No joy in the Mudville that is American politics after the dismal debate? The doddering president and the perfectly awful alternative? Let’s instead revel in the possibilities that this situation presents us with. Let’s not bow down to the supposed inevitability of the Democratic Party continuing down the path of nominating President Joe Biden for…
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Podcast Summer … Evan Lovett has long been one of my favorite TikTokers. His popular “L.A. In a Minute” is a highlight of the platform, looking into various aspects of Los Angeles and the stories behind them. Why are Trader Joe’s parking lots so seemingly small? … The San Andreas fault … Restaurants that started…
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California politicians are addicted to debt. For voters and taxpayers, it’s time to schedule an intervention. Let’s pick November 5th. The amount of debt already assumed by state and local governments is easily in the hundreds of billions of dollars. In fact, if debt is defined as legally binding obligations that require future payment, this…
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity didn’t sit well at all with the current occupant of the office. “The American people deserve to have an answer in the courts before the upcoming election,” President Joe Biden said in a televised speech. “The public has a right to know the answer about what happened…
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Californians have been surprisingly good at paying their bills despite all the financial hurdles of Golden State life. That’s what I found when my trusty spreadsheet looked at a decade’s worth of consumer delinquency data from the New York Fed. These stats came from Equifax credit histories tracking which debts go unpaid – mortgages, autos,…
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Truckloads of sand will be heading to two south Orange County beaches starting Monday, July 8, as officials try to salvage sand-starved shores at Capistrano Beach in Dana Point and North Beach in San Clemente. The county’s southernmost coastal town will get an estimated 50,000 cubic yards of sand at North Beach, an area in…
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Buying a home in Los Angeles and Orange counties costs 10 times more than what a typical family earns in a year, a new housing report shows. That’s double what it was in 1980, when the price of a house was five times the median household income, according to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. The…
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A wildfire that erupted in the mountains of Santa Barbara County in Southern California has burned more than 16,000 acres, prompting an evacuation order and threatening ranches, including Michael Jackson’s former Neverland Ranch, authorities said. The fire, called the Lake fire, broke out shortly before 4 p.m. Friday near Zaca Lake, just northeast of the…
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The Lake Fire, burning in a rugged area of Santa Barbara County, has become the biggest wildfire of California’s season. As of Monday morning, the fire was at 20,320 acres (31.7 square miles) with 8% containment, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. That surpassed Sites, which burned 19,195 acres last month in…
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LOS ANGELES — A proudly religious man, Dodgers relief pitcher Blake Treinen relied on reading the Bible to get through nearly two years of shoulder pain, surgery and rehabilitation. But there were a couple other proverbs that stayed in his mind. He remembered hearing Kobe Bryant’s advice once – don’t fall in love with the…
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