Merry, merry payoffs Chris Cate, San Diego’s only Republican city council member, got $5000 for his well-publicized annual Christmas Tree giveaway from city vendor CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc. On November 3, CGI issued a …
January 5, 2022
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Google furnishes more food for Atkins ample pig trough
From the 1918 Ocean Beach rip current to Matt Baker, Ashley Babbitt, Lester Bangs, Nathan Fletcher, the 2020 drum circle
None of this actually happened. Except, of course, there was that Board of Supervisors meeting back in August…[Intrepid reporter Walter Mencken is enjoying a morning stroll along the strand in Ocean Beach when he happens …
January 5, 2022
How to start a daily ocean body-surf routine
My good neighbor Kevin and I are walking into the ocean, towards the white waves of a gray winter’s day. Water temp is high fifties. Knife-like breeze makes the air feel colder than the water. …
January 5, 2022
Jimmy Carter: the residential president
I was reminded of my meeting with President Jimmy Carter the other day when news broke that the organization he’s intimately involved with, Habitat For Humanity, had come up with their first-ever 3-D printed house. …
January 5, 2022