Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now IRVINE — Coach Marcus Natividad’s eyes sparkle with excitement as he scans his neatly printed practice schedule, which includes a picture of him wearing sunglasses and a whistle. The 2023 graduate of Woodbridge High helps guide his alma mater’s Unified Sports swimming team,…
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Associated Press NEW YORK — Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser” and “Peter Gunn” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died at age 86. Eddy died of cancer Tuesday at the…
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Spend any time thinking or talking about insurance in California these days and you’re bound to hear the word “mitigation.” Fire officials, lawmakers, insurance agents and others are asking homeowners to help lower the risk of devastating wildfires by making improvements to their properties — in some cases at great expense — and often in the…
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Some folks have gone so far as to call it a form of human trafficking — “body brokers” bribing folks with good private health insurance to come to California for addiction treatment, whether folks really want treatment or not. The brokers and patients get paid thousands of dollars by the rehabs. The rehabs then bill…
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SACRAMENTO – Modern public-education history is littered with novel education theories that have failed so spectacularly that the terms are now used as pejoratives. For instance, when I was in elementary school in the 1960s, the “New Math” focused on teaching abstractions rather than fundamentals. You can find reams of research documenting its failure decades later, but…
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For weeks, Maj. James Carley strategized how he and a group of Marines could create chaos and break down security at Camp Pendleton and other Southern California and Arizona bases that belong to the Marine Corps Installations West command. This week their efforts put their fellow Marines to the test for an annual base security…
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Senator Bill Dodd, D-Napa, bills himself a moderate with pragmatic priorities. So, it’s puzzling that he’d introduce Senate Bill 1380. SB 1380 would authorize school district boards to deny charter school applications if it had closed a school within the past five years. It would also gut county education boards’ authority to overrule the local…
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“How expensive?” tracks measurements of California’s totally unaffordable housing market. The pain: Twenty U.S. cities with the highest home-price-to-income ratios are all in California. The source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a housing affordability yardstick by Construction Coverage, which tracked median home prices divided by the median annual household income for 384 cities including 79 from…
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A Marine assigned to a helicopter training squadron is dead at Camp Pendleton. A Marine spokesperson with the 3rd Marine Air Wing said the death occurred around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23, during “routine military operations.” The cause is under investigation, and the Marine’s identity will not be released until next-of-kin is notified, the…
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Stubborn inflation is likely to mean that the Federal Reserve will wait at least until fall to begin cutting interest rates. Some forecasters think it is possible that policymakers won’t just keep rates “higher for longer,” as investors have been anticipating for several weeks now, but might actually raise them further. “It is a huge…
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