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The Democratic Party brand is in the gutter and at least one of its aspiring standard bearers is settling for chasing his own ambitions instead of trying to effectively pump life into the flailing party. Recent polling shows the Democratic Party’s approval rating is at the lowest it’s been in decades. Fewer than one quarter of registered voters have a favorable view of the party, while 56 percent hold a negative view, according to a CNBC poll from a few weeks ago. It turns out that Joe Biden’s ‘Weekend at Bernie’s” presidency and the Democratic coverup did considerable damage to…
Every time a new tax law is enacted, we naturally wonder what it means for our own tax bill. The news covers the long debates and close votes in Congress, followed by the president signing the bill into law. The end result of all this back and forth, will they or won’t they, however, is that some rates may change slightly, and some deductions may be added or removed, but very few of us will notice a real difference in what we pay. If you want to cut your taxes significantly, you need to understand how and why tax laws…
In 1978, Proposition 13 cut property taxes to one percent of the taxable value and capped increases to the taxable value to just two percent a year, with reassessment occurring only for new construction or when there is a change of ownership. It was a significant tax cut after years of inflation-driven tax hikes built up a surplus in Sacramento, while Californians were taxed out of their homes. Howard Jarvis, the author of Prop. 13 and our organization’s namesake, added provisions to Proposition to prevent the tax “spenders” from finding new ways to take the same amount of money from…
DEL MAR — Trainer Bob Baffert went 1-2 Saturday as he successfully swept the first half of the 2025 juvenile summer championships. But the Grade 1, $300,000 Del Mar Debutante didn’t go exactly as Baffert — or the bettors — thought it would. Longshot Bottle of Rouge ($20.20), owned by Baffert’s wife Jill and ridden by Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith, passed 3-5 favorite Explora in the stretch to win Del Mar’s championship for 2-year-old fillies by a length with second-favorite Himika fading late in the seven-furlong race to finish fourth in the field of seven. In other stakes…
LAS VEGAS — Even after a nearly disastrous first half that saw the UCLA football team trailing UNLV by 23 points in the first half, the Bruins still had a chance to even the score late in the fourth quarter. But the deficit was too much to overcome. UCLA’s late rally came up short as the Bruins lost to the Rebels 30-23 at Allegiant Stadium Saturday night. The Bruins are 0-2 for the first time since 2019. “It’s a tale of two halves,” UCLA coach DeShaun Foster said. “First half, (we) didn’t really show up the way that we wanted…
Georgia Southern Head Coach Clay Helton, left, talks with a ref during a break in the action against USC in Los Angeles on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) USC wide receiver Makai Lemon finds an open field on his way to the end zone for the score against Georgia Southern in the first quarter in Los Angeles on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) USC quarterback Jayden Maiava directs his teammates as he gets ready to put the ball in play against Georgia Southern in Los Angeles on Saturday, Sept. 6,…
HOUSTON — Lucas Sanabria scored in the ninth minute of second-half stoppage time to rally the Galaxy to a 1-1 draw with the Houston Dynamo on Saturday night. Sanabria subbed into the match in the 61st minute before scoring his second goal in his first season in the league. Defender John Nelson notched his career-high third assist on the equalizer and Gabriel Pec collected his sixth. Ezequiel Ponce gave the Dynamo (8-12-9) the lead when he took a pass from Ondřej Lingr in the 35th minute and scored his career-high eighth goal in his second season in the league. Ponce…
ANAHEIM — Yusei Kikuchi received a nice ovation and doffed his cap to the Angel Stadium crowd after his game-opening strikeout of Shea Langeliers on Saturday night, the whiff giving the Japanese left-hander 1,000 strikeouts in his career. Five batters later, the thrill was gone for Kikuchi, who watched helplessly as Angels left fielder Taylor Ward turned Tyler Soderstrom’s slicing drive over his head that should have been an inning-ending flyout into a three-run double. One inning after that, those hometown cheers turned to jeers after Kikuchi gave up a three-run homer to Colby Thomas, the Athletics building an early…
A Riverside County Sheriff’s patrol vehicle and a Tesla collided in Calimesa on Saturday, Sept. 6, in a crash that left a civilian driver dead and a passenger seriously injured. A sheriff’s deputy was driving westbound on Cherry Valley Boulevard just after 10 a.m. in a marked police vehicle with lights and sirens activated while responding to a call for service, according to a California Highway Patrol statement. A Tesla Model 3 that had been stopped in the southbound lanes of Roberts Street made a left turn onto Cherry Valley Boulevard and was broadsided by the patrol vehicle, according to…
USC wide receiver Makai Lemon finds an open field on his way to the end zone for the score against Georgia Southern in the first quarter in Los Angeles on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) USC wide receiver Makai Lemon, center, fights off Georgia Southern defensive back Chance Gamble, left, on his way to score a touchdown in the first quarter in Los Angeles on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) USC wide receiver Ja’Kobi Lane gets the crowd going as he celebrates his first quarter touchdown against Georgia Southern in…