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Every once in a while National Public Radio steps into something big, soft and smelly and they did it this week when they fired news analyst Juan Williams.

As the New Jersey city of Camden blasts through its all-time-high homicide record -- exceeding 60 murders so far this year -- city officials have an unusual solution to rising crime: laying off the entire police department.

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Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is making the media rounds to counsel patience for the war there. Despite numerous setbacks, public opinion has remained resolutely — if tepidly — supportive.

The New Jersey city has surpassed its previous record for murders. City officials, who say the unionized police force has too many perks, turn to the county to provide a larger and cheaper force.

In Texas, there’s a tight race brewing between two Latinos. Two years ago, Francisco Canseco was swept in congress as part of the national Tea Party wave. His challenger is Peter Gallego, a Democrat who has served in the legislature for 22 years. This vast congressional district is majority Latino. Observers are watching to see how that voting bloc may or may not influence the election and what it spells for future Texas politics.

The City Council's District 9 didn't exist a year ago. The Redistricting Commission drew it up last year when adding a ninth district, creating a second Latino-majority district. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's a Latino-controlled district.

The journalist Juan Williams is out with a new book this week. In it, he makes the case that his acrimonious termination last fall by NPR is part of a larger and ominous pattern of suppressing undesired voices.

Massive projects are moving ahead along San Diego’s waterfront but not as part of a cohesive plan. With so much at stake, inewsource zeroed in on the North Embarcadero to find out how it developed and what lessons might be learned.