Health and fitness has been a big part of my schedule these past couple of weeks and it thrills me to see all my hard work pay off. I went shopping a few weeks ago and noticed that I had gone down two...

My dad's biggest fear is that I will one day become a liberal. For him, having voted for Bush twice and being a devout fan of the O'Reilly Factor, my move to the coast five years ago (a breeding ground...

This being Women's History Month, which female figure do you admire and why? Dan Riehl, 24, Sociology. (sunglasses, striped sweater, long hair). "My mom, for sure. She's given me right direction. ....

Poway High senior Chelsea King, 17, went out for a run in Rancho Bernando Community Park and never came home. Escondido High School student Amber Dubois, 14, left one morning to walk to school and never...

It had been one month into the New Year when I realized that I hadn't really begun on my new year's resolution. What might that be? Well like many Americans across the nation, it was to get in shape. I...

Kurt Vonnegut once said, "Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We're dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go do something." And then he promptly stood up and danced...

"I find it interesting that you have a lot of the Republicans running around and pushing back on the stimulus money and saying this doesn't create any new jobs," Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said in...

Recently students at UC San Diego decided to throw an off-campus party called the Compton Cookout, meant to mock Black History Month. The original invitation posted on Facebook noted that attendees should...

We've heard about recycling for years, yet only recently has it become a big thing. I know I have seen recycling ads since I was in elementary school so this is nothing new. Yet, I am amazed at how so...

For those who haven't heard, earlier this month, Haiti was ravaged by an earthquake registering a 7.0 on the Richter Scale. That means Haitians were rocked by the equivalent of 199,000 tons of TNT. Roughly...

When I parked myself on the red couch on Jan. 27, I was in a cynical mood; a mood for answers. What is the state of our union? Of course, we already know the answer, don't we? Even those who don't follow...