By Katrina Nicholas | Bloomberg Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said the electric carmaker needs to cut staff by around 10%, noting he had a “super bad feeling” about the economy, according to an internal email seen by Reuters. The email, titled “pause all hiring worldwide,” was sent to Tesla executives on Thursday,…
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Brad A. Johnson’s 75 Best Places to Eat, 2022 Orange County offers a lot of ground to cover, and I try to get around. Despite the pandemic, I drove more than 8,000 miles over the past year, dining nearly 250 times (less than usual but still a lot, I think) at restaurants in every corner…
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Before picking up “Search,” Michelle Huneven’s new novel, I would have thought its plot — a church search committee’s efforts to find a new minister — would be about as interesting as watching paint dry. How wrong I would have been. From the title page, when the reader learns that “Search” is actually a novel…
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The pandemic’s homebuying binge has boosted the number of million-dollar Orange County neighborhoods by 20 in a year — and 32 over 24 months — as the market lost 17 “affordable” communities in 12 months and 35 since April 2020. My trusty spreadsheet, filled with April homebuying stats from DQNews/CoreLogic for 83 Orange County ZIP…
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Bradford pears (Pyrus calleryana) are one of my least-favorite trees, to put it as nicely as possible. From a distance (and behind closed windows), their display is quite beautiful. Their smooth, dark trunks and branches topped with enormous clouds of white flowers make an impressive sight, especially when there are dozens of them flanking a…
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Former Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Pace and his wife, Stephanie, sold their house in Lake Bluff for $1.4 million in an off-market deal, according to public records. Now a senior personnel executive with the Atlanta Falcons, Pace was the Bears’ general manager from 2015 until the team fired him in January. Pace and his…
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This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, Portuguese health authorities confirmed five cases of monkeypox in young…
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As the Miami Heat were finalizing their 2021-22 roster, coach Erik Spoelstra chimed in on the team’s final roster spot. At the time, the deliberations were down to Markieff Morris of Jeff Teague. Spoelstra opted for Morris. The biggest winner from that decision? Arguably Gabe Vincent. For Morris, it was a season largely preempted by…
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Q. Hi Honk. Any word on the widening of the southbound I-15 near the Nevada border? Searching online only shows the original announcement on Dec. 5, when we were told to expect construction to begin this spring with completion anticipated by the end of this summer. – David Tompkins, Los Angeles A. Yes, David, Honk…
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Clara Woods fluently understands three languages: Italian (she spent her first 14 years in Florence), Portuguese (her mother is Brazilian), and English (her family moved to Huntington Beach two years ago). But she cannot speak, read, or write any of them. Clara suffered a prenatal stroke that severely damaged one hemisphere of her brain, leaving…
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