Congress member urges captives unit in Pentagon
EL CAJON, California (SDONA)–Rep. Duncan Hunter, a former Marine Corps officer who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, is pushing the government to develop a unified approach and better options for...
View ArticleFaulconer: San Diego trains for terrorist attack
SAN DIEGO (SDONA)–Mayor Kevin Faulconer, interviewed on CNN’s “State of the Union” show Sunday, said thwarting terrorists requires a partnership with law enforcement at the neighborhood level. “The...
View ArticleThe death cult known as ISIS
By Joe Gandelman SAN DIEGO (SDONA)–Whither the Islamic State? That’s a real double-edged question: where is the group otherwise known as ISIS headed, and can the United States and other civilized...
View ArticleMarti Emerald faces breast cancer challenge
SAN DIEGO (SDONA) — The office of San Diego City Councilwoman Marti Emerald has confirmed a report that she is battling breast cancer and is scheduled to undergo outpatient surgery soon. “My doctors...
View ArticleBeinart says Israel needs 2-State solution
By Chris Jennewein SAN DIEGO (Times of San Diego) — A leading scholar of modern Israel said the Jewish state’s future depends on the creation of a separate Palestinian homeland in the West Bank....
View ArticleSalk Institute pill tricks body into weight loss
LA JOLLA, California (SDONA) — Salk Institute researchers announced Monday the development of an entirely new type of pill that tricks the body into thinking it has consumed calories, causing it to...
View ArticleNumbers shrinking of WWII vets, Shoah survivors
By Dorian De Wind AUSTIN, Texas (SDONA)– We are all painfully aware of how the unrelenting and inexorable process of aging is taking from us hundreds of members of that Greatest Generation each and...
View ArticleJeffrey Glazer endows center at SDSU
SAN DIEGO (SDONA) –An SDSU alumnus and lecturer for the College of Business Administration has endowed the school’s Center for Leadership and Community Service. Jeffrey Glazer, Class of ’81, was...
View ArticleRady family donates $100m to UCSD
LA JOLLA, California (SDONA) — UC San Diego announced Tuesday that San Diego businessman and philanthropist Ernest Rady has committted $100 million to help recruit faculty and fund continued growth of...
View ArticleRabbi David Singer to head Hillel at UCSD
LA JOLLA, California (SDONA)–Hillel of San Diego announced Sunday the appointment of a new director for its programs for Jewish students at the UC San Diego campus. Rabbi David Singer will begin work...
View ArticleJFS, others call for U.S. to admit Syrian refugees
SAN DIEGO (SDONA)– Local Jewish organizations are joining a national effort to ask President Obama to allow 100,000 more Syrian refugees to settle in the United States. Jewish Family Service of San...
View ArticleSanders’ supporters say no to Clinton in November
By Ken Stone SAN DIEGO — Dylan Souza wore a Pokémon outfit, including yellow headgear, to the San Diego Convention Center. But his presence Tuesday night at the Bernie Sanders rally wasn’t Comic-Con...
View ArticleRichard Dreyfuss: Trump rhetoric is ‘public indecency’
By Chris Jennewein LA JOLLA, California — Academy Award-winner Richard Dreyfuss lamented Thursday the decline of civility in American politics, accusing the Republican front-runner of “public...
View ArticleLittle Muslim girl hands flowers to Hillary Clinton
By Ken Stone SAN DIEGO — The flowers came from La Mesa, the girl from Afghanistan. When Hillary Clinton accepted a large bouquet after her 35-minute Trump-bashing national security speech Thursday in...
View ArticleHow Scott Peters Foiled Blackout of House Sit-In
By Ken Stone, Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — Score one for Twitter over Facebook — and for Rep. Scott Peters over a blackout of House history. The San Diego Democrat, who turned 58 on Friday, turned to...
View ArticleAssembly member confers veterans award on her lover
By Hoa Quach Times of San Diego Saluting your significant other’s accomplishments is nothing new, but when Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez opted to give her boyfriend a Veteran of the Year Award it...
View ArticleTrump money backers face backlash at USD
By Ken Stone SAN DIEGO — Nearing 900 names, a petition calling on the University of San Diego to cut ties to Donald Trump backers continues to roil alumni waters — even spawning a counter petition....
View ArticleLaura Galinson roots for Hillary, remembers Murray
By Ken Stone SAN DIEGO — Laura Galinson leaped to her feet 17 minutes into Hillary Clinton’s speech Thursday — the moment the former secretary of state accepted her party’s nomination for president....
View ArticleIf only we had a Torah- observant Jewish king
By Rabbi Michael Berk Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — As I write these words the presidential campaign, mercifully, is winding down. The ugliest, most unseemly, undignified, and dispiriting campaign in...
View ArticleMass Psychosis in Manhattan. Again
By David Anderson The Moderate Voice NEW YORK — I live in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York, a trendy slice of South Manhattan which defines “gentrification”: expensive wine and cheese stores,...
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