The president of Santa Ana’s police union, Gerry Serrano, is one of the city’s highest-paid employees even though he does no police work for the city. Yet his nearly $500,000 in compensation isn’t enough for him. Public records show that he received help at the state’s highest levels in an attempt to boost his pension…
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Bay Area pediatricians knew omicron was like nothing they’d seen before for their youngest patients, and a new study released Tuesday confirms their alarm: The highly contagious variant sent kids to U.S. hospitals at rates four times higher than delta, and rates were higher still for those under age 5, who are too young for…
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A tongue-in-cheek TikTok video shows Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford casually throwing a football more than 300 yards down Main Street U.S.A. after a Super Bowl victory parade at Disneyland —an impossible feat so absurd it barely needs a “fake news” label. Stafford and his teammates Cooper Kupp and Aaron Donald filmed the spoof TikTok video…
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You may be surprised to learn that I just petted a whale. That’s right, I said whale, not dog or cat or gerbil. Whales generally live in the ocean and are quite hard to get close to, so it requires a somewhat involved journey to go to the one place on the planet where you…
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For the second game in a row, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was caught unmasked at a Rams game — the 70,000-attendee Super Bowl — following a trend of powerful California Democrats doing the same. At the AFC Championship two weeks prior, pictures of an unmasked Garcetti leaked, along with San Francisco Mayor London…
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One word that looks like it will never be associated with “Hardware,” the current solo album from Billy F. Gibbons, is calculated. Far from having a concept for the album, when Gibbons (the singer/guitarist of ZZ Top), drummer Matt Sorum (of Guns N’ Roses) and bassist Austin Hanks arrived at the studio near Joshua Tree,…
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California’s high-speed rail project just got another cost increase, who could have seen that coming? According to the project’s latest business plan, the project is estimated to cost upwards of $5 billion more than before, or $105 billion. That’s multiples higher than when the project was initially being sold to legislators and voters. In 2008,…
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is very gingerly lifting the restrictions on personal behavior that were imposed to counter the omicron surge of COVID-19 — particularly the requirement to wear masks inside public places. It’s the latest wrinkle in two years of Newsom decrees alternatively tightening and then loosening behavioral controls to deal with the pandemic…
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”Survey says” looks at various rankings and scorecards judging economic trends while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of data and art. Buzz: Black homeownership nationwide fell amid the pandemic era’s homebuying binge fueled by the government’s housing bailout. Source: My trusty spreadsheet analyzed Census ownership data, comparing 2021’s fourth quarter U.S.…
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Joe Rogan is amazing. Five years ago, I left Fox to start Stossel TV. I left because I was frustrated by live TV. Guests talked so much but said little. I now produce videos like the ones I used to do on “20/20.” I like having a month or more to do research and then…
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