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By PAM KRAGEN | The San Diego Union-Tribune | Published: May 6, 2021 SAN DIEGO (Tribune News Service) — Among San Diego aviation buffs, Leo Leonard will always be remembered as a co-founder of PSA, the spunky San Diego-born Pacific Southwest Airlines that flew the California skies from 1949 to 1987. But until his dying day, the 101-year-old San Diego resident was hoping to rewrite the history of how some of the pilots he hired during the company’s glory days are remembered. The World War...

DEL CERRO — Among San Diego aviation buffs, Leo Leonard will always be remembered as a co-founder of PSA, the spunky San Diego-born Pacific Southwest Airlines that flew the California skies from 1949 to 1987. But until his dying day, the 101-year-old Del Cerro resident was hoping to rewrite the history of how some of the pilots he hired during the company’s glory days are remembered. The World War II veteran died peacefully from natural causes at 5 a.m. Monday at his home in Del Cerro. Ann...

Print Among San Diego aviation buffs, Leo Leonard will always be remembered as a co-founder of PSA, the spunky San Diego-born Pacific Southwest Airlines that flew the California skies from 1949 to 1987. But until his dying day, the 101-year-old aviator pushed to rewrite the history of how some of the pilots he hired during the company’s glory days are remembered. The World War II veteran died of natural causes at his home in Del Cerro, his family said. In an interview just three weeks befor...

How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I suggest you find a different community to do experiments on,” wrote Linux Foundation fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman in a livid email. “You are not welcome here.” Ho...

Sarah Nardi / WGLT A jury in Minneapolis last week found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges in the death of George Floyd. As the verdict was read, people outside the courthouse and around the world seemed to sigh in collective relief. Some measure of justice, it seemed, had been served. Speaking to a crowd gathered Sunday in front of a mural of Floyd on Bloomington’s west side, Cana Brooks said that just as it had for others, the verdict brought her a sense of reli...

- MARQUETTE — Uncle Ducky Outdoors of Munising has recently been named as one of the 2021 Michigan 50 Companies to Watch and one of 12 Michigan Small Business Development Center Best Small Businesses presented by Michigan Celebrates Small Business. MCSB is a nonprofit organization that is composed of statewide founding organizations that provide small businesses with resources to help companies grow. Nominees of the awards are evaluated based on intent and capacity to grow such as employees ...

Green River Star - Woman accused of killing wants confession stricken   April 22, 2021 RIVERTON — A woman accused of killing her husband with a knife in their Pavillion home on Christmas Eve has asked to have her confession removed from trial evidence. Through her attorney, Bennilee Strock argued Tuesday that she had asked for a lawyer prior to her confession but didn’t get one. According to arguments made during a Tuesday suppression hearing in Fremont County District Court, the follow...

Greg Scott, Livermore Since it is so convenient for the Tri-Valley Conservancy to sign up to "monitor" the proposed Aramis Solar Project in the North Livermore Valley even before the Alameda County Board of Supervisors "informed" approval of the project, I have a modest proposal: Tri-Valley Conservancy needs to monitor the metagenomics of the soil bacteria of the site. Metagenomics, also called environmental genomics, studies the genetic material directly from the field. Soil bacteria are a cri...

“The Rapid Housing Initiative is a positive development towards eliminating some of the challenges we encounter due to lack of support and services for our most vulnerable citizens in our community,” said Greg Scott, Kinistin’s chief, in a media release from the federal government. Scott said Kinistin also experiences the risks and challenges of homelessness, inadequate shelter for the disabled and those living with mental health issues, lack of resources for families fleeing domestic v...

Amy Niebur / WGLT Originally published on April 14, 2021 6:19 pm Bloomington City Manager Tim Gleason says he wants the public to meet the finalists for police chief and hes willing to wait until COVID restrictions ease before the city begins its hiring search. “I’d prefer to do that in person and I’m hoping I have the ability to do that late spring (or) this summer, but if I don’t, then I’m just going to have to move forward with this,” Gleason said in an interview with WGLT ...