Oracle Corp. is moving its headquarters out of the city. Tesla Inc. is pulling back after a rapid expansion. Almost a quarter of commercial office space is vacant, and nowhere in the country have residential real estate prices fallen further from their pandemic peak. Austin, the cosmic cowboy paradise that became a Covid-era economic superstar…
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On April 27, 1994, five presidents and five first ladies came to Yorba Linda to attend the funeral of our 37th president Richard Nixon. On April 22, 1994 Richard Nixon, died after suffering a significant stroke at his home in Park Ridge, New Jersey. He was 81. It was 10 months after his wife Pat…
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Pending sales of existing US homes in March reached their highest levels in a year in spite of persistently high borrowing costs and a low supply. An index of contract signings from the National Association of Realtors climbed 3.4% to 78.2 last month, the highest since February 2023. The median estimate of economists surveyed by…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Fountain Valley has announced new co-coaches for its girls basketball team after the resignation of Marianne Karp. Former Orange County standout players Camryn Hamaguchi and Izzy Om take the helm of the Sunset Conference program. Hamaguchi played at Kennedy and Chapman while Om…
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One day after nearly 100 people were arrested following pro-Palestinian protests on campus, USC administrators have canceled the “main stage” commencement ceremony next month, citing “new safety measures.” The main graduation ceremony was planned for Friday, May 10, at Alumni Park, the same location where Wednesday’s demonstrations by pro-Palestinian students and other groups took place.…
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Some human foibles turn out to age extremely well. A prime and playful example — in this case, seeing a huckster gull the gullible before the fraudster gets his come-uppance — is Molière’s 360-year-old satire “Tartuffe.” A new production at Laguna Playhouse, with spot-on giggles and guffaws well in place, is satisfying, too, in “settling”…
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UCLA softball coach Kelly Inouye-Perez has a photo in her office that takes up nearly an entire wall. It’s from the 2018 NCAA Super Regional that UCLA and Arizona played in. There was a friendly competition to see which team could bring out more alumni to the game — UCLA ‘won’ with roughly 64 alumni…
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Stephanie Lai | (TNS) Bloomberg News Republican nominee Donald Trump and his campaign will host a donor retreat next week in Palm Beach, Florida, with some prominent Republicans who have been discussed as his potential running mate. Senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Tim Scott of South Carolina; North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and South…
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Four Orange County teams — Capistrano Valley Christian, Crean Lutheran, Huntington Beach and JSerra — have advanced to the CIF Southern Section girls beach volleyball semifinals. The Division 1 and Division 2 semifinals and finals will be played Saturday at Long Beach City College. Crean Lutheran is 19-0 this season and was the CIF-SS Division…
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REDWOOD CITY — A Pasadena radiologist was hearing footsteps and suffering from delusions about the nation’s fentanyl crisis, the war in Ukraine and the possibility of his children being kidnapped around the time his family’s Tesla — which he was driving — plunged off Highway 1 last year near Devil’s Slide, a psychologist testified Wednesday.…
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