December 2023

Judge Rejects Final Legal Challenge, Clears Way for Midway Rising Re-Development

December 18, 2023 by Source

By Brooke Binkowski / Times of San Diego / Dec. 16, 2023

A judge rejected a final legal challenge to Measure C Friday, clearing the way for the Midway Rising redevelopment project in the Sports Arena area.

The voter-approved measure removed the 30-foot coastal height limit for the Midway District, including the 48.5-acre Midway-Pacific Highway Community Plan area.

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Man on Personal Watercraft Charged in July Death of 12-Year-Old Paddle Boarder in Mission Bay Crash

December 15, 2023 by Source

A 19-year-old man has been charged in connection with the death of 12-year-old girl who was struck by a personal watercraft as she was paddle boarding in Mission Bay last summer.

Arsanyous Refat Ghaly, 19, was arrested in Los Angeles on Nov. 8 on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, San Diego police spokesman Lt. Adam Sharki confirmed Thursday. Fox 5 was first to report the arrest Thursday. Ghaly, who was 18 at the time of the crash, was arraigned in San Diego Superior Court on Nov. 16. His bail was set at $20,000.

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California Regulators Extend Nuke Plant Diablo Canyon Thru 2030

December 15, 2023 by Source

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Fox5SanDiego – AP / Dec. 14, 2023

California energy regulators voted Thursday to allow the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant to operate for an additional five years, despite calls from environmental groups to shut it down. The California Public Utilities Commission agreed to extend the shutdown date for the state’s last functioning nuclear power facility through 2030 instead of closing it in 2025 as previously agreed.

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Lebowski 2024 – ‘This Aggression Will Not Stand, Man’

December 15, 2023 by Source

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LA Times Editorial Board: ‘Trump wants to be the U.S.’ first dictator’

December 15, 2023 by Source

By The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board / Dec. 13, 2023

If you have tuned out the many crazy things that Donald Trump has said since he left the White House, it’s time to start paying attention.

The twice-impeached insurrectionist holds more than a 40-point polling lead over his closest rival in the Republican primary, and many Americans remain in denial about how close we are to returning an aggrieved and emboldened authoritarian to power. As former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) warned recently, the U.S. “is sort of sleepwalking into dictatorship.”

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Point Loma Nazarene Women’s Soccer Team Brings Home University’s First National Championship

December 14, 2023 by Source

By Noah Perkins / Pt Loma – OB Monthly / Dec. 11, 2023

The Sea Lions defeated Washburn University 1-0 in the championship game at the Sportsplex in Matthews, N.C. The title is the first national championship in any sport for PLNU.

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OBcean Scott Lewis of Voice of San Diego on Why Sunbreak Ranch Is a Bad Idea

December 14, 2023 by Source

By Scott Lewis/ Voice of San Diego / Dec. 9, 2034

This week, former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer endorsed Sunbreak Ranch, the plan to move all homeless San Diegans into a camp somewhere out in the desert. It would be a vast campus of shelters and services. It is Pedro from Napolean Dynamite: Vote for Sunbreak Ranch and all your wildest dreams will come true.

“The successful implementation of Sunbreak Ranch will save hundreds of thousands of lives, alleviate widespread suffering, unlock unfathomable human potential, and clean up America’s cities for all of us,” wrote George Mullen, who came up with the idea, and basketball legend Bill Walton.

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‘Why MEChA Would Be Good for Point Loma Nazarene’

December 14, 2023 by Source

By Ava Bailey-Klugh / The Point – LomaBeat.com / Dec. 10, 2023

MEChA was founded in 1960 by college students across the United States to advocate for more representation of Hispanic and Latino students on college campuses.

Currently, the student-led organization, in San Diego some of the largest colleges such as University of California San Diego and San Diego State University have rapidly growing MEChA clubs. MEChA stands for “Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan” in Spanish, which translates to “Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan.”

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‘After My Family Lost Our 2-Bedroom OB Apartment, We Were Homeless for 2 and Half Years’

December 14, 2023 by Source

By Natalie Raschke / Op-Ed SD Union-Tribune /Dec. 13, 2023

There’s no place like home for the holidays. This is especially true for families like mine, who’ve experienced homelessness. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, both my husband and I could no longer work as bartenders and, with many restaurants closing their doors, job opportunities in our industry were scarce. At first, we lived off our savings and unemployment, but after a while we were unable to afford the rent in our two-bedroom apartment in Ocean Beach where we lived with our four children. To cut costs, we moved into an RV for 24 months, then spent another six months living in a van.

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The Last Great Days of the OB Theater Company

December 13, 2023 by Source

By Sara Blanche Hayes
Jennie Gray Connard is a passionate and fierce woman. She’s a wife, a mother, a new grandmother, a business owner, a director, a choreographer. She’s a certified powerhouse in the San Diego community theater scene. And, after seven incredible years of running The OB Theater Company, she and her husband Bill have no choice but to shut down for good.

“The thing I loved and will miss the most was Bill and I sitting together in the back of the theater on opening night, after tech week and feeling that beautiful, intense, loving energy spilling out from all of those wonderful people.”

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San Diego Magazine’s ‘Guide to Bohemian’ Ocean Beach

December 13, 2023 by Source

Here’s San Diego Magazine’s Neighborhood Guide to Ocean Beach – “Where to shop, eat, and play in the bohemian beach town,” (unedited) by Lili Kim.

Ocean Beach is the quintessential laid-back, free-spirited California beach town. While much of its retro culture has persisted through the decades, OB has also welcomed many modern restaurants, bars, and shops, attracting a new generation of food lovers and sandy surfers.

Here’s where to chow down, hang out, and gear up next time you’re wandering Newport Avenue and its nearby streets.

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Crash at Ebers and Point Loma Results in Teenage E-Bike Rider Hospitalized and Middle-Aged Man Arrested for Felony DUI

December 13, 2023 by Source

Fox5 reports that a 14-year-old boy was sent to the hospital Tuesday with a fractured pelvis due to a collision at Ebers and Point Loma Avenue while the other driver, a 47-year-old man, was arrested for felony DUI.

The unidentified teenager was riding a Talaria electric off-road dirt bike northbound on Ebers Street while the adult male was driving a Land Rover LR3 southbound on the 1400 block of Ebers Street. This was around 7:53 p.m.

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City Council Approves Mayor’s Housing Package Including Off-Siting Affordable Units

December 13, 2023 by Staff

In the end at Tuesday’s City Council hearing on Mayor Gloria’s Housing Package, it was 7 to 1 “yay” to one “nay”. The long, contentious debate over the controversies of the plan that’s lasted weeks if not months came to a conclusion – the last time the council voted on the package, it was 5 to 3 against – but with one “hold-out” this time around – who had her own reasons for denying Gloria a full, unanimous endorsement.

The most important controversy being Gloria’s proposal to allow affordable housing developers to build the units “off-site” — that is not on the property where all the other units are being built, units allowed under the city’s current law. And that was the controversy the last time this package appeared, only to be closely voted down. The Rag called it a “give-away to developers.”

What’s happened in the interim is

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New Life Breathed Into Plans for Aquatic Complex at Liberty Station’s NTC Park

December 12, 2023 by Staff

New life has been breathed into plans for a multi-pool aquatic complex at Liberty Station’s NTC Park. The plans have been around for years but after multiple delays, funding and interest dried up.

But now after the city of San Diego has completed a feasibility study, the project is experiencing the most momentum it has had in years, says Stephen Rodi, chairman of the Peninsula Aquatic Complex Council and president of Point Loma High School’s aquatic boosters program, as quoted recently by Pt Loma-OB Monthly.

Details of the feasibility study are expected after the holiday season, Rodi said.

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‘Neighbors for a Better San Diego’ Requests City Council Delay Discussion on Amendments to Housing Plan Today, Tues., Dec.12

December 12, 2023 by Source

The lead residential activist organization, Neighbors For A Better San Diego, is requesting that the San Diego City Council delay any discussion about — or vote on — the proposed amendments to the city’s “Complete Communities Housing Solutions”.

It’s their position that the Council must not act on these proposals until the Planning Department presents it with a thorough analysis of the impact of its proposed modifications.

The following email was sent by Geoffrey Hueter, chair of the group, to San Diego City Council Members on Monday, Dec. 11:

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Gift and Book Sale – OB Library Lawn – Sat., Dec. 16th 11am-3pm – Volunteers Needed

December 12, 2023 by Source

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Here’s Geneviéve Jones-Wright – Candidate for San Diego Mayor

December 11, 2023 by Source

From Campaign website:

Who is Geneviéve Jones-Wright?

Geneviéve is a native San Diegan born and raised by her single mother Mae, who retired from UCSD Hospital after working 25 years as a custodian, instilling in her the importance of community service, commitment to family, faith, and helping others to succeed.

While in the fourth grade, Jones-Wright decided to pursue the law after she was inspired by the achievements of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Geneviéve graduated from San Diego’s Patrick Henry High School, received a bachelor’s degree from the University of San Francisco, her law degree from Howard University School of Law, and her Master of Laws from California Western School of Law in San Diego.

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We Can’t Let Anne Frank’s Hopes and Dreams Die

December 11, 2023 by Ernie McCray

by Ernie McCray 

I’m remembering
walking up a stairway
in Amsterdam
through narrow doorways
looking into nooks and crannies
in Anne Frank’s hiding place,
an annex attached to a home
where she chronicled
in a diary
that stands as a gift to humanity,
the trials and tribulations
of her people,
Jews,

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King Tides for San Diego’s Coast — December 2023

December 11, 2023 by Source

Here is a chart of the King Tides for December 2023, with tidal predictions from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography reporting station at the Scripps Pier in La Jolla:

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Hapless and Shameless: the Big Lies Behind ‘Housing Action Plan 2.0’

December 11, 2023 by Source

By Mat Wahlstrom

On Tuesday, December 12, the City Council will be pressured to approve the same “Housing Action Plan 2.0” amendments to the “Complete Communities Housing Solutions,” without changes, that the council rejected less than a month ago amid community uproar, due in part to lack of any data presented to demonstrate what it has accomplished so far.

And all for no better reason than that our current “strong-arm mayor” form of government enables authoritarian refusal to take “no” for answers rendered in democratic process.

This is reason enough for the council to reject them, and I encourage you to tell councilmembers that. (It’s Item #335 on the agenda.)

But in case you want to know more:

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Action Alert from Neighbors for a Better San Diego: Contact City Council Member Before Tues., Dec 12th

December 8, 2023 by Source

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Money Stolen from ‘Pennies for Pets’ Fundraising by Point Loma Students Replaced by Strangers

December 8, 2023 by Source

By Michael Chen/ 10News / Dec. 7, 2023

Some grateful students in Point Loma are reflecting on a rollercoaster journey after money from a fundraiser was stolen.

For much of October, the fifth grade classes at High Tech Elementary led a school-wide fundraiser, ‘Pennies for Pets,’ as students and families filled jars with spare change and cash to benefit the San Diego Humane Society.

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The Post-Apocalyptical Fiction Section

December 8, 2023 by Staff

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ACLU Pushes for Transparency and Inclusion of Community Stakeholders in Hiring of Most Powerful Non-Elected County Position, Chief Admin Officer

December 8, 2023 by Source

Unelected CAO’s Powerful Role in the County’s Future Demands a Hiring Process Consistent with Our Shared Values as a Democracy

By Norma Chávez-Peterson, Executive Director, ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties

On December 5, I joined with several of our ISDF coalition partners to testify before the San Diego County Board of Supervisors regarding the process of hiring the county’s next chief administrative officer (CAO).

The nonprofit, nonpartisan American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has a 103-year legacy of protecting and expanding civil rights and ensuring full and equal access to education, jobs, housing, voting and more. The ACLU fights to guarantee that “We the People” means all of us.

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San Diego Planning Commission Approves Compromise Proposal to Redevelop Northeast Mission Bay

December 8, 2023 by Source

By David Garrick / San Diego Union-Tribune / Dec. 7, 2023

Plans to transform much of northeast Mission Bay into climate-friendly marshland took a key step forward Thursday, December 7, when the San Diego Planning Commission approved a comprehensive proposal to redevelop the area.

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Geneviéve Jones-Wright Enters Mayoral Race Against Incumbent Todd Gloria

December 8, 2023 by Source

AOL / Dec. 6, 2023

Geneviéve Jones-Wright, a former San Diego public defender and proclaimed advocate for justice and social equality, has officially launched her bid for the 2024 mayoral seat against incumbent Todd Gloria.

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Historic Irony: While We Commemorate Dec. 7th Pearl Harbor Day, Trump Insults All Those Americans Who Fought Against Fascism During WWII

December 7, 2023 by Frank Gormlie

Today, December 7th, we commemorate Pearl Harbor Day, 82 years ago – the day the US entered World War II and fought against the Empire of Japan and the German fascists.

While my mother lived in San Diego during World War II, both her husband – my father – and her brother were in the US military fighting Japan, along with millions of other Americans fighting the Hitler Nazis and the Fascists of Italy. My uncle never made it back – having been wounded during the Battle of Corregidor and captured as a POW but dying on a Japanese transport ship.

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San Diego Set to Institute ‘Redlining’

December 7, 2023 by Source

By Paul Coogan

The Flawed Housing Action Package 2.0

The City of San Diego, like many U.S. cities, is attempting to build its way out of homelessness and spiraling rents. This simple supply and demand approach to real estate economics is an oversimplification that does not take into account the market manipulations of large corporate interests.

The builders want “free dirt” and there are two ways to drive down the cost of land, depreciation of the parcel or increasing the revenue potential of what is built.

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New Law Will Make It Illegal for Employers to Discriminate Against Workers for Off-Duty Pot Use

December 7, 2023 by Source

By Kristina Houck / Patch San Diego / Dec. 5, 2023

After the New Year, employment discrimination for off-duty cannabis use will be illegal in California. Assembly Bill 2188 and Senate Bill 700 amend the California Fair Employment and Housing Act to protect employment rights for people who use marijuana.

Beginning Jan. 1, it will be against the law under AB 2188, with certain exceptions, for California employers with five or more employees to discriminate against current or potential workers for cannabis use off the job and outside of the workplace.

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Pt Loma Nazarene Named as Unsafe for LGBTQ+ Students by Campus Pride – Again

December 7, 2023 by Source

By Ava Bailey-Klugh / The Point – LomaBeat.com / Dec. 6, 2023

An article from Campus Pride released on Oct. 2, 2023 named Point Loma Nazarene University once again an unsafe school for LGBTQ+ students.

Campus Pride, a website dedicated to making college campuses more safe for LGBTQ+ students, created a list called The Worst List in 2001.

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