• Leave your emotions at the doormat, this home needs to sell

    Leave your emotions at the doormat, this home needs to sell
    Preparing to sell your house begins with getting your house ready to market it, and for some, this concept is difficult to grasp.
    There are so many memories, milestones and emotions tied up in the place where you live. You’ll have greater success selling the home if you can flip the mental switch, disconnecting from those emotional attachments to “home sweet home.” Instead, view it as a commodity to be marketed to as many consumers as possible.
    Keep in mind, you’re not pr
  • Clippers face questions after another season ends early

    Clippers face questions after another season ends early
    The idea was to build a contender and titles will come. Bring in stars and high-level talent and meld them into a seasoned lineup and championships would follow.
    But in the years since the 213 Era began, championships haven’t materialized – only injuries and heartache. The Clippers experienced more of the same Friday night when they were pushed out of the NBA playoffs by the Dallas Mavericks, who completed a 4-2 series victory with a 114-101 romp in Game 6 of the first round.
    In the
  • UCI chancellor says plans are to continue discussions Monday with student protesters

    UCI chancellor says plans are to continue discussions Monday with student protesters
    UC Irvine chancellor told the campus community in a Friday night message that university officials intend to continue discussions with student protesters who formed a Gaza solidarity encampment earlier in the week.
    Though more demands have been made in a counterproposal received Thursday – some of which he said “can be easily met” but some “challenge the very core of our mission” – Chancellor Howard Gillman said in the released message he remains “optimi
  • Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (April 25-May 2)

    Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (April 25-May 2)
    Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from April 25 to May 2.
    Kitchen at Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club, 1601 Bayside Drive, Newport BeachClosed: May 1
    Reason: Cockroach infestation
    Reopened: May 2Texas Pit Bar-B-Que, 24601 Raymond Way, Suite 2, Lake ForestClosed: April 30
    Reason: None providedSan Clemente Sushi Co., 305 S. El Camino Real, Suite 102, San ClementeClosed: April 30
    Reason: Rodent infestation
    Reopened: May 1Zankou C
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  • Judge’s order: Anaheim can’t require permits for transitional housing

    Judge’s order: Anaheim can’t require permits for transitional housing
    An Orange County judge has ruled Anaheim can’t require transitional or supportive housing operators to get permission from the city to open after the City Council denied a nonprofit from opening a group home in 2021.
    State law governs group homes, such as when they need to be licensed and how many people per bedroom. Anaheim’s laws required transitional or supportive housing with seven or more people to get a permit from the city to open in all types of neighborhood zones.
    Judge Walt
  • Here are bulbs that are excellent for a shade garden

    Here are bulbs that are excellent for a shade garden
    While the vast majority of bulbs are meant for sunny locations, some are excellent candidates for the shade garden. Walking in my neighborhood the other day, I spotted the flowers of two bulb species that are durable and guaranteed to spread in shady locations.
    The first shade lover I spotted was Natal or bush lily (Clivia miniata). Its silky, pastel orange to vivid reddish orange trumpet blooms are breathtaking in late winter and early spring. They form in clusters with as many as ten flowers p
  • Thousands of runners expected at 20th annual OC Marathon Sunday

    Thousands of runners expected at 20th annual OC Marathon Sunday
    About 13,000 runners are signed up to trek the seaside route for the 20th running of Orange County’s signature marathon on Sunday, May 5.
    The weekend also features a 5K and a fun run for kids on Saturday and a half marathon on Sunday.
    Festivities for the Hoag OC Marathon Running Festival including an expo, live music, food vendors and the finish line celebration that will all take place at the OC Fair & Event Center.
    The 26.2 mile marathon is set to begin at 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, starti
  • Southern California real estate bosses slash hiring

    Southern California real estate bosses slash hiring
    Southern California real estate bosses have dramatically cooled their hiring pace as high interest rates trim construction plans and home sales.
    My trusty spreadsheet found property-linked employment in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties was 755,900 in March 2024. That’s up only 2,200 jobs from February and 36% slower than the seasonal norm. In pre-pandemic 2015-19, an average 3,460 jobs were added in March.
    Another slowdown sign: In the last 12 months, real estate
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  • Tech meets trash in Orange County’s landfill future

    Tech meets trash in Orange County’s landfill future
    Last month, Tom Koutroulis, director of Orange County Waste & Recycling, signed off on a grant request that he hopes could fundamentally change how America handles one of the oldest but least understood drivers of global warming: garbage.
    It isn’t a huge ask as these things go; $25 million from a $5 billion fund overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency. The money would pay for what Koutroulis calls the “Smart Landfill System,” essentially a cluster of new technologie
  • Single-family zoning scores a win in court with blocking of Senate Bill 9

    Single-family zoning scores a win in court with blocking of Senate Bill 9
    The California Legislature specializes in lawless, partisan hackery. The list of bills that disregard the state constitution, or the federal one, borders on comical if you haven’t yet lost your sense of humor.
    Remember the law that required a fixed number of women on corporate boards? Unconstitutional. Or the law that limited what doctors could say to their patients? So embarrassingly unconstitutional that the legislature and the governor actually repealed it while the legal challenge was
  • Meet the student journalists bringing college campus protests to the world

    Meet the student journalists bringing college campus protests to the world
    All eyes are on America’s college students.
    Over the past two weeks, a new wave of activism has unfolded at college campuses across the country — with students gathering in marches, demonstrations, and tent encampments to protest the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
    The largely peaceful, pro-Palestine demonstrations have been upstaged by sometimes violent counter-protests, police force, and brought America’s college students to the forefront of the international issue.
    But it can be d
  • Larry Wilson: Veuve Clicquot and the pro-Palestine campers

    Larry Wilson: Veuve Clicquot and the pro-Palestine campers
    The Veuve Clicquot-branded umbrella within the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA Wednesday night was a telling touch.
    Its student owner didn’t bring it to camp as protection against the rain; it was dry in Westwood. No, the brolly brandisher just grabbed the thing, its deep yellow nylon canopy the same color as the fancy Champagne’s famous label, as she ran out her dorm-room door, late for the demo, just in case the Blue Meanies broke with the tear gas.
    Little did she know as well t
  • David Pan: Arrest students who break the law

    David Pan: Arrest students who break the law
    As student protests become more volatile, with vandalism and skirmishes between protesters and police as well as continuing unlawful action by students and other protestors, it is becoming ever clearer that claims by students and faculty that they are engaging in non-violent direct action and free speech were false from the very beginning. Their strategy has been to create fear rather than dialogue, confrontation rather than mutual understanding.
    When I was a college student at Stanford, I parti
  • Top 10 killers of commercial real estate deals

    Top 10 killers of commercial real estate deals
    Today, I must get my David Letterman on and discuss the Top 10 reasons commercial real estate deals fail to close.
    As I have discussed in this column, ad nauseam, commercial real estate transactions are simply leases or purchases. We differ from our residential brethren, in that a large percentage of our transaction volume is leases.
    Specifically, some agents ply their entire trade negotiating leases either in renewal, direct or sublease fashion. These professionals are known as “tenant re
  • How the gift of a typewriter gave me the keys to the kingdom

    How the gift of a typewriter gave me the keys to the kingdom
    May has been very attentive to my need to live in Camelot for my entire birthday month.  By Camelot, I mostly mean the musical which features my favorite “It’s May, it’s May that gorgeous holiday” song … but also the King Arthur reference to a utopia on earth. Romantic and magical with a door wide open to possibility, that is my May,
    When my mother surprised me with a portable Remington typewriter on my 16th birthday, it was like a horse-drawn carriage deliver
  • CIF-SS boys lacrosse playoffs: Friday’s scores, updated schedule for Monday’s games

    CIF-SS boys lacrosse playoffs: Friday’s scores, updated schedule for Monday’s games
    CIF-SS BOYS LACROSSE PLAYOFFS
    DIVISION 1
    Quarterfinals, Friday
    St. Margaret’s 17, Corona del Mar 7
    Mater Dei 18, Westlake 14
    Loyola 9, Santa Margarita 4
    Foothill 10, JSerra 5
    Semifinals, Monday, 5 p.m.
    St. Margaret’s at Mater Dei
    Foothill at Loyola
    Championship game: May 10
    DIVISION 2
    Quarterfinals, Friday
    Mira Costa 12, Santa Monica 3
    Huntington Beach 9, Trabuco Hills 8
    Sierra Canyon 12, Palos Verdes 4
    Agoura 9, San Clemente 2
    Semifinals, Monday, 5 p.m.
    Mira Costa at Huntington Beac
  • CIF-SS baseball playoffs: First-round scores, updated schedule for all divisions

    CIF-SS baseball playoffs: First-round scores, updated schedule for all divisions
    CIF-SS BASEBALL PLAYOFFS
    DIVISION 1
    First round, FridayCorona 1, El Dorado 0
    Mater Dei 5, Damien 0
    Aquinas 7, Pacifica/GG 2
    Notre Dame/SO 16, Torrance 1
    Huntington Beach 9, Santiago/Corona 2
    Villa Park 6, Bishop Amat 1
    Gahr 5, Fullerton 2
    Santa Margarita 7, Tesoro 9
    Orange Lutheran 6, Sierra Canyon 1
    Vista Murrieta 12, Millikan 2
    Foothill 7, South Hills 5
    La Mirada 4, Oaks Christian 3
    San Dimas 2, West Ranch 2
    Cypress 5, Calabasas 2
    Bonita 15, JSerra 2
    Harvard-Westlake 7, Norco 2
    Second round, T
  • Baseball playoffs roundup: Buena Park, La Habra, Beckman win in Friday’s first round

    Baseball playoffs roundup: Buena Park, La Habra, Beckman win in Friday’s first round
    Ryan Prescott homered, Neil Navarro hit a three-run double and Manuel Rivera pitched six scoreless innings for Buena Park in a 12-0 victory over Thacher in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 7 baseball playoffs Friday at Buena Park High.
    Coyotes coach Cody Gutierrez said it is the school’s first win in the baseball playoffs since 1994, according to the school’s research.
    The Coyotes (22-6) are the No. 1 seed in the division. They will play their second-round game Tu
  • Six-run inning lifts El Modena baseball to victory over Dana Hills in Division 3 playoffs

    Six-run inning lifts El Modena baseball to victory over Dana Hills in Division 3 playoffs
    DANA POINT — A seven-run fourth inning led El Modena’s baseball team to a 9-3 win over Dana Hills Friday in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 3 playoffs at Dana Hills High.
    El Modena (19-8-1) will play its second-round game at South Torrance on Tuesday. South Torrance beat Northwood 3-1 in the first round Friday.
    “Always happy to get a win, however it comes,” El Modena coach Josh Kliner said. “We didn’t sting the ball too well today but we put the ball in
  • Seven-run inning lifts El Modena baseball to victory over Dana Hills in Division 3 playoffs

    Seven-run inning lifts El Modena baseball to victory over Dana Hills in Division 3 playoffs
    DANA POINT — A seven-run fourth inning led El Modena’s baseball team to a 9-3 win over Dana Hills Friday in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 3 playoffs at Dana Hills High.
    El Modena (19-8-1) will play its second-round game at South Torrance on Tuesday. South Torrance beat Northwood 3-1 in the first round Friday.
    “Always happy to get a win, however it comes,” El Modena coach Josh Kliner said. “We didn’t sting the ball too well today but we put the ball in
  • Angel City FC tops Utah for 3rd win in 4 games

    Angel City FC tops Utah for 3rd win in 4 games
    SANDY, Utah — Sydney Leroux and Clair Emslie both scored in the first half and Angel City held on for a 2-1 victory over the expansion Utah Royals on Friday night.
    It was the third win in four games for Angel City (3-3-1, 10 points), which has played a schedule front-loaded with some of the NWSL’s top teams before its meeting with the Royals.
    Leroux scored on a header in the 29th minute and Emslie doubled the lead with a penalty kick in the 41st. Emslie leads the team with five goals
  • Dodgers outlast Braves on Andy Pages’ 11th-inning walk-off single

    Dodgers outlast Braves on Andy Pages’ 11th-inning walk-off single
    LOS ANGELES — This time around, there was no playoff seeding at stake, no MVP race to decide and no argument to settle about who is the National League’s best team as October approached.
    This time, the Dodgers and Atlanta Braves met as a pair of mega-talented teams still trying to find their way in the early season and they proved to be at similar places on the journey.
    In the first meeting of NL powers, it was the Dodgers who got the jump on the season series with a 4-3 victory Frid
  • Fountain Valley baseball tops Trabuco Hills in CIF-SS playoffs with thrilling finish

    Fountain Valley baseball tops Trabuco Hills in CIF-SS playoffs with thrilling finish
    FOUNTAIN VALLEY — The CIF-SS Division 3 baseball playoff game between Trabuco Hills and Fountain Valley on Friday featured a season’s worth of emotions in the final inning.
    In the top of the seventh, the Mustangs, who had been trailing by a run for most of the contest, were down to their final strike when a two-run single from Sean Dmytrowicz gave them the lead at Fountain Valley High.
    Fountain Valley came back and scored two runs in the bottom of the inning for a 4-3 walk-off victor
  • Swanson: Clippers fall flat again in Dallas as season ends

    Swanson: Clippers fall flat again in Dallas as season ends
    DALLAS — As the song goes: Inglewood, always up to no good.
    And now the Clippers live there.
    Their next home game will be their first at the new Intuit Dome. You can put a period on the 2023-24 season: Friday night’s 114-101 Game 6 loss to the fifth-seeded Dallas Mavericks meant the Clippers won’t ever host another game at Crypto.com Arena.
    Their opening-round loss in the Western Conference playoffs eliminated Coach Tyronn Lue’s team on his 47th birthday, the fourth-seede
  • Clippers’ season ends with Game 6 loss to Mavericks

    Clippers’ season ends with Game 6 loss to Mavericks
    By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer
    DALLAS — On a night when the Clippers were again playing without one of their stars, they needed more from the healthy ones in order to extend their season.
    As it turned out, they didn’t get enough from either one.
    Luka Doncic had 28 points and 13 assists, Kyrie Irving scored 28 of his 30 points in a second-half surge while Paul George and James Harden endured a poor shooting night as the Dallas Mavericks advanced to the second round of the playoffs
  • Cade Townsend dominates in Santa Margarita’s victory over Tesoro in Division 1 baseball playoffs

    Cade Townsend dominates in Santa Margarita’s victory over Tesoro in Division 1 baseball playoffs
    Santa Margarita’s Cade Townsend pitches, holding Tesoro scoreless, during a 7-0 win in a first round CIF-SS Division 1 game between the two teams on Friday, May 3, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
    LAS FLORES – Santa Margarita pitcher Cade Townsend is projected to be an early-round MLB Draft pick this summer.
    He showed why Friday. The senior right-hander threw a three-hitter with 11 strikeouts and one walk in the Eagles’ 7-0 win over Tesoro in a CIF Sout
  • Damien’s season ends with loss to Mater Dei in CIF-SS baseball playoffs

    Damien’s season ends with loss to Mater Dei in CIF-SS baseball playoffs
    LA VERNE – The season came to a screeching halt for the Damien baseball team Friday with a 5-0 loss to visiting Mater Dei in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs.
    “That’s never the way you want to end a season,” Spartans coach A.J. LaMonde said. “But I’m really proud of our team. We battled our way past an early bump in the road and we had our chances but didn’t execute the way we wanted.”
    The Baseline League champions ra
  • Spike in sick, starved brown pelicans has wildlife care center in need

    Spike in sick, starved brown pelicans has wildlife care center in need
    Brown pelicans have been coming in starved, dehydrated and in desperate need of care, officials with the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center said as they made a plea for support from the community.
    A mass stranding of the species seen over the last few weeks, with birds found throughout Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties, has rescue teams worried and quickly running out of supplies, said Debbie McGuire, executive director of the center in Huntington Beach.
    “They are all comin
  • Pitzer College to release financial information demanded by pro-Palestine students

    Pitzer College to release financial information demanded by pro-Palestine students
    Pitzer College will disclose information about its financial investments, officials said Friday, as pro-Palestinian students continued to call for the institution to stop doing business with Israel or companies that support its actions in Gaza.
    In a memo released Friday, May 3, Pitzer officials said President Strom C. Thacker and Board of Trustees Chairperson Donald P. Gould agreed to the financial disclosure after meeting with three undisclosed students and a faculty member that morning.
    P
  • LA County Fair kicks off season with ‘Stars, Stripes, and Fun’

    LA County Fair kicks off season with ‘Stars, Stripes, and Fun’
    The farm animals have arrived, the deep-fried delights are being served, and good ol’ classic fair fun is now underway.
    Yep, the LA County Fair kicked off Friday evening, May 3, for its 102nd year of celebrations.
    Americana will be in focus through the month-long run at Fairplex in Pomona as this year’s theme “Stars, Stripes, and Fun” pays homage to history and the communities in Southern California.
    From the Ferris wheel to the Garden Railroad and roller skating to repti

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