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John Laird’s 3pm meeting with a group of children’s health care advocates is off to a late start. His 2:20 appointment ran longer than its slotted 10 minutes, which pushed his 2:30 with the California Nurses Association to almost 3 o’clock. The nurses wanted to talk about health care reform,…
Regardless of recent changes on the Local Agency Formation Commission, the fate of the Carmel Valley incorporation effort will still likely be decided by a judge.
The Pacific Grove City Council’s plan to steer the m…
Chris Goodson squats on the bare dirt and cups a single tuft of creeping wild rye in his palm. “Come on, little buddy!” he encourages it, only half joking. The five-inch sprout is the only green on the otherwise brown bank of an agricultural ditch bordering Carl Dobler & Sons’ lettuce fa…
Over the years, rock musicians have looked in all so…
You’ve got to like an actor like Joseph Gordon-Levit…
In London in the late 1970s, I was jolted abruptly i…
A few years ago, Mihir Patel, an Indian student living in Kenya, made a bet with his father—if he scored 85 percent or higher on a big upcoming test, he could choose anywhere in the world for further study. Patel won the bet. And that’s how he got to California.
It seemed a sound strategy. Take a small bite, take …
The largest contract Hall of Fame baseball player Duke Snider ever got was “$46,000 and a Cadillac.” That was some 50 years, when my father, then the managing editor of a small weekly newspaper in Los Angeles, earned about $7,000 that same year.
