Sudents from Mission Basilica School perform during St. Joseph’s Day and the Return of the Swallows Celebration at Mission San Juan Capistrano on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Costumed students from Mission Basilica School get ready to perform during St. Joseph’s Day and the Return of the Swallows Celebration…
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Work began Tuesday, March 19, demolishing another motel on Beach Boulevard that city officials say has been a problematic spot for crime and instead the land in the coming years could be redeveloped to have affordable housing. The Anaheim Lodge, which opened in 1984 with 45 rooms, is the third motel demolished since 2021 as…
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California’s high-speed rail project is and always has been an expensive and unworkable scam. The project was sold to voters in 2008 as a $33 billion plan connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco. And, it was supposed to be operational in 2020. Here we are in 2024, with a higher price tag (upwards of $128…
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In case you’ve been in a coma, you may not have heard that there is a total solar eclipse coming up in two weeks. This is when the moon moves in front of the sun, completely blotting it out and thrusting viewers into darkness. Sadly, it won’t be visible here in La La Land, but…
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Four years ago, government officials told us, “Stay home!” We have “15 days to slow the spread.” Days turned into months and then years, while officials chipped away at our freedoms. I have long been wary of politicians, but even I was surprised at how authoritarian many were eager to be. Some demanded police to…
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The state Senate’s glass ceiling is about to shatter. Initial primary election results show enough women are poised to be elected to the state Senate this year that it will achieve — and surpass — gender parity for the first time when the newcomers are sworn into office in December. Final ballots from the March…
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Yet another hearing was held on Monday in the ongoing dispute between the city of Los Angeles and reality, part of a larger battle between the state of California and reality. Reality, it turns out, really punches above its weight. In Monday’s hearing, U.S. District Judge David Carter considered whether to approve an independent audit…
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By Larry Urish, contributing writer As a long-time professor of biology at Santiago Canyon College, Denise Foley has spent years working in a microscopic world. It’s been a passion of hers long before she started teaching at SCC in 2006. However, it’s in the macro world, a world inhabited by people we see and influence,…
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The usual start-of-the-year drop in Southern California real estate jobs this year was 14% larger than the norm. My trusty spreadsheet found property-linked employment in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties was 754,500 in January 2024 – off 12,700 for the month. It’s largely a seasonal dip. In pre-pandemic 2015-19, an average 11,120…
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A year after I joined the Orange County Register’s Editorial Board in 1987, the next year voters narrowly approved Proposition 103, 51% to 49%. We met with its author, Consumer Watchdog founder Harvey Rosenfield, but he didn’t convince us. We opposed it, warning interference in the marketplace just makes things worse. Prop. 103 cut rates…
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