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12:09 am PDT – Let’s end with something positive: Sharon Angle’s concession speech where she admits 80% of the money…

On November 1, the Monday after the “Rally to Restore Sanity” in Washington DC, I was still hanging around in the nation’s capital, digesting Jon Stewart’s closing remarks. I ended a call with a friend after talking about what had happened that weekend, and the woman seated at the table next to mine leaned over to chat.

Ocean Beach is home to a number of tall, sightly and wonderful Torrey Pines trees.  You may think of the…

Here below is the Agenda for Wednesday night’s OB Planning Board – November 3rd, 2010. The one action item on their agenda is a Neighborhood Development Permit to remodel an existing residence at 4681 Orchard Avenue. The residence is an addition on a site with two existing dwelling units. The meeting begins at 6pm at the OB Rec Center, 4726 Santa Monica.

OB Rag Live-Blogging Today

by Frank Gormlie

Today the OB Rag will have a “live blog” on the elections. We will be covering local races as well as prominent national ones, trends, results, victories, defeats – most of the day. And at 5:00 pm, we will be receiving results form the East Coast and will report anything of significance here on this website.
Plus Doug Porter of the OB Rag will be joining San Diego CityBeat panel tonight as well. Here is his pre-blogging report ….

Have you checked out San Diego Councilman Carl DeMaio’s roving billboard in which he (misleadingly) compares the pension of a four star general to a “shushing” city librarian?

It seems that the good citizens of San Diego are being screwed by some public employee welfare queen (the head of the Library Department) who worked in some touchy-feely service (our Library department) that could easily be outsourced to the private sector which on one hand says library workers are losers and then hires them back to run their lean mean operations.

The Day of the Dead, November 2, is a national holiday in Mexico and is promoted widely as an effort…

About 50 friends, supporters, advertisers, and staff partied down to celebrate the 3rd birthday of the OB Rag website and the 40th anniversary of the original OB Rag – the underground newspaper begun in the fall of 1970 – on Saturday night, the 30th of October.

San Diego City Council Races

By Doug Porter

Election day is upon us, except for those of us who voted by mail. There remain a few races that we haven’t covered, and the most relevant of them are the campaigns for seats on the San Diego City Council.
Lorie Zapt (R) vs Howard Wayne (D) — Vote Wayne

The race for Donna Frye’s termed out seat is the interesting of the two, pitting Republican businesswoman Lorie Zapf against former Democratic assemblyman and California deputy attorney general Howard Wayne. When all the financial reports are filed, it’s probable that more than $1 million will have been spent by both sides in this highly contested race.

It is getting dark and the cars are beginning to drive up the street, stop, unload their passengers and move away. I presume the drivers are going up the street to wait for their children.

The doorbell rings: I go to open the door. A cute boy, about 11 or so says, “triqui triqui.” (Obviously, he has said, “trick or treat.”)

– Estoy aquí para buscar ricos dulces. Nosotros no tenemos estos dulces donde vivo. (I am here to get some of your candy because it is so good. We don’t have the same candy where I live.)

I wrote recently about how addressing the Class of ’60 at the University of Arizona, as we celebrated our 50 Year Reunion, was an honor of a lifetime. Well, on that same trip home I received another honor of a lifetime: the UA Black Alumni’s Outstanding Alumni Achiever Award.

To be honored by my people, people who have come down the same road as I, a road upon which we had to struggle to hold our heads up high with Jim Crow …

During Meg Whitman’s Halloween visit to San Diego today – Sunday, October 31st – we have learned that she will push her offer to actually buy the community of Ocean Beach to local leaders.

During Whitman’s visit to Ocean Beach earlier in the week, much was made of her stop at a local OB surf shop to buy a surfboard and telephone the governor of Texas over a wager involving the World’s Series. Whitman was supposedly wagering the surfboard for a pair of Texan boots over the victor of the baseball games. But this was just the spin of why she really was here.