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Republican Kevin Faulconer wants to eliminate state income taxes for households making up to $100,000 as part of a proposal to make California more affordable for the middle class.

POSTPONED: 11-week Docent Training Program Begins Tuesday, Feb. 15 - April 26, 2022 The Maritime Museum of San Diego, with an international reputation for excellence in restoring, maintaining, and operating historic landmark vessels opens their next docent volunteer training program to newcomers! Docent volunteers will learn about worldwide maritime history with a special focus on the 16th through 21st centuries represented by the vessels and artifacts in the Maritime Museum of San Diego’s collection. Docents will engage with museum visitors, fielding their questions and sharing knowledge to enrich the guest experience. Training is carried out through a series of lectures, suggested readings and walking tours. Aspiring docents are invited to attend the once-a-year 2022 training series of lectures and ship tours. Training sessions are Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to noon. The training schedule is as follows: 9 a.m. – Informal coffee/social time 9:40 a.m. – Opening announcements and docent business 9:55 a.m. – Break for parking meter payments 10:05 a.m. – First presentation 11 a.m. – Break 11:05 a.m. – Second presentation Noon – Meeting ends Classes are immediately followed with a 45-minute walking tour of one of the ships, and cover a comprehensive variety of topics. For further information, please contact Margaret Clark at MWClark01@gmail.com or call (619) 234-9153 x 129.

Since its founding over 1,000 years ago, this Catholic music school and song group in Regensburg, Germany, has been boys only. Until now.

This 5-week session provides an opportunity to develop that idea in your head into a script, or hone and develop your current play-in-progress. Playwriting format and essentials will be covered in the first class. Both group and individual feedback is offered to writers throughout the workshop. Aleta Barthell is a playwright and teaching artist in the San Diego area and a Dramatists Guild Ambassador for the San Diego region. Aleta received her Bachelor of Science in Theater from Northwestern University and trained at the British American Drama Academy and Shakespeare & Company. Aleta studied playwriting/screenwriting at UCSD. Her stage play, WINDOW OF SHAME, is a finalist with the 2020 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and was a finalist for the 2016 HUMANITAS/CTG Playwriting Prize. Aleta is currently developing a television series about the 12th century queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Note: This hybrid session will be held via Zoom for the first four classes and IN PERSON for the last class on February 13, 2022, at our Liberty Station space (2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Barracks 16, Suite 204). If you cannot attend the final session in person, there will be a Zoom link available. To attend the in-person session, please submit either proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test within 72 hours of the event using this Google Form. Masks are also required for everyone except the instructor/presenter. Thank you for your compliance! For more information on this event and class registration please visit HERE!

The highest inflation since the 1980s has many retirees scared. Their retirement nest eggs will be in peril if it persists over the long term.

The benefits of the change will be equivalent to more than 650,000 people not using any plastic for a year, the company said.

Neuwirth, an Austrian composer and multimedia artist known for works of elemental power, was honored for her opera 'Orlando,' produced by the Vienna State Opera in 2019.

President Joe Biden said Thursday a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a potentially devastating strike before the pivotal midterm elections.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Sean McFate, author of "The New Rules of War," about Russia's military tactics in Ukraine.

U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona sat down with NPR in Pittsburgh to talk loan relief and what borrowers should expect in the coming weeks.