Month: June 2022

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Ravens wrapped up organized team activities last week, a series of nine voluntary workouts more notable for who wasn’t in attendance than who was. This week, the team will turn its focus to mandatory minicamp, three days of practices that will set the stage for the start of training camp in late July. Here…

In little more than a month, the Orioles will replace Adley Rutschman in their farm system with another first overall draft pick. With the new collective bargaining agreement’s draft lottery system not going into effect until next summer, Baltimore’s 52-110 record last year, paired with a tiebreaker against the Arizona Diamondbacks, secured the organization’s second…

California’s universities once required faculty to sign an anti-Communist oath. Many faculty resigned or refused to sign on principle, and no one looks back on that history with fondness. Yet California’s community colleges are on the brink of embracing a new loyalty oath. Rather than force faculty to denounce communism, a new policy will force…

Argue all you want about what is the cause and effect, but with the Celtics, all season, it’s either been one step forward and another back, or the other way around. Sometimes it’s hard to tell, but the fact remains that even if momentum was once again snatched away in their Game 4 loss to…

By GREG BEACHAM SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — NASCAR’s preseason Clash race is rolling back to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 2023. NASCAR said Sunday it will return the exhibition race to the Southern California sports landmark next season. The Clash’s highly successful debut there four months ago was part of the launch of NASCAR’s…

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…

Argue all you want about what is the cause and effect, but with the Celtics, all season, it’s either been one step forward and another back, or the other way around. Sometimes it’s hard to tell, but the fact remains that even if momentum was once again snatched away in their Game 4 loss to…

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…