As of 7 p.m. yesterday:
1. “Nonprofit groups see public art as cash cows”
2. “Short Takes: Ten more dead birds found to have West Nile virus”
3. “New chapter for library: less receptive City Council?”
UNIONTRIB.COM
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1987:
President Reagan delivers one of the most dramatic speeches of his presidency within feet of the Berlin Wall, calling on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”
1997: Baseball begins interleague play, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series.
SOURCES: UPI; ASSOCIATED PRESS
U-T QUOTE OF THE DAY
Currents Quest, E1: “A golf course isn't as good as nature, but it's better than a Wal-Mart parking lot.”
– Drew Scott, a field biologist at the San Diego Natural History Museum
