California’s infrastructure has some work to do if there’s any hope of making the dean’s list. The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the state’s infrastructure a C- on its annual report card. C indicates “mediocre,” the organization said, but it’s not all bad news. In categories like ports and rail, California earned Bs. One […]

An alleged hit-and-run left an Amazon truck driver hospitalized late Wednesday night in the San Gabriel Valley, footage shows, and, according to witnesses, at least 3 suspects were seen fleeing from the crash site. The collision happened around 11:35 p.m., California Highway Patrol logs showed, on the westbound 210 Freeway near the Vernon exit in […]

A 27-year-old man accused of driving under the influence when his car struck a group of high school track and field runners in Anaheim on Wednesday has been arrested, police said. Officers responded to reports of a crash involving multiple pedestrians at Harbor Boulevard and North Street just before 3 p.m., according to the Anaheim […]

Authorities have released new details about a police response that left a 19-year-old dead and an 18-year-old injured in Anaheim over the weekend. Officers were conducting gang-suppression patrols around 9:30 p.m. Saturday when a group they attempted to contact on South Philadelphia Street ran toward a nearby residence, the Anaheim Police Department said in a […]

The Trump administration needs to release the legal analysis underpinning its controversial military campaign.

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously quipped that “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.” No single sentence is more appropriate to describe the arguments presented by state Sen. Liz Krueger and Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon in favor of their bill on natural gas hook ups, now sitting on Gov. Hochul’s desk.

“How can I know what I think, until I see what I say?” (E. M. Forster). How much of your writing surprises you? I would say all and none of it. The fiction-writing process for me is a bit like trying to construct a semi-autonomous device, one that, at best, ends up as a more […]

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Patrick Butterly asks where is the poet today who can extract harmony from the modern view of the universe, as opposed to the traditional and romantic view of stars in the early verse of the young Tennyson (Letters, November 28). However, there was a poet at work during Tennyson’s childhood whose writing portrayed an advanced […]

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Forget the books of the year. Now we have words of the year – a seasonal phenomenon that goes back to the early 1970s in Germany. In English the announcing of a word for our times has come to serve as a handy gambit for lexicographical publishers who feel the need to remind the reading […]

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