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Lederer on Language " Female Strong: American History is filled with heroines – San Diego Union-Tribune
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (102+ words) Life often calls on us to be heroes, sometimes in small ways, sometimes in grand ways. A hero is a person admired for courage, nobility, exploits, qualities, or achievements and regarded as an ideal or model. America seems to be…...
Letters: Elected leaders ignore basics about financial responsibility
3+ hour, 4+ min ago (205+ words) San Diego Union-Tribune Re "The making of the city's budget crisis" (May 17): Another day, another article about the mismanagement of our city finances and our officials' feckless inability to solve the issue. When I was young, I was taught: Take…...
Padres minors: Four full-season affiliates lose; a look at organization's leaderboard
4+ hour ago (320+ words) Designated hitter Nick Solak and first baseman Will Wagner both homered in Triple-A El Paso's7-5 loss to visiting Round Rock on Saturday. Solak's blast was his fourth. He went 2-for-3 with three RBIs in lifting his batting line to. 324/. 427/. 460. Wagner…...
Summer Fest in La Jolla to celebrate 40 years of chamber music
4+ hour, 23+ min ago (1515+ words) For four decades, the La Jolla Music Society's Summer Fest has brought a month of chamber music to local residents. But the path to making the festival what it is today wasn't straight and narrow. Summer Fest will celebrate its…...
Padres Daily: Awfully awesome; Musgrove, Pivetta getting more active; Merrill gladness
5+ hour, 37+ min ago (63+ words) San Diego Union-Tribune It might have been the most paradoxical game of baseball ever played. Probably not. Baseball has been around a long time, and such a thing is in the eye of the beholder. But what happened at Petco…...
The Galapagos Islands: Learning to care for it, just like the locals
5+ hour, 49+ min ago (985+ words) A trio of sea lions frolicked in front of us as we snorkeled on the coast of the Galapagos Islands. A sea turtle glided by a few meters from us, unfazed by our presence. A school of orange and silver…...
Plastic pellets are small in size, but a much bigger headache for the environment " San Diego Union-Tribune
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (1404+ words) Plastic pellets are small in size, but a much bigger headache for the environment San Diego Union-Tribune In 10 minutes, volunteers collected nearly 700 nurdles at Rotary Park in Carlsbad earlier this month. Nurdles are tiny, pre-production plastic pellets about the size…...
Opinion: White supremacist hate is coming for us all
6+ hour, 16+ min ago (256+ words) As such, the screed written by the perpetrator of this nightmare has done us a great service " if we'll listen. While we argue about which group faces more hate and bias, let the horrors in Israel/Palestine break apart our…...
Should owners of vacant second homes be heavily taxed? San Diego voters get to decide
6+ hour, 17+ min ago (1527+ words) Measure A, known formally as the non-primary homes tax, was placed on the ballot by San Diego's elected leaders as part of what they say is a broader effort to tame the stubborn rise in unaffordable housing by returning as…...
High costs for fuel, insurance force hiring freeze for transit district
6+ hour, 54+ min ago (740+ words) Rising costs for fuel and insurance are forcing the North County Transit District to freeze hiring and slow expansion, officials said in a preview of the fiscal 2026-27 budget. The district will not fill 22 full-time positions, all of which are vacant,…...