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The 44th Annual Ocean Beach Street Fair & Chili Cook-Off offers attendees eclectic fun in the sun for all ages. Tens of thousands of visitors will attend the event from 10 am to 8 pm on Saturday, June 22, 2024, for a tasty festival nosh, art, beachfront entertainment, shopping, and more.

From Media Alert

By Mary Brady

Dozens of homeowners and renters in the Clairemont/Bay Ho neighborhood will stage a protest demonstration focused on the City of San Diego’s refusal to halt the destructive and illegal construction by a developer who is cramming 12 so-called “Accessory Dwelling Units” on a single family lot abutting a canyon.

By Blake Nelson / San Diego Union-Tribune / June 16, 2024

Early one morning in 2022, Christy Gillette was woken by sheriff’s deputies.

The officers told her to move or face arrest. Gillette, who’s now 51, had been sleeping outside near the Santee Drive-In and responded that she couldn’t leave without her walker. The deputies instead threw the walker away, along with the cremated ashes of her husband and son.

By Craig Klein

I’m voting for Larry Turner for mayor of San Diego. Here’s why.

This November, the voters of San Diego face a binary choice. To continue the way the City is going, under the leadership of a mayor whose policies over the last 3 1/2 years have been an absolute nightmare for the citizens of what once was America’s Finest City. Todd Gloria, the current incumbent, continues to push unrealistic, poorly thought out policies, particularly in the areas of land use and development, which if not stopped, will be the end of San Diego as we know it.

From Mira Mesa Concerned Citizens

Mira Mesa residents are calling for assurance that their community park will remain untouched by commercial or residential development. Neighborhood leaders are raising concerns about the increase in urbanization without proper community input.

Mira Mesa Concerned Citizens, a community advocacy group, is actively working to protect a small but vital piece of property

By Bonnie Kutch 

Dear Councilman Kent Lee:

On behalf of UC PEEPS, I want to thank you for meeting with us last Wednesday morning to address our questions and concerns. We appreciate your honest responses, but still disagree with many of your statements.

The Callen Report

By Kate Callen

In recent weeks, hundreds of double-bottom dump trucks carting thousands of tons of rubble have driven in caravans down North Park residential streets, rattling windows and setting off car alarms.

Their destination: Balboa Park.

By Ashley Mackin Solomon / San Diego Union-Tribune / June 17, 2024

After her proposed legislation intended to promote safer use of electric bicycles was amended in the state Legislature — with some elements removed — Assemblywoman Tasha Boerner is planning a pilot program that would prohibit children younger than 12 from riding e-bikes in areas that opt into it.

Earlier this year, Boerner (D-Encinitas), whose 77th District includes Point Loma and Ocean Beach, introduced a bill that would require many would-be riders ages 12-16 to complete a written test and receive a “license” to operate an e-bike.

On Friday, June 14, Food 4 Less workers across California, announced an overwhelming membership vote in favor of authorizing their bargaining committee to call for an unfair labor practice strike should one become necessary. They’re represented by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Locals 8GS, 135, 324, 770, 1167, 1428 and 1442, together representing more than 6,000 Food 4 Less/Foods Co.

Bargaining resumes today, Monday, June 17.

by Tigist Layne / Voice of San Diego / June 14, 2024

On Aug. 15, 2023, DeMaio, who is running for the 75th Assembly District seat, announced he was going to put a California voter ID initiative on the November 2024 ballot. The initiative would have amended the California Constitution to restrict voting to people with a valid, current driver’s license or other government ID.

It needed 874,641 signatures by April 16, 2024 to qualify for the ballot. DeMaio didn’t submit a single signature, according to records provided by the California Secretary of State’s office.

This isn’t the first time DeMaio promoted a statewide voter ID initiative. The conservative activist and former San Diego City Council member has promoted but failed to deliver any signatures on five ballot measures, including the most recent one, since 2015.

By Marjorie Cohn / TruthOut / June 13, 2024

On June 4, a coalition of active-duty service members, veterans and G.I. rights groups launched a campaign called Appeal for Redress V2 to encourage military personnel to tell Congress to stop funding genocide in Gaza. Israel’s genocidal operation, now in its ninth month, has killed more than 37,000 Palestinians and wounded nearly 85,000.

The campaign is sponsored by Veterans For Peace (VFP), the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild, About Face: Veterans Against the War and the Center on Conscience & War. It is modeled after the 2006 Appeal for Redress issued during the occupation of Iraq. During that campaign, almost 3,000 active-duty, Reserve and Guard personnel sent protected communications to their members of Congress urging an end to the wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan.