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The International Rescue Committee expands education programs with a grant from the San Diego Women's Foundation. Plus, antipsychotic drugs are widely prescribed to treat dementia-related mood disorders, but a new study finds they're not effective.

Jordan Barry, a professor at University of San Diego's School of Law, talks to KPBS about San Diego's Tourism Marketing District and whether a tax on hotel rooms is legal. Plus, Tijuana is emerging from hibernation. On November 16 and 17, 2012, not one but two music events were held in the city: the All My Friends Music Festival and the international music cross-pollination project Norte Sonoro.

San Diego's LGBT community activists are immersed in politics these days, sometimes in surprising ways. Many supported mayoral candidate Bob Filner over Carl DeMaio, who is gay. Plus, a San Diego man sentenced to life in prison under California's "three-strikes" law will be the first person in the state to be re-sentenced and released under voter-voter approved Proposition 36.

Black Friday shoppers start early, a thrift store raises money to prevent sex trafficking, and how to avoiding holiday accidents, flu viruses, and charity scams.

Piggy banks have been a mainstay of Tijuana’s tourist scene for decades. College revelers out for a night of debauchery, families taking weekend trips down the Baja coast. When times were good, and they had a hundred pesos left to blow before crossing back into the U.S., why not buy a piggy bank?

A company with a research arm in San Diego has come up with a high-tech solution to the medical error of leaving a sponge inside a patient after surgery. Plus, a report released by San Diego's Independent Budget Analyst finds quite a few uncertainties projecting a deficit of up to $84 million.

Some say that to keep qualified people in the public sector, politicians should be paid more. Plus, just days ago the research vessel the "Roger Revelle" returned to its homeport of San Diego after six years of hosting scientific research spanning the globe. Science teams studied everything from meteorology to geology to climate change.

More information surfaces about the checkered career of a Border Patrol agent who shot a mother of five; the San Diego economy is looking up; the Salk Institute needs research funds; and birds are stinking up La Jolla Cove. And Democratic Council President Tony Young is resigning from the San Diego City Council to go work as the new Chief Executive Officer for the San Diego Chapter of the Red Cros

A San Diego landmark slated for a $500 million expansion may be partially underwater by 2050. Also, San Diego Mayor-elect Bob Filner announced today that he would keep Fire Chief Javier Mainar and Police Chief William Lansdowne when he begins his administration. Filner also said he’s going to put about $22 million into public safety in the next few months.

Following a fatal shooting, residents on a single City Heights block seek homegrown solutions to San Diego's recent uptick in violent crime. And, it came as a surprise to thousands of voters last June, that a man who believed President Barack Obama was born in Kenya has been elected a Superior Court judge. Now, according to a San Diego City Beat article, that's not the only thing surprising about

It's the first time since 1883 Democrats have had a supermajority in California. Two newly elected San Diego assemblymembers discuss navigating this new landscape. And mechanical engineers at UC San Diego are trying to come up with a better designed heart pump.

How many U.S. veterans are deported each year? No one knows, but a group of "banished veterans" in Mexico is trying to help.

The men who engineered the Bob Filner and Carl DeMaio campaigns shared their strategies and regrets with our Investigations Desk. Plus, Democrats have a super-majority in both state houses; they have the mayor's office and a majority on the San Diego City Council; and both the electorate and officeholders are more diverse.