by The Editors on June 21, 2008
Work has finally begun on the parking pay station at the Tamarack Surf Beach parking lot that we first reported on November 17, 2007 when the California State Parks and Rec department first filed to build “an automated fee collection device in the Tamarack day use lot.”
Though we had hoped that the City of Carlsbad would work something out with the State of California it looks like that plan failed. Paying $8 for beach parking in Carlsbad won’t be long now.
Read what Carlsbad resident Richard Riehl thinks about this in his “freelance” North County Times column.
by The Editors on June 21, 2008
If you’d forgotten. Today is officially world-wide Go Skateboarding Day.
If you see someone on a skateboard (even if they’re rolling where they shouldn’t) congratulate them for celebrating a world wide holiday. And if you own a skateboard (no matter how old it is) get out and ride it. Or, you could even stop by the Carlsbad Skatepark at the Orion Avenue Safety Center and share the love.
[Link: Go Skateboarding Day]
by The Editors on June 21, 2008
Carlsbadistan’s NASCAR driver Boris Said Qualified Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Infineon Raceway by playing it safe according to a story on Motorsport.com.
Said’s less-than-full-throttle run was the 14th fastest and he will start the road course event from outside of Row 7. His No. 60 7-Eleven No Fear/Slurpee Ford Fusion recorded a time and speed of 78.568 seconds at 91.182 miles per hour. Kasey Kahne won the pole with a speed of 92.153.
“I stuck to our game plan and I’m glad I did,” offered Said. “I’m a racer and I want to go fast. That’s why it’s mentally difficult when you’re only going 75-80 percent and know you have a car that can challenge for a front row spot. When you’re one of the go or go home teams, you just can’t take a chance by going full throttle.”
Now we can watch Boris go full-throttle on Sunday at 12:30 PM on TNT.
[Link: Motorsports.com]
by The Editors on June 21, 2008
by The Editors on June 20, 2008
Amazing how this stuff can sneak up on us. Tonight (June 20, 2008) from 6 to 8 PM, on ball field number 1 of Stagecoach Park “contemporary blues” singer Debbie Davies launches the new summer season of Carlsbad’s Jazz in The Park.
Davies cut her teeth playing in blues and rock ‘n roll bands in the San Francisco Bay area before returning to Los Angeles in 1984, where she landed the lead guitar spot in Maggie Mayall and the Cadillacs, an all-female band led by wife of British blues pioneer, John Mayall. . . . Since 1993, Debbie has produced nine solo recordings and two collaborative CD’s, one with guitarists Tab Benoit and Kenny Neal, and another with guitarists Anson Funderburgh and Otis Grand. . . . in 1997 [Davies] won the award for Best Contemporary Female Blues Artist. She is nominated yet again in this category for 2008.
Pack up the picnic and roll out to Stagecoach for an evening of fine blues guitar in a big park.
[Link: Jazz in The Park]
by The Editors on June 20, 2008
In what has to be one of the biggest culture clashes in sport NASCAR hits the wine country this weekend when the Sprint Cup hits the Infineon Raceway.
In addition to the traditional left hand turns Infineon also be right hand turns and changes in elevation. All of this is good from Carlsbadistan’s own NASCAR driver Boris Said if he can qualify in today’s qualification runs.
Sonoma also gives fans of Boris Said, the so-called “Said Heads,” another chance to cheer the Carlsbad driver and road-course specialist with the mop of curly hair. . . .Said has four top-10 finishes in eight starts at Sonoma. But he doesn’t have enough points this season to automatically start in Sunday’s 43-car field, so he’ll have to qualify his No. 60 Ford today.
If Boris makes it in the race we might even watch it on TNT at 12:30 PM on Sunday.
[Link: LA Times]
by The Editors on June 19, 2008
How ironic: our oil-business president “urged Congress” on Wednesday to end the federal ban on offshore oil drilling. Why? Well, rising oil prices, of course.
The Bush presidency has used “global terrorism” to expand the US government’s powers (at home and abroad) like no administration ever before, so it should come as no surprise that he’d use “rising oil prices” to relax environmental restrictions on his family’s business, so his good ol’ bonesmen can drill for a reported “1 billion barrels” right off the coast of Carlsbadistan.
Two North County congressional representatives said they supported offshore drilling, while mayors of two coastal cities, the California Coastal Commission and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dismissed it as a risky, short-sighted solution to the current energy crisis that ignores more innovative alternatives.
No one would be shocked to know that our “North County” congressional representatives are lacking rational thougth processes, but this is crazy. Oddly, Mayor Bud Lewis is against this. And for that we thank him.
I doubt that even if we had an abundance of oil that it would reduce gas prices,” he said. “I really have misgivings about the feds.”
Don’t we all. For more details of this horror show, click some of the links below.
[Link: North County Times, San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe, New York Times]
by The Editors on June 19, 2008
According to 10news.com 10 more dead birds found around San Diego County, including Carlsbad, have tested positive for the West Nile Virus.
We are finding more evidence of the virus in urban areas rather than rural and mountain areas,” said Gary Erbeck, director of the DEH. “West Nile virus is a preventable disease,” he said. “You should protect yourself by using insect repellent, as well as inspect your backyard each weak for mosquito breeding areas.”
If you find dead birds in your neighborhood you can report them by visiting the county’s www.SDFightTheBite.com website.
[Link: 10news.com]
by The Editors on June 19, 2008
No, the Encina Power Station is not throwing a birthday party for big people. They are simply using huge 10 green balloons to show the size of the proposed powerplant that would be the next phase of their continued industrialization of the Agua Hedionda Lagoon, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The new plant would replace three of Encina’s five steam-driven turbines, so the old plant and its stack would remain standing for the foreseeable future. . . . NRG raised a group of green balloons this week to show the location and height of the new plant and its 140-foot-high smokestacks.
. . . The gas-powered plant would consist of a two-part electrical generating system. Gas would be burned to drive a turbine that produces electricity; then heat from that process would drive a steam turbine to produce more power.
Apparently, the new plant could need up to “500,000 gallons of water a day to generate electricity from its steam turbines” and to get this water NRG would like to put in it’s own “desalination plant.” They say they can’t use water from the proposed Poseidon desal because that project has yet to get the proper permits.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune. Photo: Regis Weber]
by The Editors on June 19, 2008
When baseball player Dan Giese, 31, retired after six years playing minor league baseball, he moved to Carlsbad and began selling used cars, according to a story on AFP. But that wasn’t the end of his baseball career. This Saturday Giese will get his first major league start as he stands in for Taiwanese hurler Chien-Ming Wang when the Yankees take on the Cincinnati Reds.
In Carlsbad you never know who you’re dealing with.
[Link: AFP]
Work has finally begun on the parking pay station at the Tamarack Surf Beach parking lot that we first reported on November 17, 2007 when the California State Parks and Rec department first filed to build “an automated fee collection device in the Tamarack day use lot.”
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