Just a year after Proposition 13’s passage in 1978, California voters approved another taxpayer rights initiative called the Gann Spending Limit. Unlike Proposition 13, which was a direct limit on taxation, Gann was an attempt to limit government spending. It limited the growth of state and local government expenditures to a base-year level adjusted annually…
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Wade Miley’s return from the injured list was short lived. The veteran left-hander landed on the 15-day IL Sunday with a left shoulder strain. The move comes after just three starts for the Chicago Cubs after he was sidelined all of spring training with left elbow inflammation. Miley, 35, made one rehab start before his…
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ANAHEIM — Kurt Suzuki stood in the Angels clubhouse on Sunday morning, no worse for his frightening experience besides wishing that he hadn’t made “a big scene out of everything.” The Angels catcher scared everyone who watched what happened to him before the third inning on Saturday night. He was catching Michael Lorenzen’s warmup pitches…
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Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson exited Sunday’s City Series game against the Cubs in the top of the fifth with a strained right groin. He will undergo further evaluation Monday. Anderson took a couple of steps to left while fielding P.J. Higgins’ grounder and fell to the ground in shallow center field at Guaranteed…
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The Tyler Herro watch continued into a second week, with the Miami Heat sixth man continuing to be listed as questionable for Sunday night’s Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Boston Celtics at FTX Arena. Asked after the morning shootaround if he had an update, coach Erik Spoelstra said, “I don’t,” with…
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By Carla Vigos Special to the Laguna Woods Globe I am a big fan of state fair corn — you know, the ear of corn you spend $5 for without hesitation. It is so sweet, and the stuff you put on them, well, it all makes me happy. Another thing that makes me happy are…
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Back in the 1970s, as an energy crisis held the nation hostage to the whims of OPEC, politicians and planners thought it would be a great idea for Americans to carpool. The idea never caught on, possibly because the politicians and planners had seen too many episodes of “The Flintstones” and were under the mistaken…
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Giants manager Gabe Kapler announced his protest of the national anthem on Friday in the wake of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. A day later, his Mets counterpart, manager Buck Showalter, said he supports Kapler’s action and would support his players if they chose to do the same. “I respect…
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A South Bay Hawks player slides into home plate in a cloud of dust as the Santa Monica Zephyrs catcher applies the tag during a Sept. 2020 game in Inglewood, from the new book, “Grassroots Baseball: Route 66,” a photographic journey celebrating baseball’s roots and the Mother Road. (Photo by Jean Fruth) Inland Empire 66ers…
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For years we have been told that the world should rapidly eliminate fossil fuel use to avoid climate catastrophe — and this is eminently doable because fossil fuels can rapidly be replaced by solar and wind. Today’s global energy crisis is rightly calling this into question. More than a decade of global opposition to fossil fuel…
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