by The Editors on July 23, 2008
Carlsbad’s three-wheeled electric motorcycle company Aptera Motors has received $2.75 million from RechargeIT, a company run by Google’s philanthropic arm, according to VentureBeat.
The 230+ miles-per-gallon Aptera has received plenty of attention over the past few months, and a post here on VentureBeat asking whether readers would drive the odd-looking vehicle continues to get responses indicating that yes, quite a few people are interested in the $30,000 car.
Every little bit helps, huh?
[Link: VentureBeat]
by The Editors on July 22, 2008
Carlsbad Youth Baseball has a lot to be proud of this season as two of it’s All-Start Teams (Pony 13 and Mustang) made it to the 3rd Round Southern California Super-Regional Tournaments.
At the Pony 13 Super-Regional in Fullerton, CA the CYB team lost to Placetia 6-5, then beat Redlands 5-3 but then lost to West Covina, ending their season. The Mustang Tournament kicks off Thursday, July 24 at 7:30 in Chino Hills.
Good luck to all the Mustang players.
[Link: Carlsbad Youth Baseball]
by The Editors on July 22, 2008
[Editor’s Note: This event has been cancelled due to a dead bird.] Get ready for what will probably be the most hard rocking night of the entire TGIF Jazz In The Park as Tinsley Ellis drowns Poinsettia Park in his own brand of southern fried blues, tonight July 25, 2008.
Tinsley Ellis sings and plays with the energy and soul of all the great Southern musicians who have come before him. Ellis attacks his music with rock power and blues feeling, following in the tradition of Deep South musical heroes Duane Allman, Freddie King, Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes. His live shows feature extended fretwork filled with melodic and rhythmic experimentation, in the spirit of jam bands like his friends Widespread Panic and The Allman Brothers. Atlanta Magazine declared Ellis “the most significant blues artist to emerge from Atlanta since Blind Willie McTell.”
We’re going to guess that means he’s amazing. Show starts at 6 PM at Poinsettia Park and remember to bring earplugs for the kids.
[Link: TGIF Jazz In The Park]
by The Editors on July 22, 2008
Thanks to Propsition P, the Carlsbad Unified School District will get $14 million in much needed elementary school upgrades beginning next summer according to a Stacy Brandt story in the North County Times.
“It’s really exciting.” Trustee Nicole Pappas said Monday about seeing the projects beginning to take shape. “This is what we’ve been waiting for.” . . . District officials are expected to ask the board at Wednesday’s meeting to choose Trittipo Architecture and Planning to design the plans for overhauling four elementary school campuses. The district would pay the San Marcos-based company $915,000 for the work.
Work would begin on Buena Vista, Hope, Kelly and Magnolia elementary schools next summer, so kids will have to endure one more school year in the old buildings.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on July 21, 2008
The saga of Carlsbad’s Alga Norte Park continues to drag out. In November 2007 Consolidated Contracting Services of San Clemente bid $29.3 million on the project, but the City Council said that bid was too low.
Then in December 2007 the City denied all six park construction bids because there were “multiple problems with the bids the city received.”
Now, thanks to being a “charter city,” the City Council is considering putting the bids out to builders who pay “non-union wages” according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Councilman Mark Packard was the leading advocate for adopting a city charter, largely on the savings that the city could gain on public projects. “Unless staff can show me some overriding reason why we would do it as a prevailing-wage project, . . . I’m going to be supportive of allowing nonprevailing-wage bids,” Packard said. . . .Packard said he believes the city can get a high-quality project and save 15 percent to 20 percent, or about $5 million, by putting it out as a nonprevailing-wage job.
This obviously gets right to the heart of American labor issues. Hopefully, the City Council will do the right thing.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on July 20, 2008
Hard to believe that it’s already been over a year since Matt Hensley transformed Squid Joe’s into Hensley’s Flying Elephant and created one of North County’s best live music venues (and drinking establishments).
On July 22, 2008 Hensley’s will be celebrating their one year anniversary all day with “free food, drink specials, promo girls, and live music.” Promo girls? We might have to check that out.
[Link: Hensley’s Flying Elephant Pub & Grill]
by The Editors on July 20, 2008
North County Times’ reporter Barbara Henry gets the scoop at Carlsbad’s new terminal. It’s scheduled to open in December and looks like it will be a nice change from those shaky floored mobile homes.
The sleek, modern terminal, with its seashore-themed decorative touches, is expected to shove the airport into the 21st century. Commercial passengers at McClellan-Palomar now depart for planes after spending time in a small, aging portable building near the control tower.
They’re even going to have WI-FI in the terminal. Now, if we could just fly somewhere other than LA or Phoenix.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on July 18, 2008
At about 7:10 this evening Carlsbad Fire and CHPs responded to a car fire on the southbound center lane of Interstate 5 at the Chestnut overpass that sent huge clouds of black smoke into the skies over the heart of Carlsbadistan.
An older model Chevrolet Tahoe completely burned out before fire crews could get to the scene. Witnesses reported hearing a loud explosion during the fire, however, there appeared to be no injuries. Fire retardant flowed across all lanes of the freeway and slowed southbound traffic considerably, but by 7:55 traffic was back up to 57 mph.
by The Editors on July 18, 2008
The Crossings at Carlsbad, the City’s $63 million dollar (or so) golf course may “fall short” of it’s projected revenue for the first year according to a Richard Riehl column in the North County Times.
Carlsbad’s Director of Finance Lisa Irvine, told me the course had expected green fees to generate $1.6 million in revenue in the first five months of this year. It fell $300,000 short of that projection. . . . The Canyons Restaurant did much better, bringing in $829,000, 33 percent higher than the $624,000 projected return. But the loss in golf course revenue alone resulted in city plans to subsidize The Crossings at Carlsbad to the tune of $400,000 in 2008 and an additional $900,000 in 2009.
We can totally understand. We’ve eaten breakfast at Canyons Restaurant numerous times and have yet to play a round of golf. Maybe it should be marketed as a $63 million dollar restaurant, with a really nice yard. . .
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on July 18, 2008
She’s been on the Carlsbad City Council since 1980, almost long enough to remember Mayor Bud Lewis as an elderly man, but Ann Kulchin is running again, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
But she’s not running alone. Four other people have filed the paperwork to appear on the November 4, 2008 ballot. They include:
- Glenn Bernard, a real estate sales agent and businessman.
- Keith Blackburn, a Carlsbad police sergeant.
- Farrah Douglas, owner of a printing company who is a planning commissioner.
- William Jubb, a banker.
Seems like it might be a good idea to change things up on the council doesn’t it? Especially when Ms. Kulchin is so anti-skateboarding.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
Carlsbad’s three-wheeled electric motorcycle company Aptera Motors has received $2.75 million from RechargeIT, a company run by Google’s philanthropic arm, according to VentureBeat.
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