Maya Trabulsi
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In a region where wildfires have ravaged entire neighborhoods, one couple's proactive approach to home hardening is setting an example for others, with defensible space inspections provided by Cal Fire.
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KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego law enforcement agencies exchange guns for gift cards. No city budget surplus after all. City redevelopment gets smacked down. San Diego's homeless getting attention. East County and the University of California have image problems. -
Investigating and prosecuting certain drug transportation cases isn't always black and white for U.S. judges and attorneys. -
State regulators left the door open for the utility to try yet again to recoup those expenses from ratepayers. -
Community leaders in Southeast San Diego are hoping free gift cards will entice people to turn in their guns. The guns for gift cards exchange takes place tomorrow. -
"The Maya never, ever, said anything about the world ending at any time — much less, this year," says an archaeologist who helped translate the ancient culture's hieroglyphs. Still, David Stuart says, he often gets emails from people who want more details about the end of days. -
In an about-face, a state regulator recommended late yesterday that customers pick up the tab for San Diego Gas & Electric's uninsured costs for the 2007 wildfires. -
Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is proposing to give schools more money for security improvements and to make greater use of the National Guard. -
Christmas trees representing the victims of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre will be set up in Kearny Mesa tomorrow, and San Diegans will be invited to decorate them and attend a lighting ceremony. -
KPBS Midday EditionCalifornia's gun laws are among the strictest in the nation. Enforcement is backed up by the Armed Prohibited Persons System (APPS) database. How does the system work and how effective is it? -
Temperatures in San Diego County are expected to plummet tonight, and the conditions could be life-threatening for the hundreds of homeless people on the streets.
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