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REGION: Reshaping county districts draws yawn from County residents By Chris Nichols / North County Times / May 8, 2011…

Chanting “shared use is abuse” and “just one beach for the seals,” more than 30 seal sympathizers rallied in La Jolla [Saturday, May 7th] marching down to Children’s Pool carrying signs advocating creation of a marine mammal sanctuary there.

by Ed Joyce / KPBS / originally published May 3, 2011 Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists said the sea level…

By Tony Barboza / Los Angeles Times / May 7, 2011 It was a gamble when Southern California Edison crews pushed…

The 17th annual “OB Exposed” is coming up real soon, in fact, on Friday, May 13th. The deadline to submit to this yearly OB Historical Society photo contest is coming up even faster – May 10th.
The annual event is a one-of-its-kind, and it will be held up at the Masonic Hall, 1711 Sunset Cliffs Blvd.

“Anchor Baby” Member of Elite Seal Team Six

By Paul Hogarth

In the past few days, as America rejoices the capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden, I’ve thought about how this completely discredits the right-wing worldview – and how Republicans who pander to that ilk are now in trouble.

First, let’s state the obvious. A President named Barack Hussein Obama who many Republicans believe is not a “real” American was able to track down the World’s Most Wanted Terrorist –

At the beginning of the city council budget hearing on libraries on May 5th, every city council member proclaimed his or her support for libraries and expressed a personal commitment to restore the funds which the mayor has proposed to rip from the library budget- 7.4 million dollars. They emphasized that libraries are core city services! Peace has broken out my friends! But…

NBC San Diego reports: Two surfers who overheard calls for help near Sunset Cliffs helped rescue a man trapped by…

From ThinkProgress.org

As ThinkProgress has repeatedly noted, crucial services and public investments for Main Street America are being gutted as taxes on the richest Americans are the lowest they’ve been in a generation. Yet many Americans may not know exactly how unfair this is, as the country has grown increasingly unequal at the same time. Using data from the CIA Factbook based on the Gini coefficient — a measure of income inequality within a society — ThinkProgress has assembled the following graph, which demonstrates that the United States is now about as economically unequal as Uganda and more unequal than countries like Pakistan or the Ivory Coast.

This Saturday, May 7, San Diego marijuana supporters will meet at 11am and march together from Crystal Pier (Pacific Beach) on the boardwalk to the lifeguard station at Mission Beach and back again in support of the marijuana movement.

This event, co-sponsored by California Cannabis Coalition, is part of a worldwide march taking place on the same day in over 300 cities across the United States as well as many other parts of the world. It is expected that hundreds of San Diegans will participate in this worldwide effort to show support for the marijuana movement.

by Livia Borak

Two months. Exactly two months remain until the 4th of July holiday. We’ll take time off to enjoy the company of our friends and loved ones, fly our American flags and light the barbeque. And then the fireworks. What’s more American than buying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fireworks from China, watching their explosive display, and then sitting in traffic for an hour? Sarcasm aside, 4th of July fireworks are, for most people, synonymous with the holiday. It’s tradition.

“Newport News” is our occasional newsy update on what’s happenin’ on Newport Avenue, the main business street in Ocean Beach. Who’s opening? Who’s moving and who’s closing? We feel that a business district reflects and represents the soul and spirit of a community. We encourage shopping locally and we support businesses who give back to their community. So come on inside and take a look around….

New Salon – “Smart Clips” – to Open Saturday May 7th

George Wolf and Rima Salloum, a husband and wife team, are opening Smart Clips – a new salon for Newport where the old Paladin Video stood. I caught George as he was sitting on the shop’s floor, finishing up some last-minute painting. (Much more inside ….)