OB Rag

By Jennifer Van Grove / San Diego Union-Tribune / March 16, 2022

San Diego City Council members, as well as the public, will soon get to weigh in on the five development teams looking to remake the city’s sports arena site in the Midway District with thousands of apartments and a new or refashioned entertainment venue.

Proposing teams, which are battling to win a long-term ground lease for the 48-acre property currently home to Pechanga Arena, are scheduled to pitch their plans to the city’s Land Use and Housing Committee on April 21 at 1 p.m.

By Edwin Decker

Dear Ed, I want to watch my wife have sex with another woman but she won’t do it. What’s up with that? Is this a normal feeling to have?

Sincerely, Casper
From a campsite in Andrew Jackson State Park, South Carolina.

Dear Casper, I have my doubts about this being a “real” question for two reasons. The first being that any brain-having, adult human male who has to ask if this is “normal” must not have many married, male friends. The second reason I think it’s a faux question is because of the query, “What’s up with that?” as if it’s out of the bounds of reason she would decline the request.

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

By Geoff Page

Whenever you plan to take an action you know is wrong, it helps to have confederates around you so when the feces hit the fan, they won’t all blow on you. In this case, there were, allegedly, three confederates, the FAA, the airport, and the city. The action, that someone clearly knew was wrong, was the attempt to cut down historic tall palm trees in the 4300 and 4400 blocks of Newport Avenue.

The Concept is not new. See what other cities are doing.

Houseless people in downtown San Diego are getting $2 a bag to pick up trash in their neighborhood to earn a little cash as part of a new pilot program.

Retired attorney Brian Trotier handed out the cash as part of a pilot program he created called the Triangle Project which comes from the downtown triangular areas the project covers, one bordered by 16th Street, Commercial Street and National Avenue and the other bordered by 17th Street, Logan Avenue and Commercial Street.

by Ernie McCray

Oh, how about those Wildcats,
the way they get after it,
winning both the
Pac-12 regular season
and the Pac-12 Tournament
basketball championships
looking, to me, better
than any Arizona team I’ve ever seen

Lucy Evans Lauren Memorial Garden in Point Loma

There’s a hidden public garden in Point Loma that’s considered one of San Diego’s treasures. San Diego philanthropist George Lauren created this quiet garden to honor his late wife, Lucy Lauren.

Set on a residential street in the Point Loma neighborhood, the park is well off the beaten path. You may find you have the gazebo and grassy pathways all to yourself.

By Eric DuVall / Pt. Loma-OB Monthly / March 15, 2022

Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but any time is the perfect time for a love story. This is one love story that happens to involve several families, a cozy little beach cottage and a century-old wisteria vine.

The cottage, at 4761 Niagara Ave. in Ocean Beach, was built in 1907, making it one of OB’s oldest homes. Known as Wisteria Cottage in reference to the now-spectacular wisteria vine planted by John Clarke in 1915,

The Voice of San Diego has published a handy guide that answers most if not all questions about the average SDG&E bill.

by MacKenzie Elmer / Voice of San Diego / March 15, 2022

San Diego’s energy prices are the highest in California, but bills for January of 2022 were particularly brutal for many pocketbooks.

By Colleen O’Connor

Amidst the horror of the brutal Russian war against Ukraine; the fear of still more COVID-19 surges; galloping inflation; corruption laid bare; the January 6th investigations; and global anarchy threatening fragile democracies, Liz Cheney’s White Peacock moment may have arrived.

Historically speaking, the White Peacock represents a self that is resurrected from “the fire of fear and the shadows of doubt.”

Enter the Republican’s most unlikely Joan of Arc. Someone who can save the GOP from self-immolation.

By Thomas Ultican / Tultican / March 10, 2022

Attorney Cory Briggs has filed a suit against San Dieguito Union High School District (SDUHSD) over their new Trustee Area map. California law requires school districts to rebalance the board member areas after each decennial federal census.

Led by Trustee Mike Allman three of the five district trustees apparently decided to use this requirement for political advantage. In the process, the suit claims they not only broke the spirit of the law but actually acted illegally.

by Ernie McCray

I’m wallowing in the good feeling I was left with after spending time in a park with Marley, my six-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter.

I keep thinking how just a very few years ago we wouldn’t have survived an hour or two together, alone.

Because of what you might say: communication problems. I could hardly understand what Marley was saying when she was a bit younger

The City of San Diego Library Director has just announced that the Ocean Beach branch will reopen for six day service by the end of this June.

The OB branch, along with branches in Mountain View and Clairemont have been closed while most of the 36 branches have reopened. Two – North Clairemont and Serra Mesa-Kearny Mesa — have been partially closed.

Library Director Misty Jones said the city has finally hired enough new library workers to fully reopen all city branches by June 30, the end of the fiscal year. Jones did not provide specific dates for the Ocean Beach Library reopening,