CHICAGO: Palestinian Christian Said Khoury was praying at the iconic Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem when drops of water trickled on his head from the roof above. Maybe it was a signal from God, or just a coincidence as the rains had battered the Christian town in the Israeli occupied West Bank earlier in the day. But it moved Khoury. He built one of the world’s largest
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Todd Gloria evidently has been preparing to become mayor of our country’s eighth largest city since he was a kid attending Hawthorne Elementary School in Clairemont.
Before being sworn in as San Diego’s 37th mayor on Dec. 10, he confided in a tweet that 32 years ago he was a finalist in a “Mayor for a Day” essay contest for local school kids.
Even at age 10, Todd Gloria had ambitions to be San Diego mayor.
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Gloria, 42, later explained to me the competition was sponsored by then-Mayor
Maureen O’Connor. “I don’t recall the specific details of my essay, but I’m pretty sure it was aligned with my current big city vision,” he recalls. He referred me to