When all you have is a hammer, everything does indeed look like a nail. This is the best way to describe government officials’ unoriginal and often destructive thinking. No matter the problem du jour, the answer is always more government spending. But more spending requires more tax revenue, which is not always easy to acquire…
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EASTVALE >> Roosevelt softball coach Mike Smith says two things about his team this season. “This is the best team I’ve ever coached, and we believe that it’s our destiny to get back to the finals,” said Smith, currently in his 19th season as a head coach. Emily Carr drove in the game-winning run in…
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In their first series in St. Louis since 2003, the Orioles won two of three games to the Cardinals. Here are The Baltimore Sun’s three takeaways from the series. Bradish puts K in Kyle In the opener of the series, right-hander Kyle Bradish put together one of the most impressive early-career starts by not only…
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LOS ANGELES — The Kings spent 80 of 82 regular-season games walking along the razor’s edge, constantly competing in one-goal games in the process, so it seems fitting that they are headed for a do-or-die situation on Saturday in Game 7 of their first-round playoff series. Their hosts will be the Edmonton Oilers, who forced a…
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CHICAGO — Giancarlo Stanton thinks it’s fun to watch. In the hole behind Anthony Rizzo on deck, the slugger watches as opposing pitchers have to face Aaron Judge. “It’s awesome to watch. I get the second best view of it, Rizzo gets the best. Yeah, it’s fun to watch. It’s fun to watch them try to get…
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The schedule is set for the Miami Heat when it comes to the NBA Eastern Conference finals. The opponent, though, remains to be determined. With the Dallas Mavericks forcing a Sunday Game 7 of that Western Conference semifinal series with their Thursday night victory over the visiting Phoenix Suns, it means the Heat will definitively…
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There was a moment in the second half of this signature Miami Heat night, this beautiful Thursday night, when the television camera swung to a seated Pat Riley, who arched his neck and lifted his chin and offered the angular idea of an eagle surveying his constructed world. What was it the poet wrote, about…
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Two suspects tried to rob a T-Mobile store in Seal Beach earlier this week, but were stopped by an employee who fought with one of them, officials said Thursday. Seal Beach police received a call about a robbery at the store located at 12800 Seal Beach Boulevard just before 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10.…
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LOS ANGELES ― There were two kinds of fans among the announced crowd of 46,539 at Dodger Stadium on Thursday night: those who beat traffic, and those who witnessed first-hand that no lead is safe. The Dodgers rallied from a six-run deficit to tie the Philadelphia Phillies in the eighth inning, only to allow two…
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A long-running, controversial bid to transform ocean water into for-profit tap water for central and north Orange County died late Thursday, May 12, when the California Coastal Commission unanimously turned down a permit application from Poseidon Water, the company behind the proposal. Supporters of the 50-million-gallon-a-day desalination plant, to be built near the coast in…
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