Democratic Presidential hopeful and Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich will be in Carlsbad for 30 minutes on Sunday, August 12 with the Democratic Club of Carlsbad at the Carlsbad Women’s Club at 3320 Monroe St. He will reportedly arrive at 2:30 PM and spend the next half hour doing every thing he can to get people fired up for his 2008 run at the White House. But if you’re just there for the party, it goes from 1-5 PM and costs $40 per couple. Click here for more info
Of course, he’s spending a little more time earlier in the day with the celebrities at the Deepak Chopra’s Living Center in Encinitas. That starts at 11 AM and requires a $250 minimum contribution.
According to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune the Carlsbad City Council is asking staff to continue investigating the pros and cons of becoming a “charter city.”
Carlsbad is currently a general-law city, meaning it gets its powers from state laws and the Legislature. A charter city derives its powers directly from the state constitution, giving it broader powers.
In May Legoland Carlsbad set a world record for the tallest Lego tower ever built. It was the 94.3 ft-high mast of a pirate ship.
Now, visitors to the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto Canada (August 17 to September 3) are attempting to break Carlsbad’s record by building at tower that is taller. Construction begins Friday August 17 at 10 AM.
This means there is still over a month for sabotage. Legoland? Are we going to just let this happen? We’ll come over and throw a couple more bricks on the top if that’s what it takes, because world records are important in Carlsbadistan.
Peter MacLaggan, vice president of Poseidon Resources, said the company asked for the board hearing because the staff wants more information about the project and the company believes it has submitted all the data needed to judge it. “We’re in the process of resolving our differences as to whether the application is complete,” MacLaggan said. “Our request for a hearing is in the event that we’re unable to work it out in the next couple of weeks.”
According to the North County Times, The Surfrider Foundation has filed suit asking the court to force the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control board to reconsider the discharge permit it renewed for Carlsbad’s Encina Power Station in August 2006.
The permit allows the electrical station to suck in ocean water to cool its electricity-generating turbines, and then spit the water back out into the sea. A private company, Poseidon Resources, Inc., and the city of Carlsbad, are proposing to build a plant that would use a portion of the seawater the plant takes in, to filter out the salt and make it drinkable. . . Environmental groups say the “once-through-cooling” system harms the ocean, and that recent court decisions bar their use in the future.
While we are new to the pace of Carlsbad City Council meetings, one thing we dig is the public comment portion of the evening. Thanks to the democratic way, anyone who wants to talk can get three minutes to say anything to the Mayor, the City Council, and whomever is watching on TV and the Internet. This gentleman has been speaking about the same topic: “police secrecy, brutality, and perjury” at the last three council meetings. Click the video:
It’s City Council time tonight. Festivities kick off a 6:00 PM. The evening’s agenda includes approving some “salary adjustments” for the City Manager and the City Attorney and other routine consent calendar items, as well as a continuation of discussions from the June 19 Council meeting regarding the proposed Roosevelt Center development at 560 and 562 Carlsbad Village Drive. Watch it all live, on your computer by clicking here.
The Carlsbad Police Department will hold a meeting Monday July 2 at 1:30 PM at Safety Center, 2560 Orion Way to gather public input on adding an entertainment ordinance to the City’s municipal code and repealing the City’s Cabaret code. If you attend, expect to be joined by pub owners who are among a small group of people who can attend a 1:30 PM Monday meeting.
While none of us disagree with having an reasonable ordinance, we feel that this particular document as it is currently written is ambiguous, vague, discriminatory and contradictory.
We tried reading the ordinance, but got lost after the second whereas.
Next Thursday, June 28, 2007 the City of Carlsbad will host an “open house” to discuss ideas for “making walking safer and more enjoyable” in Carlsbad. The city has hired Alta Planning + Design to develop Carlsbad’s first Pedestrian Plan.
We have a couple ideas we may have to pitch: walkways not walls, sidewalks everywhere, and flashing-lighted crosswalks on PCH.
Every year the mayor of Carlsbad (and the Citizens of the Year Committee) names two people (one man, one woman) as Citizens of the Year. While this whole idea has us humming “We represent the lollipop guild” to ourselves, it is nice to recognize people who are doing good things in our community.
So, if you know someone who should be nominated please contact Marilyn Strong in the City Council office at (760) 434-2830 or at mstro@ci.carlsbad.ca.us and let her know. The deadline is June 29.
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Democratic Presidential hopeful and Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich will be in Carlsbad for 30 minutes on Sunday, August 12 with the Democratic Club of Carlsbad at the Carlsbad Women’s Club at 3320 Monroe St. He will reportedly arrive at 2:30 PM and spend the next half hour doing every thing he can to get people fired up for his 2008 run at the White House. But if you’re just there for the party, it goes from 1-5 PM and costs $40 per couple. Click here for more info
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