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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Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday party guestlist just grew by a dozen plus superstar invitees. Promoters announced that Booker T. Jones, Buddy Cannon, Daniel Lanois, Dave Matthews, Dwight Yoakam, Jamey Johnson, Emmylou Harris, Gary Clark Jr., George Strait, Jack Johnson, Kris Kristofferson, Lily Meola, Rodney Crowell, Shooter Jennings, Stephen Stills and Waylon Payne have been added…
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Dozens of artists and thousands of fans will come together at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on April 29-30 to wish country music icon Willie Nelson a very happy birthday. The “On the Road Again” singer-songwriter, musician and political activist turns 90 on Saturday, April 29 and several of his famous friends and longtime…
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Homebuying in Riverside and San Bernardino counties ran at the ninth-slowest March pace on record despite a noteworthy seasonal jump in closed transactions from February. Inland Empire home purchases totaled 5,121 in March, according to CoreLogic. That’s up 31% for the month but down 41% for the year. How slow is that? No. 9 slowest-selling…
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Drilling has started in the parking lot of the historic Casa Romantica in San Clemente to assess movement detected starting a week ago in the bluff beneath the landmark’s ocean-view terrace. The boring, which began on Tuesday, April 25, will help geological experts determine how much the ground has moved since cracks were first noticed…
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