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Among the leading factors that drive people into homelessness are poor health and a lack of healthcare. Too often illness and injury lead to the loss of work and income, devastating family finances and leaving rent and mortgages unpaid. Recent research has also found that medical debt is another leading contributor to people becoming unhoused.…
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Are you rich? Then I might not like you. I dislike most rich people because they tend to be pretentious, boring and full of themselves. I know I’m grossly generalizing, but … I don’t care. Sorry if this means you. However, I’m sure this wouldn’t apply to you, dear reader – whatever your income –…
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Did you survive the budget cuts from the last debt ceiling fight? President Joe Biden called them “draconian,” while Republicans praised the deal’s “historic reductions in spending.” But both parties conned us, as my new video explains. What they call “cuts” were just a reduction in their planned spending increase.Instead of raising spending by 7.8%, they increased…
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Olivia Hodges resigned as Dana Hills girls cross country coach Tuesday, said Dana Hills athletic director Tom Faris. Faris will run the Dolphins girls cross country coach while the school seeks a replacement. He said the school must make the position available to personnel within the Capistrano Unified School District before opening it up to…
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LOS ANGELES — It was just another scoreless inning among many. Brusdar Graterol has not allowed a run in his past 21 innings, the longest scoreless streak by a Dodgers pitcher this season. But it meant so much more. Graterol was pitching in front of his mother for the first time as a big-leaguer after…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Here are the Orange County high school football stat leaders after the Week 4 games. The leaderboards are based on season stats published on MaxPreps.com. To be included, teams must have stats updated on MaxPreps each Tuesday by 2 p.m. PASSING: TOTAL YARDS…
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By Adam Beam and Amy Taxin | The Associated Press California regulators on Tuesday ordered one of the country’s oldest bottled water brands to stop using some of the natural springs it has relied on for more than 100 years to market its products throughout the western U.S. Arrowhead bottled water traces its roots to…
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LOS ANGELES — Maybe Lincoln Riley forgets that he is now coaching in the No. 2 media market in North America, rather than sleepy Norman, Oklahoma. Maybe he was triggered by a single sentence. Or maybe he’s just resorting to the traditional college football coach’s playbook: Assert control, and steer the coverage of your team…
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LAS FLORES – Consistency can be an elusive quality in sports at any level. Aliso Niguel’s girls volleyball team achieved that quality Tuesday in its sweep of Tesoro in South Coast League play at Tesoro High. The Wolverines defeated the Titans 25-21, 25-16 and 25-14. Aliso Niguel is 6-7 overall and 1-1 in league. Tesoro,…
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LOS ANGELES — Dodgers catcher Will Smith made his first All-Star Game while playing with a broken rib for much of the season’s first half. Smith acknowledged to David Vassegh of 570 AM over the weekend that he suffered a fracture when he was hit in the side by a pitch from St. Louis Cardinals…
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