By Elizabeth Ayoola | NerdWallet Holidays are meant to be full of love, but sometimes they’re full of stress and anxiety. One of the culprits can be the unspoken financial commitment of family dinners, travel and chaotic gift-buying. Sometimes the stress is beyond your control, but there are some things you can champion like planning…
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Greg Vanney remembers his first time meeting Sigi Schmid. “I was a little nervous around him,” Vanney said. “He had the aura and the name of a guy who had already been around the national team level, who had been coaching at UCLA for years, won championships and put out guys who were playing at…
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Taylor Swift has triumphed yet again. Yet, she’s done so in a way that is different than ever before, delivering fans a career-spanning major theatrical release that ranks as nothing less than one of the greatest concert films ever made. The Sam Wrench-directed offering — which hit theaters this week and is expected to quickly…
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Erik J. Martin | Bankrate.com (TNS) Finding it increasingly difficult to pay your credit card bills due to some bad luck? Have you overcharged beyond your ability to repay your debt? Worried that your credit rating may be severely damaged if you don’t do something soon? Thankfully, there are options. One of them is to…
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Q. Why is there a separate lane for trucks and vehicles with trailers that goes through the old toll booth areas at the northern part of the 241 Toll Road? Vehicles pulling trailers routinely instead use the regular three left-hand lanes. This is the only point on the 241 tollway that requires this special treatment.…
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Mission Viejo must pay more than $715,000 in attorneys’ fees, a judge said, to a resident who challenged how the city extended three councilmembers’ terms while it worked on implementing a new voting system. Orange County Superior Court Judge Walter Schwarm last week ordered the city to pay additional fees, bringing the total to $715,137.…
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There are plenty of reasons why Disneyland hiked ticket prices this week while Disney World held the line, but none of them are going to make visitors to the Happiest Place on Earth very happy. Disneyland raised admission prices by as much as 25% on Wednesday, Oct. 11 with the most expensive one-day, one-park ticket…
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Unions representing 75,000 health care workers who recently held a strike against industry giant Kaiser Permanente over wages and staffing shortages have reached a tentative agreement with the company. The three-day strike last week involving 75,000 workers in multiple states officially ended last Saturday and workers returned to their jobs in Kaiser’s hospitals and clinics…
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One of the small animals transferred to Arizona by the San Diego Humane Society in August (Courtesy SDHS) There’s a scandal rocking the animal rescue world a wee bit south of here. Seems the San Diego County Humane Society transferred hundreds of small furries to the Humane Society of Southern Arizona in August — which…
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With the House of Representatives leaderless and legislation going nowhere, supporters of a bill to expand the 346,177-acre San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by one-third are looking to the White House. On Oct. 10, the ninth anniversary of the day the monument was designated by then-President Barack Obama, supporters stepped up their game. The effort…
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