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The local Republican Party vowed today to mount an "unprecedented campaign'' in opposition to a possible November ballot measure that would ask San Diego voters to approve a half-cent sales tax increase.

Michael Haynie served 14 years in the U.S. Air Force before becoming an assistant professor at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. He now leads the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, which he founded in 2007 to teach veterans with injuries from Iraq and Afghanistan how to go into business for themselves. Host Michel Martin talks with Haynie, along with Brian Iglesias, who served two tours of duty in Iraq, where he was injured by a roadside bomb. Iglesias completed Haynie's program and is now President and CEO of his own film production company, Veterans Inc.

California biotech companies could benefit greatly from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on patent law. Some patent experts believe the ruling could allow companies to eventually own genetic materials.

The risk for wildfires will be higher over the next few months as the temperatures rise, and the local vegetation continues to dry out. What should San Diego County residents do to prepare? We speak to two fire chiefs about wildfire preparedness, and the current status of our local fire resources.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Iraq over the weekend to encourage Iraqi politicians to come to an agreement on forming a government. It has been nearly four months since Iraqis voted, but no party won enough seats to form a government on its own.

While Fourth of July fireworks exploded in San Diego's night sky, political fireworks went off in Tijuana. There was a surprise win in Tijuana's mayoral election.

In Chicago, it is legal now to own a handgun, following a Supreme Court ruling that challenged the city's longtime ban. Gun-rights advocates say Chicago residents will be safer now from violent crime. But those advocating gun control say the opposite: that guns in the home put more people at risk.

Tijuana held its mayoral election on Sunday. We talk about the victory of Carlos Bustamante of the PRI and the defeat of the ruling PAN and what the results mean for the residents of the border city and for the city of San Diego. Also, more border violence erupts in Tijuana.

How do you photograph memory? It's a question that fine-art photographer Jennifer Karady is exploring. And not just any memory, but memories of war brought home by veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Few cities in the world are more identified with their subway systems than Paris. The second busiest metro system in the world after Moscow, it carries more than 4 million riders a day on some 16 lines to 300 stations. To ride it is a visual carnival, a living history, an urban love story about the chemin de fer, or "path of iron."