Day: June 13, 2022

By Robert Lewis and Joe Hong | CalMatters When the pandemic closed schools in March 2020 – abruptly ending classes and stranding children and working parents – leaders in Washington and Sacramento scrambled to provide relief. The result was a series of stimulus measures that allocated $33.5 billion in state and federal funds to California’s…

The intersection of sports and politics has occasionally been fraught with controversy. Amid the civil rights movement, Muhammad Ali was briefly banned from boxing for his stance on the Vietnam War. Tommie Smith and John Carlos were subject to significant criticism for raising their fists in a salute to Black power at the 1968 Summer…

Anaheim celebrated Old Glory on Sunday with its 27th annual Flag Day event. Participants marched around Pearson Park and for the third year also had a procession of vehicles decorated in the red, white and blue. There was a Flag Day concert Friday at Irvine Regional Park and a field of flags is now on…

I don’t vote. Never have, in fact. My reasoning is fairly simple and best put by the great American philosopher George Dennis Patrick Carlin: “If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You…

Last month, state energy officials warned that California likely will have a shortage of electricity this summer equivalent to what is needed to power about 1.3 million homes. So why are local and state regulators increasingly trying to force Californians to rely on increasingly unreliable electricity? In Sacramento, the California Air Resources Board is working…

Big Blue Swim School is coming to The Market Place in Tustin, its second lease for a swim school in Orange County. The swim school franchise operated by L5 Swim is expected to open in early 2023. The new pool will be on the western side of the retail complex near the 5 freeway and…

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s closest campaign advisers, top government officials and even his family were dismantling his false claims of 2020 election fraud ahead of Jan. 6, but the defeated president was becoming “detached from reality” and clinging to outlandish theories to stay in power,…

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA | Associated Press NEW YORK — Wall Street is back in the claws of a bear market as worries about inflation and higher interest rates overwhelm investors. The Federal Reserve has signaled it will aggressively raise interest rates to try to control inflation, which is the highest in decades.…

Josh Donaldson will be out for Tuesday night’s series opener against the Rays. The Yankees third baseman will serve the one-game suspension handed down by MLB for his disrespectful taunting of White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson. Donaldson’s appeal of the suspension was denied by John McHale on Monday. Donaldson was accused by the White Sox…

By Tony Czuczka | Bloomberg Allianz SE’s Mohamed El-Erian said the US inflation rate may increase further and recession risks are “tilted in a negative way right now.” “I think you’ve got to be very modest about what we know about this inflation process,” El-Erian said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “And I…

Big Blue Swim School is coming to The Market Place in Tustin, its second lease for a swim school in Orange County. The swim school franchise operated by L5 Swim is expected to open in early 2023. The new pool will be on the western side of the retail complex near the 5 freeway and…

By Robert Lewis and Joe Hong | CalMatters When the pandemic closed schools in March 2020 – abruptly ending classes and stranding children and working parents – leaders in Washington and Sacramento scrambled to provide relief. The result was a series of stimulus measures that allocated $33.5 billion in state and federal funds to California’s…

I don’t vote. Never have, in fact. My reasoning is fairly simple and best put by the great American philosopher George Dennis Patrick Carlin: “If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You…

Anaheim celebrated Old Glory on Sunday with its 27th annual Flag Day event. Participants marched around Pearson Park and for the third year also had a procession of vehicles decorated in the red, white and blue. There was a Flag Day concert Friday at Irvine Regional Park and a field of flags is now on…

Last month, state energy officials warned that California likely will have a shortage of electricity this summer equivalent to what is needed to power about 1.3 million homes. So why are local and state regulators increasingly trying to force Californians to rely on increasingly unreliable electricity? In Sacramento, the California Air Resources Board is working…

The “Looking Glass” ponders economic and real estate trends through two distinct lenses: the optimist’s “glass half-full” and the pessimist’s “glass half-empty.” Buzz: With inflation running at a 40-year high — an ugly 8.6% nationally — one would think everything is pricier. Actually, 93% of the 333 items tracked in the monthly inflation report were…

A little after noon on Thursday, Jabari Smith and Orlando Magic coach Jamahl Mosley gave each other a fist bump at the AdventHealth Practice Facility inside Amway Center. A few seconds later, Mosley, who was speaking with other Magic personnel, patted Smith on his left shoulder and the two shared a smile as Orlando’s chief…

Amid a third year of drought conditions, the message to Californians remains: Conserve, conserve, conserve. So how wise, some wonder, is opening a water park like Wild Rivers in Irvine, at a time when residents are being asked to cut back on their daily water use and officials are cracking down on quenching “non-functional” turf…

ANAHEIM — Almost two weeks ago, the Mets began their odyssey through the Golden State to play three of the five major-league teams based out of California. Then, the Mets had a 10.5-game lead over everyone else in the division. Then, they had just won a season-high six straight games. The atmosphere on that cross…

By Nicole Gregory, contributing writer Cal State Fullerton alumnus Don DiCostanzo, ’79, is in the right business at the right time. Pedego Electric Bikes, a company he co-founded in 2008, has seen multimillion-dollar growth in the last several years. “It’s a confluence of factors,” he explained. “During the pandemic, people were locked up and they…