An Orange County judge has ruled Anaheim can’t require transitional or supportive housing operators to get permission from the city to open after the City Council denied a nonprofit from opening a group home in 2021. State law governs group homes, such as when they need to be licensed and how many people per bedroom.…
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UC Irvine chancellor told the campus community in a Friday night message that university officials intend to continue discussions with student protesters who formed a Gaza solidarity encampment earlier in the week. Though more demands have been made in a counterproposal received Thursday – some of which he said “can be easily met” but some…
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Today, I must get my David Letterman on and discuss the Top 10 reasons commercial real estate deals fail to close. As I have discussed in this column, ad nauseam, commercial real estate transactions are simply leases or purchases. We differ from our residential brethren, in that a large percentage of our transaction volume is…
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As student protests become more volatile, with vandalism and skirmishes between protesters and police as well as continuing unlawful action by students and other protestors, it is becoming ever clearer that claims by students and faculty that they are engaging in non-violent direct action and free speech were false from the very beginning. Their strategy…
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The Veuve Clicquot-branded umbrella within the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA Wednesday night was a telling touch. Its student owner didn’t bring it to camp as protection against the rain; it was dry in Westwood. No, the brolly brandisher just grabbed the thing, its deep yellow nylon canopy the same color as the fancy Champagne’s famous…
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All eyes are on America’s college students. Over the past two weeks, a new wave of activism has unfolded at college campuses across the country — with students gathering in marches, demonstrations, and tent encampments to protest the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The largely peaceful, pro-Palestine demonstrations have been upstaged by sometimes violent counter-protests, police force,…
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CIF-SS BOYS LACROSSE PLAYOFFS DIVISION 1 Quarterfinals, Friday St. Margaret’s 17, Corona del Mar 7 Mater Dei 18, Westlake 14 Loyola 9, Santa Margarita 4 Foothill 10, JSerra 5 Semifinals, Monday, 5 p.m. St. Margaret’s at Mater Dei Foothill at Loyola Championship game: May 10 DIVISION 2 Quarterfinals, Friday Mira Costa 12, Santa Monica 3…
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CIF-SS BASEBALL PLAYOFFS DIVISION 1 First round, Friday Corona 1, El Dorado 0 Mater Dei 5, Damien 0 Aquinas 7, Pacifica/GG 2 Notre Dame/SO 16, Torrance 1 Huntington Beach 9, Santiago/Corona 2 Villa Park 6, Bishop Amat 1 Gahr 5, Fullerton 2 Santa Margarita 7, Tesoro 9 Orange Lutheran 6, Sierra Canyon 1 Vista Murrieta…
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May has been very attentive to my need to live in Camelot for my entire birthday month. By Camelot, I mostly mean the musical which features my favorite “It’s May, it’s May that gorgeous holiday” song … but also the King Arthur reference to a utopia on earth. Romantic and magical with a door wide…
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DALLAS — As the song goes: Inglewood, always up to no good. And now the Clippers live there. Their next home game will be their first at the new Intuit Dome. You can put a period on the 2023-24 season: Friday night’s 114-101 Game 6 loss to the fifth-seeded Dallas Mavericks meant the Clippers won’t…
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