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View ArticleDucks' Perry signs eight-year, $69 million contract extension
ANAHEIM -- The sound that was being heard around the rest of the NHL on Monday night was the Ducks sticking a pin in the free agency balloon. Just 10 days after locking up captain Ryan Getzlaf for...
View ArticleLakers don't have enough to beat Suns
PHOENIX – This is what Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni had to say after the Lakers scored so easily in beating Sacramento without injured Kobe Bryant on Sunday night: "We don't have to be one-player...
View ArticleThomas Friedman: Use carbon tax to pay down deficit, cut taxes
One of my favorite quotes about the state of U.S. politics was offered a couple years ago by Gerald Seib, a Wall Street Journal columnist, when he observed that "America and its political leaders,...
View ArticleShops move the needle on vinyl records
The volume of The Kinks playing through the speakers at Port of Sound Record Shoppe is loud enough to stop a conversation. But listening to music – and even touching it – is the point of the...
View ArticleGodin: Businesses must take risks
Business isn't for the faint of heart. You have to be willing to take risks, and make mistakes, if you want to succeed, says author Seth Godin. "If failure is not an option, then neither is success,"...
View ArticleGloria Romero: Failure to protect kids costs millions
Los Angeles Unified School District, the state's largest district and largest recipient of the Proposition 30 tax increases, figures to be writing a big check soon. Unfortunately, this check won't be...
View ArticleEmily Goff: Ryan budget ends rail funding
Federal funding for high-speed rail would end under the House fiscal year 2014 budget introduced by Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). Costly high-speed rail and other intercity rail...
View ArticleEditorial: Algebra switch doesn't add up
The continued prosperity of the American economy depends on the strong achievement of students in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and math. That's especially true of the economy in...
View ArticleDrunk driving message emphasized by crash, obituaries
For the first time in six years, Villa Park High School hosted Every 15 Minutes, a presentation intended to present the real repercussions of drunk driving, for students this week.Sirens blared as...
View ArticleAlex Nowrasteh: Guest workers key to reform
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO reached a tentative agreement to support increasing lawful migration through a guest-worker program for lower-skilled migrants. The details are obscure, but...
View ArticleDavid Rothkopf: 7 lessons we've learned in 10 years of war
WASHINGTON – Ten years ago this March, George W. Bush launched America's invasion of Iraq. Had Twitter existed back then, #ShockandAwe would have been trending. Ground operations advanced quickly. By...
View ArticleMarch 19 celebrity birthdays
These people of the present and past were born on this date: Actress, singer and game-show panelist Phyllis Newman ("To Tell the Truth," "What's My Line?") is 80. Author Philip Roth ("Portnoy's...
View ArticleToday's cartoons: Democrats push out a budget;
Also: Obama's outpunched at the pump; Policing the bag lady
View ArticleKey California taxes rank in nation's top 10
The good news is that California's property and excise taxes are lower than the nation's average, according to a new report by the Tax Foundation. The bad news is that the state's personal and...
View ArticleRegulators delay decision on restarting San Onofre reactor
Federal regulators have pushed back their estimate of when they are likely to decide whether one of the reactors at the San Onofre nuclear plant can be restarted. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's...
View ArticleSupervisors can't agree on CEO salary
SANTA ANA – Toward the end of a meeting that lasted more than seven hours on Tuesday, Orange County's Board of Supervisors agreed that they would like to hire Chandra Wallar to be the county's top...
View ArticleFalsani: Pope Francis shows power of simplicity
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis arrived in St. Peter's Square Tuesday morning a half-hour before his inaugural mass was set to begin wearing papal whites, an enormous smile, and black – not red – shoes. He...
View Article'NCIS' reruns beat other networks' new shows in ratings
CBS was again the most-watched network last week, with even reruns of "NCIS" and "NCIS: Los Angeles" drawing more viewers than all the programming on the rival networks except for Wednesday's "American...
View ArticleJoel Hay:Big Pharma facing price controls
In return for promises of increased business, the brand name pharmaceutical industry (Big Pharma) was the only health-care industry to throw its support to the Affordable Care Act when it was being...
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