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San Diego slashing bureaucracy, laying off highest-paid city worker to help close $258 million deficit
San Diego is shrinking some city bureaucracy and laying off the city's highest-paid worker to help close a $258 million deficit, but Mayor Todd Gloria still hasn't made emergency cuts to services that some have called for.
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Missing North County man’s body found in car submerged in Bonsall river
Isaiah Lowe, 21, was reported missing last month after he was last seen driving his...
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Padres CEO Erik Greupner provides first offseason comments from management
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![With his severe hearing loss apparently in check, the legendary singer-songwriter and Rock Hall of Famer is hitting the road again, seven years after concluding his farewell tour. With his severe hearing loss apparently in check, the legendary singer-songwriter and Rock Hall of Famer is hitting the road again, seven years after concluding his farewell tour.](https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ap_18141760808821.jpg?w=476)
Paul Simon has unretired and will launch new tour that includes six Southern California dates
With his severe hearing loss apparently in check, the legendary singer-songwriter and Rock Hall of Famer is hitting the road again, seven years after concluding his farewell tour.
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Recent sales equal 36 per 1,000 American households. That is the slowest rate since 1983.
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Nearly 300 deportees from US held in Panama hotel as officials try to return them to their countries
The U.S. has difficulty deporting directly to some of those countries so Panama is being...
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![Re “Don’t let critics undermine California’s top-two primary: It benefits voters, not parties” (Feb. 10): Jeremy Gruber’s defense of California’s top-two primary system ignores a critical issue — it blocks meaningful protest votes and restricts real voter choice. As a Libertarian and ferret advocate, I have seen how the system ensures only establishment candidates make […] Re “Don’t let critics undermine California’s top-two primary: It benefits voters, not parties” (Feb. 10): Jeremy Gruber’s defense of California’s top-two primary system ignores a critical issue — it blocks meaningful protest votes and restricts real voter choice. As a Libertarian and ferret advocate, I have seen how the system ensures only establishment candidates make […]](https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/OCR-L-SPECIALELX-1212.jpg?w=578)
State primary system called unfair to Libertarians and ferret fans
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The days of the fabled Navy cruiser are nearing an end. Tell us your sea stories
The Union-Tribune is researching a story that will trace the rise and fall of the...
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San Diego taxpayers spent more than $8,000 on mayor’s trip to Philippines, records show
Todd Gloria said he paid his own way to Manila and back, but his office...
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FACT FOCUS: No foul play suspected in ICE van fire in Philadelphia
Left-wing extremists were blamed for an ICE van fire in Philadelphia.
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Brazil’s prosecutor-general files charges against former President Bolsonaro over alleged coup plan
The alleged plot, he wrote, included a plan to poison current President Luiz Inácio Lula...
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Kennedy says panel will examine childhood vaccine schedule after promising not to change it
Kennedy’s remarks were delivered as a measles outbreak among mostly unvaccinated people raged in Texas.
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The secret to summery desserts in winter
Two easy jam-filled desserts satisfy the craving for bright, bold berries when they’re far from...
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After devastation of L.A. fires, displaced residents get a moving reminder of home
Artist Jordan Heber has painted in watercolor several homes that were destroyed and is working...
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