The COVID-19 pandemic’s corrosive effects on California’s public education system are obvious. The state’s nearly six-million K-12 students were forced into jerry-rigged remote classes for months and even when schools reopened they have been plagued by political conflicts over whether students should be compelled to wear masks and/or be vaccinated. These arguments continue but there’s…
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The Orange County Register’s is proud to announce the 2022 nominees for the Artist of the Year program. Like athletes representing their countries at the Olympics, these high school students represent artistic excellence being cultivated in 72 Orange County high schools and arts organizations. This year, 646 juniors and seniors were nominated by arts teachers…
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For the first time in at least 25 years, nine Orange County Superior Court judgeships are up for grabs in the June 7 primary. In most of the races, prosecutors at the Orange County District Attorney’s Office have the edge because of voter apathy and popular ballot designations. “I advise people, if you want to…
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The Chicago Bears signed a purchase agreement for Arlington International Racecourse in September 2021, a move that takes the team a step closer toward securing property for a new stadium and leaving their longtime home at Soldier Field. The Bears on June 17 submitted one of multiple bids to purchase the Arlington Heights property, which…
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Some behavioral changes in American society as a result of COVID-19 should persist after the current crisis passes, in order to lessen the possibility of spreading many kinds of respiratory diseases in the community. Mask wearing is one example. Japan and China regularly utilized this preventative practice before COVID-19. Having grown used to wearing masks…
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While few Californians weathered the pandemic unscathed, taxpayers took a particularly heavy hit, getting stuck for the longterm cost of relief payments, bailouts and fraud while losing earnings during the “two weeks to flatten the curve” that turned into two years. If we had known in early 2020 what we now know, it is doubtful…
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Sore throat? Cough? Sniffles? Finally, effective treatments for COVID-19 are available. But temper your expectations. Reuters The president launched a nationwide “Test to Treat” Initiative on March 8 that seeks to make treating COVID-19 simple: You get tested at a pharmacy-based clinic. If you’re positive and at high risk, you can get antiviral pills on…
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Now that we’ve hit the two-year anniversary of the lockdowns from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in California, it is time to take stock of hard-won lessons. With all-cause mortality at 18.4% above historical norms, a figure worse than the national average, no one should say that our response was a success. The lessons…
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When Magda Hellinger was 87, she sat down and wrote a slim book about surviving for three years at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Her beloved husband, Bela, who had also endured three years in the camp, had died at 92 the previous year and Hellinger put pen to paper to provide lasting evidence of what…
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Since June of 2020, the industrial real estate market of manufacturing and logistics buildings has been on turbo-charge! Anything for sale – regardless of how ludicrous the asking price might appear – is met with multiple offers, bidding wars and one group of winners – sellers! As buyers go, we’ve witnessed an owner occupant’s ability…
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