Tensions rose recently when the La Mesa-Spring Valley School Board discussed a plan to begin to reopen schools in the district. I recognize those tensions. Now in my fourth term on the San Diego ...

School Board Vice President Charda Bell-Fontenot grew irritated during a public Zoom meeting Tuesday after members said they needed a vote that night on a return-to-school date, citing a survey that ...

What two words could better capture the spirit of Hungary than goulash and charda? The czardas is a popular Hungarian dance, but it also refers to a wayside inn and an outgoing sense of hospitality ...

Charda Simons’s first designs were purely for fun. She’d studied fine arts in college and continued painting once she returned home. A few years ago, she and her sister Kimmisha Perinchief started ...