Diego Free Press
Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital was very good at making money for Mitt Romney.
At the same time, it loaded companies Bain bought with debt, borrowed even more money to pay dividends to Mitt Romney and destroyed or outsourced lots of jobs. It even raided pension funds. Then Romney turns around and holds himself up as a “successful businessman.”
Home from a roadtrip. One which was just that, a journey, a moving on, to another phase in my life.
We got going at a nice pace as I’m not fascinated with speed. It got a little slow through L.A. but, indeed, it wasn’t too bad. I approached it with a “low rider” attitude, set my own mood. Hey, my novia’s at my side so I couldn’t help but low ride as she rubbed her sexy little hands on my knee. Made me go “Good googily wooglily” like back in my teens wearing white t-shirts and levi blue jeans.
Next think I know we’re in Carpinteria and when I looked around I couldn’t help but swoon and sway as I stood there in view of an almost criminally beautiful day. It was like the sun was showing off.
By Bernie Sanders / July 26, 2012 / Reader Supported News
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights held a hearing Tuesday on “Taking Back Our Democracy: Responding to Citizens United and the Rise of Super PACs”.
Here is Sen. Bernie Sanders’ testimony:
Mr. Chairman, thank you for convening a hearing on the monumentally important issue of “Taking Back Our Democracy.” Unfortunately, that title exactly describes the challenge facing us today.
The history of this country has been the drive toward a more and more inclusive democracy—a democracy which would fulfill Abraham Lincoln’s beautiful phraseology at Gettysburg in which he described America as a nation “of the people by the people for the people.”
Hey boys and girls! Here’s a bevy of progressive pundits – all pontificating:
Noam Chomsky: Shredding the Magna Carta
Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights, will arrive. Whether it will be celebrated, mourned, or ignored is not at all clear.
A couple of weeks ago the Northeast was in the grip of a severe heat wave. As I write this, however, it’s a fairly cool day in New Jersey, considering that it’s late July. Weather is like that; it fluctuates.
Something very interesting is happening. There’s been so much corruption on Wall Street in recent years, and the federal government has appeared to be so deeply complicit in many of the problems, that many people have experienced something very like despair over the question of what to do about it all.
By Sub-Committee / Special to San Diego Free Press
Sub-Committee Report # 4: For the moment, city plans to develop the coastal cliff beach at Law St. in North Pacific Beach, with another new live-in lifeguard tower and garages, have met with an equally divided planning board, 7-7, with the tie vote cast by the board president, in a heated debate at the last PB Planning Board meeting, July 25, 2012, at the PB library community room.
For the remainder of this article, please go to San Diego Free Press.
By Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic / Jul 25, 2012
A collaborative investigation launched by law clinics at four top universities has assembled damning evidence of widespread misconduct.
An investigation undertaken by law clinics at NYU, Fordham, Harvard, and Stanford has concluded, after eight months of study, that the NYPD abused Occupy Wall Street protesters and violated their rights on numerous occasions during the 2011 protests that radiated out from Zuccotti Park. Their report, Suppressing Protest: Human Rights Violations in the U.S. Response to Occupy Wall Street, was released today. It focuses on transgressions against international law.
by Larry O’Brien
People have been riding wood in the surf since before historians had pens and paper. The age of hard and soft plastic surfcraft is barely sixty years old, but it’s far more common than wooden surfcraft.
Unfortunately it also means that these plastic beach toys are more common in our landfills, and litter our coves and sea caves.
The good news is that the old ways are still available to us. Riding wood in the surf has been gaining in popularity in recent years, and the internet has helped proliferate the enthusiasm around the globe.
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