OB Rag

By Craig Klein

I’m voting for Larry Turner for mayor of San Diego. Here’s why.

This November, the voters of San Diego face a binary choice. To continue the way the City is going, under the leadership of a mayor whose policies over the last 3 1/2 years have been an absolute nightmare for the citizens of what once was America’s Finest City. Todd Gloria, the current incumbent, continues to push unrealistic, poorly thought out policies, particularly in the areas of land use and development, which if not stopped, will be the end of San Diego as we know it.

Rag reporter Geoff Page met with several lifeguards from the OB tower at the parking lot at Sunset Cliffs Natural Park.

He took them to the site of  the dangerous bluff crack — and told me by phone that it looked worse from on top the bluff. The main guard agreed with him that it looked very dangerous.

From Mira Mesa Concerned Citizens

Mira Mesa residents are calling for assurance that their community park will remain untouched by commercial or residential development. Neighborhood leaders are raising concerns about the increase in urbanization without proper community input.

Mira Mesa Concerned Citizens, a community advocacy group, is actively working to protect a small but vital piece of property

By Bonnie Kutch 

Dear Councilman Kent Lee:

On behalf of UC PEEPS, I want to thank you for meeting with us last Wednesday morning to address our questions and concerns. We appreciate your honest responses, but still disagree with many of your statements.

The Callen Report

By Kate Callen

In recent weeks, hundreds of double-bottom dump trucks carting thousands of tons of rubble have driven in caravans down North Park residential streets, rattling windows and setting off car alarms.

Their destination: Balboa Park.

Rag reporter Geoff Page is alerting us to a dangerous and large crack at Sunset Cliffs. He was alerted to this extremely dangerous condition at the south end of the pocket beach called Garbage Beach by a person flying a drone who originally spotted it.

Page visited the beach and confirmed it. He wrote, ” While this one spot is by far the most dangerous, there were a half dozen other spots that were also very dangerous to varying degrees.”

It’s official! The city has changed the location for the community workshop on the proposed changes for Ocean Beach and Sunset Cliffs.

It now will be located at the Ocean Beach Recreation Center — same date and time — June 24 from 5 to 7 pm.

at 4726 Santa Cruz, 92107

by Ernie McCray

Jerry West’s passing
is very much on my mind.
The reason being he was a
true contemporary of mine
as we were born a month apart in 1938,
and our names, a couple of times,
were mentioned among
the top scorers
in the 1959-60
college basketball season,
both of us
basketball legends
at our respective universities
but my being in the spotlight in hoops
came to an abrupt end
while “Zeke from Cabin Creek”
took greatness to another level,
becoming the logo
that symbolizes the NBA.

By Ashley Mackin Solomon / San Diego Union-Tribune / June 17, 2024

After her proposed legislation intended to promote safer use of electric bicycles was amended in the state Legislature — with some elements removed — Assemblywoman Tasha Boerner is planning a pilot program that would prohibit children younger than 12 from riding e-bikes in areas that opt into it.

Earlier this year, Boerner (D-Encinitas), whose 77th District includes Point Loma and Ocean Beach, introduced a bill that would require many would-be riders ages 12-16 to complete a written test and receive a “license” to operate an e-bike.

On Friday, June 14, Food 4 Less workers across California, announced an overwhelming membership vote in favor of authorizing their bargaining committee to call for an unfair labor practice strike should one become necessary. They’re represented by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Locals 8GS, 135, 324, 770, 1167, 1428 and 1442, together representing more than 6,000 Food 4 Less/Foods Co.

Bargaining resumes today, Monday, June 17.

by Tigist Layne / Voice of San Diego / June 14, 2024

On Aug. 15, 2023, DeMaio, who is running for the 75th Assembly District seat, announced he was going to put a California voter ID initiative on the November 2024 ballot. The initiative would have amended the California Constitution to restrict voting to people with a valid, current driver’s license or other government ID.

It needed 874,641 signatures by April 16, 2024 to qualify for the ballot. DeMaio didn’t submit a single signature, according to records provided by the California Secretary of State’s office.

This isn’t the first time DeMaio promoted a statewide voter ID initiative. The conservative activist and former San Diego City Council member has promoted but failed to deliver any signatures on five ballot measures, including the most recent one, since 2015.

Today, there’s a good number of depressed residents from two of San Diego’s neighborhoods, Hillcrest and University City. It was yesterday, June 13, that the key City Council Land Use & Housing Committee bulldozed over their concerns and unanimously approved plans that would literally double the number of residents within their communities.

Now that the committee approved the plans — without any changes — they will go before the City Council and likely be okayed by the full nine-member council in July.

Under the plans approved yesterday, University City would see more than an additional 64,200 residents, nearly doubling the neighborhood’s