OB Rag

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March 4th Monday 6 pm – 7:30 pm   Envisioning an Environmentally-Just City

March 5th Tuesday – California Primary – Go vote if you haven’t already.

March 5th Tuesday 4 pm Silver Screen War Machine: Decoding the Military-Entertainment Complex

March 6th Wednesday 11 am  Petroleum 238: A Seven-Year Investigation of Oilfield Radioactivity

March 6th Wednesday 6:30 pm – 8 pm Connecting Creatures, Climate, and Communities

March 7th Thursday 6:30 pm Meeting of San Diego Chapter of BDS movement 

March 8th Friday — International Women’s Day

On Saturday, March 2, a woman in her 20s suffered serious injuries after falling 25 feet off Sunset Cliffs onto the jagged rocks below.

The as-yet unidentified woman fell from street level at about 2 p.m. at 900 Sunset Cliffs Blvd.

In at times a frustrating, exasperating, cantankerous and ultimately gratifying meeting, the new leadership of the Ocean Beach Town Council tried to put its best face forward at Wednesday night’s monthly public get together.

Before a small crowd of 40 at the not-very accessible club house of Park Point Loma, vice-president Shelly Parks opened the meeting by welcoming everyone, including those on zoom, the live stream of the website and “the live audience,” meaning those in attendance.

Here is a very brief basic summary of the high-lights of the meeting.

More Than 100 Cameras Have Already Been Installed

Since late December, more than 100 of the 500 cameras that the San Diego Police Department will be installing and using has begun. These are the Smart Streetlight cameras and Automated License Plate Recognition technologies, and nearly every day brings new installations.

Installation of all 500 cameras is anticipated by June, weather and other infrastructure issues permitting. It’s unclear how the new city budget restrictions enacted by Gloria just recently will affect the rate of installation.

Meet at the end of Ladera Street at the blue tent, 9 to 12 am.

By Joel Reynolds and Tom Soto / Los Angeles Times Op-Ed / Feb. 26, 2024

If the coast of California is a state asset worth trillions of dollars — and it is — why is the state agency that has successfully protected that asset for 50 years under assault? The answer — “unnecessary permitting delays” — is unfounded. Yet California’s exceptional history of coastal protection is in greater jeopardy today in the halls of our state Capitol than it has been for generations.

Like water flowing downhill, California’s incomparable coast has always been a magnet for development. In 1972, with this in mind, the voters of California overwhelmingly approved Proposition 20,

The Ocean Beach Woman’s Club has just celebrated its 100th anniversary — and here are some excerpts from Regina Elling’s touching account of their celebration in a recent Pt Loma – OB Monthly:

For 100 years, the Ocean Beach Woman’s Club has stood for friendship, philanthropy and sisterhood. The club is well-known across OB for its community advocacy, and it was honored recently with an official proclamation from San Diego Mayor

By Brian Ritter

The California open primary voting for U.S. Senator is upon us and it will send the two top vote-getters to a final showdown in November. The four major candidates are Adam Schiff (63), Steve Garvey (75), Katie Porter (50) and Barbara Lee (77).

Schiff is a pro-corporation Democrat; Garvey is a Trump supporter; and Katie Porter and Barbara Lee are progressive Democrats. Schiff is currently polling the best. Garvey and Porter are neck-and-neck vying for second place, and Lee trails. Second place continues to be uncertain, but it’s possible the Senate runoff in November might be between two older, white males — neither of them progressive. Californians deserve a better choice.

Apparently delayed at least a year from opening due to the pandemic, the latest coffee house to arrive in OB is still … uh, arriving — it’s still under construction.

Spill the Beans will be opening in the drive-thru kiosk of US Bank near the intersection of Newport Ave and Sunset Cliffs Blvd. Here’s what the Rag reported back

U-T reporter Jeff McDonald disclosed in a piece on Feb. 25 that there are at least three individuals with connections to Mayor Gloria who are “indirectly linked” to the lawsuit challenging Gloria opponent Larry Turner’s campaign for not meeting the residency requirements of running for mayor and which argues that any votes for him should not be counted.

Turner claims he lives in a cottage in Ocean Beach along with his spouse and small boy and has for months.

So who are these three guys?