Category: San Diego

A reader wrote us: “Please don’t let them rename any of our San Diego structures for Ronald Reagan- B actor, D president, F on human rights.”

(See this article – inside link.) Make this simple call TODAY 2/8/11 and make your voice heard!

Coastkeeper, Surfrider groups report jump in collected debris, and volunteers, since ’07 By Mike Lee / SignOnSanDiego / February 7, 2011…

Channel 10News has uncovered a scandal involving millions of dollars in street repairs with the City of San Diego, and…

Late in the afternoon on Friday, February 4th, approximately 200 people gathered to show solidarity with the people of Egypt, and stood before the Federal Building in downtown San Diego.

One of the main chants: “Egypt, Egypt – will be free!”

By Al Norman/ Huffington Post/ February 4, 2011

It’s clear now who is running San Diego.

Wal-Mart needed only 8 weeks and maybe thirty thousand dollars to scare the daylights out of the City Council in San Diego. One local official in San Diego, California called it a “dark day for democracy.”

Survey USA has released its poll on “favorable” ratings for different San Diego politicians who could campaign for the Mayor’s office in San Diego, the election in 2012.

In the “favorable” opinion of those 515 registered voters polled, Donna Frye has the highest rating:

Donna Frye ……….. 44%

By Rick Jahnkow /Draft NOtices / January – March 2011 Newsletter As sources of public money for public education shrink,…

Hola, Chavistas de Roosevelt
Middle School.
I just want to tell you
I think you’re beautiful and fly and cool
and take time to say
I loved the letters
that you recently sent my way.
All your comments and questions
warmed my soul and made my day
as I sipped coffee
and read them at Jitters,
a coffee cafe,

Read the rest of this poem by clicking the link below…

The City of San Diego is quietly selling off its only landfill, a move that will impact every San Diego resident and business, and the environment.

Besides providing a place to put a million tons of trash a year, Miramar Landfill is a moneymaker for the City and provides many benefits that are likely to be degraded or lost under the proposed 35-year lease to a private operator.

Editor: We wanted to repost this article as our new governor also wants to close certain parks. This was originally published on June 8, 2009.

by Frank Gormlie

Here’s what got me laughing. I read in the Union-Tribune just the other day about how the Governor wants to close a number of parks, beaches and deserts for budgetary reasons, including Anza-Borrego.

The Point In Time Count (PITC) of the homeless surveys were conducted this morning in Ocean Beach. As my alarm went off at 6am, I thought to myself, “what am I doing up at this hour? why did I commit to reporting Part 2 of 2 in this series on the Point-In-Time-Count?” It suddenly didn’t seem like my brightest idea to date. Yet, after what I witnessed today it was well worth the early wake up call.

By the time I arrived at the First Baptist Church at 7:30am where the surveys would be conducted, I was freezing and wishing I had worn my toe socks.

I don’t know if we’ve ever been able, in our society, to truly talk and listen to each other but,…