So…. Your long awaited royalty check has finally arrived. Or you just woke up from a really long winter’s nap. Or you’re just afraid to buy gifts in advance in case your friends dump you. Or… you just put off shopping till the last minute...
Topics: Economy, Ocean Beach

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If you have spent one day in OB, you know about the OB Seagull - a decal logo plastered on just about every car in town. And then some. The creator of the logo - another Ocean Beach artist - has passed away. Donald "Rick" Sorben died on...
Topics: Environment, OB Seagull logo, Ocean Beach, Rick Sorben

{"title":"Rick Sorben \u2013 Co-Creator of the OB Seagull Logo \u2013 Has Passed","post_url":"http:\/\/obrag.org\/?p=16143","feed_url":"http:\/\/obrag.org\/?feed=rss2","author":null,"date":"2009-12-18 10:21:41","summary":"If you have spent one day in OB, you know about the OB Seagull - a decal logo plastered on just about every car in town. And then some. The creator of the logo - another Ocean Beach artist - has passed away. Donald \"Rick\" Sorben died on..."}

Is it me or does this thing about the City putting up tsunami signs ring a wrong tune in these budget cutting times?On one hand, OB and the rest of San Diego beaches are threatened with losing our fire pits, yet at the same time, the City goes around and.
Topics: budget cuts, Economy, Environment, fire pits, Health, Labor, Ocean Beach, tsunami

{"title":"Fire pits out, tsunami signs in","post_url":"http:\/\/obrag.org\/?p=16130","feed_url":"http:\/\/obrag.org\/?feed=rss2","author":null,"date":"2009-12-17 20:47:56","summary":"Is it me or does this thing about the City putting up tsunami signs ring a wrong tune in these budget cutting times?On one hand, OB and the rest of San Diego beaches are threatened with losing our fire pits, yet at the same time, the City goes around and."}

It was one week ago that the idea was presented to have OBceans adopt the community's fire pits in order to save them from the City's plans to remove them. One of our commenters, bodysurferbob, told us that we would really regret it if we...
Topics: Economy, Environment, Ocean Beach, Organizing

{"title":"The Saga of OB\u2019s Fire Pits: Almost All of Our Fire Pits Have Been Tentatively Adopted","post_url":"http:\/\/obrag.org\/?p=16094","feed_url":"http:\/\/obrag.org\/?feed=rss2","author":null,"date":"2009-12-17 18:53:04","summary":"It was one week ago that the idea was presented to have OBceans adopt the community's fire pits in order to save them from the City's plans to remove them. One of our commenters, bodysurferbob, told us that we would really regret it if we..."}

Editor: If you're watching the progress of the current health care bill in the Senate, your heart is probably breaking. Here then are some of the arguments on both sides of the question of whether progressives should support the current version - a..
Topics: Economy, Health, health reform bill, Howard Dean, Keith Olbermann, Plug Klugmann, Popular

{"title":"Debate among progressives about whether to support the current health care bill","post_url":"http:\/\/obrag.org\/?p=16079","feed_url":"http:\/\/obrag.org\/?feed=rss2","author":null,"date":"2009-12-17 16:12:42","summary":"Editor: If you're watching the progress of the current health care bill in the Senate, your heart is probably breaking. Here then are some of the arguments on both sides of the question of whether progressives should support the current version - a.."}