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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…
BALTIMORE — Tanner Scott is right. Baseball must not like him right now. Even a near no-hitter wasn’t enough to lift the Dodgers out of the doldrums they have sunk into. Yoshinobu Yamamoto came up one out short of pitching a no-hitter and the Dodgers couldn’t get an out with him, losing for the fifth consecutive game to a last-place team when Scott gave up a walkoff hit for the second night in a row. This time, Emmanuel Rivera’s two-run single gave the Baltimore Orioles a 4-3 victory Saturday night. Yamamoto gave up a solo home run to Jackson Holliday…
LOS ANGELES — Six-foot-5, 290-pound freshman and highly-touted recruit Jahkeem Stewart made his anticipated debut with the USC football team on Saturday afternoon against Georgia Southern. “Lord, I thank you for letting me wake up and play the game I love,” Stewart posted on Instagram on Saturday. “Protect us on this game day.” The defensive lineman did not play in the season opener against Missouri State due to a leg injury, but got into Saturday’s game midway through the second quarter at defensive tackle. @haleymsawyer Six-foot-5 freshman Jahkeem Stewart warms up ahead of USC football’s game against Georgia Southern. It’ll…