SANDAG Renews Interest in Trolley to Airport Idea
by Danielle Dawson / Fox5News / Nov 14, 2024 Regional planners are revisiting a proposed connection between San Diego International Airport and public transit through a new San Diego Metropolitan...
View ArticleSan Diego Asks for Public Input on Rising Sea Level Mitigation Projects —...
City hosts community webinar on Monday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m, Nov.18 San Diego leaders Thursday asked for public input on several coastal resilience projects as the threat of rising seas could shape...
View ArticleHoliday Events for Ocean Beach and Point Loma
Pt Loma-OB Monthly The holiday season is just around the corner, and here are some of the ways Point Loma and Ocean Beach will celebrate. • Liberty Station ice rink: The Rady Children’s Ice Rink will...
View ArticleThe OB Dog Beach Fence Project Is Finally Underway
By Geoff Page The Dog Beach fencing project, described here in The Rag four years ago, is finally underway. The work of drilling holes in the sand and placing 4x4 wood posts is almost complete. The...
View ArticleOB Historical Society —‘When Death Was a Hitchhiker: El Cajon’s Mass Murder’...
Thursday, November 21, at 7 PM, Ocean Beach Historical Society Presents “When Death Was a Hitchhiker: El Cajon’s Mass Murder” by Author Richard Carrico, at Waters Edge Community Center, 1984 Sunset...
View ArticleNewly Renovated ‘The Shores’ in Ocean Beach Welcomes Formerly Homeless...
By Dana Williams and Eric Page /7SanDiego / November 18, 2024 A completely renovated apartment building called the Shores at North Beach, just steps from the sand at Ocean Beach, opened in...
View Article‘Saying Good-Bye to Hugo’s Cocina’
By Judi Curry Since I lost my eyesight in one eye, I have not been able to drive or go to the places I have always frequented before. It goes without saying that I feel like I am missing a lot, and...
View ArticleLa Playa Books: A Look Inside the Recently Renovated Bookstore
By Grace Chaves / The Point / Oct 23, 2024 Tucked away on the corner of Rosecrans Street is La Playa Books, a locally owned independent bookstore that sells new and used books, located only a mile and...
View ArticleA Plea in a Poem From Mission Beach
By Co-Pilot The City’s sea level plan, the final straw, Mission Beach's past, with its old law,| Once limiting who could own a home, Now diverse, an eclectic zone. Six thousand strong, a varied crowd,...
View ArticleFire on Abbott Street in OB Displaces 4 People
Early Wednesday morning in OB, Nov. 20, a fire broke out in a condominium which displaced four people and caused an estimated $120,000 in damages. No one was injured by the fire which started around 3...
View ArticleShort-Term Rentals Are Exacerbating Homelessness
By David Malcolm / Voice of San Diego / November 20, 2024 Short-term (vacation) rentals (STRs) are an innovation. Since VRBO and Airbnb came on the scene, this is a new sub-sector of the lodging...
View ArticleSustainability at Pt Loma Nazarene Not Up to University’s Claims
By Sydney Brammer / The Point PLNU / Nov 20, 2024 Point Loma Nazarene University claims to be a sustainable campus, yet the inaccurate and outdated information found on their website is misleading to...
View ArticleOn Single-Family Homes: ‘Let that wealthy-and-white trope disappear — it’s...
The following letter to the editor in today's Los Angeles Times (Nov. 21) caught our attention. The editors put a headline on it of "The reality of single-family blocks" and magnified the letter...
View ArticleWas Trump Really the Christian Candidate?
By Steve Anderson / The Point of PLNU / Nov 13, 2024 Steve Anderson is a fourth year journalism major and opinion editor for The Point. Anderson grew up in the christian church and is a self proclaimed...
View ArticleDonald Trump vs. the Ocean
By David Helvarg / The Progressive Magazine / November 21, 2024 For those of us committed to protecting the ocean, it’s always been clear that restoring healthy seas will be the work of our lifetimes,...
View ArticleHundreds Protest “Pencil Tower” in Pacific Beach
Nearly 200 San Diego residents -- mostly from Pacific Beach -- gathered Saturday morning, Nov. 23, to protest the 22-story "pencil tower" being planned for 970 Turquoise Street in north PB. The...
View ArticleCoastal Resilience Plan for Ocean Beach
Here are the plans for Ocean Beach in the Coastal Resilience Master Plan (without edit) -- graphics to follow: The Ocean Beach – Dog Beach project site is approximately 13 acres comprising open space...
View ArticleWinter Wonderland Takes Over Belmont Park
By Kristina Houck / San Diego Patch / November 25, 2024 The holidays are in full swing at San Diego's Belmont Park. Winter Wonder at Belmont Park is back and brighter than ever at the beachfront...
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