New Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel just about has a full coaching staff within about a week and a half of arriving in Miami. McDaniel, who last season served as offensive coordinator for the 49ers, has brought in coaches he has worked with in San Francisco, retained a number of coaches on the Dolphins’ staff and…
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There’s no mistaking the message Tuesday’s recall election sent to the San Francisco Board of Education: focus on education, not racial politics. In addition to the Board’s myopic focus on renaming schools instead of reopening them last year, the landslide results were also motivated by the Board’s decision to scrap competitive merit-based admissions at the…
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Ravens defensive lineman Calais Campbell might not be back in Baltimore for his 15th season, but he’ll be back somewhere. Campbell, who’s set to become an unrestricted free agent next month, announced at the end of Sky Sports’ telecast of Super Bowl 56 on Sunday night that he’s “definitely not retiring” this offseason. “I watch…
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Today, as Russia masses upwards of 125,000 troops on Ukraine’s border, and China sends hundreds of warplanes into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone, the United States is faced with a harsh new reality; balance of power politics has returned with a vengeance. U.S. foreign policy needs to adapt and reflect the world as it is, not how we wish…
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BEIJING — A Russian woman was standing atop the figure skating podium at the Beijing Games on Thursday night. It just wasn’t the one anyone expected. Even the fact that there was a podium was a surprise. Anna Shcherbakova, the overlooked world champion, delivered a clean performance in her free skate at historic Capital Indoor…
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Bus transportation has gradually returned to Southern California’s tribal-owned casinos after it stopped at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic nearly two years ago. While some casinos have resumed bus operations, others are still suspended without a timeframe for when they’ll return. Here’s a look at the current busing situation at Southern California casinos. Agua…
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By Amy Yee and Andre Tartar | Bloomberg Almost 350,000 loans made to small businesses in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic haven’t been forgiven, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of Paycheck Protection Program data, and most of them are for less than $25,000. That lingering debt — about $28 billion, the analysis shows —…
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About 175 student organizations turned out last week for Discoverfest, CSUF’s largest involvement event for student organizations. Hosted by the Office of Student Life & Leadership, in partnership with Associated Students, Inc., Discoverfest featured an in-person fair Feb. 9 and Feb. 10 on the Titan Walk, Jacaranda Court and walkway leading to the Pollak Library.…
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P.J. O’Rourke, the great satirist and journalist who championed liberty with humor, died on Tuesday at the age of 74. O’Rourke, born in Toledo, Ohio in 1947, came to embrace a fusion of conservatism and libertarianism in the 1970s after a period in his youth as a self-described left-wing hippie. Over the course of his…
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Turn the pages of Stephen White‘s new book on California photography and every so often a familiar name or image jumps out. Dorothea Lange’s iconic 1936 photograph of a migrant mother is here. One of Ansel Adams‘ pictures of Yosemite in winter shows up too. But then you stop, unable to turn away from a…
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