Month: March 2018

Assemblyman Todd Gloria graced the Ocean Beach Town Council meeting last Wednesday, March 28th, and during his spiel before the crowd, declared he was the worse gay ever.

In front of the board, Gloria – in a humorous moment – had forgotten the title to the film, “The Wizard of Oz” – and when someone reminded him – he exclaimed : “I’m the worse gay ever!” – to a burst of laughter from the room. He had been in the midst of citing the famous line by Dorothy from the movie, “… we’re not in Kansas any more,” and momentarily the title had slipped his mind. This self-deprecating humor by the former San Diego Councilman has endeared him to many.

Gloria had come to the Town Council meeting to speak of his latest goals.

The general manager of the lime-green dockless bikes denied that they had launched in Ocean Beach.

Zack Bartlett, general manager of LimeBike San Diego, told the crowd at the Ocean Beach Town Council meeting Wednesday night his bikes have not been deployed in OB, that the green bikes people see are from Point Loma and other communities where they have been deployed.

A number of people present questioned this claim.

A local artist, Mel Clarkston, promises to turn the beach trash you collect – during an Ocean Beach clean-up on April 8th – into art.

Mel and her cohorts have launched “Let’s Get Trashed” – a campaign to turn the plastic found on local beaches into works of art.

I’ve lived a life
among children,
as a child initially, obviously,
and who knows how many
young ones there are
with whom I’ve had the honor
of being in their company
as their teacher
or their vice-principal
or their principal
…

By Jon Carr

The bikeshares – or dockless bikes – have caused a stir in numerous communities like Ocean Beach, other parts of San Diego, and around the country. They are noticeable with their vibrant colors and placement in heavily trafficked areas of the town.

Coronado has banned them, Little Italy’s business district is threatening to impound them, and our beach communities are holding forums

By Dennis Romero / LA Times via Reddit / Mar 11, 2018

In case you missed the headlines, Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi of Torrance has introduced a bill to make surfing the official sport of California. Muratuschi, a member of the Assembly’s informal “surf caucus,” announced the proposal at a news conference in Hermosa Beach last month, while standing next to a statue of the 1960s surfer Tim Kelly and wearing a Hawaiian shirt. “Nothing represents the California dream better than surfing,” he said.

What’s Its Significance?

March 28, 1971 was the day of the historic Collier Park Riot in Ocean Beach – 47 years ago. It was probably the wildest day in OB’s history. It certainly was OB’s most violent day.

The riot occurred when San Diego police attacked a peaceful gathering of hundreds of young OBceans and students who had gathered at a site in northeast OB – on what was to become Collier Park – as part of an anti-Vietnam war protest and a ‘clean-up the park’ project. — Collier? D. Charles Collier is the true “father of Ocean Beach”

By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams

In a move denounced by immigrant rights advocates and legal experts as an effort to “undercount communities of color” that could have an enormous impact on the drawing of congressional districts, the Trump administration announced late Monday that the 2020 Census will ask respondents whether or not they are U.S. citizens.

“This is an attempt to racially rig the census,”

For the last several years, the OB Rag has been intentionally increasing our coverage of the Point Loma community.

For example, the Rag sends reporters to cover the monthly meetings of the Peninsula Community Planning Board and of the Midway Pacific Highway Corridor Community Planning Board. It’s very important for Point Loma citizens to know what’s going on with these citizen planners. No one covers these meetings as consistently as we do.

And at least twice a month, we publish a round-up of Point Loma and OB news from a variety of sources – including our own. We consolidate your neighborhood news and put it all in one place, our online platform.

No one else does that. Not one other media outlet or platform or newspaper does that.

Debra Puente, a woman from Linda Vista, went missing one year ago. A week after she was last seen her vehicle was found in Ocean Beach. Both her wallet and ID were found in the car.

Her friends and family are still hopeful she or something will show up.

Puente, 50, was last seen at the Longhorn near Mission Gorge Road and Friars Road on March 28, 2017. A poster with her photo and pleas for help stated:

By Marjorie Cohn / Truthout / March 25, 2018

Over the past week, nearly a year after he tried to have Robert Mueller fired, Donald Trump went on a tweeting rampage against the special counsel. Trump’s escalating Twitter attacks may be a harbinger of Mueller’s impending dismissal — or the president could be trying to preemptively discredit and delegitimize Mueller’s eventual findings against him.

Mueller was appointed special counsel in May 2017.

By Geoff Page

After 15 years in the making, final approval of the Midway Pacific Highway Corridor community plan update is within reach. At their regular meeting Wednesday March 21, the Midway planning board voted to approve the final draft of its community plan. The community plan will go

• to the Planning Commission on April 26,
• to the Smart Growth and Land Use committee on May 24,
• and to City Council for final approval on June 26.