OB Rag

Originally posted on 9/29/23. But now the government will shut down on Friday, Nov. 17
The federal government will shut down Sunday at 12:01 a.m. if lawmakers do not act.

What will it mean for San Diego County?

• Most federal employees would be immediately furloughed without pay.
• the shutdown could hit 64,000 civilian workers
• it will affect the roughly 115,000 military personnel in San Diego County
• Nearly 380,000 people received food assistance in the county in September.

Writer Dave Rice at San Diego Reader lets us have a peak at how the other 1% live.

The 5-bedroom “Chateau Beau Soleil” at 889 Sunset Cliffs Boulevard is 7500 square feet and owned by a trust is on display:

About a week ago, the San Diego online news platform, inewsource, announced that former San Diego U-T cartoonist Steve Breen was joining its staff.
In its announcement, inewsource stated:

Steve worked for the San Diego Union-Tribune for more than 20 years, practicing an art form that explained, questioned and poked fun at newsworthy occurrences, from local to global. He left the paper as part of the exodus when Alden Global Capital bought it a few months ago.

There’s a strong move afoot by Mayor Gloria to give developers even more incentives in building affordable housing as it supposedly would give developers wider flexibility.

There’s  just one catch: Gloria’s proposal will allow developers to build affordable  housing off-site and in poorer communities. This will lead to a new type of “redlining” say critics of the proposal and will reduce economic diversity across the city.

All the efforts of California’s residents have paid off – as national weather forecasters have declared the state’s most extreme drought in the last 126 years has come to an end.

Pat yourself on the back – for all those unwatered yards, all those missed showers, all the times you didn’t wash the car, all that rain water you collected – has now officially pushed he state out of that darn lingering drought.

And the U.S. Drought Monitor reported  all of the state was drought-free as of Thursday, November 9. … But – wait a minute.

by Ernie McCray

There’s a meme
that reads
“Be the things
you loved most about
the people who are gone”
and when I think about it
I can see that
I’ve been doing that all along,
keeping the spirit of lost ones alive –
through how I live my life,
|going back to my teens

On Friday, Oct. 20, lifeguards closed the Ocean Beach Pier because of expected high surf. The National Weather Service reported a swell of 4 to 5 feet with a period of 17 to 20 seconds from the west-northwest could generate large surf and strong rip currents through that Friday.

Lifeguards were to monitor ocean conditions and reopen the pier the following Saturday. So they thought. The famous but poor and damaged OB Pier has been closed ever since.

The pier was also closed earlier this year from January 6 to July 1 because of damage and underwent repairs in order to reopen. Which it did, but not for very long – from July 1 to Oct. 20.

After the OB Rag broke open the story about how the pier was so rotten and should close,

The expansion of the OB branch library is in the new library master plan approved by the San Diego City Council this week. As well as it should as the expansion of the old library has been in the works for years. But now it’s official.

Overall the new master plan calls for several new branches, expansions, renovations, more meeting space, more technology and tailoring the resources at each branch to the surrounding neighborhood. Some council members called for significantly more funding for library operations, from about $70 million per year to about $125 million per year.

The new plan calls for:

More than two hundred members of two Jewish groups and two Palestinian groups demonstrated outside of State Senator Alex Padilla’s office in downtown San Diego Monday morning, November 6. In signs, chants, speeches, and letters they called upon Padilla to introduce a resolution in the California Senate calling for a ceasefire.

Jewish Voice for Peace San Diego and the San Diego Coalition for Palestine were two of the main groups who gathered outside of Padilla’s office with signs that read “Ceasefire now: no more money for Israel’s crimes,” “Senator Padilla: Stop Funding Genocide of Palestinians” and “Jews for a Free Palestine.” Meanwhile, drivers honked their horns and demonstrators loudly chanted. Four organizers of the event, two Jewish and two Palestinian,

By Leorah Gavidor / San Diego Reader / Nov. 7, 2023

Many San Diegans already know: we pay the highest electricity rates of any metro area in the nation. That’s an average of 47.5 cents per kilowatt hour, compared to the national average of 17 cents. One in four San Diego residents is behind on their energy bill. Meanwhile, SDG&E paid its top executive $10 million in 2020, and its parent company Sempra Energy paid its CEO $23 million. Rates are set to rise again in 2024.

Non-profit Power San Diego wants the city to fire SDG&E. “

More on the Discussion about city plans for “H Barracks”

By Anonymous Commenter

I begin with this historical note. When the Naval Training Center closed, there was a federal law (I think it was McKenny-Vento) that required cities who were taking over federal military base property to include facilities and housing for the homeless as a priority. So plans to provide transitional housing for individuals and families who were homeless were publicized.

First, Point Loma residents voiced their fury, using the same arguments that we now hear of theft, needles, drugs, madness placing their children at risk. However, at the heart of Point Loma’s concern was their own dislike and fear of the homeless and their fear of property values being adversely affected.