Chancellor Constance Carroll of San Diego Community College District Calls it Quits

Source February 4, 2020 3 Comments

“A Quiet Leader” to Retire

By Colleen O’Connor

She reads a dead language — ancient Greek — to relax. Will be the distinguished guest speaker at UCSD with a lecture on “Aeschylus’s Oresteia and Athenian politics [ed: see below for more info].”

Yet, insists that her 5,000 employees (faculty, staff, administrators and contractors) and over 100,000 students in her colleges, call her Constance — not Dr. Carroll.

A Ph.D. in classics, a lover of all things operatic, and one of the largest developers in San Diego, “Constance” is retiring from the San Diego Community College District that she has led for sixteen years — after a presidential stint at Mesa College for eleven years.

But, not before having changed the landscape and buildings in and near San Diego City College; San Diego Mesa College, Miramar and various Continuing Education sites. That she accomplished by overseeing the $1.55 billion bond money from propositions S and N.

Ocean Beach Planners to Review 2 Residential Projects and New Bermuda Stairs

Frank Gormlie February 3, 2020 0 Comments

The Ocean Beach Planning Board has two residential development permits to review when it meets next, this Wednesday, Feb. 5, plus a review of stairway to replace the damaged one at the end of Bermuda, and a review of pedestrian improvements around OB Elementary School. The Board meets at the OB Rec Center, 4726 Santa Monica Ave., at 6 pm sharp.

4640 Orchard

The Board will review a process 5 tentative map waiver and CDP (Coastal Development Permit) to separate 2 lots, demolish the existing house and construct 2 new residences. See these photos.

Calendar for February 2020 from the OB Green Center

Source February 3, 2020 0 Comments

February Events From the Ocean Beach Green Center

Ocean Beach Green Center, 4862 Voltaire Street, Ocean Beach 92107 (619) 613-5616 oceanbeachgreencenter@gmail.com

Events at the Ocean Beach Green Center

February 13th Thursday 7 pm. Film Night. “Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective”
Inhabit is a 2015 documentary introducing permaculture: a design method that offers an ecological lens for solving issues related to agriculture, economics, governance, and on. …

Every Saturday at 10:00 a.m. Climate Mobilization Coalition Meetingg. February 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd. 29th. Ocean Beach Green Center 4862 Voltaire St.

Europe Leads the Way in Nuclear Shutdowns

Michael Steinberg February 3, 2020 0 Comments

Nuclear Shutdown News February 2020

Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline and fall of the nuclear industry in the US and beyond, and highlightss the efforts of those who are working to create a nuclear free world.

By Michael Steinberg

On December 30 Oil Price.com reported “Germany Aims To Close All Nuclear Plants By 2022.” It shut down its 40 year old Philipsburg nuke plant, which had started up in 1979, on the last day of 2019.

The report added that the country was “going forward with its plan to phase out its (two remaining) nuclear plants by 2022.”
In addition it announced it would be shutting down “all 84 of its coal-fired plants by 2038.”

Impeachment, the Centrist Delusion, and the Democratic Primary

Jim Miller February 3, 2020 5 Comments

By Jim Miller

If there is one thing the impeachment trial has taught us, it’s that anyone who thought there would be enough fair-minded Republicans to even allow witnesses to testify was painfully naïve. This whole thing was over before it started.

What are the lessons? Newsflash: the contemporary Republican party doesn’t care about bipartisanship or even truth or basic decency. If you are not on team Trump, their mission is defame and defeat you, pure and simple. In sum, reasonable NPR listening Democrats, your friends across the aisle mean you ill.

And none of this should come as even the slightest bit of a surprise as the hard-right, dark money forces that own the Republican party have been playing for keeps and winning for years.