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Tommy Orange’s debut novel, “There There,” was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, earning acclaim for telling the rarely heard story of Native Americans living in urban America. The book followed residents of Oakland as they struggled with life and their sense of their Native identity.  Since then, Native voices have finally started getting more attention, with…
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A proposed $1.9 billion theme park expansion plan would allow Disneyland to build as many as four thematic icons towering 300 feet in the air — nearly four times the height of Sleeping Beauty Castle and more than 100 feet taller than anything else at the Anaheim theme park. The March 2024 City of Anaheim…
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The Ducks went from rolling to reeling in short order, and now they’ll ramble on to Minnesota on Thursday and then Manitoba on Friday for meetings with the Wild and Winnipeg Jets in a back-to-back set. They’d won three of four games for just the second time since their early-season six-game winning streak. But they…
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By Mary Schlangenstein and Julie Fine | Bloomberg Alex Wilcox’s furious rivals say he’s exploiting a loophole. Wilcox counters that they’re just annoyed he’s treading on their turf. At the heart of their dispute is JSX, a Dallas-based carrier that got its start in Irvine, beloved by work travelers for offering convenience like a chartered…
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Anna Li, a former U.S. national team member and eight-time UCLA All-American, has been selected by gymnastics’ national governing body, to judge the vault at the U.S. Olympic Trials in June. It’s the same event that Li, while coaching at her family’s gymnastics club in suburban Chicago, screamed at and body-shamed a young gymnast who…
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A campaign to make personal finance a California high school graduation requirement submitted nearly 900,000 signatures this week to qualify a statewide ballot measure for the November election. The group, Californians for Financial Education, is led by Palo Alto entrepreneur Tim Ranzetta, who says he is fed up after two decades of failed legislative efforts…
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TEMPE, Ariz. — Jordyn Adams’ dream came true when he reached the big leagues, but it quickly became a nightmare. Adams, who had been known as an outstanding defender, misplayed a fly ball and made three bad throws in his first big-league game in August in Atlanta. He also went hitless in four at-bats, with…
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The wheels haven’t come off, but fissures have begun to appear in the health of the two of the players driving the Clippers this season. Kawhi Leonard and James Harden are experiencing soreness and spasms that could affect their availability over the next few games. Leonard left Tuesday’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves with thoracic…
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Win or lose, the Villa Park baseball team is going to pitch well. The Spartans (7-4 overall) are 6-2 over their past eight games. They have outscored their opponents 25-6 during that run. Villa Park’s losses over the eight-game span are 2-0 to Tesoro and Tuesday’s 2-1 loss to Hart. The Spartans, who are No.…
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Nearly 15 months after protestors chalked “students aren’t lab rats” and similar messages on a UC Irvine sidewalk, Southern California Gas Co. has scaled back and revised plans for a test that would have used hydrogen to replace up to 20% of the natural gas now running through the university’s pipelines. SoCalGas first asked state…
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