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Mexican voters on Sunday elected Claudia Sheinbaum

From Washington Post / June 3, 2024

MEXICO CITY — Mexico is famous for its macho culture. Women here didn’t win the right to vote for president until 1953 — three decades after their U.S. counterparts. As recently as nine years ago, there wasn’t a single female state governor.

Yet Mexico has just elected its first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum,

Every Saturday at 10:30 am. Climate Mobilization Coalition Meetings June  8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th Keep up-to-date on climate issues and Climate Action events. To register email Jon Findley at  jon@climatemobsd.org.  More info: https://www.facebook.com/SDClimateMobilization/

Every Saturday 12 pm – 1 pm Peace Vigil for Palestine in OB: Advocate for Peace and Justice in Gaza and Everywhere Join CODEPINK SD, San Diego Veterans for Peace, and Palestine Pals every Saturday at 12:00 pm on the plaza corner of Sunset Cliffs Blvd. and W. Point Loma Blvd., entry to Ocean Beach, San Diego. Wear pink and bring a peace-related poster if you have one! Contact: Nathanael · ob4peace@riseup.net  More info:  https://www.instagram.com/codepinksd/

San Diego Fix It Clinics June 8th Carlsbad, June 15th La Mesa and June 29th Chula Vista .

June 4th Tuesday 10 am – 11 am Tour of SDSU Mission Valley River Park Event by San Diego Green Building Council

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 Wahlstrom

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 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 / San Diego Reader / May 22, 2024

Dark money assets and Toni Atkins

A $50,000 donor to the California ballot measure committee run by state Senate Democrat Toni Atkins of San Diego has been told by lawyers for the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission to stop withholding information about her potentially lucrative portfolio of real estate assets within the coastal zone.

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Panera Got an Exemption from $20 Minimum Wage?

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 Steven Mihailovich / Pt Loma – OB Weekly / May 25, 2024

The Ocean Beach Community Foundation, formerly known for nearly six decades as the Ocean Beach Town Council, reported preliminary findings of an ongoing audit that revealed thousands of dollars unaccounted for in the various bank accounts and credit cards held by the Town Council.

The audit was triggered by a financial scandal that emerged under former OBTC president Corey Bruins.

By George Vargas / San Diego Union-Tribune / May27, 2024

Bill Walton’s passion for basketball was rivaled only by his passion for rock ‘n’ roll, in particular the music of the Grateful Dead. The San Diego-bred basketball icon — who died Monday at the age of 71 following a battle with cancer — saw the Dead perform more than 850 times, starting with a 1967 Mother’s Day show at San Diego State University’s Aztec Bowl.

“I loved the Dead right away, the first time I heard them,” Walton told this writer in a 1992 Union-Tribune interview. “I loved the speed, the dancing, the rhythm, the creativity. It’s just like being on a basketball team. Basketball, like good, creative, rock music, is never the same.” …

In recent decades Walton sat in as often as his schedule allowed with the Electric Waste Band, a leading Dead tribute band, at its weekly performances at Winstons in Ocean Beach.

By Christina Bravo / NBC7 / May 22, 2024

A gray whale who has been spotted frequenting San Diego’s Mission Bay in recent months was last seen in the inlet on Sunday. And, despite what some concerned San Diegans might think, the whale is not there by accident.

Jeni Smith, curator of SeaWorld San Diego’s rescue program, said their team and specialists with NOAA have been monitoring the whale since March and have not seen any signs of distress. The whale, which may or may not be the same one every time, comes and goes through the 820-foot-wide channel entrance as it pleases.