Month: August 2023

A Point Loma bakery has announced that they are in “lock down until further notice” due to disruptions by unhoused people at their business.

Phatties Bake Shop in the 4100 block of Voltaire Street will still be open during business hours, but customers need to ring a bell for admittance. The bake shop continues to be open to the public daily from 7 p.m. to 2 p.m.

The owners say that they’ve been dealing with unhoused people stealing products, destroying property, coming in and screaming, and even one entering the bakery armed with a crowbar.

The OB Rag fundraising campaign which we began on Friday is over three-quarters to our goal of $1500!

Help us make the rest today.

And help us hold San Diego politicians accountable. Somebody has to keep pushing for transparency in our city government. And county.

By Mat Wahlstrom

As a rule, I rarely endorse anyone for public office — as when they invariably disappoint, as holding office tends to do, the mud may splatter back on one’s petticoat. And while I always assess a field of candidates and express my thoughts if asked, I tend to keep my own counsel.

I have not met any candidate or been contacted by any campaign. But after the barrage of disinformation and dirty tricks I’ve seen being used to rig the outcome of the special election this Tuesday for the District 4 seat on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, I must speak out.

If you choose to vote, the only person running who deserves it is Monica Montgomery Steppe.

It’s August which means it’s the OB Rag’s annual summer fundraising campaign!

Help us reach this summer’s goal of $1,500. We do have bills — we have a yearly $600 server payment and we pay many of our reporters and writers a small stipend.

And, of course, with the recent sale of the San Diego U-T to a hedge fund, local journalism is all the more important.

How to Support Us

By Dorian Hargrove and Brian White / CBS8 / August 10, 2023

Michael Garvey rakes the dirt path at the Point Loma Native Garden in Ocean Beach. He cleans the area, removes leaves and weeds, wipes the wooden benches, and supplies treats to the dogs who go for walks in the garden. But soon, Garvey will not work at the small garden any longer.

Garvey is not a city employee who has been transferred to another job, he is a homeless senior who has been unhoused for nearly 40 years and has lived in the park for most of the past two years.

A reader sent us this photo and the announcement that a new street parking patio deck was going in on Newport Ave., this morning, Friday, Aug. 11.

It’s going up in front of the double-businesses of Harry’s Taco Club and Cass St. Cocktails & Burgers.

Is this progress, forward motion, or is it going backwards?

From Times of San Diego

A group of experts brought together by World Heritage USA, and its western chapter, along with the San Diego History Center, will gather to discuss challenges surrounding the sometimes controversial structures – such as the Cabrillo National Monument in Point Loma – at an upcoming free panel.

The program, part of a bi-coastal series entitled “Monuments Summer: A Season of Dialogue,” will be held at 1 p.m. on Aug. 18 at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park.

By Katie Hyson / KPBS / August 8, 2023

Megain McCall tried hard to forget the day her life changed forever. It was around 2009, she said, when she was 28 years old. She was driving from San Diego with her aunt and mother to see her dying brother in Texas. At a Texas checkpoint, a patrol dog signaled the car. “I remember being super confident because I know I didn’t have anything,” McCall said.

By Thom Hartman / Daily Kos and Economy for All/ August 4, 2023

Although it’s generally only mentioned in passing in the mainstream media, there are two particularly chilling passages in Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump.

Both, to my mind, invoke Kent State, but on a much larger scale.

From Neighbors for a Better San Diego

Should you take your “No on SB10” yard sign down? Not so soon…

As reported in our previous email, following last Thursday’s — the 3rd — rejection of SB 10 by the Planning Commission, the Mayor’s office released