Month: August 2012

The victim of the grope attack in Robb Field has now given her description of the assailant to police, and a drawing of the suspect is now public.

In addition, Crime Stoppers has an offering of up to a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case.

San Diego police are still looking for thea man who twice rode by a jogger along the San Diego River bike path on August 15th in the morning and groped her.

Today, Tuesday, August 21st, there is an important meeting of the Steering Committee of the San Diego Airport Authority group that oversees land use in the airport area.

There is a draft plan being discussed that potentially allows for 50 plus more plans per day, more noise, more airplane routes and over more areas. Formally called the Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan (ALUCP) Steering Committe, it will meet today

By Michael Moore and Oliver Stone / New York Times / August 20, 2012

WE have spent our careers as filmmakers making the case that the news media in the United States often fail to inform Americans about the uglier actions of our own government. We therefore have been deeply grateful for the accomplishments of WikiLeaks, and applaud Ecuador’s decision to grant diplomatic asylum to its founder, Julian Assange, who is now living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.

Ecuador has acted in accordance with important principles of international human rights.

By Eugene Davidovitch / Americans for Safe Access

BACKGROUND: On October 7, 2011, at a press conference in Sacramento, US Attorney Laura Duffy, along with several other US Attorneys, announced a statewide crackdown on medical cannabis cooperatives, collectives, gardens, and others.

Without citing any specific violations in state law, Duffy’s office claimed all were out of compliance and would be targeted for eradication including those fully licensed and regulated by local government and law enforcement.

It has been confirmed that both of San Diego’s mayoral candidates will be at the debate being hosted by the OB Town Council this Wednesday – the 22nd of August. Both Congressman Bob Filner and Councilman Carl DeMaio have declared they will be present at the public forum during the meeting of the OBTC. It will be at 7 pm and held in the Masonic Center, 1711 Sunset Cliffs Boulevard.

Each candidate will be given up to five minutes to address us with an overview of their candidacy, followed by questions and answers from the Town Council Board and the audience. The OBTC anticipates that nearly everyone should get a chance to ask their question and receive a personalized answer.

Three of my widow support group have husbands buried at Ft. Rosecrans cemetery. A fourth one has a fiancé buried there also. All of our men are in very close proximity to each other – probably because they all passed away at just about the same time.

Three of us try to visit our husbands once a month, if for no other reason than to make sure they are still there. I usually use the time to berate him for leaving me. Sometimes I bring flowers from our garden; sometimes one of the other women bring a sticker to put on the plaques – a forbidden practice but we do it anyway; sometimes we bring individual windmills to stick in the rocks below the walls that hold their remains.

by Kim Barker / ProPublica /Aug. 19, 2012,

Matt Brooks describes the mission of the Republican Jewish Coalition as educating the Jewish community about critical domestic and foreign policy issues.

But the well-dressed crowd that gathered in May for a luncheon on the 24th floor of a New York law firm easily could have figured that the group had a different purpose: Helping Mitt Romney win the presidency.

Brooks, the group’s executive director, showed the 100 or so attendees two coalition-funded ads taking aim at President Barack Obama. Then Brooks made a pitch for a $6.5 million plan to help Romney in battleground states, reminding guests that their donations would not be publicly disclosed by the tax-exempt group.

By Anthony Gucciardi / Natural Society / August 18, 2012

Monsanto is doing its absolute best to ensure that you do not know what you are putting into your mouth, now confirmed to have donated $4.2 million in an attempt to fight the California GMO labeling initiative that could very well put them out of business. You see, if people actually knew that they were consuming genetically modified ingredients, they would simply stop buying the engineered products on a massive scale. Monsanto simply cannot have that, which is why it is doing its best to squash any possibility of a successful labeling initiative (along with a conglomerate of corporate entities).

It is already well known that the general public is highly supportive of GMO labeling in general, with many polls finding that around 93% of the population is supportive of knowing what is in their food.

I arrived at the Farmers Market in Ocean Beach a little late, but there was still plenty to see and taste. The sinking sun set Newport Avenue aglow, and there was quite the bustling of activity even as vendors slowly began to close up shop.

The Farmers Market runs from 4 to 8 p.m. during the summer and 4 to 7 p.m. during the winter every Wednesday. It takes place on Newport Avenue between Cable and Bacon streets.

Elected officials continue to represent the special interest lobbyists padding their pockets rather than the constituents they are elected to represent. Here in Southern California, we are watching more of our public space be taken away and converted into Wal Marts, paid parking lots, and the like. While citizens work together and attend city council meetings to point out the protections that should preserve the space, corporations and politicians work together to bypass those protections.

The owner of the U-T San Diego, Papa Doug Manchester, unveiled his plans to “transform” Mission Valley recently, and at the top of his list of development for the San Diego River area is a 22-story skyscraper containing 200 residences.

Also on his list are 10-story twin towers that will cost an estimated $200-million, and will feature mixed-use project residential, office and retail.

A San Diego Airport Authority program that has been soundproofing homes in Point Loma for more than 13 years and which has soundproofed more than 2,000 homes, has had its image sullied recently with the report of three thefts by crews working under the program.

The program – called the Quieter Home Program – is funded by grants from the Federal Aviation Administration and is administered by the Airport Authority. It was set up nearly a decade and half ago