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The U.S. Open Sandcastle Competition is expected to draw more than 350,000 people to the shores of Imperial Beach this weekend.

Do you think the problems that face California are bigger Democrat versus Republican or left against right? "California Crackup" is a new book that offers some solutions. We talk to the book's co-author, Mark Paul, and UCSD Political Scientist, Thad Kousser, about what they think could fix our broken government.

Will two recent acquisitions provide some needed pop to the Padres lineup? How will the holdouts of Shawne Merriman, Vincent Jackson and Marcus McNeill impact Chargers' training camp? We speak to Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton about the latest with the Padres, Chargers, and SDSU Aztecs' football team.

As India competes in the global economy, new challenges arise for its aging population, who once relied on their children to help them through old age. Morning Edition commentator Sandip Roy explains.

A bike ride through Tijuana, Paula Poundstone and a celebration of the written word, are part of the eclectic mix of things to do this weekend in San Diego.

Tony Hayward is out as CEO of BP after the company's disastrous oil spill. If he leaves the company, he stands to walk away with a compensation package that includes about $1.5 million in salary and a pension worth $17 million. That will seem like an unforgivable sum to many people. But as "golden parachutes" go, his deal is actually quite modest.

Culture Lust contributor - and veteran Con attendee - Aaron Watanabe offers a second dispatch from the Comic-Con trenches

The prolific newsman, who died Friday at 93, exemplified the mission of bearing active witness to history -- in his case, the decades that chronicled America's rise after World War II. And he uncompromisingly stood up to authorities in the greatest traditions of American journalism.