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Photo by Albert C Elliott

Recently, when the San Francisco Chronicle endorsed Marshall Tuck for California Superintendent of Public Instruction, they did so because, according to their editorial board, he has “the skills and vision to bring about needed change” and would stand up to “the status quo” (read: teachers’ unions).

While it has become quite common for mainstream corporate media outlets to blindly parrot the rhetoric of corporate education reformers, in this case, it is an exercise in doublethink of Trumpian proportions. Far from being a populist outsider fighting the establishment, Tuck is the pure product of the billionaire class.

Originally posted April 6, 2018.
Is this the last battle of San Diego’s nearly-century old Naval Training Center – the fight to preserve North Chapel?

That’s what is apparently going on over at the former military site on the edge of Point Loma. In a nutshell, Corky McMillin Company wants to turn the historic NTC North Chapel – built in 1942 – into a “restaurant space” – it already advertises it as such – and this is meeting some fairly stiff resistance from the community.

Human Banner Event Set for Saturday April 21 on the Sands of Ocean Beach : “VOTE!”

OB and Point Loma Planning Boards Have Vacancies

STVRs Return to City Council in April

Women’s Museum at NTC #METOO Art Exhibit

OB Bike Path Still Closed due to Trolley Construction

OB Rec Center Gym Closed for Maintenance

Slightly Stoopid to Headline Beer X Festival – Special Presale Sale for “OBceans”

$9,000 Reward Offered in Midway Shooting

AND MUCH MORE … COME INSIDE FOR THE STORIES

The local Point Loma bike track – called the “Famosa Pump Track” – has to shut down, according to Darren Miller who attended Wednesday’s meeting with the Mayor’s Office and the San Diego Housing Commission.

“It’s a loss,” Miller told me, “but there’s a potential win,” he added, explaining there’s some real motivation to find another potential site for an OB / Point Loma kids’ bike track.

The Famosa Pump Track is a plot of hilly land across Catalina from Bill Cleator Park, and has been used by local kids and adults for decades. Miller has been instrumental in organizing efforts to build and maintain the site. As Fred Robinson described it in a recent OB Rag post:

The Ocean Beach Planning Board met last night, Wednesday, April 4th, under the guide of its new chair, Blake Herrschaft, and easily approved one project on the 4700 block of Pescadero, okayed a bluff repair – that promises to provide more beach once completed, extended T-Mobile’s term for its antennae on the Masonic Center, and went through an exercise in efforts to make meetings more efficient.

Board members also recast their votes for the Executive Committee, after complaints were made by board member Richard Aguirre that last March’s selection process was flawed. The election results from March remained the same: Herrschaft as chair, Andrea Schlageter as vice-chair, Craig Klein as treasurer and a floating secretary role begun by Dan Dennison.

April Events at the Ocean Beach Green Center

April 12th Thursday 7:00 p.m. Film Night “Black Snake Killaz: A#NoDAPL Story”
This 2017 documentary by Unicorn Riot is about the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

April 20th Friday 7:00 p.m. Book Release: “Last Days in Ocean Beach”.
Jim Miller, author, teacher and activist will read from his new novel that deals with climate change that is based in our community of Ocean Beach.

April 28th Saturday 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Ocean Beach Green Center’s 29th Anniversary Celebration
Come help us celebrate Earth Day and 29 years of environmental, peace, and social justice activism. Great Local Live Music, Speakers, Refreshments, Raffle Prizes

COME INSIDE FOR DETAILS AND MORE …

It got quite chaotic early Thursday morning around 1 a.m. in north-east Ocean Beach, on the 2300 block of Etiwanda, near Greene Street.

When the dust settled, a pickup truck that had been intentionally set ablaze had been doused by firefighters, and claims of shots being fired about 15 to 30 minutes later not too far away resulted in 2 men being detained by police – with one news station reporting the men were twin brothers. No one was injured during the incidents, and the men were released.

Yet questions remain.

Here’s what’s happening in Ocean Beach – music and art wise – for April 4th to April 11th.

OB Library

4801 Santa Monica Ave
Ocean Beach, CA 92107

Saturday, April 14 at 2 PM – 3 PM
Django Shredders

Winstons

1921 Bacon St., Ocean Beach, CA 92107 • (619) 222-6822

The NBA great and Hollywood Reporter columnist argues the politics on the revived sitcom are played for laughs like on ‘All in the Family’ or the ‘Colbert Report,’ but the daily economic struggles of the Conner family actually make a pointed anti-Trump statement.

By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar / Hollywood Reporter / April 4, 2018

The day after the Roseanne revival premiered to massive ratings, President Donald Trump bragged at a Cleveland rally that the show’s success was because “it was about us.” He’s right, but not in the flattering way he thinks. Nothing reveals Trump’s myopia more than trying to grab credit for others’ success, not realizing that the show he’s boasting about relentlessly criticizes him and his policies more ruthlessly than almost any other program on television.

While Will & Grace, another revival successfully reinvented for current political times, openly pontificates its anti-Trump bias, Roseanne is more subversive

LimeBike Has Denied Bikes Launched in Ocean Beach

At the last meeting of the Ocean Beach Town Council on March 28th, we reported:

Zack Bartlett, general manager of LimeBike San Diego, told the crowd at the Ocean Beach Town Council meeting Wednesday night his bikes have not been deployed in OB, that the green bikes people see are from Point Loma and other communities where they have been deployed.

Complete Text of King’s Last Speech (inside)

In U2’s Pride (In the Name of Love) Bono sings:

Early morning, April four
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride

These lines are about the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4th, 1968 – 50 years ago. King was in Memphis where he had gone to provide support and encouragement to 1300 African-American sanitation workers who had walked off their jobs in that city.

The day before he was assassinated, King gave his final speech, known as ‘I’ve Been to the Mountaintop’ speech.