Mayor Bob Filner continues to hold the media spotlight as he charges through the bureaucracy at San Diego City Hall to get things done for the people who voted him into office just seven months ago. La Jollan’s fears that he would only focus on city-core issues instead of neighborhood needs have proved unfounded, as the mayor’s presence in La Jolla has been steady since November.
Regarding the city of San Diego’s new plan to close off access to the Children’s pool completely during seal pupping season, I paraphrase a famous poem attributed to Martin Niemoller as follows:
I predicted the pinnipeds would starve and the sharks will make a comeback, and it’s happening! It’s all the more reason to restore the pool and have a safe haven.
I attend La Jolla High and was also interested to read about the changes principal Dana Shelbourne has made to upgrade the campus. I have a different viewpoint. Accessibility. In a non-disabled person’s mind, that word lacks meaning, but in a disabled person’s mind, the word “accessibility” is everything. Accessibility is how he or she is able to live his or her life as normally as possible.
I read with great interest “Jaywalking story draws readers’ comments,” in the March 20, issue of the La Jolla Light. Rand Hogan nailed the concept behind the crackdown on jaywalking, which is just another source of revenue for the City of San Diego.
There is another great source of absurd revenue for the City that takes place on the street I live on every Friday and Monday morning between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.
The La Jolla Light and its parent company MainStreet Media join a growing list of community newspapers from across the state in asking our readers to write letters and send e-mails opposing a bill in Sacramento which, if passed, could literally put many of us out of business.
Assembly Bill 642, authored by Anthony Rendon (D-Bell), proposes to permit the online publishing of public notices by allowing Internet-only entities to become “newspapers of general circulation.” Affected would be the publishing of notices of public meetings and bids, fictitious business statements, name changes, and trustee sales.
I installed SealCam on the Lifeguard Tower summer of 2000. It quickly became the most popular Internet camera in California. People from all over the world tuned in and watched what I coined San Diego’s “unique natural treasure” — the seals.
With much pride I state that the La Jolla Town Council has held its 2013 Election, announcing the results at our March meeting. Eight excellent candidates were elected, several who were returning Town Council Trustees, to complete our cabinet of 24.
A few weeks ago, there was a party for 13-year-olds in La Jolla and it became a drunk-fest after the kids started pouring hard liquor. That same weekend, at another La Jolla party, some eighth-graders tried marijuana for the first time. Drug and alcohol use is prevalent among La Jolla’s teenagers, just as
it is prevalent among teenagers (and adults) across the country.
I am sure many in La Jolla were caught by surprise by the relocated traffic lanes since the city gave no advance notice, not even to those with driveways along the impacted section who have to risk their lives to pull into traffic.
Hopefully, everyone will drive slowly enough to reduce the danger. The whole stormwater diversion project along Torrey Pines Road seems to have proceeded without appropriate notice or public review, and is most likely illegal as it will dry up over 500 feet of year round streams, diverting naturally flowing water to which adjacent landowners have riparian water rights including aesthetic enjoyment.
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