Times of San Diego / May 30, 2024
Longtime San Diego County employee Ebony Shelton was the unanimous choice of the Board of Supervisors to be the new chief administrative officer, board chair Nora Vargas announced Wednesday evening.
The board voted in closed session May 23 to select Shelton, the deputy chief administrative officer/chief financial officer, but said it would not identify its selection until completing contract negotiations.
By Mat Wahltstrom
After three years of engaging in good faith with the City, it is clear that it was never possible to significantly alter Plan Hillcrest in response to community input. [Here is alink to our official position.]
The terms of the SB 2 Planning Grant used to fund it require no less than 14,000 units be facilitated by right. It was never a question of what density is optimal.
As a consequence, this ‘density at all costs’ has been achieved by a lack of duty of care to provide for adequate infrastructure, safety services, parks and recreation, and transportation.
By David Garrick / San Diego Union-Tribune / May 29-30, 2024
Controversial proposals to double the populations of Hillcrest and University City by allowing more high-rise housing are being debated Thursday by San Diego’s Planning Commission.
The commission will also discuss a related proposal that would change San Diego’s citywide blueprint for growth to prioritize climate-friendly housing opportunities near jobs, schools and mass transit.
The proposals for Hillcrest and University City, which city officials have been discussing for years, could be finalized this summer by the City Council if planning commissioners express support.
by Ernie McCray
Bill Walton.
The Big Redhead.
Dear friend.
Gone.
And I will miss him immensely
for the sheer joy
he brought to my life,
beginning when I first saw him
on a basketball court
in high school,
never having seen
such dominance
in a basketball game,
by Brad Willis / Times of San Diego / May 21, 2024
It was a full house of more than 500 concerned citizens last Sunday at the screening of the God & Country documentary at the Coronado Performing Arts Center. That’s because people in our community truly care.
We are concerned about the Christian nationalist political movement, and we don’t want the radical political hate group, Awaken Church, whose founder calls us unholy, unclean demons and threatens to run us out of town, coming here trying to take over our school board, exploit our military, attack our library, preach a false gospel and seek to, in his own words, “take the crown of our Crown City.”
By Matt Potter / 
Editordude: Steven Mihailovich has quickly become one of the best reporters to cover OB and Point Loma. Here’s his latest on the morphing of the OB Town Council into something different.
By George Vargas /
by Ernie McCray
By Judi Curry
It’s now obvious that Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito has been playing flag football in his court.
By Christina Bravo /
By Paul Krueger
By Gary Wonacott
By Judi Curry
Gianni Buonomo Vintners Set to Move to Midway District
By Kate Callen 
by Ernie McCray
A 42-year-old man suffered life-threatening burn injuries when his motorcycle rear-ended a vehicle in Ocean Beach and caught fire while his passenger was ejected and seriously injured Tuesday afternoon, San Diego police said.
By Lisa Mortensen
By Mat Wahlstrom
Uvalde Anniversary Quilting
The City of San Diego has notified the public that the City Council will hear an appeal of the decision to approve a 223-dwelling-unit, seven-story building at Perry’s Cafe on Tuesday, June 4th in Council Chambers.
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by Mat Wahlstrom 
By Kate Callen / 
The following is from the Board of the OBCF
