Month: December 2018

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The Ocean Beach Town Council raised a total of $9,600 at its annual Christmas Auction last Thursday night. The event, held at the Sunshine Company, was a smashing success with the usual auctioneers plying the crowd for a good cause.

The amount raised included $8,600 raised for the OBTC annual’s OB Holiday Food and Toy Drive – plus another $1,500 raised to support the firefighters and others at the Camp Fire up in northern California – $500 of which came from the OB Woman’s Club. (The total overall figure may be higher, as board members told this reporter on Saturday at the parade, as some donors may have come in over the weekend.)

Editordude: San Diego Free Press has announced it will suspend publication after Dec. 14.

I started writing for the San Diego Free Press with almost their first edition. One of the the nice things about writing for it was that I was limited in my writings for the OB Rag, because at that time all of the articles and restaurant reviews were about “goings on” in the neighborhood. I could write for the SDFP and cover more restaurants, more ideas, and more of San Diego County.

As I became more and more familiar with the editors and contributors, my respect for the online paper grew. The knowledge of the authors was tremendous.

Last week in this space, I discussed how the new research on the stealth power of America’s oligarchical class continues to be a central obstacle to thoroughgoing democracy in the United States.

In that piece, I cited the work Page, Seawright, and Lacombe as well as Nancy MacLean’s work outlining how the right has managed over the last several decades to build a powerful, deeply undemocratic political network aimed at putting “democracy in chains.”

With that in mind, it was with great interest that I read MacLean’s post-election commentary in the Guardian, where she observed:

Republican party elected officials acted under pressure from the network of arch-right billionaires and multimillionaires

Six tenth grade students from High Tech High are giving tours of Ocean Beach.

We are hoping to answer the question, “What makes OB unique?” and our answers will talk about the culture and environment in OB.

We start at Dog Beach, then will passing by popular sites like The Black, Hodad’s, and Nico’s Mexican Food, and the pier.

On this tour of Ocean Beach we will also be exploring the science and history of OB.