Editordude: Back in the mid-Seventies, San Diego Magazine -- known today as a slick mag beset with stories of the flashy high-living pleasures of San Diego's rich and near-rich -- was a local hard-hitting and muck racking journal in a GOP-controlled city with a monopoly press (the San Diego Union). Now, all of a sudden with the following article about Ocean Beach and its distaste for ADUs, the media project appears like it want to take up its former mantle.
We applaud that and we applaud SDM writer Maya Srikrishnan's attempt to do just that - be relevant again. This metropolis needs all the help it can get.
Back in the mid-Seventies, one writer for the magazine created its reputation of muck-raking: long-time San Diego newscaster and journalist Harold Keen. Back then, Keen left the glass-walled offices of downtown, came out to Ocean Beach and actually interviewed some of the then-activists trying to "save Ocean Beach" against the challenges of unbridled overdevelopment. I recall several pieces Keen wrote - and still probably have the cut-out articles somewhere in my files. And now, the following article wants to follow in Keen's footsteps (although he is not mentioned in Srikrishnan's piece) by exposing just why OBceans are upset with the ADUs coming into the community and several locals are interviewed. Here is a sampling near the end:
Editordude: Back in the mid-Seventies, San Diego Magazine -- known today as a slick mag beset with stories of the flashy high-living pleasures of San Diego's rich and near-rich -- was a local hard-hitting and muck racking journal in a GOP-controlled city with a monopoly press (the San Diego Union). Now, all of a sudden with the following article about Ocean Beach and its distaste for ADUs, the media project appears like it want to take up its former mantle.
We applaud that and we applaud SDM writer Maya Srikrishnan's attempt to do just that - be relevant again. This metropolis needs all the help it can get.
Back in the mid-Seventies, one writer for the magazine created its reputation of muck-raking: long-time San Diego newscaster and journalist Harold Keen. Back then, Keen left the glass-walled offices of downtown, came out to Ocean Beach and actually interviewed some of the then-activists trying to "save Ocean Beach" against the challenges of unbridled overdevelopment. I recall several pieces Keen wrote - and still probably have the cut-out articles somewhere in my files. And now, the following article wants to follow in Keen's footsteps (although he is not mentioned in Srikrishnan's piece) by exposing just why OBceans are upset with the ADUs coming into the community and several locals are interviewed. Here is a sampling near the end: