Whicker: Slow race too fast for Dodgers?
LOS ANGELES – Just last week, Steven Rodriguez was chilling out in a golf course grill room in Chattanooga. The Dodgers' Double-A team had just enjoyed a precious off day. Rodriguez was already way...
View ArticleIrvine Pony's 13-year-old World Series champs honored
Irvine Pony's 13-year-old baseball squad was the best in the country for its age division this summer. Tuesday night, the group of all-stars capped a memorable run with honors from the City Council....
View ArticleThomas Sowell: Depending on dependency
The theme that most seemed to rouse the enthusiasm of delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte was that we are all responsible for one another – and that Republicans don't want to...
View ArticleTimothy Spangler: Finding fame 'Gangnam Style'
It is hard to watch the frenetic, oversaturated video for South Korean pop sensation PSY's global viral single, "Gangnam Style," without smiling. PSY, whose real name is Jae-Sang Park, cuts a...
View ArticleRobert Samuelson: Health care's heap of waste
How much waste is there in America's health care system? Try $765 billion. That's the estimate from the Institute of Medicine, covering everything from unneeded tests to excessive administrative costs....
View ArticleRamthun & Ride: Solutions for CalPERS health insurance rate hikes
The California Public Employees' Retirement System recently raised health insurance premiums for nearly 1.3 million workers and retirees an average of 9.6 percent for 2013, more than three times the...
View ArticleOC Zoo woman hands on with bears, mountain lions
The last time I saw a big black hairy spider crawl on someone, it was on James Bond's bare shoulder. Bond maintained his macho-cool, but he was scared.OC Zoo Education Coordinator Marcy Crede-Booth...
View ArticleO.C. firm creates performance products with a plus
In the manufacturing of sandals, as much as 30 percent of the material ends up as scrap. What if all that scrap could be reformed and reused so that zero goes into landfills? Most consumers would...
View ArticleLee & Associates promotes two new principals
Commercial real estate provider Lee & Associates has promoted two new principals at its Orange location.Erik Thompson and Luke Hudson, who have been with Lee & Associates' Orange office since...
View ArticleEditorial: Romney waffling on health care
One of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's problems with voters is his history of flip-flopping on issues. After he took a commanding lead in the GOP primaries in March, one of his own...
View ArticleEditorial: California sales tax arrives for online purchases
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, a case that predates the advent of online commerce, but still is germaine to online merchants,...
View ArticleDeroy Murdock: Mideast mayhem points to need for American energy
America's economic well-being is at the mercy of the most thin-skinned hotheads on Earth. The tragic and outrageous assassination of American officials in Libya and the vicious attacks on U.S....
View ArticleToday at the Disneyland Resort, Fri., Sept. 14
Disneyland hours: 9 a.m. to midnight. Disney California Adventure hours: 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Attraction/restaurant closures: Indiana Jones Adventure, Storybook Land Canal Boats, and Casey Jr. Circus...
View ArticleMorning letters: Middle East madness surrounds U.S.
FULLERTON, D.Q. Rosenow: Had any one of the assaults upon American ground and embassy property taken place on “W's” watch, we would be deluged with media reprovals of his instigations of Islamic hatred...
View ArticleSept. 14 celebrity birthdays
San Diego Padres announcer and former New York Yankee second baseman Jerry Coleman is 88. Actor Walter Koenig ("Star Trek") is 76. Hall of Fame basketball coach Larry Brown is 72. Singer-actress Joey...
View ArticleO.C. Arts Preview: Pushing boundaries in 2012-13
Arts organizations feel emboldened to challenge audiences with edgier, outside-the-box fare when prosperity reigns, then tend to retreat to the tried and true when the economy goes south. In the heady...
View ArticleIrvine police blotter, Aug. 28 to Sept. 3
CROSSROADS SEPT. 37:27 a.m. Graffiti, 100 block Springbrook. Graffiti was reported on utility boxes in Springbrook Park. 10:55 a.m. Residential burglary, 100 Santa Catalina Aisle. A purse was reported...
View ArticleHollywood is the mother of reinvention
Who knew that the guy who was nominated for an Academy Award for portraying Oskar Schindler and for a Tony in a Broadway production of "Anna Christie" could utter these words: "What I do have are a...
View ArticleArts Preview 2012: Serious dance returns to SoCal
Every avid fan of dance in Southern California has been repeating one name over and over for the last few months like a mantra: Benjamin Millepied. The 35-year-old choreographer and former New York...
View ArticleArts Preview 2012: Museums look beyond So Cal this fall
Last year, the 800-pound gorilla in the Southern California art world was the Getty-sponsored, multi-institutional initiative, "Pacific Standard Time." This year, there's no such beast. Rather than...
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