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The Sweetwater Union High School District will ask South San Diego voters to approve Proposition O next Tuesday. The 644-million-dollar school bond would help to modernize and repair aging classrooms.

While out on the campaign trail, President Bush has publicly said he intends to keep Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney in their posts through the end of his term. It was just one more move by the president to shore up support for Republican policies ahead of midterm congressional elections.

Several Republican candidates, including Rep. Clay Shaw in Florida and Sen, Conrad Burns in Montana, are running ads emphasizing how well they work with Democrats.

Some polls show the undecided voters of this election are women, particularly suburban women with children, who don't focus on politics along conventional party lines. They are concerned about national and economic security, and their votes are pivotal this fall, especially in the hotly contested suburban congressional districts near Philadelphia, where four seats are at stake.

Next week, San Diego voters will face Proposition N. The $870 million school bond would help the San Diego Community College District pay for new facilities and equipment on its three campuses. Critic

Voters in the city of Carlsbad will choose between dueling ballot measures next week that aim to preserve flower and strawberry fields Interstate-5. But the two initiatives differ in how that land mi

The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that tests whether the Clean Air Act requires power plants and factories to install anti-pollution devices when they modernize their facilities. Environmentalists contend that an adverse ruling would open a major loophole in the Clean Air Act.

More than 100 members of the U.S. forces in Iraq were killed in October, making it the deadliest month for U.S. forces there since January 2005. Sectarian violence raged throughout the monthlong Ramadan, despite a beefed-up U.S. presence. This month, Vice President Cheney and others have objected to media coverage of the casualties.

In Ohio, a federal judge is set to hear arguments over key parts of that state's new election-reform law -- which was meant to solve the voting problems that came up during the 2004 presidential election. The Wednesday hearing will determine whether voter identification will still be required on Election Day, Nov. 7.

San Diego has studied and debated its airport for years and years. Now, Proposition A on the November ballot would set in motion an effort to get part of the Miramar Marine Air Station for a new inter