While few Californians weathered the pandemic unscathed, taxpayers took a particularly heavy hit, getting stuck for the longterm cost of relief payments, bailouts and fraud while losing earnings during the “two weeks to flatten the curve” that turned into two years. If we had known in early 2020 what we now know, it is doubtful…
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Sore throat? Cough? Sniffles? Finally, effective treatments for COVID-19 are available. But temper your expectations. Reuters The president launched a nationwide “Test to Treat” Initiative on March 8 that seeks to make treating COVID-19 simple: You get tested at a pharmacy-based clinic. If you’re positive and at high risk, you can get antiviral pills on…
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Now that we’ve hit the two-year anniversary of the lockdowns from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in California, it is time to take stock of hard-won lessons. With all-cause mortality at 18.4% above historical norms, a figure worse than the national average, no one should say that our response was a success. The lessons…
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When Magda Hellinger was 87, she sat down and wrote a slim book about surviving for three years at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Her beloved husband, Bela, who had also endured three years in the camp, had died at 92 the previous year and Hellinger put pen to paper to provide lasting evidence of what…
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Since June of 2020, the industrial real estate market of manufacturing and logistics buildings has been on turbo-charge! Anything for sale – regardless of how ludicrous the asking price might appear – is met with multiple offers, bidding wars and one group of winners – sellers! As buyers go, we’ve witnessed an owner occupant’s ability…
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Q: Mr. Winderman, I’m going to say it again: We are not scared or ducking anybody. Brooklyn doesn’t scare Miami. Maybe another team would be, but we’re not built to have fear. There are enough key defenders on our roster for those decisive fourth-quarter stops. We just need everyone in rhythm before the playoffs start…
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By BETH HARRIS INDIAN WELLS — Rafael Nadal faced down the future and emerged victorious, outlasting Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 Saturday night to reach the BNP Paribas Open final and improve to 20-0 this year. The 21-time major champion threw his head back, smiled and raised both arms in triumph after escaping…
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The consensus box of Santa Anita picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for races on Sunday March 20, 2022. Trouble viewing on mobile device? See consensus picks Enjoy the consensus horse racing picks online? Subscribe Sign up for Ponies Express newsletter and get the…
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San Diego Wave Kelsey Turnbow, center right, fights for control of the ball with Angel City Madison Hammond, center left, in an NWSL game in Fullerton on Saturday, March 19, 2022. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) Angel City goalkeeper Didi Haračić, left, grabs the ball before San Diego Wave’s Kristen McNabb, right, can make…
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A mountain lion was spotted Saturday near the crossing of Marguerite Parkway and Alicia Parkway near Lake Mission Viejo, Mission Viejo officials said. The Mission Viejo Animal Services Center received that there was no incident involving the animal and after 45 minutes in the area, the lion swam across the lake toward the Mollorca Condominium…
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