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LOS ANGELES — Even by his standards, Lakers coach JJ Redick’s pregame news conference ahead of his team’s Game 1 matchup of their best-of-seven first-round playoff series against the Minnesota Timberwolves carried an even more serious tone than usual. The typically loquacious Redick wasn’t nearly as long-winded with his answers to media members. His responses…
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The second weekend of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival didn’t sell out, which means it didn’t exactly hit the 125,000 people capacity that the Empire Polo Club in Indio did last week. However, there was still a cluster of spaces full of people making their way around the festival. Whether they were waiting…
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Q. One would think that as we get older and with our years of experience, our stress would lessen. For many of us, our children are grown up and independent, we have some retirement savings, and many of us own our homes. It seems that we should feel less pressure. That’s not the case for…
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Though far from the only factor, the California Environmental Quality Act, as currently constituted and implemented, has long been  a barrier to much needed housing development in California. California’s high housing costs are a simple supply and demand problem. Lots of people want to live here, but there aren’t enough housing units to keep housing…
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What happens when the sidewalk ends? I was thinking about this as I sat on my front porch swing one afternoon during the week between Passover and Easter. Although it is a poetry book written for children, “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein offers insight for readers of any age. As I tried to…
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For reasons having more to do with modern secular culture and commerce than religious significance, Christmas is more elaborately celebrated. But for believing Christians, Easter is the centerpiece of the faith. It marks the improbable miracle that God’s messenger in human form was killed by the agents of the powers of this world, yet rose…
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The great office restructuring has begun — thanks to the pandemic’s passing. In January, Kerin Van Andel, JLL executive vice president of workplace strategy, lost her nameplate on the wall outside her JLL office on the 13th floor of a twin tower skyscraper complex on South Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles. She previously occupied…
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Since mid-January, there’s been an uptick nationwide of people heading back to workspaces. The numbers curated from electronic badges being swiped coincide roughly with Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration on Jan. 20 and his team’s subsequent mandate that federal workers return to the office five days a week, similar to corporate-led initiatives nationwide. Kastle Systems’ “Back-to-Work…
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Imagine a scenario Thursday night in which, as the Rams are on the clock at No. 26 in the first round of the NFL draft, only two quarterbacks have been selected. The top two tight ends are off the board. The only interior linebackers with first-round grades are gone. So are the top three receivers,…
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One of the biggest takeaways from Chargers general manager Joe Hortiz’s session with reporters last week was that he believed he had plenty of options going into the NFL draft Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He can afford to be selective, given his free-agent success. Will he take a tight end with…
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