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City wants to sprinkle courts everywhere; thousands of residents support a proposed central facility in Point Loma

We are writing in response to the guest commentary recently published in the La Jolla Light titled “Progress is being made in fight against commercial jet noise” (Sept. 9). We have difficulty calling this progress for the Point Loma peninsula.

Breakdance with Olympic prospects Kearny Mesa/Old Town Breakdancing will be an official sport at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, and local b-girls and b-boys have been practicing breakdance maneuvers in hopes of repping Team USA. Throughout the county, breakers are “spontaneously” linking up via “social media,” according to b-girl Melissa Adao, and more formally at the Apex School of Movement and Culture Shock Training Academy. Photograph by Matthew Suárez For the recent Olympic qualifiers held on Instagram and Zoom, Adao, a 41-year-old Golden Hill dweller, busted funky grooves up top th...

Waiting for a solution is dangerous Re “Newsom proposes $12 billion to help California homeless population” (May 11): In San Diego alone we will need about 4,000 units based on two people per unit. At the price recently paid for hotels, I figure that will cost more than $1 billion. Meanwhile, we have a crisis in our canyons and on our sidewalks. Last week there was a fire in Kensington caused by a homeless encampment. With a dry, hot summer looming, it is only a matter of time until we have a disastrous fire with much loss of life and property. We need to get people into a safe place now....

Print From the 1300 block of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard southbound, some of the most beautiful terrain of San Diego can be viewed. This particular area brings people from all phases of life to view the cliffs, the waves, the birds, the homes, etc. But it is getting out of hand. The traffic, the trash, the drinking has skyrocketed to the point that residents sometimes cannot get out of their driveways because of congestion on the road; rescue vehicles cannot traverse the road safely; pedestrians think they are invincible and cross in the middle of the street even though there is traffic. Calls to...