Month: January 2018

By Michael Steinberg

Do Nukes Kill?

While the decline of the nuclear power industry has become undeniable, one of the more significant aspects of this story still receives scant attention. In order to function, nuclear reactors generate radioactive materials and must release them into the air and water of surrounding communities. This doesn’t just happen during serious accidents as at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, but during day-to-day operations at nuke plants.

There’s a positive side to all of the homeless folks in Ocean Beach – they help keep the vacationers who rent those short-term rentals down.

Here’s an honest-to-goodness review on TripAdvisor by a vacationer, who spent some time at a vacation rental at 1868 Bacon Street:

Kind of hippies you don’t wanna be friends with

Came with a college friend, her 2 year old and my 5 month old baby and our husbands.

The Ocean Beach Planning Board meets Wednesday, January 3rd, at the OB Rec Center, 4726 Santa Monica Avenue. The meeting begins at 6pm.

On its agenda is one of the most controversial projects – now redesigned – to appear before the Board – 3 new condos to be constructed in the vacate lot at Abbott Street and Muir Avenue.

The project has been controversial because its original design has been way out of line with the OB Community Plan. And the project has been before the Board numerous times.

By Brett Warnke

Russell Banks is an old New England white man. But he’s a writer who pens better stories about the great swindle and hard times reality — the great jumble of contemporary America — than anyone alive. He is possibly America’s greatest living writer.

Every OBcean should read his latest collection of short stories A Permanent Member of the Family, a book of 12 short stories that are relevant to us here on the beach.

Here’s five reasons why:

1. Disappearing Community: Whether we like it or not, the world of OB’s small beach haven as a sanctuary for the weird, the wild, and the radical is under tremendous threat.