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Home Invasion in OB on Santa Cruz – 2 Arrested and 4 Detained
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Precincts in the City that wanted to legalize marijuana
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OB candidate for governor still getting press and still has signs up from Primary campaign
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No more free juice on Newport Ave results in less crowds at StarBucks
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Marine Protected Areas Approved
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OBCentric workshop before Christmas
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Long Branch Torrey Pine at OB Planning Board Meeting January 5th
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OB Historical Society features local photographer Joe Ewing on Jan 19th
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OBMA awards local storefronts for holiday displays

by Beau Grosscup

On the morning of 911, I watched as two commercial planes crashed into the Twin Towers. Just after a report of a third plane hitting the Pentagon, my phone rang. The voice on the line from Philadelphia public radio wanted to know what I thought was going on. “The common denominator,” I said, “is that airport security has been compromised. Somebody obviously read Congressional testimony on the problems with US airport security.”

By Kit-Bacon Gressitt / Excuse Me, I’m Writing / Originally published Dec 12, 2010 I voted for President Barack Obama,…

Update:  A small memorial is placed at the site where his body was brought up from the ocean.  Appears his…

In early 2010, my wife and I packed up our Brighton Street apartment — all 450 square feet — and…

This evening at 11:15 the OB Rag had its one millionth page hit! That’s right 1,000,000! One, zero, zero, zero,…

By Brittany Bailey/Special to the OB Rag Shortly after eleven am this morning, District 2 Councilmember Kevin Faulconer broke ground…

In last Sunday’s (12-12-10) San Diego U-T, there was a disturbing “in-depth” article about how the City of San Diego,…

Yet another study has been released that proves that watching Fox News is detrimental to your intelligence. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation.

I have been watching the controversy of the naming of the La Jolla ______Parade (you call it what you want…

OBRag writer Doug Porter recommends this video about flash mob dynamics and the Global Guerrillas blog which posted it.

Doug adds “Now if we could only figure out a way to use this to bring down a couple of banks..”
Flash Mob Gone Wrong by Tom Scott, Ep 77

Excerpts from San Diego: 1st City of Empire, by Rocky Neptun, to be published in May, 2011 by the San…