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Will Detroit Budget Cuts Doom US in World EV Market?

Steve Parker | Posted 05.06.2009 | Business


Steve Parker

The perfect financial storm decimating the US auto sector could result in the nation's largest manufacturing industry falling even farther behind overseas competitors when it comes to EVs.

F-18 Crash San Diego: Pilot Ejects From Fighter Jet (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 01.08.2009 | Home


***UPDATE*** 10:47PM Fox News reports now that three people have died in the F-18 plane crash in San Diego: A fighter jet returning to a Marine base ...

Volunteer Invigorates Local Headquarters

Sheryl Z. White | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home


Sheryl Z. White

As a young child walking to school he would recite a rhyme that he learned from his grandmother - "Truman's in the White House eating bread and jelly....

You Buy It, You Break It At California's "Smash Shack"

Huffington Post | Patrick Waldo | Posted 11.22.2008 | Living


At San Diego's "Smash Shack", customers purchase breakable objects like glass plates ($45 gets you 15 of them), suit up with protective headgear and j...

San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial: Vote No on Prop 8

John Henning | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics


John Henning

This change in position by the editorial board of the home town newspaper has got to be a blow to the pro-amendment forces.

Detroit Three Expect $25 Billion -- So Who Bails Out Americans' Missing Car Payments?

Steve Parker | Posted 10.25.2008 | Business


Steve Parker

It used to be said that a house was the largest expenditure in any person's lifetime; but if someone buys five or more new cars over 40 or 50 years, those purchases could easily cost more, in total, than their home.

Street Racing Kills -- Help Me Stop It

Steve Parker | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living


Steve Parker

San Diego counts so many bodies and seriously injured people from street racing they say it is at "epidemic" levels and is a public health problem.

Border Wall Resistance Heats Up

Marisa Treviño | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics


Marisa Treviño

Homeland Security is determined to construct as much fencing as they can along the US/Mexico border while the Bush is in office. But they're being stymied by strong resistance from local residents.

75 students arrested in San Diego State University drug bust

AP | ALLISON HOFFMAN | Posted 05.14.2008 | Home


SAN DIEGO — Dozens of San Diego State University students were arrested and six fraternities were suspended after a sweeping drug investigation ...