Many California homeowners financially stretch themselves to buy a home. It’s almost inevitable when even a starter home is selling for $400,000 or more. That means big monthly mortgage payments eat up a large chunk of income. It sure would be nice to lower that payment. Maybe even go out to dinner every once in…
Karen England, the executive director of the Capitol Resource Institute (CRI) – a partner in the Privacy for All Students Coalition (PFAS) – spoke March 10 to a Salt and Light Ministry meeting at Calvary Chapel Golden Springs in Diamond Bar about the School Success and Opportunity Act, or AB1266. AB1266 is the bill that…
As a progressive, I believe there are many names for God and many ways to God – this article reflects one of those ways. Take from here what works for you. Celebrate life with joy and peace! Love is beautiful. It is as unique and wonderful as the multiple combinations of all of God’s unique…
The progress of the LGBT community during the last five years, which also coincides with the election of President Obama, is unprecedented. While the so-called Arab Spring was a series of civil protests in Arab countries that led to the ouster of many Arab leaders, our LGBT Spring is kinder, gentler and quite effective. While…
I first discovered Elaine Stritch on the original Broadway soundtrack to Company, the classic 1970 Stephen Sondheim musical about then-modern love in New York. The plot revolves around perennially single Bobby and his married friends; Stritch played Joanne, the oldest of the group. At the end of the second act she sings “The Ladies Who…
Tonight, you’re bringing home the bacon. You got it at the grocery store on the way home from work: neat little strips adhered to a rectangle of cardboard, wrapped in plastic. Some bread, a hothouse tomato, a head of lettuce and you’re set. So where does your food come from? Go ahead. Point to the…
dvd of the week In the Coen brothers’ latest film, they focus on one of Greenwich Village’s folk musicians who failed. In the winter of 1961, Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is sleeping on the couches of the friends who aren’t angry with him, reeling from the suicide of his former singing partner and a furtive…
dvr this HBO, Sunday, March 9, 9 p.m. The season finale of this television season’s inarguably great drama is this weekend, and if you haven’t been watching, now is your time to catch up either on HBOGo or through other, less legal ways. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are detectives with the Louisiana state police…
I attended the swearing-in ceremony of our city’s 36th mayor, Kevin Faulconer, this past Monday morning. The main theme of his speech was that we are all in this together. Our new mayor does not see our city as nine council districts or neighborhoods, but as “One San Diego”. He broke with tradition and held…
