Evergreen pear trees are in full bloom, and new green sprouts are showing up on deciduous tree branches that were barren just a few weeks ago. It’s as if Mother Nature set a wake-up alarm. Trees are a calling card of Laguna Woods, which is often described as an “urban forest.” With its 35,000-plus trees…
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TEMPE, Ariz. — Hunter Strickland emerged from his brief “retirement” to put himself in a solid position to resume his big league career. Strickland, a 35-year-old right-hander who didn’t pitch in the majors last season, has not allowed a run in 7-1/3 innings with the Angels this spring. Perhaps more significantly, he has not issued…
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What happens to Successful Aging columns after they are published? I know they make appearances in newsletters, websites and newspapers, and they’re also used as readings for university students, aging council meetings and more. So do they have an afterlife from the original publication date? If so, what is it? I recently received an answer…
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In the past several years, national Democrats and Republicans as well as grassroots organizations have increasingly targeted the Asian American constituency in Orange County in an effort to tip the influence of the growing voter bloc in their favor. Even still, many of these efforts have been partisan and done largely in English, at times…
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In the shadow of the fourth anniversary of California’s “Safer at Home” orders, a reflective examination of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact, with a spotlight on Los Angeles County, becomes imperative. This analysis transcends mere critique, aiming to dissect the series of public health missteps—ranging from erratically designed mask and vaccine mandates to the deployment of…
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Even granting considerable leeway for the unprecedented nature of the coronavirus and the speed with which it spread, governments responded quite poorly. This is no surprise, since it’s not like many Americans had much confidence in government in 2019 or the many years before that. But with governments having a monopoly on the exercise of…
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For 35 years, Gil Estrada has bore witness to the perils of Mt. San Antonio, the 10,064-foot peak known by most as Mt. Baldy that divides Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. The danger, according to Estrada, plays out mostly during the peak winter months, when heavy snow and ice in the San Gabriel Mountains…
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For the last three years, this editorial page has marked the anniversary of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order with commentaries reflecting on the lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic. We continue this tradition, as we believe it’s important for people to critically engage with what happened, what went right, what went wrong. Presented today are…
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One thing is known for sure about a proposed settlement of a massive antitrust case against Realtors: the home selling process is about to change, and with it, how buyers and sellers compensate their agents. Otherwise, say members of Southern California’s real estate industry, it’s too soon to decipher the impact of the $418 million…
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I have spent a lot of my life waiting for good news in the mail. At a young age, I started sending out my poetry to newspapers and magazines to be considered for publication. Each poem was carefully hand-printed and mailed in a long white business-size envelope with a stamped self-addressed envelope, (SASE) enclosed so…
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