Last Sunday I wasn’t feeling great, so I decided to stay in bed all day and watch the stream of the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational. This is an extremely prestigious surfing competition that is held at Oahu’s famous Waimea Bay on the North Shore. They only hold it when the surf is very big,…
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Airline reward programs offer a simple proposition: If you fly with our airline a bunch, you’ll get paid back in the form of miles or points that can be used for future travel. Yet understanding how many miles you’ll earn, and how much these miles are worth, can be anything but simple. These reward programs…
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Gov. Gavin Newsom has positioned himself as the leading politician for Progressive America – a posture that wasn’t difficult to take given California’s post-COVID budget surpluses that reached $97.5 billion. One of progressivism’s key tenets is continually increasing government spending. The governor’s budgets always reflected those priorities. Now the state faces a projected $22.5-billion deficit.…
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By Matt Day | Bloomberg Amazon.com will start charging fees to online shoppers for grocery orders of less than $150, underscoring the challenging economics of getting food to shoppers’ doorsteps. The new fees, which take effect Feb. 28, coincide with the company’s efforts to cut costs and adjust to slower growth in online shopping. Charges…
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Editor’s note: This is the Friday, January 27, edition of the Purple & Bold Lakers newsletter from reporter Kyle Goon. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. For the first time in more than a month, Anthony Davis approached the postgame dais, immaculately dressed in designer wear to talk about a game…
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An Inland Southern California assemblymember wants Election Day focused on the voting booth instead of the mailbox. Republican Assemblymember Bill Essayli’s legislation would overhaul California’s elections and strike the requirement to mail a ballot to every California registered voter while also trying to speed up the vote count. The first legislation offered by new Republican…
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With a $100 million trial over a denied housing project just days from starting, homebuilder Lennar Corp. has upped the ante in its battle with the city of La Habra, filing an even more ambitious homebuilding proposal for a golf course in the hills overlooking north Orange County. And because La Habra has yet to…
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By STEFANIE DAZIO and BRIAN MELLEY Video released publicly Friday shows the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fighting with his assailant for control of a hammer moments before he was struck during a brutal attack in the couple’s San Francisco home last year. The body-camera footage shows suspect David DePape wrest the…
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The saga of California’s inflation refund is coming to a close even as qualified taxpayers wait for their payments. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said last fall that the state would distribute the one-time Middle-Class Tax Refund payments between late October and mid-January. The payments, which range from $200 to $1,050, are aimed at taxpayers who…
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T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, the anchors of the third hour of ABC’s flagship morning show “Good Morning America,” are in the final stages of negotiating an exit from the network after photos surfaced last year of the pair engaged in an apparent romantic relationship, a person familiar with the matter told CNN Friday. A…
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