OB Rag

The OB Town Council is holding a “Town Hall Meeting” Wednesday, Aug. 23, and it looks like a good part of the meeting will be a workshop on the city’s “Cultural Plan.”

It will be at the Point Loma/Hervey Library located at 3701 Voltaire St. and starts at 7 pm.

Here’s what the OBTC had to say in their announcement:

Vic, a 61-year-old unsheltered man, helped others staying at Mayor Gloria’s homeless encampment to move out of the Golden Hill safe campsite before Hilary hit. Vic took the photos.

by Ernie McCray

I see the movie industry
as a huge answer to
the way our society
defines Black people
so negatively
because Hollywood is a master
when it comes to painting an image
of a people,
as I remember growing up
watching many a movie
that made the world seem

The folks at Peninsula News are tired of the “Cañon Street Crap.” Here’s why (for any links, go to original):

Long-time San Diego Reader writer Tom Arnold just wrote a cover piece entitled “Pier Review” about San Diego’s piers – and here is what he had to say about the Ocean Beach Pier — his favorite:

These days, my beloved Ocean Beach Pier has been making headlines because it is dying. The 1971-foot-long structure, with its dip in the middle and two asymmetrical arms at the end, is said to be the longest concrete pier in the world. …It hasn’t aged well.

By Chris Lindahl/ Patch San Diego/ August 18, 2023

Hurricane Hilary has intensified to Category 4 status as it continues to make its way northward off the coast of Baja California Friday morning, bringing with it winds up to 140 mph.

It appears that Democrat Monica Montgomery Steppe will face off with hard-right Republican Amy Reichert in November’s runoff to resolve who will have the supervisor seat for District 4, according the latest from the County Registrar of Voters.

Montgomery Steppe came in with the top vote at just over 40%, holding an eleven-point lead over Reichert’s 29%.

The other Democrat in the Special Election to replace Nathan Fletcher, Janessa Goldbeck, came in at 25.3%. And the other Republican, Paul McQuigg, garnered 5%. McQuigg didn’t run any visible campaign.

By Leighann O’Reilly

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