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Comic-Con 2009 In Photos: Pick Your Favorite! (SLIDESHOW) (POLL)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 08.23.2009 | Comedy


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Inherent Personality, Inherent Eating Style

Donna Fish | Posted 08.18.2009 | Living


Donna Fish

Innate differences in appetite and hence, eating style and behavior, are coming to be better understood.

Jumbo Squid Invasion: "Carnivorous Calamari' Invade San Diego Shores, Spook Divers (VIDEO)

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 08.17.2009 | Green


SAN DIEGO - Jumbo flying squid -- aggressive 5-foot-long sea monsters with razor-sharp beaks and toothy tentacles -- have invaded the shallow waters o...

A Father's Day Remembrance

George Mitrovich | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living


George Mitrovich

My father taught his children to treat every person with dignity and respect, and to never lose the grace of saying, "Thank you."

Sneak-Peek Pictures! VVC 'All-American Car' To Be Made In Louisiana

The Car Connection | CarConnection | Posted 07.18.2009 | Home

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Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has announced that San Diego-based V-Vehicle will create 1,400 new jobs and assemble an all-new vehicle in Louis...

V-Vehicle To Build High-Efficiency Cars In Louisiana

The Car Connection | CarConnection | Posted 07.18.2009 | Home


After weeks of mystery and speculation, today V-Vehicle Company (VVC), a San Diego firm backed by oil man turned environmentalist T. Boone Pickens f...

FTA 2007 Operating Cost Data: The Subway is Cost Effective But Will Have to Be More So, or Die With the Rest of the MTA

Room Eight | Room Eight | Posted 07.10.2009 | Home


The attached spreadsheets compress National Transit Database data for 2007 operating costs into two three-page tables. The first shows operating cost...

San Diego Offers Glimpse Into Future Of Local News

Forbes | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media


If you want a glimpse of what local news may soon look like in big cities with shrinking newspapers, head to San Diego. Here you'll find a Web news ve...

Two Ways: Sunstone Loses San Diego W

Minyanville | Minyanville | Posted 07.09.2009 | Home

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Sunstone loses a WSunstone Hotel Investors (SHO) a real-estate investment trust will likely turn over its 258-room W San Diego to its lenders after i...

Breaking News in San Diego: The Marines are Looking for A Few Good Men

Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living


Chantal Sicile-Kira

My son - who is non-verbal and severely impacted by autism - has been heavily recruited by the military.

New Tunes On Monday: Elvis Costello, Marshall Crenshaw, eels, Alex Woodard, and Buckwheat Zydeco

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.24.2009 | Entertainment

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Mike Ragogna

You've heard Elvis Costello sing country music before, but not like this. The lad who gave us Almost Blue is quite mature and worldly wise now.

Navy copter crashes into ocean, 3 bodies found

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 06.20.2009 | Home


SAN DIEGO — Searchers recovered three bodies and scoured the ocean for two more members of a Navy flight crew Wednesday after their helicopter w...

Ryan Grim

Supreme Court Hands Medical Marijuana Major Victory

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics


The U.S. Supreme Court handed medical marijuana patients and advocates a resounding victory on Monday, refusing to hear a case brought by San Diego Co...

U.S. Border Policy: How To Fix What's Broken

Jim Luce | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics


Jim Luce

Funding would be better used to investigate and sanction U.S. employers who habitually hire undocumented migrants. This would not only be cheaper, but more humane.

Swine Flu and Paranoia, North of the Border

Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living


Chantal Sicile-Kira

There were reports of local San Diego residents acting pig-headed and hogging the road more than usual, but so far any connection to the swine flu outbreak has yet to be established.

Autism and Hope, South of the Border

Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 05.24.2009 | Living


Chantal Sicile-Kira

In Mexico, "hope" is not a word usually associated with autism, as there is very little on offer for children who have autism.

First Solar, Sempra Beef Up Solar Power Plant Partnership

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.16.2009 | Home

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Sempra Generation on Wednesday said it has signed a deal for the United States' largest photovoltaic power plant, a 48-megawatt solar farm to be built...

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.