Four years ago, government officials told us, “Stay home!” We have “15 days to slow the spread.” Days turned into months and then years, while officials chipped away at our freedoms. I have long been wary of politicians, but even I was surprised at how authoritarian many were eager to be. Some demanded police to…
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The state Senate’s glass ceiling is about to shatter. Initial primary election results show enough women are poised to be elected to the state Senate this year that it will achieve — and surpass — gender parity for the first time when the newcomers are sworn into office in December. Final ballots from the March…
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Yet another hearing was held on Monday in the ongoing dispute between the city of Los Angeles and reality, part of a larger battle between the state of California and reality. Reality, it turns out, really punches above its weight. In Monday’s hearing, U.S. District Judge David Carter considered whether to approve an independent audit…
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By Larry Urish, contributing writer As a long-time professor of biology at Santiago Canyon College, Denise Foley has spent years working in a microscopic world. It’s been a passion of hers long before she started teaching at SCC in 2006. However, it’s in the macro world, a world inhabited by people we see and influence,…
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The usual start-of-the-year drop in Southern California real estate jobs this year was 14% larger than the norm. My trusty spreadsheet found property-linked employment in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties was 754,500 in January 2024 – off 12,700 for the month. It’s largely a seasonal dip. In pre-pandemic 2015-19, an average 11,120…
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A year after I joined the Orange County Register’s Editorial Board in 1987, the next year voters narrowly approved Proposition 103, 51% to 49%. We met with its author, Consumer Watchdog founder Harvey Rosenfield, but he didn’t convince us. We opposed it, warning interference in the marketplace just makes things worse. Prop. 103 cut rates…
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The Santa Ana City Council deadlocked on an emergency ordinance that would have required activists protesting at private residences to stay 300 feet away from the targeted home. It would have taken a two-thirds majority vote of the council Tuesday night to adopt the restrictions as an urgency measure. Councilmember Thai Viet Phan had to…
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It is no exaggeration to say that gangs in Mexico are now more powerful than the Mexican police force. It is almost possible, but not quite, to say that these groups of criminals can fight even the Mexican Army on an almost equal basis. Needless to say, this situation calls for rectification, if the prosperity,…
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SEOUL, South Korea — For the past three months, the only number that seemed to matter with Yoshinobu Yamamoto was the $325 million he signed for with the Dodgers. Now there is another number attached to the Japanese right-hander – his 8.38 ERA in three Cactus League starts. Impressive as he was at times with…
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SALT LAKE CITY — The UC Irvine men’s basketball team kept surging but Utah kept answering, ultimately outlasting the Anteaters, 84-75, in a first-round game of the NIT on Tuesday night. UCI trailed by as much as 17 points midway through the second half but made one final push to try to extend its season.…
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