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At last night’s OB Planning Board meeting, World Oil – which owns the corner lot at Voltaire and Sunset Cliffs Boulevard – unveiled their new design for “Sunset Plaza”, their project slated for that site. The former design had been met with derision from the community, so World Oil came back with a new, more improved design.
And it appears this will be what that corner will look like someday.
By Kathleen Gilberd / On Watch
The military is once again in crisis over sexual assaults. In recent weeks, it has become more apparent than ever that the military’s sexual assault policy is a failure, and that sexual assault in the services has become epidemic.
In early May, the Department of Defense (DoD) released new figures showing a significant increase in reported and unreported assaults – DoD estimates that over 26,000 servicemembers were assaulted in 2012, with only 3,374 of these cases reported to the military.
Just as the figures were released, the Air Force was rocked by news that the head of its Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program had been arrested for sexual battery. More recently, the Sexual Assault Response Coordinator for Ft. Hood was charged with sexual assault and pandering.
By Greg Palast / Nation of Change / June 5, 2013
This month –as early as tomorrow— the US Supreme Court will tell us whether Black and Brown citizens have the right to vote.
Now, if you saw the film Lincoln, you probably thought that issue was settled about 143 years ago. But Honest Abe never imagined a High Court occupied by Dishonest Thomas and Scalia the Scurrilous.
There’s been a lot of nonsense talk fogging the issue before the Court. To cut through the BS, the Palast Investigative Fund has made a little film, How Do You Steal a Dream?
You could call it ‘The Idiot’s Guide to the Voting Rights Act.’ The idiots, of course, are on the Bench.
From The Daily Transcript, June 4, 1913, issue – one hundred years ago today: A very large number of delegates…
By JEC
On Friday May 31st, NBC News posted a report from Reuters that South Korea has suspended wheat imports after the discovery of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Wheat growing in a fallowed field of an Oregon farmer. Problem is, Monsanto only field-tested the strain until May, 2004 when the Canadian Wheat Board, then the world’s largest grain seller, informed Monsanto it’s 10 largest red spring wheat buyers, including Japan, the U.K. and Malaysia, wouldn’t buy modified (genetically altered) varieties of wheat.
Here’s the agenda for the OB Planning Board’s monthly meeting on Wednesday, June 5th. The Board meets at 6pm sharp at the OB Rec Center, 4726 Santa Monica Avenue.
On Wednesday’s agenda, besides the usual reports, are two items of interest.
World Oil Wants Extension for Their Sunset Plaza
The first item of interest is an action item, a request by World Oil for an extension of time for their Coastal Development Permit that allows them to build a 6609 square foot, two-story office building at the corner of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard and Voltaire Street. The corporation years ago was approved to construct what they call the Sunset Plaza, but have yet to move on the development at the site of their one-third acre of prime OB property. They did purchase the Dover Plumbing lot – and both parcels have been boarded and fenced up for years.
That particular corner has a weird and controversial and contentious history.
Red Sails Inn
2614 Shelter Island Dr.
San Diego, CA 9210
619-223-3030
I bet it has been twenty years since I had a meal at the Red Sails Inn. Today two members of my widow support group – Irene and Candy – and I decided to get together for brunch and go up to the cemetery to visit our spouses. We usually go somewhere in Ocean Beach, but wanted something different this time so, after looking at the “Beacon” list of top restaurants, we decided to try the Red Sails Inn.
The first thing I noticed was that the “musty” smell that I remember from twenty years ago was gone. The restaurant hadn’t changed much nor had the menu. The breakfast menu consisted of approximately 20 items, plus a number of different kinds of omelets and side dishes. The price range was from $4.95- $11.95. The lunch menu had 8 kinds of burgers, 13 different sandwiches, 2 soups, and an array of seafood dishes, as well as salads.
by Ernie McCray
Lyric Allen Anderson arrived on this earth on May 29th, 2013. He’s become the tenth person I can claim as a grandchild and every one of them is dear to me. But this beautiful baby boy is particularly special in that he’s the first to carry within his veins the blood of his Grandma Nancy, who passed away four years ago, and mine. She was my valentine and I welcome Lyric Allen to the world in behalf of both of us.
Oh, I don’t know if I can describe what it felt like holding him in all his raw innocence, for the first time, as what words can convey how one feels when one of the dearest beings in the world to him gives birth to someone equally as cherished? I’ll portray it as simply a wonderful moment in time.
A Toyota pickup flipped over near Rosecrans Street off of I-5; the driver fled but he left a 5 year old boy dangling still strapped to his car seat.
7NBC has the story. A black Tundra flipped over while going southbound on I-5, near Rosecrans and Old Town, landing on its side over an embankment on Jefferson Street. The boy was partially ejected, reportedly, and witnesses saw him dangling out of the window.
One witness, Veronica Simmons, stated:
“I started screaming ‘There’s a baby in the car, there’s a baby in the car.’ “
Initially, the driver fled, but then returned and unbuckled him from the truck. A CHP officer said that the boy fell on his back on a concrete curb.
By Jay Walljasper / AlterNet
Former New York mayor Ed Koch envisioned bicycles as vehicles for the future. In 1980, he created experimental bike lanes on 6th and 7th avenues in Manhattan where riders were protected from speeding traffic by asphalt barriers. It was unlike anything most Americans had ever seen, and some people roared their disapproval. Within weeks, the bike lanes were gone.
Twenty-seven years later, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and his transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan saw the growing ranks of bicyclists on the streets as a key component of 21st-century transportation, and began building protected bike lanes in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
By Fran Zimmerman
Now that Memorial Day 2013 is over, let’s record how the red/blue politics of the day trumped history and tradition and every lemming newspaper in this Navy town went along.
Apparently the Los Angeles Times, U-T San Diego, San Diego Reader and La Jolla Light forgot that San Diego is home to Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, final resting place for more than 115,000 servicemembers and their families from all branches of the armed forces and site of the largest Memorial Day commemoration in the city.
Questions have arisen of late by Ft Rosecrans visitors about the conditions of the trees and the grass at the National Cemetery. Trees are gone and the grass is all brown. The recent Memorial Day threw the situation at the cemetery into high relief.
Our own Widder Curry recently commented:
The widows and I went up to Ft. Rosecrans today to visit our husbands.
We were shocked to see that all the trees near their burial wall were gone. Uprooted. Patches where they used to be. And the grass was brown. All brown. No shades of green.
The cemetery is depressing enough, but seeing it in this condition was heart rendering. What is going on?
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