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Gay marriage advocates hope a string of recent victories will renew momentum for efforts to expand marriage rights — including a bill introduced Thursday in New York. But those successes are also prompting more gay marriage opponents to join the fight against them.

I produced two segments about books this week for These Days, which means it was a banner week. Lucia Silva and Tiffany Fox recommended some good fiction, along with a book of essays about America and Margaret Atwood's prescient book on debt. Here's what they recommended, listed in no particular order.

As Americans struggle with the economic downturn, the IRS says it is trying to be more flexible this tax-filing season with those who are in financial trouble. IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman says the agency can be lenient in hardship cases.

There are up to 600,00 uninsured people in San Diego County. But only a tiny fraction are seeking county medical services - an option of last resort for the working poor. Critics blame the low numbers

The Internal Revenue Service is revoking the tax exempt status of some of the largest credit counseling agencies in the country. An IRS investigation disclosed that the firms solicited business from people seriously in debt and that they didn't provide counseling or consumer education, as required.

San Diego Coastkeeper and Surfrider Foundation are expected to sign a cooperative agreement Wednesday with the City of San Diego to work on recycling wastewater into drinking water. KPBS Environmental

San Diego Gas and Electric is asking for an exemption from air pollution laws so the firm's Palomar Energy Plant can release more smog. SDG&E's petition goes before the county's Air Pollution Control

Critics on the left are panning President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren, an evangelical minister and author of The Purpose-Driven Life, to deliver the invocation at the inauguration. But in some ways, the two men share a worldview.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to temporarily remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich, saying the public corruption charges against him have effectively rendered him "disabled" and unable to serve. The governor's chief of staff, also charged in the case, has resigned.

The City of San Diego may not have to spend billions of dollars upgrading the Point Loma Sewage Treatment Plant. The EPA has tenatively given the city a third five-year waiver from meeting federal Cle