OB Rag

By Byron Morton aka Groucho Marx

The Rock n Roll half marathon ran past my house on Adams Avenue Sunday.

Not too many costumes this year.

Selva Coffee House recently opened at Terra Bella Nursery

We just picked up a story by Kate Murphy at MSN who claimed “San Diego’s best iced honey lavender latte is hiding inside a plant store.”

We looked into it (briefly) and found that Selva Coffee House just recently opened at a Midway District nursery, the Terra Bella Nursery at 3535 Camino Del Rio W. San Diego, CA 92110.

By Danna Givot / June 4, 2024

Both the University Community Plan Update and the Hillcrest Focused Plan Amendment were approved based on Blueprint San Diego being green-lighted at the same meeting. It is appalling that Blueprint SD was approved at all given that the EIR was only in draft form and the Planning Department has yet to respond to 1207 pages of comments, questions and criticisms from all facets of the public.

By Geoff Page

At the May 21 City Council meeting, councilmembers passed a motion that replaced the Uptown Planning Group with another group of unelected people friendly to the mayor and his donors. The vote was 8 to 1 with Marni von Wilpert being the only one voting against the change.

The OB Rag detailed what transpired in several stories recently. But, taking a closer look at what actually occurred at the May 21 council meeting results in the conclusion that this vote was not valid,

By Lynne Miller

As a local Obcean I have watched in ignorance and silence as a slow virus spread in our cottage community.  This virus is carried in the minds of humans.  The ideas that create and propagate the virus can begin anywhere. ‘This’ mind virus is a designer virus.  Its origins are not easily identified.  The symptoms are not easy to connect. John Denver’s line, ‘more people, more scars upon the land’ defines a symptom.

Hey, it is inevitable, it is just progress.  Come on OBceans, accept the new ideas packed into SB9 and SB10. What kind of people are you?

By Arturo Castañares / La Prensa / May 27, 2024

A new poll released this week shows incumbents San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer are both vulnerable to losing their respective re-elections, and voters are evenly split over City Attorney candidates in the November elections.

The survey, conducted by San Diego pollster Competitive Edge Research, surveyed likely voters about three of the top political campaigns in San Diego, including the race for Mayor, County Supervisor, and City Attorney.

by Ernie McCray

Clicking through
a civil and human rights
kind of website
my eyes came across
a very familiar sight,
images of “Colored Only””
and “White Only”
water fountain signs
which immediately reminded me of
when my mother and I
would travel down below
the Mason and Dixon line

By Sarah Mosko / Times of San Diego / May 3, 2024

Many residents of Orange and San Diego counties were relieved when the nuclear power plant at San Onofre was permanently shut down in 2013. This naïve thinking, that the plant posed risks to people and property only while the reactors were operational,

From UC Neighbors for Responsible Growth, aka UC PEEPS

Disappointing but not surprising, the San Diego Planning Commission passed the University Community Plan Update 4-0 last Thursday, May 31, with two members absent, despite extensive opposition, the absence of a final Program EIR, a rushed approval process, and hearing three major land use proposals all on the same day.

The Commissioners chose to ignore the many strong points made about the flaws and consequences of the Plan Update,

From Gianni Buonomo Vintners / June 2, 2024

It’s bittersweet to say good bye to the community that got in on the ground floor to support us. Few gave us much chance to survive on the beer soaked Avenue called Newport. Thanks to you we not only survived, but we flourished.

Good bye Ocean Beach. Thank you very much.

Over the next six weeks Gianni Buonomo Vintners will be moving from the place we’ve called home for the past nine years.

The lease on our building is up for renewal on July 31. The landlord is raising rent 20%. That kind of increase is too great for a small, community based winery to manage.

By Miranda Ceja / Patch San Diego / June 2, 2024

Despite fears of sharks swimming close to California beaches, shark experts say the apex predators of the ocean are unlikely to bite. Still, it has happened.

Last year, a total of 2 people were injured — and one man died — in unprovoked attacks in the waters off California, according to the University of Florida’s International Shark File, a scientific database of global shark attacks.

There were 36 shark attacks in U.S. waters last year, more than half of the 69 bites reported worldwide. More recently, a Southern California beach was shut down during a busy Memorial Day weekend after an “aggressive” shark knocked a surfer from his board.

By Phil Diehl / Del Mar Times / June 3, 2024

Nurdles are everywhere. Never heard of them? They are the raw form of plastic resin that’s melted and molded into everything from soda bottles to clothing fabrics, from food packaging to artificial Christmas trees.

However, two local environmental groups say a frightening amount of the pellets skip the useful product stage and are turning up on San Diego County beaches and in its lagoons, part of the rising tide of worldwide plastic pollution.

Nurdles are tiny, petroleum-based lumps about the size and shape of a lentil.