This is the year everybody in the free world has to grow up and stop treating energy policy like a middle school project. The world can’t operate without energy, and it needs a reliable, consistent, affordable supply of it. “Daily life still demands too much fossil fuel,” Gov. Gavin Newsom lamented in his State of…
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The city of Berkeley’s supposedly progressive residents are using NIMBYism to wage war on young people and their economic freedom. A small group of Berkeley residents has sued to stop the university from expanding. Thanks to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the California supreme court upheld a judge’s ruling that has frozen enrollment until…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now. SACRAMENTO — As each winning basketball team stormed the floor in celebration, another “team” slipped off the Golden 1 Center floor and into the tunnel this weekend. Referees can draw the ire from a crowd for 32 minutes, but when the final buzzer…
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Luke Kennard’s default expression is often a smile. Anyone who watched him having a ball in the 3-point shootout at All-Star weekend knows that. It likely says something about Kennard, whose father raised him, Mark Kennard said, to practice the golden rule. That is to say: “If you want to act like an idiot, you’re…
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We often criticize Gov. Gavin Newsom for throwing money at the state’s problems rather than coming up with creative and cost-effective alternatives, so we’re pleasantly surprised by his recently announced “new strategy” for tackling the California’s growing homelessness problem. The proposal is remarkably innovative and reflects the best and latest thinking on the issue. The…
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TEMPE, Ariz. — A quiet winter is about give way to a busy spring training. The Angels, and the other 29 teams, were frozen for 99 days by baseball’s lockout, but Thursday’s agreement set in motion a last-minute scrambling, with general managers busy working the phones to fill out their rosters and players hurrying to…
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On Friday, March 18, Mexican rockers Maná will start a run of concerts that will make history at one of music’s most storied venues. The show will mark the first of eight concerts for the band at the 17,500-person capacity Forum in Inglewood that will take place over the course of four months. Maná, which…
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Miami Heat Erik Spoelstra tried to make it crystal clear: a pause does not mean a problem but rather progress when it comes to the prudence being practiced with guard Victor Oladipo. So on the sixth day of his comeback from May quadriceps surgery, Oladipo rested, with Spoelstra giving the 29-year-old veteran Saturday off on…
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By The Associated Press The latest developments on the Russia-Ukraine war: A deputy head of Russia’s flagship carrier Aeroflot says he has resigned and left the country. Andrei Panov, Aeroflot’s deputy director in charge of marketing, wrote on Facebook on Saturday that “the old life is over.” Earlier this month, Russian news reports claimed that…
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A year after it was first announced, golfers are teeing off at Topgolf in Ontario. The nearly 600,000-square-foot driving range opened Friday, March 11, near the corner of Archibald Avenue and Fourth Street. The three-story facility includes 102 climate-controlled hitting bays, a full-service restaurant and bar and more. Topgolf’s first Southern California location was built…
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