On a recent Friday night, tired and looking for something my wife and I would both want to watch, I saw that a new season of “Poetry in America” had just landed on PBS. (The weekends are pretty wild around here.) We watched the episode on Walt Whitman’s “The Wound-Dresser” and I was reminded how…
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SANTA ANA – After being president at Servite High School for 15 years, Mike Brennan found that being president at St. Anthony High in Long Beach was a soothing change of pace. “Lower blood pressure,” Brennan said, laughing. Servite, like every Orange County large private school, is populated by many pushy parents and demanding alumni.…
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The Minneapolis police officers who killed Amir Locke stormed into the apartment where he was sleeping before dawn on Feb. 2, shouting orders. They said they took that approach to “decrease the risk for injuries.” That strategy is dubious even when cops are confident that the home they are invading is occupied only by criminal…
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On March 4, 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency in California. “If COVID-19 spreads in California at a rate comparable to the rate of spread in other countries, the number of persons requiring medical care may exceed locally available resources,” the declaration stated. “Experts anticipate that while a high percentage of individuals…
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Documents surfaced this week showing Orange County District Attorney, Todd Spitzer, inappropriately and illegally considered race during a meeting to decide whether California should execute a Black man. Prosecutors in attendance at the meeting memorialized his remarks in writing after concluding they were detestable and discoverable–meaning the mere fact that the DA had made the…
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Hank Goldberg stopped after two hours of dialysis Friday, rather than his customary three hours. He wasn’t feeling well and now wants some tea — “If I can get it,” he’s saying in a friendly way to a server — when he gets back to his dinner table from the mid-1970s. He’s sitting there at…
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Today, I will delve into the topic of cancel culture. No, not stifling free speech but the cancellation of a commercial real estate deal. In other words, how to unwind a transaction. As mentioned in this space over the years, commercial real estate agreements come in two forms — leases and sales. Unlike our residential…
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Scores from Friday’s CIF-SS boys basketball playoff games and the updated schedule for the next round of games. CIF-SS BOYS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS OPEN DIVISION Final round of pool play Friday Pool A Corona Centennial 92, Crean Lutheran 46 Bishop Montgomery 61, Damien 47 Pool B Harvard-Westlake 63, Sierra Canyon 60 Mater Dei 67, Sherman Oaks…
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For three straight offseasons, the Ravens have emphasized their desire to upgrade their pass protection and pass rush. After Baltimore finished 8-9 and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2018, those issues are still the center of attention. In 2021, the Ravens allowed a team-record 57 sacks, second-most in the NFL, while registering…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Veteran Foothill boys water polo and swimming coach Jim Brumm, who helped expand the school’s fabled aquatics legacy with unique talents for both sports, will retire at the conclusion of the swimming season this spring. The 63-year-old coached boys water polo at Foothill…
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