Two years ago, the initial lockdowns of the pandemic era crushed Southern California’s job market. But a stunning rebound from those antsy, dark days now raises questions about an economy challenged with “too much good stuff.” Two springs ago, bosses in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties cast aside 1.27 million workers as…
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Chad Green is facing possible surgery, but is gathering more opinions on the right forearm discomfort that caused him to leave Thursday’s game in the middle of an at-bat. The right-handed reliever has what looks like a “significant injury,” Aaron Boone said before Saturday afternoon’s game. “He’s kind of still gathering [information], making sure we’re…
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Bureaucrats sometimes make mistakes. But when they refuse to acknowledge a mistake and double down on it to deprive someone of their livelihood and family business, a lawsuit can be the only way to hold them accountable. That’s what happened to Max Williams, and he’s fighting back. Max has dreamed of captaining his own fishing…
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With increasingly strict water rationing in most of our immediate futures, there is a lawn alternative that requires irrigation no more than once a week and can make do with even less. This alternative to green grass is miniclover, also known as micro clover. I learned about miniclover from a company in Oregon known as Outsidepride…
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If there is one thing we’ve learned from the Yankees’ roughshod run through the first five weeks of the season — other than the fact they really are a very good team — it’s that there are far more “have-nots” in baseball than “haves” and this continues to be a real problem for the game.…
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Things are always more interesting around here when the Yankees look like the YANKEES again, which means looking like they have a chance to be great again. That hasn’t happened in a while, maybe not since the American League Championship Series of 2019, one the Astros won with that buzzer-beating walk-off homer from our old…
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When Buck Britton was promoted to the manager of Triple-A Norfolk, among the duties he was most looking forward to was telling players they were heading to the majors for the first time. Friday night, he got to deliver that news to top Orioles prospect Adley Rutschman. Rutschman, baseball’s No. 1 prospect, was officially added…
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A person was struck and killed Saturday, May 21 on the Costa Mesa (55) Freeway in Tustin, authorities said. The crash occurred about 1:10 a.m. on the northbound at 17th Street, the California Highway Patrol reported. Witnesses said a person was walking in the No. 3 of the northbound freeway prior to the crash, possibly…
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Several years ago, I was asked to join a board for a local nonprofit. Because I knew and respected many of the board members and believed in the organization, I did not spend much time on my personal due diligence efforts before committing to serve. The board members and executive director were upstanding citizens, well-liked…
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From the moment he was selected with the first pick of the 2019 Major League Baseball draft, Adley Rutschman was the face of the Orioles’ rebuild. Starting Saturday, he’ll finally be the face of their major league roster. The Orioles will promote Rutschman, a 24-year-old catcher, and he’s expected to make his major league debut…
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