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Wowee — like Maui in Carlsbad
PREVIOUS RESIDENT: William T. and Susan B. Walters LISTING PRICE: $29,000,000 BEDS: 5 BATHS: 9 HOUSE SIZE: 10,000 sq ft For most, a 10,000-square-foot oceanfront estate along San Diego County’s northern coast with a price ...
Exalta Farms
Previous residents: Brian and Helga Fritz, Chino Greenhouses Listing price: $29,950,000 Beds: 5 Baths: 9 House size: 7019 square feet Sometimes the desire for privacy goes beyond the seclusion offered by a guard-controlled, gated community. ...
You could be neighbors with Mitt Romney
Check out this $20 million, 9000-square-foot fur storage closet.
Monet in Rancho Santa Fe
PREVIOUS RESIDENT: Mohammed Abduljawad LISTING PRICE: $40,000,000 BEDS: 8+ BATHS: 8 ½+ HOUSE SIZE: 31,000 sq ft This week, we visit a property that represents the highest of high end: the most expensive home currently ...
Casa Piena
If it looks like gold, it’s gold.
Cary Katz, CEO of College Loan Corp., looks to unload his 39-room house in Poway.
SDG&E “committed to customer privacy” or disrespectful of it?
Poke the pig
Robert Garner files complaints with SDG&E regarding their security cameras that can view into his backyard and house. The electric company responded with a letter that said they are “committed to customer privacy”.”
John Moores' house can be yours for $23 million
You could have a moat!
Former Padres owner John Moores’ Del Mar pad up for sale.
Transit plan includes more air pollution
Total miles traveled and air pollution will increase in San Diego as part of the San Diego Association of Governments’ 2050 plan.
Ron Stacks Rocks in Ocean Beach
An interesting phenomenon has been noticeable to drivers leaving Ocean Beach northbound on Sunset Cliffs Boulevard over the past week. First, a pile of precariously balanced rocks appeared, followed by another and another, gradually taking ...
San Diego Public Library Flush with Reading Prizes — No Readers?
On June 15, the San Diego Public Library launched its annual Summer Reading Program, aimed at kids under the age of 18. As a deal sweetener, the library is offering free Padres tickets to children ...
San Diego Sheriff’s New Car Reads License Plates Fast
On June 4, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department unveiled a new “automatic license plate reader car” that will be based out of the department’s Valley Center substation. “This car has the ability to read ...
iPirates for Eiden Protest at Apple Store in Carlsbad
About a dozen “iPirates” assembled in front of the Apple store in Carlsbad on the morning of May 26 to protest what they said are the computer company’s tax-avoidance schemes. The iPirates were also there ...
Residents Gather to Foster Respect for Ocean Beach
Well over 200 Ocean Beach residents showed up between the veterans’ memorial and main lifeguard tower at the foot of Santa Monica Avenue on the afternoon of April 24. They were there for an event ...
Protesters Gather as Demolition of Farmers Market Building Begins
About 60 protesters gathered early Wednesday morning in front of the Farmers Market Building, a historic Sherman Heights structure, dating to the 1920s, whose tower and grain silo are visible to drivers on Interstate 5. ...
Ocean Beach Library Reopens
After being closed since late December, the Ocean Beach library celebrated its grand reopening on March 10, sporting a new roof along with fresh carpet and interior paint. The 83-year-old library, situated in a city ...
The Dire Limits of Health Care
In the fall of 2010, Raul Carranza arrived on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles by way of Eastlake High School and Southwestern College, pursuing a psychology degree. By the following January, ...
Taxpayer Revolution Seeks a Law Like Arizona’s
California spends $938 million annually to incarcerate prisoners who entered the country illegally, receiving less than $66 million in federal funds to offset the cost. An “estimated 60% of gangs in Los Angeles County are ...
Wyland’s Downtown Whaling Wall Threatened by High-Rise
Construction has begun on the Ariel Suite Apartments, a 22-story downtown development in the parking lot of the U.S. Bank (formerly San Diego National Bank) building at the corner of Kettner and Beech. An artist's ...
Protesters Criticize Duncan Hunter’s Support of National Defense Authorization Act
Protesters and aspiring politicians gathered on Friday, February 3, outside congressman Duncan Hunter’s office to protest his support of the National Defense Authorization Act. Many have voiced concern about certain provisions of the bill, arguing ...
Petroleum Pigs Underreporting Pipeline Decay
Greg Palast is a corporate fraud investigator turned investigative journalist. In his new book, Vultures’ Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores, he and his team crisscross the globe in a ...
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Offers Free Charging Stations in Clairemont
On July 22, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 569 celebrated the installation of two new electric-vehicle charging stations powered by solar panels on their building’s Clairemont Mesa roof. Senator Christine Kehoe and representatives ...
Pre-Circus Protesters Speak Out for Welfare of Elephants on Sports Arena Blvd.
A crowd of about 80 protesters lined Sports Arena Boulevard on the afternoon of July 14. They were there in anticipation of the opening of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus’ four-day run at ...
Fireworks Disposal Demo Ignites/Indicts Sparklers
The San Diego Sheriff’s Bomb Squad hosted a fireworks disposal demonstration on the morning of June 29 at their bomb disposal range in the Rancho San Diego. Two separate blasts were set off beginning at ...
San Diego Veterans for Peace Protests on Flag Day
An assortment of peaceniks, activists, war veterans, and their families gathered on the Sixth Avenue overpass of Interstate 5 at around 4 p.m. on June 14, Flag Day. They were there, in the words of ...
Protesters Rally Outside City College
About 60 people gathered shortly after 8 a.m. at City College’s Gorton Quad on Friday, April 15. Students, faculty, and community members spoke out against budget cuts proposed by Jerry Brown. Shortly after 9:00, the ...
Ocean Beach Planning Board Recommends That the City Use Suggestions of Medical Marijuana Task Force
The Ocean Beach Planning Board held a special meeting on March 16 to take commentary on a proposed ordinance pertaining to medical marijuana dispensaries within San Diego’s city limits. The meeting drew a crowd of ...
Ocean Beach Torrey Pine Tree Spared
A January 5 Ocean Beach Planning Board meeting left a gathering of about 15 community members relieved and one couple disappointed, as the City agreed to changed its plan to cut down a Torrey Pine ...
Off the Big Bay Balloon Parade Route
San Diego claims the Big Bay Balloon Parade is “America’s largest balloon parade,” with about 100,000 people attending to watch dozens of inflatable cartoon characters, marching bands, color guards, and, this year, local basketball hero ...
Park to Greet Those Entering Ocean Beach
City councilman Kevin Faulconer joined city employees and representatives from the Ocean Beach Community Development Corporation on Tuesday morning to celebrate the groundbreaking for Phase 1 of a 2 phase project to improve the first ...
O.B.’s Jazz Festival Draws Maceo Parker and Ticket-Price Criticism
After a yearlong hiatus, numerous O.B. residents and visitors welcomed the Jazz 88 Ocean Beach Music & Art Festival (formerly the O.B. Jazz Fest) back to Newport Avenue on Saturday, September 11. One aspect of ...
Everything Old Is Renewed Again
Rochelle Becker would like to correct me. I wrote in a June 17 article that the two remaining reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, located in the northwest corner of San Diego County, ...
Pretty Poopers
On July 7, the Ocean Beach Planning Board unanimously voted to approve designs for a new “comfort station” in northern Ocean Beach, near the corner of Brighton Avenue and Spray Street. Point Loma architect Kevin ...
So Much Things to Say
On the afternoon of June 23, protestors clashed on Newport Avenue, attracting several news crews and police. The demonstration, originally intended as a peaceful picketing/petitioning event organized by Frank Gormlie of the OB Rag community ...
Hey, Come Back and Clean This Up
General Atomics, the San Diego manufacturer of the Predator attack drone, has recently come under fire in Colorado, where its wholly owned company the Cotter Corporation operates a uranium mill. The facility produces yellowcake, a ...
Revolution at Hand?
During Friday’s lunch hour, a group of about 30 demonstrators organized by the San Diego Coffee Party took to the streets of downtown, carrying signs and occasionally bursting into chants. They gathered at the park ...
Barack the Killer
A group of 40 to 50 protestors converged on the headquarters of General Atomics early Wednesday morning, carrying signs, waving model Predator attack drones emblazoned with slogans such as "General Atomics Makes a Killing,” and ...
