It’s ironic that a novel about the Iranian revolution initially drew the ire of conservative school-board members at the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District. That debate – and concern about some language used by the author – sparked the district’s passage of a new plan that makes the elected trustees the final arbiter of books…
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By Lauren del Valle | CNN Former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll took the stand Wednesday morning in her battery and defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump. “I’m here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen,” Carroll testified. “He lied and shattered my reputation and…
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Let me just tell you a little secret: Having cancer isn’t nearly as much fun as you might think. I remember flouncing into the chemotherapy infusion room, dressed in my best cocktail attire, and waiting for the nurses to bring on the margaritas. Surprise: No margaritas. I came close to walking out, but I decided…
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In its effort to battle climate change, California is in the forefront of the nation’s effort to shift our electrical generation away from fossil fuels and toward renewable-energy production. Yet as California rushes to achieve its climate goals of 90% “clean” energy within a dozen years, it is far behind in its need to upgrade…
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Once again, the California state government has failed to provide adequate computer and technology services to the state’s 39 million residents. The Golden State remains the global center of private-sector information technology, yet Sacramento is incapable of harnessing the capabilities of Silicon Valley toward getting government technology up to speed. The latest critique comes from…
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Insomniac Events has officially released the lineup for its two-day Day Trip Festival and it includes a roster of top house music performers. The annual summer house music party is back for its second year and has moved to The Queen Mary’s waterfront park in Long Beach on June 24-25. Saturday’s bill will include sets…
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Knott’s Berry Farm has brought back a chaperone policy that went into effect after multiple fights broke out involving teenagers last summer following a series of incidents marred by violence and weapons at sister parks in recent weeks. Under the updated policy, all visitors 15 years old or younger must be accompanied by a chaperone…
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After the Clippers announced five-time All-Star Kawhi Leonard as a late scratch ahead of Game 3 of their first-round Western Conference playoff series against the Suns, they labeled the injury as a “knee sprain” and called him day to day. On Wednesday morning, hours after the fourth-seeded Phoenix Suns eliminated the Clippers in Game 5…
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By Katharine Gemmell | Bloomberg Microsoft’s $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard was vetoed by Britain’s antitrust watchdog, in a potentially fatal blow for the gaming industry’s biggest ever deal. The Competition and Markets Authority said its concerns couldn’t be solved by remedies such as the sale of blockbuster title Call of Duty or other…
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By Nadia Lopez | CalMatters California’s trucking industry is bracing for state regulators this week to enact unprecedented rules that would ban sales of new diesel big rigs by 2036 and convert large companies’ existing trucks to zero emissions by 2042. “The amount of chaos and dysfunction that is going to be created by this…
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