San Diego Fire-Rescue Combines Forces with Energizer to Provide Free Batteries

    When you change your clocks back to standard time this weekend, it’s a great time to also change the battery in your home smoke alarms. And the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department is working to get batteries to people who need them.

    The Fire-Rescue Department and the San Diego Park and Recreation Department are partnering to make nine-volt batteries available free of charge. Energizer has provided a supply of batteries to the Fire-Rescue Department.

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Repeat after me, GOP: “Marco Rubio will not be our savior with Latinos in the 2012 election.”</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; It has nothing to do with whether the U.S. senator from Florida lied about the year his parents came to the United States, though let’s pause on that for a moment anyway: It should be fully explored, as it goes to his credibility.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When Occupy Oakland first started, I was skeptical and frankly unimpressed. I stopped by the rally on that first Monday at 4 pm and was underwhelmed by the turnout. At most, a couple hundred people were there. The rally took place on the corner of 14th and Broadway and the sound system (or maybe just a bullhorn) wasn’t loud enough and it was difficult to hear. I chatted with some friends I ran into and went back to work.</p>