For those who closely watch the Rag, here are detailed results of our annual summer fundraising from earlier this month.
It’s a breakdown of numbers of donors and total donations by zip code.
- 92107 (OB and part of Pt Loma); 22 donors / $2,205
- 92106 (Point Loma): 3 donors/ $250
- 92103 : 3 / $330
- 92104: 1 / $100
- 92105 : 2 / $200
- 92109 (PB) 1 / $150
- 92110 : 3/$225
- 92115: 3 / $200
- 92117: 1/ $10
- 92122: 6 / $475
- 92037 (La Jolla) 3 / $325
- 92131: 1 / $100
- 91945 (Lemon Grove) 1 / $100
- La Mesa 1/ $100
- El Cajon: 1/ $100
- Out of County/ out of state: 5/ $280
We had a total of 56 donors for $5,170
We can see by this that the Rag has a solid core of local supporters from 92107. We can also see that we have a growing number of supporters in other communities like 92122 and 92103.
Isn’t that a great graphic at top by Ray Blavatt? The house in the background is the Rag’s original home and office on Etiwanda Street in NE OB in the early seventies.
It sure demonstrates the political dichotomy of this peninsula when you see the paltry number of Point Lomans who chipped in.
To be fair, the 92107 area does cover a good deal of Point Loma (area outside the OB Community Planning Area — which admittedly is smallish by design). For example, Collier Park — the great OB neighborhood park — is actually outside the OB planning area.
One thought is that with UT getting rid of its comment feature, and X/Twitter becoming essentially unviable, OB Rag is the only venue for an open public comment discourse for San Diego. Which is needed and valuable.
I wish there was the ability to do a like/love/thumbs up/thumbs down on the OB comments. That would allow a quick way to let your thoughts be known about a comment. Which also add another way to determine the overall thinking within the SD community.
All of the Rag posts are also published on the Rag facebook page — which does have the icons for up and down, but we’d hate to lose you to facebook. Haha; whatever dude. But thanks for all your generous support (you’ll be hearing from me).
Hi,
My wife just mentioned some politicians in LA are up on corruption charges. Wondering if that has filtered down to our present city government and administrators somehow given all the new ADU’s and absentee mega owners of local real estate in our communities. (?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/us/california-corruption-huizar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Gk4.VsfG.si1Dh9tzZAla&smid=em-share
Thanks Tor, we’ll have to check it out; and yeah, that’s all San Diego needs is more opportunities of corruption.