OB Rag

The OB Rag is an indispensable and progressive online blog website full of information, articles, and opinions that vitally represent the OB experience. From the OB Rag website itself: «This Blog was first initiated by Frank Gormlie and Patty Jones in late October 2007 to ply the San Diego scene with news and commentary from a distinctively progressive and grassroots perspective, and to provide a forum for those views. Importantly, we also wanted to provide some kind of web platform for the Ocean Beach community.»
But before the OB Rag went online, it was once an actual newspaper. The publishers at the time, including Frank Gormlie, were all part of the radical OB contingent that protested the Vietnam War and also coalesced to stop the threatened redevelopment of Ocean Beach into a «Pacific Beach» full of retirees in over-​sized condos. While some may deride the OB Rag as a bunch of left wing zealots and socialists, the website continues to amass hits and crank out worthy articles on subjects near and dear to the hearts of OBcians such as medical marijuana and rezoning fights.
I love to read the OB Rag because they are always up on the latest restaurants that are either opening or closing. The website is a staunch supporter of saving the OB Library and took a big lead in organizing the protests that got media (and City Council) attention to the wishes of many local citizenry to preserve library hours. Remember the big to-​do over the bum bumper stickers that The Black was promoting a year ago? The OB Rag protested that too According to the Huffington Post: «Frank Gormlie, attorney, grassroots activist and editor/​publisher of the OB Rag at
, with local police standing watch, sought signatures on his petition requesting that The Black, a head shop in Ocean Beach, CA, cease selling a sticker that Frank said was very close «to hate speech which is illegal.».
If there is some lefty cause or radical agenda going down, count on the OB Rag to be mixed up in it and for that daring sense of community spirit, I award them the esteemed and well-​deserved Unilocal 5 STARS!