Southern California’s housing market remains overheated, with home prices hitting all-time highs despite soaring inflation and rising mortgage rates. With price and mortgage hikes pushing many would-be buyers to the sidelines, sales are sagging. Yet, buyer demand continues to outpace the supply of homes for sale. “There’s so little supply and so much demand, we’re still getting…
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The truly astonishing tax revenue numbers cited by Gov. Gavin Newsom last week as he unveiled a revised state budget bring to mind an old adage: “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” So much money is pouring into state coffers from personal and corporate income taxes and sales taxes that Newsom said the…
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In the summer of ‘72, “The Godfather” made moviegoers an offer they couldn’t refuse. It was a summer when the Rolling Stones returned to the United States for the first time since 1969, on a legendary tour behind the album “Exile On Main St.” It was a summer when the TV western “Bonanza” was still…
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BALTIMORE — Michael King is in a tough spot. He’s become one of the best multi-inning relievers in the game this season. The Yankees have leaned on him in big spots already this season. Tuesday night he was simply dominant again holding off the Orioles hitters in the Yankees 5-4 win at Camden Yards. In…
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For four days before the start of these Eastern Conference finals, left with little else to discuss during yet another extended postseason break, coach Erik Spoelstra and his Miami Heat players spoke of the impending need to make the hustle plays, be first to the ball, impose will, take care of the small stuff in…
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WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s support was enough to elevate his Senate candidate to victory in North Carolina on Tuesday, while his pick in Pennsylvania remained in a tough fight in that state’s Senate primary. In a key race, a Republican congressman’s bad behavior finally caught up with him. And in the Pennsylvania governor’s…
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Some of you might want to start smirking right now, while muttering “I knew it!” Because, yes, after years of traveling all over the globe during a pandemic, I’m finally stuck in London due to COVID-19. At least that’s what I’m telling my boss. No, seriously, I really am, but you do understand that it’s…
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A few hours before their franchise-altering night, the Orlando Magic made a rare change. Heading into Tuesday evening’s NBA draft lottery in Chicago, president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman was scheduled to be the Magic’s on-stage representative. But before the lottery started, coach Jamahl Mosley told Weltman he was “feeling a little lucky” and asked…
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When local businessman and two-term Anaheim councilman Harry Sidhu ran for mayor in 2018, he made one big campaign promise: He’d keep the Angels in Anaheim. Now, the deal he helped broker to sell the city’s baseball stadium and keep the team local for decades could be in jeopardy and Sidhu is under federal investigation…
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By LINDSEY BAHR It wasn’t Jessie Buckley’s audition but an observation she made that got her the leading role in “ Men.” When speaking to filmmaker Alex Garland about his heady idea to grapple with masculinity and its foundational myths and virulent cycles within a folk horror construct, Buckley caught him off guard: She started…
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