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Tuesday, May 14, the San Diego City Council approved the fire department lifeguard services division to buy upgraded surveillance technology to replace existing cameras around Mission Bay and the Ocean Beach Pier.

The fire department wants to upgrade its existing cameras for “situational awareness,” according to James Gartland, Chief of the Lifeguard Division for the City of San Diego. Gartland said the upgrades will help them better monitor the activity on the bay or when a boat is in trouble.

San Diego City Council on Tuesday approved the fire department’s lifeguard services division to continue the use of the Mission Bay and Ocean Beach

By Rob Nikolewski / San Diego Union-Tribune / May 14, 2024

Power San Diego, the initiative that wants to oust San Diego Gas & Electric by creating a municipal electric utility within the city limits of San Diego, has fallen short of its goal of collecting 80,000 verified signatures to put the proposition on the ballot this fall.

But the group turned in about 31,000 signatures to the County Registrar of Voters on Tuesday, which it says would be enough to put the question before the San Diego City Council instead.

The following was a talk given at a May 4, 2024 march in solidarity with Palestine in Olympia, Washington, and updated May  14.

By Peter Bohmer

Student movements have played a major role in radical history and revolutionary struggles.  For example, France in May 1968 began with a student strike and then spread to worker occupation of many factories. They didn’t win their demands although they gained substantial increases in student rights and wages.

On May 4, 1970, 54 years ago from the day of this demonstration, four students were killed at Kent State University for protesting the US invasion of Cambodia by the Ohio National Guard. 

By Geoff Page

Those of us raised in the television generation grew up with images for stories. The generation before TV listened to radio programs with as much enthusiasm, it seems, as the TV generation did to TV. We have images that are inseparable from horror stories we know. It was a wonder to us how the radio generation could be as scared as we were, without pictures.

This writer does not wonder any more after listening to a podcast by two developers, Shawn DiMartile and Mike Tighe, talking about their ADU project in Ocean Beach. It is possible to horrify a person with only words.

The city of San Diego is bringing the old and historic Mission Hills library building back into circulation — this time as a “library shop,” much like the one in the downtown library. Used books and tchotchkes would be sold, and the building would also host community events.

City crews have been at the site to address a series of the structure’s problems: broken brickwork, shattered windows, and graffiti — and bring it back from being a neighborhood eyesore.

Needs City Clerk’s Certification

The Power San Diego ballot measure campaign has delivered tens of thousands of signatures from their volunteer effort to replace SDGE with a non-profit public electric utility. Designed to conform to San Diego’s City Charter, the initiative would  establish a lower-cost electric utility, retain the current union workforce, and be overseen by a qualified board of directors with citizen oversight.

From Save Our Heritage Organization

3500 Sports Arena Boulevard in the Midway area is well known to generations as the San Diego International Sports Arena.

This venue for sports, concerts, and other events is designated under Historic Resources Board Criteria A and B, with a period of significance of 1966-1974, and under Criterion C, architecture for the year it was built, 1966.

By Lynne Miller

Hey Friends! Some of you know that we have been opposing a 20-unit building in our Ocean Beach neighborhood. The good news is that OBPB voted to deny the project. The bad news is that the City of San Diego does not have to accept the recommendation, so we will likely have a long appeal process ahead.

I attended Peninsula Planning Board (subcommittee) meeting and found out something disturbing.

By Eric S. Page / NBC7 /May 13, 2024

Four months after it was abruptly padlocked, a free city public parking lot near the shore in Ocean Beach remains off-limits to cars, a pair of sun-bleached printed signs hanging from the gates telling people that the lot would “be locked indefinitely due to safety issues.”

ReWild Holds Rally for Vital Environmental Protections in the Mission Bay Park Master Plan Amendment

A coalition of 89+ member organizations, known collectively as the ReWild Coalition, are hosting a rally at San Diego City Hall on Tuesday at 1PM, before delivering comments at the City Council meeting to adopt critical amendments to the Mission Bay Park Master Plan.

Here are two statements made this week by UCSD faculty and graduate students in response to the use of law enforcement to make arrests and break down a tent encampment in solidarity with the people of Gaza. The faculty call for Chancellor Pradeep Khosla’s immediate resignation.

UCSD Faculty Call for Chancellor’s Resignation

Faculty of the Ethnic Studies department at UC San Diego are outraged at the vicious suppression of students by our administration under the leadership of Chancellor Pradeep Khosla. This morning, May 6, 2024, Chancellor Khosla called on the UCPD, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, and California Highway Patrol in military riot gear to raid an encampment of peaceful demonstrators exercising their free speech

Christopher Higginbotham was the man who was captured in widely circulated footage grabbing a young boy on Newport Ave., outside an Ocean Beach business and trying to take the child with him was sentenced Wednesday, May 8, to two years in county jail.

Higginbotham, 39, pleaded guilty to a felony false imprisonment count for picking an 8-year-old boy up on March 22 along Newport Avenue.