The union representing CVS pharmacy clerks and technicians who picketed outside seven stores over the weekend said Monday that the first wave of its strike has come to an end, with another bargaining session scheduled for Wednesday. “Despite the fact that our members can’t afford to go without a paycheck, these workers took a huge … Read more
LOS ANGELES – The first Dodgers-Yankees World Series in 43 years will be a prime-time event on the East Coast. Start times for the best-of-seven series were announced Monday. All seven games will start at 5:08 p.m. PT/8:08 p.m. ET with no day games. The Dodgers have homefield advantage and will host Games 1 and … Read more
Phillips 66’s decision to close its Los Angeles area refinery has touched off a wave of speculation over what will become of the 650 acres in Wilmington and Carson, an industrial backbone near the Port of Los Angeles. The company hired two development firms to envision what could be built on a sprawling complex dating … Read more
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — At long last, after a season scorned by losses, after the “few plays away” that had defined USC’s season, they seemed set to close a football game on the steady leg of Georgia Southern transfer kicker Michael Lantz. 41-yard try. Two minutes left. USC up six. Snap. Kick. Ballgame, it should’ve … Read more
Elon Musk‘s SpaceX rocket company has sued the California Coastal Commission, alleging in federal court that the panel’s members are biased because of the billionaire owner’s conservative political views, according to papers obtained Wednesday. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles, alleges “unconstitutional overreach” by the commission after members criticized Musk’s political leanings during a … Read more
By Wyatte Grantham-Philips | The Associated Press Fisher-Price is recalling parts of over 2 million infant swings across the US, Canada and Mexico due to a serious suffocation risk, following reports of five infant deaths. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission warned that all models of Fisher-Price’s Snuga Swings should never be used for sleep … Read more
LOS ANGELES – To be fair, this USC football team didn’t misrepresent itself. It didn’t set out to sell you on an impossible dream this season. These Trojans are who they said they’d be: A team with modest expectations. It really shouldn’t be a shock that USC, a team with upside and obvious flaws, finds … Read more
Rent too high? Find a new place. That’s Econ 101. Would the opposite — staying put with help from rent control — be a solution? Well, California, the long-running tenant-landlord drama is back on the ballot in November. Of course, numerous economists tell us rent control is a bad idea. Capping the price of anything … Read more
“How expensive?” tracks measurements of California’s totally unaffordable housing market. The pain: Slightly more than half of California tenants pay 30% or more of their income for housing costs, compared with roughly one-third of homeowners. The source: My trusty spreadsheet looked at the latest Census Bureau stats tracking household housing expenses in 2023. Anyone paying … Read more
SAN DIEGO — Consider, for a moment, what the possibilities might have been. Imagine that the Dodgers hadn’t lost what amounts to an additional starting rotation-plus worth of pitchers, in what has been a baseball-wide siege of arm/elbow/shoulder injuries but one that hit them particularly hard. What would their playoff rotation have looked like? Maybe … Read more
