| Mold Queen Loses in Court: July 24, 2008 (LA Weekly) |
| When does a health concern become an obsession? L.A. Weekly ’s cover story, “Toxic Mold Rush: California Mom Helps Fuel an Obsession” delved into raging courtroom wars over whether mold — that black and blue stuff that can grow in wet places in homes and offices — can make healthy people sick. |
| 12/30/2008 |
| Escapism in Escondido (Los Angeles Times) |
| For Lars Romberg, the living room of his home in the rolling hills of south Escondido is a "perfect sound room. If you play something grand, particularly organ music like Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, it's like being in a church." |
| 12/19/2008 |
| ECONOMY: Sales slump deeper in suburbs (North County Times) |
| Economists pin the nation's recession most directly on sharp cutbacks by consumers, and a series of reports last week suggest that consumers in suburban areas of Southern California may be cutting back more sharply than big-city residents. |
| 12/22/2008 |
| Optimism a hard sell for retail (San Diego Union-Tribune) |
| The Chula Vista Center sports more than one sad sign of the economic times, and they all read pretty much the same: Going out of business. The 26-year-old shopping mall, like many others around the country, is grappling with a growing number of vacancies and tenant bankruptcies. |
| 12/21/2008 |
| Big Chunk of San Diego History Finds its Way Home (Newswise) |
| The University of California, San Diego Libraries have acquired the papers of Ephraim Weed Morse, an energetic and ambitious mover-and-shaker who lived in San Diego from 1850 until his death in 1906, and played a leading role in the development of early San Diego. |
| 12/09/2008 |
| Longtime CEO is out at Temecula Valley bank (San Diego Union-Tribune) |
| Temecula Valley Bancorp has parted ways with longtime chief executive, president and chairman Stephen Wacknitz. In a filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the bank's board of directors said the “employment understanding was terminated” between Wacknitz and the bank, which has $1.5 billion in assets. |
| 12/09/2008 |
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