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Politics Report: Libraries Arent Opening Any Time Soon San Diego’s libraries don’t have the staff to open for a while. And the new Labor Council leader is keeping her old job. San Diego’s Central Library / Photo by Sam Hodgson The city of San Diego’s independent budget analyst released a review of Mayor Todd Gloria’s proposed budget this week, identifying a handful of weaknesses in the plan to cut library hours for budget savings. The report pointed out that the $6.9 million in proje...

Print The Melbourne, Australia developer seeking to replace downtown’s decaying California Theatre with a 41-story, boutique hotel and condo tower successfully sidestepped an effort by affordable housing proponents to invalidate the project’s permits. Tuesday, the City Council OK’d the permits with district representatives voting unanimously to affirm a February decision by San Diego’s Planning Commission. The decision came in spite of dozens of public testimonials challenging the comm...

Author Karen Pilarowski Carolyn Rodecker, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC-S, LCDCIII), says, "As I read Finding Hope in the Darkness, I was deeply touched by Karens transparency and vulnerability to share what this grief journey was and is to her, all the while holding on to her Lord. This will be a great gift to all who pick up this devotional, to those who are struggling to make sense of their loss." Finding Hope in the Darkness will walk you through the journey from loss to h...

Lisa E. Betz Death and a Crocodile is a lighthearted mystery set in first-century Rome, featuring an amateur sleuth, a cast of eccentric characters, and an unrepentant, sausage-snatching cat. When Livias father dies under suspicious circumstances, she sets out to find the killer before her innocent brother is convicted of murder. She may be an amateur when it comes to hunting dangerous criminals, but shes determined, intelligent, and not afraid to break a convention or two in pursuit of the tr...

On January 23 rd of this year, a potential Bigfoot sighting occurred just south of Garberville, California, on highway 101. A man named Rick Bates made the sighting between Benbow Inn and Richardson Grove. In his report explaining his sighting, Mr. Bates wrote in part, “The road makes a few turns and the speed limit drops in the area. As I rounded a sweeping right hand turn I saw a figure on the south bound shoulder of the highway. I was the only vehicle in the area about 8:15 PM. My speed wa...

HANNIBAL — Staff and faculty at Hannibal Middle School selected Students of the Month and Characters of the Month for January. The Character of the Month award winners demonstrated the

There were already a few Christmas trees at the curb in Olean on Monday. But were the trees put out because residents see the Christmas season as over or because the trees were beginning to copiously shed needles on the floor? Well, Christmas trees that hold their needles for weeks longer may be among the results of a globe-trotting, multi-university research project. Searching for trees that can fend off diseases threatening the most popular Christmas tree varieties — noble and Fraser fir...

Back to basics: Winter Christmas tree webinar series announced December 22, 2020 Series will teach new growers how to build a solid understanding of management practices and give experienced growers a much-needed review, as well as give updates on research and emerging issues. Photo by Jill O’Donnell, MSU Extension Christmas tree operations run the gamut from small choose-and-cut farms to large-scale wholesale operations. Regardless of the size or type of farm, a good working knowledge of the...

Print Carlsbad approved an “urgency ordinance” Tuesday effective immediately that requires the city’s largest hotels to keep jobs available when business returns for their employees who are furloughed or laid off because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Only the city’s largest hotels with 200 or more guest rooms are affected by the ordinance, including the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa, the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort, and Legoland California. No criminal penalties are provided, but the ordinance...

>> he is a typical, cynical chicago ward politician who runs for office and promises everything. and then comes to office and disappoints. and so their anger is rooted not in me or in mitt romney, their anger is rooted in the fact that they believed in this hope and change garbage that they were sold three years ago by this president. they believed in the fact that this president was going to be a post partisan leader. they believed this president when he said he was going to be a tran...