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before turning weapon on himself
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and Trisha Ahmed
The Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. >> A masked White man fatally
shot three people inside a Jacksonville, Florida,
Dollar General store in a predominately Black
neighborhood on Saturday in a deliberate attack
after leaving behind racist writings, officials said.
The shooter then killed himself.
“He hated Black people,” Jacksonville Sheriff
T.K. Waters told a news conference. “There is ab-
solutely no evidence the shooter is part of any
larger group.”
Waters said the shooter, who was in his 20s,
used a Glock handgun and an AR-15 semi-au-
tomatic rifle, with at least one of the firearms
painted with a swastika. He was wearing a bul-
let-resistant vest.
The two men and one woman who were killed
were Black, Waters said. Officials didn’t imme-
diately release the names of the victims or the
Elliot, 24, bottom left, who began using heroin at the age of 12 and is addicted to fentanyl, hangs out in an alley by shooter.
MacArthur Park near downtown Los Angeles, where drug use is rampant. SHOOTING » PAGE 16

An underground market for shoplifted goods, a concentration COOK’S CORNER

of dealers and open-air drug use create an addiction crisis
Bar attack a horribly
common display of
Editor’s note: This story is part of the Southern California News Group’s fentanyl addiction project,
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to avoid fentanyl withdrawal, a debilitating pain that “feels like John Patrick Snowling, was taking his marital
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dying.” If true, experts say it’s the latest in a long string
For someone with no phone, no home, no job and no more possessions of examples of how marital friction, guns and si-
lence can combine to end in death.
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week that Snowling, a 59-year-old retired Ven-
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TODAY IN HISTORY
1776
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began during the Revolu-
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attacked American forces
Sandra Bullock ‘grateful’ that ended up being forced
for outpouring of support to retreat two days later.
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A violent White mob pre-
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longtime partner, headlined by Paul Robeson
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following a three- Peekskill, New York.
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Bryan, from the beginning, were Democratic National Con-
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Violet Lee, 9, concentrates as she paddles her boat across the Marguerite Aquatics Complex pool Saturday during the Cardboard Boat
Derby, hosted by the city of Mission Viejo. The derby had two age classes, for children 6-10 and 11 and older.
FLOAT ON!
At Cardboard Boat Derby, kids make vessels from simple items
By Kaitlyn Schallhorn
kschallhorn@scng.com
Oh, buoy! It was sink or
float for newly constructed
boats making their debut
in Mission Viejo for a soggy
competition Saturday.
These vessels were not
made with steel, wood or
fiberglass. Rather, they
were constructed only
with pieces of cardboard
and duct tape — in just one
hour.
Mission Viejo’s Card-
board Boat Derby was fun
for all, as teams of four
worked to build boats
quickly with just two mate-
rials and a utility knife be-
fore the big race at the Mar-
guerite Aquatics Complex.
The competition was bro-
ken into two groups, one for
ages 6-10 and the other for
shipwrights 11 and older.
And aside from the race,
guests were also able to en-
joy swimming, games, mu-
sic and more at the popu-
lar derby.
LIVE MUSIC REVIEW
Metallica members reflect on SoCal origins
By Peter Larsen
plarsen@scng.com
Singer-guitarist James Het-
field paused midway through
Metallica’s concert at SoFi Sta-
dium on Friday to share a mem-
ory stirred as he walked past a
giant Metallica logo backstage
before the first of two shows
there this weekend.
“It’s a logo I scratched out on a
napkin in Norwalk, I don’t know,
about 15 miles from here,” Het-
field told the crowd, many of
whom were wearing that iconic
design on T-shirts new and old.
“It went from a napkin to here.”
MISSION VIEJO
Teams build their cardboard boats at the Cardboard Boat Derby at the Marguerite Aquatics Complex in
Mission Viejo on Saturday. The teams had one hour to build a boat of cardboard and duct tape. Then one
child paddled the boat the length of a pool, racing to set the fastest time.
Hours before the show, drum-
mer Lars Ulrich, who with Het-
field formed Metallica 42 years
ago, talked backstage on KLOS
95.5 FM with DJ Matt Pinfield
about his own memories of those
early days, Ulrich driving from
Newport Beach to meet Hetfield
in Norwalk to jam and dream
and plan for a future that against
all odds eventually came true.
Later, bassist Robert Trujillo
would introduce “Rose Avenue,”
an instrumental he and guitar-
ist Kirk Hammett performed,
as a riff and a jam they created
on that street a few miles to the
west in Venice.
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HOUSING
Santa
Ana
launches
registry
Landlords required to
register all rental units
for new program
By Destiny Torres
dtorres@scng.com
A new Santa Ana policy re-
quires Santa Ana landlords to
register their rental units in a
database designed to keep a re-
cord of the city’s inventory, track-
ing rent increases in accordance
with rent control laws adopted
last year.
The City Council last week ad-
opted the Rent Stabilization and
Just Cause Eviction Ordinance,
effective last November. The mea-
sures cap rent increases at 3% an-
nually or 80% of inflation, which-
ever is less, as well as limits in
which circumstances landlords
PHOTOS BY MARK RIGHTMIRE — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER can force tenants out.
Effective Friday, the allowable
REGISTRY » PAGE 6
STANTON
Voters could
decide on
term limits
for council
By Hanna Kang
hkang@scng.com
Stanton voters may decide new
term limits for its City Council
and mayor in the November 2024
general election.
In a 4-0 vote last week, council-
members instructed city staffers
to draft a ballot measure estab-
lishing three four-year term lim-
its for the mayor’s seat. The mea-
sure also will include a provision
to expand term limits for the four
councilmembers’ seats — upping
them from two four-year terms
to three.
The ballot measure requires
approval from the council before
it can be placed on the 2024 bal-
lot.
Term limits were established
for councilmembers following the
adoption of Measure RR in 2016.
But when Stanton switched
to district-based elections in the
following year, the mayor’s seat
was designated to be an at-large
position, unlike the rest of the
LIMITS » PAGE 6
So make no mistake: Metallica
has been based in the Bay Area
for most of the past four decades,
but to the guys in the band and
the fans in the stands, these are
homecoming shows, a return
to streets and freeways, the re-
hearsal spaces and tiny clubs,
where Metallica began.
All of which made a night that
would have thrilled in any city
feel just a bit more special as Me-
tallica roared through 16 songs
in two hours on stage.
“Creeping Death,” the single
from 1984’s “Ride The Light- PHOTO BY DREW A. KELLEY
ning,” kicked off the set, the song Singer and guitarist James Hetfield of Metallica performs Friday during
METALLICA » PAGE 6 the first of two nights at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.
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rent increase for certain
rental units will be 2.54%
for the next year — that
will be set annually by the
council.
A Rental Housing Board
also will be created to
oversee the enforcement of
the city’s rent control law
and offer both tenants and
landlords a place to resolve
some disputes outside of
court. The city is aiming
to have the board website
and online application live
by the end of the month.
City spokesman Paul
Eakins said the board
could be formed by No-
vember, depending on the
appointment of members
by the City Council.
The registry went live
online earlier in August,
and landlords will have to
register their units annu-
ally and pay a $100 fee per
unit — the cost of which
can be split between them
and the tenants. The reg-
istration fees will help pay
for the city’s program, the
Rental Housing Board, as
well as other fees.
The registry will help
the city monitor compli-
ance with the new ordi-
nance, officials said.
A landlord can file a “fair
return” petition if he feel
the rent cap is not enough
for him to get a reasonable
return on his investment,
or a capital improvement
petition can be filed to al-
low rent to be increased to
pay for large property proj-
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“We want to make sure
that everybody is on as
much of an equal playing
field as possible, especially
when we saw the hikes in
rent and evictions and ev-
erything that’s happened
over the last few years. It’s
only gotten worse,” Coun-
cilmember Than Viet Phan
said, adding that 55% of
Santa Ana residents are
renters.
“I think, really, the goal
is to make Santa Ana res-
idents feel more stable in
their homes long term.”
Ultimately, Phan said,
those measures may help
lead to a decrease in home-
lessness locally.
“Evictions are traumatic
and it does lead to home-
lessness because getting a
new unit often requires the
first-month, last-month de-
posit; credit check; refer-
ences; all of those things,”
Phan said. “And that would
be very, very difficult if
somebody has faced an
eviction sometimes at no
fault of their own.”
At this week’s City Coun-
cil meeting, Phan is lobby-
ing to amend the city’s or-
dinance to require a su-
permajority approval for
future changes regard-
ing its rent control and
eviction measures, to en-
sure “the continuity and
longevity of these protec-
tions.” The council meet-
ing on Tuesday starts at
5:30 p.m.
Landlords can register
their rental units at santa-
ana.org/rental-registry.
The city is also providing
resources to assist with the
process including a video
demonstration, weekly vir-
tual workshops and in-per-
son assistance at the Santa
Ana WORK Center.
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FROM PAGE 3
racing through its tale of
biblical plagues before hit-
ting a slower, heavy mid-
section during which the
stadium echoed with fans
singing “Die! Die! Die!” It’s
a powerful show-opening,
immediately pulling crowd
members out of their seats
to fist punch the air to the
visceral wallop of the beat.
The M72 World Tour,
named after “72 Seasons,”
Metallica’s 11th studio al-
bum released in April, has a
few twists to make it differ-
ent than any of the band’s
previous tours.
It plays two nights in each
city on the schedule with no
songs repeated in either of
those shows, which means
fans who buy tickets for
both nights get 32 unique
songs, but those who only
catch one show only get
half as many. (In concrete
terms, that means one night
closes with “Master of Pup-
pets,” the other with “Enter
Sandman,” both fan favor-
ites. They’re usually played
in every show.)
The production of the
tour is also a new wrinkle
for Metallica. The stage is a
large oval, with fans on the
floor inside and around it,
placed at the center of the
field. Every four songs, the
perspective shifts in coun-
terclockwise fashion, giving
the audience on every side
of the stadium a chance for
a closer, head-on perspec-
tive.
After the opener, Metal-
lica stuck with older, deeper
cuts in its catalog. “Har-
Limits
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council. Term limits en-
acted under Measure RR
did not apply, allowing the
mayor to serve unlimited
terms of four years.
“It’s the only position
that isn’t covered. The in-
tention originally was for it
to be covered,” said Council-
member Gary Taylor, allud-
ing to the term limits estab-
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show delivered more of the
bigger, crowd-pleasing hits
in the set. “Sad But True”
served up heavy, crunchy
riffing that set the crowd
into a headbanging, fist-
punching frenzy. “The Day
That Never Comes” opened
with Hetfield picking a gen-
tle melody as he sat on a
stool on stage before blos-
soming into a bombastic
metal epic.
The last three songs
served as an encore in a set
that didn’t formally have
one.
“Fuel” blazed through
its pyro-enhanced tem-
pos with Hetfield’s vocals a
PHOTO BY DREW A. KELLEY guttural roar. “Seek & De-
Members of Metallica perform Friday during the first of a stroy” took the show back
two-night set at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. to Metallica’s 1983 debut
album “Kill ’Em All.” The
vester of Sorrow” kicked for you, but remember, you song and album both land-
off with a thumping mar- are never alone.” The song, marks in the early rise of
tial beat, slipped into a which was Metallica’s first thrash metal, it sped glori-
Hammett guitar solo, took ballad when it arrived in ously as giant yellow-and-
a long, dramatic pause and 1984, remains a wonderful black beach balls — like,
then roared back to life. number all these years later, these bad boys were as tall
“The Memory Remains” un- its lyrics of hope amid de- as some of the people trying
folded with a slower, grind- spair a powerful message. to wrangle them — bounced
ing groove, the fans sing- It’s clear the band loves slowly over the crowd.
ing loudly on its chorus of playing it still, too. As Het- “Master Of Puppets,”
whoas. field joked at the end of it, which regularly places at
The first two of three “72 “After 185 years of being in or near the top of lists of
Seasons” songs in the set, this band, I still love that greatest metal songs of all
“Lux Æterna” and “Too Far song.” time, closed out the night.
Gone,” showed up just be- Another highlight of the “Obey your master!” the
fore the midway point in middle of the set arrived crowd sang at the appropri-
the show, the first of those with “Orion,” a multimove- ate places in the lyric.
impressive most for its in- ment instrumental that Written as a warning of
strumental fury, the lat- featured Trujillo on bass — the control that drugs can
ter for its roaring melody. the song was written by the take over one’s life, on Fri-
“Rose Avenue” gave Het- band’s former bassist Cliff day, the master was Metal-
field and Ulrich a break Burton, who died when its lica, the drug a collection of
as Trujillo and Hammett tour bus crashed in 1986 — songs that, new or old, have
jammed. as well as a lovely twin gui- the power to move listeners
“We all have good days; tar section that placed Het- more than four decades af-
we all have bad days,” Het- field and Hammett face to ter Hetfield and Ulrich got
field told the crowd before face as they wove solos together in Norwalk and
“Fade To Black” kicked off around each other’s play- on a napkin, in a garage,
with its lovely guitar intro. ing. sketched out a future for
“Hope this is a good day The final third of the this iconic band.
lished under Measure RR.
Councilmember Hong Al-
yce Van, who recommended
who was first elected to the
City Council in 1988 and
has served several terms as
of the measure, any poten-
tial term limit would apply
beginning in 2026, which
the three-term limit across mayor, was absent from the is when Shawver’s current
the board, said the current
term limits hamper coun-
Aug. 22 meeting and did not
vote.
term expires.
City staffers recom-
cilmembers from finishing
long-term projects.
To enact the new term
limits, the council would
mended the council include
the measure in the 2024
“As a councilmember, first need to adopt a reso- general election instead of a
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ally be able to see projects sure, according to a staff re- staffers, but placing the mea-
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FIGHTING FENTANYL

‘I don’t think I’ll ever

be the same again’
Three people share their struggles to break the drug’s stranglehold
Story by Clara Harter and photos by Sarah Reingewirtz >> Southern California News Group

A
Pacoima man who believes he was born hooked on opioids. A rock music fanatic who sold his
late grandma’s house for a fix. A Minnesota native who became homeless at 14.
They are among the many people bound by addiction to MacArthur Park, the sluggishly beating
heart of Los Angeles’ fentanyl epidemic.
Here are their stories — how they started using, where it has taken them and the barriers they face in
breaking free from fentanyl.

Alejandro, 41, is getting tired of the hustle to stay high on fentanyl and has begun talking to an outreach worker.

“Cold, hunger,
depression,
oppression. There
are so many things
it (fentanyl) helps
you deal with
better. It gets to
you, being out
here; you see
people hungry, you
see people dying,
you see people
having the worst
days of their life.”
— Alejandro Alejandro fixes a broken pipe with Kyle in an alley where fentanyl use is rampant.

Alejandro, 41, from Pacoima

Alejandro believes he was born addicted to opi-
oids. He says his mother took pain pills while preg-
nant, so there’s a good chance he was.
Alejandro grew up in Pacoima surrounded by
family members who frequently used heroin and
pain pills. Opioids were such an ever-present part
of his life that he never thought addiction could
drive him to homelessness.
Then came fentanyl.
Alejandro and his wife both got hooked about
five years ago on pills that they initially thought to
be OxyContin — but that Alejandro now believes
were laced with fentanyl. Soon they found them-
selves buying fentanyl directly and eventually need-
ing to smoke every few hours to “get well.”
Chaos in their household ensued. She eventually
stopped using and moved with their two children
to Las Vegas. He wound up in MacArthur Park in
March 2022, where the conditions of homelessness
worsened his addiction.
“Cold, hunger, depression, oppression. There are
so many things it (fentanyl) helps you deal with bet-
ter,” he says. “It gets to you, being out here; you see
people hungry, you see people dying, you see peo-
ple having the worst days of their life.”
Alejandro has been living on the streets for 15
months, relying on general relief money and the
shoplifted goods market to get by. John, 32, who has lived in a temporary housing shelter for over two years, hopes to get his own place and
ADDICTION » PAGE 9 then detox off fentanyl.
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Jessica wakes up in an alley near MacArthur Park at 5:30 a.m. and bums a cigarette from True. She tries to stay awake as much as possible during the night to
protect herself and her possessions.

Addiction
FROM PAGE 8

He’s very savvy.

He knows how to harness an electric scooter bat-
tery to charge electronic devices, when free phones
are distributed outside the L.A. County Department
of Public Social Services, and how to use the IHOP
application on said phone to acquire free birth-
day pancakes.
Keeping a phone is much harder. He has awak-
ened to find his possessions stolen more times than
he can remember.
Alejandro is a kind-hearted guy and watches out
for many of the younger folks using fentanyl in the
area. He’ll offer them advice, watch over their be-
longings when they sleep and show them how to
get free breakfast at the nearby day center run by
nonprofit Depaul USA.
After a year and a half of living around MacAr-
thur Park, however, Alejandro is eager to find a
way out.
“I’m burnt out and anxious to get back to a
greater life,” he says. “But I don’t think I’ll ever be
the same.”
Getting off of the streets and getting off fentanyl
is no easy feat. Even small tasks can be challeng-
ing, such as getting the paperwork to sign up for
housing lists or sending emails at the public library.
“Anywhere we go,” he says, “they automatically
know that we’re homeless due to our backpacks,
or our clothes, or our smell, so it’s extra hard to
do anything.”
Beyond that, there’s the need to smoke fentanyl
every few hours to avoid withdrawal.
“That’s the biggest hurdle,” he says. “A big part of
me getting out is me being ready to get clean again.”
While Alejandro continues to use the drug, he’s
charting an escape — motivated in no small part by
witnessing the deterioration of those around him.
People living around MacArthur Park, Alejandro
says, are malnourished, dehydrated and plagued by
skin infections. He’s seen friends overdose and die.
“What freaks me out,” he says, “is when I see
those people that are gone and they got here the
same time I did.
“They appeared normal to me the first time I
met them,” Alejandro says. “Now there’s no way
to help them.”
He’s currently working with outreach worker
Jennifer Haid to register for housing. She founded
the nonprofit Humankind L.A. in 2020 to help peo-
ple experiencing homelessness in MacArthur Park.
“I always knew I wouldn’t be here forever,” Ale-
jandro says, “but for the past two months I’ve re-
ally, really wanted to leave.
“Whether I’m ready or not, I can’t wait any lon-
ger.”
John, 32, from the Antelope Valley
John’s life follows a simple routine.
Wake up and eat breakfast at the shelter on
Hoover Street. Pick up a dose of methadone, a med-
ication used to treat opioid use disorder, from the
clinic around the corner. Head to MacArthur Park
and buy fentanyl or Xanax. Stop by the 7-Eleven
and trade food stamps for a peanut butter cookie.
Use drugs. Sleep.
When John first came to the shelter, he expected
to stay for a few months at most. Over two years
have passed. John says he’s no closer to finding per-
manent housing, substance use treatment or a job
than the day he walked in.
He knows he has a lot of work to do to find a
landlord who will accept his Section 8 housing
voucher before it expires in a few weeks.
John modifies his guitar bridge pins with syringe caps. He has played the guitar since his teens.
But he also needs to procure a large amount
of opioids daily in order to avert withdrawal.
And once he’s on them, he tends to check out for
the day.
“My world is falling apart all around me, and
there’s so many things I have to do and get done,” he
says, “but I’m not doing them because I’m sedated.”
He has already had four housing vouchers expire
since arriving in the shelter, he says. John’s eager
to get a unit, but doesn’t know how to get in touch
with landlords and is afraid they would reject his
application once realizing that he’s homeless.
John gets frustrated by his inability to complete
important tasks. He thinks addiction has stunted
his development.
“I’m a 32-year-old man; I should already have
a wife and kids and go to work,” he says. “It just
seems like I’m still a kid, a teenager, a boy-man.”
John started using opioids in his early 20s to
numb his anxiety and depression. His use quickly
spiraled out of control. He started smoking heroin,
and then injecting it. He eventually sold everything
he owned to finance his addiction — including the
house he inherited from his grandmother.
He was able to stop using heroin with the help
of a residential treatment program in Los Ange-
les, and with methadone. But he struggled to stay
off of opioids.
After trying fentanyl, his need became all-con-
suming.
“I was doing OK for a while staying on metha-
done, but it (fentanyl) is just so enticing,” he says.
“It’s like they made it to be addictive; it tastes good,
it smells good, it feels freaking awesome.”
John wants to quit. But he thinks doing so is un-
realistic while he lives around other people who
use fentanyl.
His dream is to get an apartment unit, check
into a rehab program, go home and start life anew.
He’s a huge fan of rock bands like Green Day and
Bad Religion and would love to work in the mu-
sic industry. He says he is also a keen listener and
advice-giver and has considered going into coun-
seling.
“I want out of this,” he says. “I’m not having a
good time. I want my vacation from life to be over.”
John’s nightmare is losing his place in the shel-
ter and winding back up on the streets, where he
fears his addiction would get worse.
“I really do want to get clean,” he says. “All this
(fentanyl) does is bring people down.”
Jessica, 34, from St. Paul, Minnesota
Jessica first experienced fentanyl withdrawal on
her third day getting high. Since then, she says,
much of her life has revolved around pursuing the
substance.
“You’re willing to kill your whole family just to
get high, you’re willing to kill your best friends just
to get high,” she says. “I know it’s messed up; it’s
not a good feeling.”
The high, Jessica says, allows her to escape the
pain of withdrawal and, temporarily, the “devas-
tating” conditions of life on the streets.
She has been homeless on and off for 20 years — since
she was just 14. She came to Los Angeles fleeing a par-
ticularly harsh Minnesota winter about a decade ago.
Previously, Jessica used meth frequently, which
helped curb her hunger, numb her pain and fuel
her energy while living outdoors. Fentanyl serves
a similar purpose and helped break her meth ad-
diction about three years ago.
But it came with its own dangers.
Jessica says she has overdosed four times since
she started using fentanyl.
Consistent drug use and unsanitary living con-
ditions have taken a toll on her physical health. In
June, she said, her legs were swollen with cellulitis
and covered in sores from an MRSA (methicillin-
resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infection, making
walking a struggle.
Through the pain, Jessica searches for points
of brightness. She paints her eyelashes pink,
puts glitter on her nails, and enjoys conversa-
tions with other people living around MacArthur
Park.
During the day, she’ll nap for short periods, of-
ten slumped against the wall of the alleyway be-
hind Alvarado Street, where many people smoke
fentanyl. At night, she tries to stay awake — and
away from danger.
She has made contact with outreach workers in
the past but can’t keep in touch without a phone.
And because she comes from out of state, it’s hard
to procure an ID to sign up for housing.
Jessica would love to stop using fentanyl in the
future, she says. But from her current vantage
point in the dark alleyway, it’s a hard possibility
to imagine.
“Right now,” she says, “it’s just too much.”

WHAT IS FENTANYL?
Fentanyl is a highly addictive, syn-
thetic opioid up to 50 times stronger
than heroin and 100 times stronger than
morphine. Here’s what you need to know
about it:
• There is pharmaceutical fentanyl
prescribed to treat pain and there is il-
licitly manufactured fentanyl.
• Illicit fentanyl can be found both as a
white powder and a clear liquid. It is fre-
quently mixed into drugs such as cocaine
and methamphetamine, or pressed into
pills made to resemble other prescription
opioids.
• Fentanyl is tasteless and odorless.
The only way to determine whether it is
in a drug is using fentanyl test strips.
• Smoking is the primary method used
to deliberately consume illicit fentanyl.
Fentanyl can be injected, but this poses a
higher risk of overdose due to the drug’s
potency.
• Illicit fentanyl is mainly manufac-
tured in foreign labs and smuggled into
the United States through Mexico.
• Illicit fentanyl first arrived in Los
Angeles around 2016, but its use started
increasing exponentially in 2019 and has
continued to grow ever since.
• Accidental fentanyl overdose deaths
in L.A. County increased 1,280% from
109 in 2016 to 1,504 in 2021.
• On a national level, synthetic opioids
(primarily fentanyl) were responsible for
more than 70,000 deaths in 2021.
• Signs of overdose include pinpoint
pupils, slow or no breathing, loss of
consciousness, choking sounds, limp
body and clammy skin. Overdoses can
sometimes be reversed by administering
Naloxone nasal spray.
• Fentanyl’s “high” is shorter com-
pared to other opioids such as heroin.
As a result people who use frequently
may begin to feel withdrawal symptoms
within just two to three hours of smoking
the drug.
Sources: The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention; Drug Enforcement Administration;
Chelsea Shover, epidemiologist and health ser-
vices researcher at UCLA’s David Geffen School
of Medicine; Los Angeles County Department of
Public Health; Ricky Bluthenthal, professor of
public health sciences at USC’s Keck School of
Medicine.
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Elliot doodles while the L.A. Metro passes Compton, where he once lived, as he heads back to the MacArthur Park area after “boosting” in Long Beach.

“I have tried (quitting fentanyl). I thought kicking heroin was

bad, uh-uh, no. I could kick heroin; kicking this, not going to
happen. Quitting cold turkey would physically kill me.”
— Elliot, a 24-year-old man battling addiction and homelessness in MacArthur Park

Fentanyl
FROM PAGE 1
So Elliot, like many oth-
ers battling addiction, makes
money for fentanyl by selling
shoplifted goods to street ven-
dors around MacArthur Park.
The Southern California
News Group interviewed El-
liot, dozens of other people
who use fentanyl, business
owners, residents, Los Ange-
MacArthur Park
this year, especially at the
beginning of this year with
The neighborhood of MacArthur the addition of a new Target
Park, near downtown Los Angeles, store in the area,” Beerer says.
has one of the highest “We saw a lot more crime, a
concentrations of fentanyl use in lot more shoplifting and a lot
Los Angeles. People are often more fencing operations at
drawn there because they can the park.”
make money for the drug by selling Drug use has become so
shoplifted goods to vendors around blatant that the LAPD now
the park. brings officers from all over
the city to MacArthur Park
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Councilmember Eunisses
Hernandez, who represents
the neighborhood.
“When we think about the
epidemic of overdoses, of fen-
tanyl use, of sales,” she says,
“MacArthur Park is ground
zero.”
At a county level, the syn-
thetic opioid was responsible
for 1,504 fatal overdoses in
2021, a 1,280% increase from
109 overdoses in 2016, accord-
ing to the most-recent data
available from the county’s
Department of Public Health.
Fentanyl, according to the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, is 50 times
110 icine. And there’s evidence to
. suggest its withdrawals are
JEFF GOERTZEN, SCNG more painful than those from
heroin, he adds.
more potent than heroin by “I have tried (quitting fen-
weight. tanyl),” Elliot says. “I thought
“Imagine comparing a very kicking heroin was bad, uh-
light beer with 100% grain al- uh, no. I could kick heroin;
cohol,” says Joseph Friedman, kicking this, not going to
a drug researcher at UCLA’s happen. Quitting cold tur-
David Geffen School of Medi- key would physically kill
cine. “It’s that degree of mag- me.”
nitude of intensity in terms of Racing against a constant
the psychoactive effects.” countdown to withdrawal —
Its effects also wear off with symptoms that include
more quickly. fever, vomiting, diarrhea and
While a heroin high lasts bone pain — and faced with
about six hours, people who limited access to substance
use fentanyl frequently may use treatment, people often
feel withdrawal within two resort to extreme means to
Many homeless people
shoplift goods from stores lo-
cally and across the city to
make money for drugs, says
LAPD Detective Stephen
Beerer. People on the streets
refer to this process as “boost-
ing.”
People then sell the sto-
len goods to street vendors
around MacArthur Park,
who “fence” — or resell — the
stolen goods at a below-mar-
ket price, Beerer says. Not all
vendors are part of this trade,
and some sell homemade food
or legally acquired products.
“I’ve seen a pretty signif-
icant uptick (in shoplifting)
and within an hour and a
half they have eight arrests
because it’s just so prevalent
and so visible out in the com-
munity.”
The spike in fentanyl use is
taking a toll on the neighbor-
hood of Westlake surrounding
MacArthur Park.
This 2.75-square-mile com-
munity is home to more than
116,000 people, making it one
of the most densely populated
neighborhoods in Los Ange-
les, according to the U.S. cen-
sus. More than 70% of resi-
dents are Hispanic or Latino,
about 50% were born outside
of the U.S., and almost one in
FENTANYL » PAGE 11

Denver smokes fentanyl in the alley by MacArthur Park, where people congregate around the clock to use fentanyl.
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Back in the MacArthur Park area, Elliot looks to sell his “boosted” items so he can buy a day’s worth of fentanyl before his withdrawal symptoms worsen again.

Fentanyl
diction and can’t imagine
quitting fentanyl at this time.
Others are actively inter-
FROM PAGE 10 ested in treatment but don’t
know how to enroll in a re-
three lives below the poverty hab program, how to pay
line. for it or where they would
The park itself is a gem of a live after that program con-
neighborhood resource. It fea- cludes.
tures a lake, a soccer pitch, a “It’s too hard to be out
playground and an amphithe- here and be clean; I need
ater that is home to a much- to do a program where I’m
loved free concert series. But in a safe environment,” says
residents’ enjoyment of it has Jennifer, who lives around
long been affected by drug MacArthur Park. “I would
use, gang violence and home- definitely do it. What I strug-
lessness. gle with is keeping a phone
The fentanyl and “boost- out here. I’ve had a million
ing” epidemics bring fresh phones, but they get stolen or
challenges. I sell them for drugs.”
“I’ve seen an increase of Jennifer says she would
homeless people in the area, get treated at the center
and there are too many peo- where she successfully de-
ple who are using drugs,” toxed from heroin several
Magdalena Carrio, a 12-year years ago. But, she says, it
MacArthur Park resident and rarely has open beds, and she
mother of four, says in Spanish. Elliot “boosts” for breakfast before hopping buses and trains to “boost” for a day’s worth of worries they won’t be able to
“We usually don’t come to this fentanyl. He says he needs to come up with $50 a day to keep fentanyl withdrawal at bay. contact her when one opens.
park for those exact reasons.”
in MacArthur Park under the Los Angeles streets
‘Boosting’ is a dangerous L.A. city attorney program flooded with fentanyl
as well as a full-time job L.A. DOOR (Diversion, Out-
reach and Opportunities for Fentanyl first arrived in
People who use fentanyl Recovery), says people who Los Angeles around 2016
pay a heavy price for engaging use fentanyl are an especially and its use began to take off
in the all-consuming hustle of hard population to connect to in 2019, with the majority of
“boosting.” It distracts from services because their energy the supply coming from Mex-
their physical health needs is consumed by their pursuit ico and China, says Chelsea
and creates a barrier to ac- of the substance. Shover, an epidemiologist and
cessing services and housing. “By the time they have se- health services researcher at
Elliot says he makes four cured their drug, maybe half UCLA’s David Geffen School
to five boosting trips a day a day’s gone by,” she says. of Medicine.
— stealing from shops all “They haven’t even eaten re- Fentanyl has flooded the
over the city to make enough ally, haven’t really done any street drug market. Besides
money to “get well” — a pro- basics to take care of them- its powder form, it is found
cess he calls “work.” selves, because they’ve put all in cocaine, counterfeit pain
One morning in June, for their energy and effort into While riding the L.A. Metro, Elliot sheds tears as he talks about pills and even methamphet-
example, Elliot rides the A- being around it. It leaves lit- his family. His brother died of an opioid overdose, he says. amine, Shover says.
line to boost all the way out tle room for anything else.” “People get exposed to it,
in Long Beach. Along the Over time, boosting, drug addiction consistently comes going efforts to address the whether on purpose or not,
way, he nods his head to use and homelessness take a between her clients and their challenges her clients face. and then because it’s a pretty
the beats of Tupac coming serious toll on people’s health. goals. Mayor Karen Bass de- addictive drug and also it
from a fellow rider’s speaker “The longer they are on “When there is one thing clared a state of emergency doesn’t last very long, you
and throws up a “W” hand fentanyl, the worse their in the world that matters and to confront the homeless cri- have to use it more often and
sign — for Westside — as the appearance is, the worse your brain is screaming to you sis and has rapidly moved in higher amounts to get the
train passes through Comp- that they take care of them- that’s all that matters, are you people off the street through same effect,” Shover says. “It’s
ton, where he spent part of selves,” Richardson says. going to get in the car with her Inside Safe program. Be- really hard to stop.”
his childhood. “Fentanyl supersedes the Jen and go to the DMV to get fore that, the city and county Many people who cur-
Elliot is a huge fan of the pain, and they will use more a new ID?” Haid asks. “Maybe of Los Angeles pumped mil- rently or formerly used her-
1990s wave of West Coast rap- to override the need to go eventually, but it could take lions of dollars into initia- oin or opioid pills eventually
pers. Before becoming home- get medical care.” months before that moment tives to solve the intertwined turn to fentanyl, not necessar-
less, he mixed music and hits when I’m here and I’m issues of homelessness, men- ily because of a desire to seek
dreamed of working in the ‘No rope in the well able, and you’re here and tal illness and substance it out, but simply because it’s
industry. Now he gets robbed for them to climb out’ you’re able.” use. the most readily available opi-
too frequently to hold onto a Haid founded Humankind But in MacArthur Park, ser- oid, USC’s Bluthenthal says.
phone, so rare moments like A walk down the alleyway L.A. in 2020 because she saw vices have neither caught up This was the case for Elliot,
this are the only time he hears behind Alvarado Street in a shortage of services offered with the scale of people who who says his late parents were
his favorite tunes. MacArthur Park paints a jar- to the homeless population are homeless nor adapted to both addicted to heroin. El-
Elliot arrives back in Mac- ring picture of this health in MacArthur Park. She has the unique challenges posed liot says he first tried heroin
Arthur Park several hours care crisis. about 100 regular clients in by the new threat of fentanyl. at just 12 years old.
later, lugging heavy bags of People smoke next to piles the area, more than 90% of Hernandez, the area’s coun- He is well aware of the dan-
coloring books, energy drinks of discarded food, crumpled whom, she estimates, are ad- cilmember, says she’s working gers of using opioids. He lost
and electronics boosted from boxes and empty butane light- dicted to fentanyl. to bring more resources to one of his brothers to an over-
a discounted goods store. He ers. The smell of burning tin Accessing substance use the area. She seeks to launch dose. But having used opioids
sweats heavily, scrambling to foil — a cheap and popular treatment and other resources a mobile overdose preven- on-and-off for more than a de-
find a vendor to purchase his smoking method — fills the is very tough for her clients. tion team and open a “harm cade, Elliot says, he feels pow-
stolen goods before his with- air. Many people have swol- The majority cannot hold reduction center” offering erless against the potency of
drawal worsens. len legs, skin infections and onto a phone, an ID or doc- wound care, sterile drug sup- fentanyl.
“You’re constantly making open wounds, a consequence uments and therefore strug- plies, food, clothes, a place to “I know it killed one of my
trips,” he says. “You’re pretty of limited access to health gle to stay in touch with out- rest and service referrals. But family members,” Elliot says,
much so goddamn sick (due care or showers while living reach workers or register for first she must secure funding “but I’ve done opiates for so
to drug withdrawal) by the on the streets. housing. and a lease for the center. long, and I depend on them.”
end of your trips that you just Outreach worker Jennifer “There is no rope in the For the time being, though, He tears up at the thought
want to get your stuff (fen- Haid, who spends four days well for them to climb out,” many people don’t know of his late brother.
tanyl) and kick back for the a week helping people liv- Haid says, “so how the heck where to turn for help. “It sucks,” he says, “to have
rest of the day.” ing around MacArthur Park are they going to get out, even Some people, like Elliot, are to admit I’m doing some-
Rita Richardson, who helps through her nonprofit, Hu- if they want to get out?” consumed by the daily strug- thing that killed someone
lead a street outreach team mankind L.A., says fentanyl There are, however, on- gle of homelessness and ad- I care about deeply.”

MACARTHUR PARK FENTANYL PROJECT

This Southern California News Group series was
produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center
for Health Journalism’s 2023 California Health Equity
Fellowship.
Staff writer Clara Harter and staff photographer Sarah
Reingewirtz visited MacArthur Park numerous times over
a 4-month period, interviewing people who use fentanyl,
local residents, shopkeepers, Los Angeles Police
Department personnel, homeless outreach workers,
medical providers and more.
The last names of people who use fentanyl were
not published in an effort to ensure their comments do
not negatively impact future efforts to gain housing or
employment.
Reingewirtz produced all images. Staff writer
Christina Merino assisted with Spanish interviews and
translations. Seattle-based freelance reporter Will
James served as a mentor and editor. SCNG editors Jill
Stewart and Chris Haire also served as editors. Photo
editor Dean Musgrove oversaw image selection.
Go online this week to check out the rest of this series:
• In L.A.’s fentanyl epidemic, MacArthur Park
community bears the heavy burden.
• How can Los Angeles combat its fentanyl crisis?
MacArthur Park offers clues.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2023
RIVERSIDE
The mural “Historic Riverside” nears completion Wednesday on the back of the Loring Building downtown. Painted by Tiffany Brooks, the mural off
Mission Inn Avenue is the largest in the city at 40 feet tall and 110 feet wide.
Seeing the (very) big picture on her four-story mural
It was day 52 and
Tiffany Brooks was
a little loopy. Low-
ering herself to the
parking lot from the
hydraulic lift from
which she’s paint-
ing the largest mu-
ral in Riverside,
she greeted me and
erupted in conver-
sation.
For the mural’s image of the
1890 Loring Building, she’d been
adding ruffles to the window aw-
nings. “They make me so happy!”
she exclaimed. From her bag she
pulled a copy of a 1929 photo of
the building to show me the ruf-
fles were authentic to the period.
And she reflected proudly on
teaching herself to operate a hy-
draulic lift, a modern version of
the scaffolding that a Renaissance
artist, who would of course have
been a man, would have used.
“I always see men on these
huge lifts,” Brooks said. “I think
it’s so cool that a chick …” She
trailed off, then started again.
“Women have been taught to
be intimidated. It seems like con-
struction. And now,” she exulted,
in her slightly raspy voice, “a girl
is doing the biggest mural in Riv-
erside!”
Her mural is going up (and
up) along the blank west side of
the four-story Loring Building,
along Mission Inn Avenue a half-
block east of Market Street. When
Brooks and I had spoken Aug. 3,
she was working six days a week,
racing against a deadline to re-
turn the boom lift.
Since then, with the deadline
growing nearer and with so much
left to do, she’d been working
seven days a week.
“I haven’t had a day off in 21
days,” Brooks admitted, apologiz-
ing for sounding scattered. “I’m
to that point where I’m delirious
and panicked and excited all at
the same time.”
Can we say the muralist hit the
proverbial wall?
For conversation and a better
view, we adjourned to the third-
story community room of The
Mark, the new apartment tower
immediately west of the mural. (I
wrote about The Mark in Febru-
ANAHEIM
NAMM Show to return to its pre-pandemic programming in January
By Kelli Skye Fadroski
kfadroski@scng.com
The annual NAMM Show
will be back to its full pre-
pandemic programming at
the Anaheim Convention Cen-
ter on Jan. 25-28, 2024.
Producers of the convention,
which typically sees more than
100,000 musicians, instrument
makers, sellers, buyers, educa-
tors and more from all over the
world, announced the event
will return to its usual dates
and capacity in mid-to-late
January. This follows a virtual
event in 2021, a vastly scaled
back in-person event in June
2022 and about a half-capac-
ity in-person return in April
2023, that also coincided with
the first weekend of the Coach-
ella Valley Music and Arts Fes-
tival in Indio.
While it’s a large-scale con-
vention, it’s not open to the
general public. However, there
are several off-site concerts
that take place during the
For artist Tiffany Brooks, taking on such a large mural, and under a tight
deadline, was daunting. Now, she says, “to see it come to fruition is such a
great joy.”
ary. Every column of mine is con-
nected.)
From there we could get an
overall look at the mural, while
also enjoying air conditioning.
Brooks gazed out the bank of win-
dows at her handiwork.
“I see all the things I want to
change,” Brooks said with a sigh,
“but it’s too late at this point.”
One of her favorite sayings is this:
“Art is never finished, it’s aban-
doned.”
“Historic Riverside,” as the mu-
ral is titled, is a triptych of post-
cardlike images of the Loring
Building, the Mission Inn and the
Fox Theater, which all rise within a
couple of blocks of each other.
The mural had been conceived
by another artist who had to back
out from producing it. The com-
mission is from Beautify River-
side, a privately funded initiative of
Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson’s.
Brooks started in June when
only a large magnolia was painted.
“At first when I got this job, I
thought I was crazy, and now I
know I’m crazy,” Brooks said with a
laugh. “But now I’m happy I did it,
because this gives me so much joy.”
She’d been working from 6:30
a.m. to 7:30 p.m. every day but Sat-
urday, with a break for lunch and
rest. In August, she added Sunday,
making for a seven-day schedule,
convention, like the She Rocks
Awards at House of Blues Ana-
heim and the annual “Dimebag”
Darrel Dimebash, which in the
past took over the Observatory
in Santa Ana as a ticketed show
that included performances by
members of Foo Fighters, An-
thrax, Stone Sour and more.
During the multiday con-
vention, there are dozens of
concerts by a myriad of mu-
sicians and famous artists in
the crowd like Stevie Wonder,
Nancy Wilson, Ed Sheeran,
Paul McCartney, Elton John
and Lady Gaga, who have been
known to pop by for quick per-
formances or to check out and
demo the latest technology in
the industry.
There are workshops, exhib-
its, educational panels, award
shows, meet-and-greets and
so many fun instruments and
gadgets to play with on the
convention floor from famil-
iar brands like Fender, Ibanez,
Martin & Co., Taylor, Yamaha,
Casio and Gretsch. The annual NAMM Show convention will return to the Anaheim Convention Center on Jan. 25-28, 2024.
while giving herself a break now
and then for extracurricular activ-
ities.
I asked about last weekend’s
storm. I hoped she wasn’t up on
the lift, painting in the rain.
“Saturday it was getting kind of
funky, but I was here most of the
day, until 2 p.m.,” Brooks said. In a
rare break, she went to L.A. with
friends for a show.
With steady rain last Sunday,
she stayed home but kept working:
finishing the plaques for the wall,
lining up a “cement guy” to prep
the area for the plaques and plan-
ning out a grid of how to repaint
the magnolia, the only portion she
hadn’t painted herself, because she
felt it was too small.
At 6:15 a.m. Monday, she was
back on the job in the drizzle.
“I’ve got 500 hours into this
thing,” she said Wednesday, esti-
mating that based on what she’s
being paid, she was earning $7 an
hour. But the challenge was irre-
sistible. Plus there’s all that joy.
On Tuesday she highlighted the
left side of the Loring Building,
added a shadow, added the sky,
worked more on the magnolia and
oversaw the cement placement on
the stucco surface for two plaques.
It was a 10-hour day.
On Wednesday morning, she
added the awning fringe. She
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Restaurant
closures
By Ian Wheeler
iwheeler@scng.com
Restaurants and other
food establishments
ordered to close and
allowed to reopen by
Orange County health
inspectors Aug. 17-24.
Linda’s Coffee & Donuts
25571 Jeronimo Road,
Suite 20, Mission Viejo
• Closed: Wednesday
• Reason: Rodent
infestation
• Reopened: Thursday
Matisse Bistro
19800 MacArthur Blvd.,
Suite C-10, Irvine
• Closed: Tuesday
• Reason: Rodent
infestation
• Reopened: Thursday
Cajun Islands
15430 Brookhurst St.,
Westminster
• Closed: Tuesday
• Reason: Cockroach
infestation
• Reopened: Wednesday
Nguyen’s Kitchen
445 S. Main St., Suite B,
PHOTOS BY DAVID ALLEN — STAFF Orange
• Closed: Tuesday
• Reason: Insufficient hot water
• Reopened: Tuesday
Pepe’s
821 N. Placentia Ave.,
Fullerton
• Closed: Monday
planned to spend the afternoon • Reason: Insufficient hot water
placing highlights and shadows on • Reopened: Monday
the Loring moldings, adding busi- Tio Chava’s
ness names to its office windows 18452 Yorba Linda
and elaborating on the palm tree, Blvd., Suite C,
of which she’s particularly proud. Yorba Linda
But it would be a shorter day than • Closed: Monday
some.
“I’m leaving early tonight,” • Reason: Cockroach
Brooks said. “It’s prime rib night at infestation
the Victoria Club.” • Reopened: Tuesday
On Thursday, she would finish Con Todo
the magnolia and add shadows to 2335 S. Bristol St.,
the last half of the word “River- Santa Ana
side” in the banner reading “His- • Closed: Aug. 18
toric Riverside.” • Reason: Cockroach
There’s an attention to de- infestation
tail, obviously, even more than
is recounted above. A lot of lit- • Reopened: Tuesday
tle touches will go unnoticed by 701 Restaurant & Bar
nearly everyone but have personal 100 S. Main St.,
meaning for her. She painted her Santa Ana
cat into an upper-story window of • Closed: Aug. 18
the Loring, for instance, and her • Reason: Cockroach
daughter, with her dog, into an infestation
archway of the Mission Inn. • Reopened: Aug. 18
From The Mark, she could see
the big picture. And big it is. Sonic
“Every challenge that could be 441 N. Placentia Ave.,
thrown at me was,” she said. “Even Fullerton
a hurricane!” • Closed: Aug. 18
Thursday was day 53. She • Reason: Cockroach
worked from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., infestation
with only a 90-minute break. This • Reopened: Aug. 18
was her last official day of work, Pizza Hut
because Friday she had a flight to 715 N. Harbor Blvd.,
catch. Suite 104, Santa Ana
Her flight, however, wasn’t until
11 a.m. Why rush? So she worked • Closed: Aug. 17
on the mural from 6 to 8:30 a.m., • Reason: Insufficient hot water
then went home to change clothes • Reopened: Aug. 17
and bolt for the airport. Long Hai
A few things remain to be done, 682 El Camino Real,
including her signature panel, Tustin
but they are near enough to the • Closed: Aug. 17
ground that she can paint them
from a ladder after the boom lift is • Reason: Cockroach
returned to the rental company. infestation
A ceremony to mark the mural’s • Reopened: Monday
completion is currently planned for Rice & Noodle
6 p.m. Sept. 23. 608 E. First St., Tustin
I’m imagining it’ll be 6:05, with • Closed: Aug. 17
the mayor and everyone stand- • Reason: Cockroach
ing around awkwardly, as Brooks infestation
from the top of a ladder calls
down, “Just give me five more • Reopened: Tuesday
minutes; I have to fix something.”
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PACIFIC OCEAN

Sea swimmers master body and mind in channel trek

12 make a 20-mile
challenge to highlight
and promote water
safety, mental health
By Michael Hixon
and Lisa Jacobs
Staff writers
Life lessons loom large in
the dark, in the middle of the
“Catalina Channel,” in chilly
Pacific Ocean waters.
A relay team — six students
and six master swimmers
— become the embodiment
of those teachings as the 12
scrambled ashore on the Palos
Verdes Peninsula on Friday af-
ter an overnight 20-mile trek.
Repetition. Be true to your-
self. Lean on your community.
PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HIXON — STAFF Change can’t occur overnight.
Swimmers power forward in relays from Catalina Island to near the shore at Rancho Palos Verdes on Friday. The trek of Those are the tenets coach
about 20 miles and 11 hours was put on by Ocean Fever, an organization which promotes water safety and mental health. Romina Caristo has instilled
in her ocean swimmers and
members of Ocean Fever, an
organization that promotes
water safety while raising
awareness of mental health.
Her team began its journey at
10:15 p.m. Thursday in Doc-
tor’s Cove on Catalina Island.
Then, after an unofficial 10
hour, 39 minute crossing of
what’s formally known as San
Pedro Channel, the team ar-
rived at Abalone Cove on Fri-
day morning. The swimmers
were greeted by friends and
family — and reveled in their
accomplishment and what the
water taught them.
The team was divided into
pairs, with each duo swim-
ming for an hour, followed
by Kevin Shinnick on a kayak
and the boat Pacific Star with
Capt. David Hurvey. Crossings
are done at night, Caristo said,
because the ocean is calmer
then.
But still, there are dan-
gers: sea lions, sharks, fumes
from the boat that can cause
nausea, and the general dark
thoughts of “I can’t do this”
that live inside the swimmers’
heads. And there are jellyfish
to worry about.
The students’ captain, Alex
Danylyshyn, found this year’s
crossing easier in some ways
than his first time last year.
Danylyshyn, a senior at Re-
dondo Union High School, did
a 3 a.m. leg of the relay with
master swimmer Abbie Ares-
tides.
The swells were higher last
year, he said; things were “re-
ally pumped up and really
hard.” And last year, the die-
sel fumes really messed with
his head, and he felt “seasick”
much of the time in the water.
One of the things he learned
And in an interview the day
before this year’s relay, Danyl-
yshyn said he was nervous be-
cause he was scheduled for the
3 a.m. leg again, which would
put him closer to the penin-
sula. And that meant closer to
jellyfish territory.
But, he said, he was confi-
dent. His water polo training,
he hoped, would help.
“I can look up and see
what’s ahead of me,” he said.
Alas, on Friday morning,
during the last five minutes
of his swim, Danylyshyn ex-
Some of the 12 athletes who took part — six students perienced what felt like a “su-
led by six experienced master swimmers — celebrate the per hard ripping away of tape”
accomplishment Friday. From left are Emily Rodriquez, on his left shoulder.
Abbie Arestides, MacKenzie Thomas, Tess Clendenin, Alex His fear was realized.
Danylyshyn, Liam Price and Brendan Beizerman. “It was actually a little less
painful than the one I had in
last year, he said, is Ocean Fe- over and over again,” Danyly- my mind,” Danylyshyn said of
ver’s motto this year: Trust the shyn said. “Keep doing what the jellyfish sting.
process. you’re doing and things will The fear that plays out in
“It’s about going back at it pay off at some point.” the darkness of our minds is
just like that, Carista said.
The mental health crisis in
our communities is a testa-
ment to that, she said. So this
year, the Ocean Fever crew de-
cided to dedicate the swim to
loved ones who have struggled
or died from mental illness. It
was dubbed “The Sharpie Proj-
ect,” and the students inked
their names on their hands
and arms.
“W hen you are going
through your fears,” Caristo
told her students at a beach
gathering the night before,
“think of that person.”
Danylyshyn’s person — one
of them — was a classmate
who died by suicide in 2020.
The swim captain made sure
to write the boy’s name on his
left hand.
On Friday morning, at
about 8:30 a.m., family and
friends anxiously waited to
sight the boat, signaling the
last of the swimmers was ar-
riving.
As they neared the penin-
sula, the entire team jumped
into the water as the final pair
made landfall.
Liam Price, who swam two
one-hour legs, also celebrated
his 17th birthday that day.
For him, the water was
warm and there were no jel-
lyfish.
“It was about 70 degrees
in the water for most of it,”
Price said. “But as soon as we
started the race, I just had so
much adrenaline that kept me
going.”
He was lucky it was a re-
lay, he said, as Catalina cross-
ings are also attempted by solo
swimmers.
“It was still one of the most
difficult things I’ve done in my
life,” he said.

PUBLIC HEALTH NORTHRIDGE

Rabid bat cases decrease

in Inland Empire region
By Monserrat Solis
and Steve Scauzillo
Staff writers
As bat season gets under-
way, Los Angeles County is
seeing a jump in rabid bat
cases, but the Inland Em-
pire has seen a drop.
Summer and early fall
months are the primary time
for rabid bats to begin show-
ing up around homes and in
public, Los Angeles County
Department of Public Health
officials said.
A bite from a rabid bat,
even a slight puncture from
the needlelike teeth, can
transmit the rhabdovirus,
which causes severe zoonotic
encephalitis. It can take a
week — or even years — to
produce symptoms such as
headache, fever, chills, cough
or sore throat, nausea, vom-
iting and malaise.
If not treated before
symptoms manifest, it’s usu-
ally too late, said Dr. Karen
Ehnert, director of veteri-
nary public health for Los
Angeles County.
There are more than 20
species of bats in California,
said Rebecca Wass, spokes-
person for the California De-
partment of Public Health.
Bats can typically be found
in trees, around rocks and
near bridges, Wass said.
Despite the potential dan-
ger, bats also do well.
“I see them flying in the
air catching bugs,” said Di-
anne Hellrigel, a Santa Clar-
ita resident and naturalist
who started the Commu-
nity Santa Clarita Hiking
Club. “Generally they live
in caves or where the rocks
have spread apart.”
Hellrigel said that if you
leave them alone, they will
leave you alone. In fact, bats
in the foothills and near the
forest are beneficial because
they eat insects.
Over the past five years,
Riverside and San Ber-
nardino counties reported
a total of 105 cases of rabid
bats. These confirmed cases
TERRY PIERSON
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
A small bat is prepared for
a necropsy at the county
lab in Riverside in 2016.
This year, Riverside and
San Bernardino recorded a
combined five cases of bats
found with rabies.
only include bats that tested
positive for rabies, which is
fatal to humans and pets if
not immediately treated.
Exposure to bats is the
most common cause of ra-
bies in humans, county and
state officials said.
As of Tuesday, Riverside
County reported two cases
of rabid bats this year, while
San Bernardino County has
logged three, county officials
said. Los Angeles County has
seen seven cases.
According to a report
from the state’s department
of public health, Riverside
and San Bernardino coun-
ties were two of six South-
ern California counties that
collectively accounted for
59% of rabid bats reported
in 2021.
Cases in the Inland Em-
pire spiked in 2020, with
23 cases in San Bernardino
County and 16 in Riverside
County. That year saw the
most cases in the past five
years. During that time, re-
ported cases varied and
don’t show a distinct upward
or downward pattern.
Riverside County Director
of Disease Control Barbara
Cole discourages the pub-
lic from looking for bats be-
cause they can carry rabies.
Though medicine can pre-
vent humans from getting
rabies, those bitten by a bat
should safely — if they can
— capture the animal so it
Expert care
can be tested for rabies in a
county lab. If no contact was
made, people should not try
to capture a bat, Cole said.
within reach.
Instead, they should call an-
imal control.
Rabies is transmitted by
an infected animal through
direct contact with saliva or
brain/nervous system tissue
such as by getting bitten,
and through broken skin
or membranes in the eyes,
nose or mouth, the Centers
for Disease Control and Pre-
vention states.
If a bat can’t be captured,
a bite victim can still request
rabies exposure treatment,
she said.
Rabies can be treated
with a four-dose course of
human rabies immune glob-
ulin and rabies vaccine, the
CDC reports.
No one in Riverside
County has needed the ra-
bies vaccine so far this year,
Cole said.
In San Bernardino
County, there hasn’t been
a human rabies case in the
past five years, a county re-
port states.
No human rabies cases
have been reported in L.A.
County for a least a decade.
Still, rabid bats have been
found at or near homes, said
Kerri Mabee of the Riverside
County Department of Ani-
mal Services.
David Wert, spokesperson
for San Bernardino County,
said rabid bats were found in
locations such as backyards,
parks and driveways.
It’s not always possible to
tell if a bat is rabid, but there
are some signs, Cole said.
“A bat that is out during
the daytime, a bat that may
be flying and fall down may
be ill,” she said.
Wass said bats infected
with rabies behave unusu-
ally, including sitting immo-
bile or being unable to fly.
“If you see a bat that is act-
ing unusual, do not attempt
to touch it but contact your
local animal control agency,”
Wass said.
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Center patients through
kisses and cuddles. Friday
was National Dog Day, and
the hospital’s humans are
grateful for these helpful
volunteer pups.
“They bring comfort to
the patients,” said hospi-
tal volunteer Steven Zonis,
who owns Rudy and Ella.
“They reduce anxiety and
feelings of isolation. And
believe it or not, they re-
duce pain — because peo-
ple can focus on the dogs.”
On Friday, the North-
NCI ridge hospital honored
Rudy, Ella and its five other
Designated “dogtors” in celebration of
Comprehensive National Dog Day. The dogs
Cancer Center didn’t know what the fuss
was over, but they were
cheery nonetheless.
Everyone thanked the
pooches and their own-
ers for the important work
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they do, one tail wag at a
time.
The dogs go from room
to room when on duty.
“They make a big differ-
ence for the patients,” said
Karen Sabatino, the hos-
pital’s volunteer program
manager. “And they’ll go
pretty much everywhere.
Pediatrics, the emergency
room, the behav iora l
health unit, even the doc-
tors and residents lounges.”
Sabatino appreciates the
owners, who take up to six
months of training with their
dogs in order to gain therapy
dog certification. The pro-
gram, started more than 20
years ago, wouldn’t be possi-
ble without the human vol-
unteers and the time they
give, she said.
One of the human vol-
unteers is Zonis, a retired
engineer and avid animal
lover who rescued and then
trained Rudy, 4, and Ella,
6, who earned their dog-
tor vests.
“The dogs are happy, the
patients are happy and I’m
happy,” Zonis said. “This is
how we contribute back to
the community.”
As well-trained as they
are, Zonis said, his two
poodles still have different
approaches to their duties.
“Ella’s more of a kisser,
while Rudy is more of a hug-
ger,” Zonis said. “But they
just love people and inter-
acting with them. (The pa-
tients) love to stroke their
fur and pet them. Some-
times one of the dogs will
put (its) head in a kid’s lap
or shake their hand, too.”
The hospital is always
searching for more volunteer
therapy dog teams like Zonis,
Rudy and Ella. Its volunteer
program took a hit during the
coronavirus pandemic, los-
ing about half its number,
he explained.
They’re hoping more
dogtors will join up. “Since
the start of COVID, some
people moved, some of the
older dogs passed away and
some people are nervous to
come back to the hospital,”
Sabatino said. “We’d love
for more dogs to join our
program.”

CALIFORNIA

A bit northeast of San Francisco, a group of Silicon Valley elite look to build a city from scratch
By Conor Dougherty and
Erin Griffith
The New York Times
In 2017, Michael Moritz, a
billionaire venture capital-
ist, sent a note to a poten-
tial investor about what he
described as an unusual op-
portunity: a chance to invest
in the creation of a new Cal-
ifornia city.
The site was in a corner of
the San Francisco Bay Area
where land was cheap. Moritz
and others had dreams of
transforming tens of thou-
sands of acres into a bustling
metropolis that, according
to the pitch, could generate
thousands of jobs and be as
walkable as Paris or the West
Village in New York.
He painted a kind of ur-
ban blank slate where ev-
erything from design to con-
struction methods and new
forms of governance could
be rethought. And it would
all be a short distance from
San Francisco and Silicon
Valley. “Let me know if this
tickles your fancy,” he said
in the note, a copy of which
was reviewed by The New
York Times.
Since then, a company
called Flannery Associates
has been buying large plots of
land in a largely agricultural
region 60 miles northeast of
San Francisco. The company,
which has little information
public about its operations, has
committed more than $800
million to secure thousands of
acres of farmland, court docu-
ments show. One parcel after
another, Flannery made offers
to every landowner for miles,
paying several times the mar-
ket rate, whether the land had
been listed for sale or not.
The purchases by a com-
pany that no one in the area
had heard of and whose busi-
ness was a mystery have be-
come the subject of heavy
speculation and developing
news stories, rattling land-
owners, local supervisors, the
nearby Air Force base and
members of Congress. Was
Disney buying it for a new
theme park? Could the pur-
chases be linked to China? A
deep-water port?
Flannery is the brainchild
of Jan Sramek, 36, a former
Goldman Sachs trader who
has quietly courted some of
the tech industry’s biggest
names as investors, accord-
ing to the pitch and people
familiar with the matter.
The company’s ambitions
expand on the 2017 pitch:
Take an arid patch of brown
hills cut by a two-lane high-
way between suburbs and ru-
ral land, and convert it into
a community with tens of
thousands of residents, clean
energy, public transportation
and dense urban life.
The company’s investors,
whose identities have not
been previously reported, are
a who’s who of Silicon Val-
ley, according to three peo-
ple who were not authorized
to speak publicly about the
plans. They include Moritz;
Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn
co-founder, venture capitalist
and Democratic donor; Marc
Andreessen and Chris Dixon,
investors at the Andreessen
Horowitz venture capital
firm; Patrick and John Col-
lison, the sibling co-found-
ers of payments company
Stripe; Laurene Powell Jobs,
founder of the Emerson Col-
lective; and Nat Friedman
and Daniel Gross, entrepre-
neurs-turned-investors. An-
dreessen Horowitz is also a
backer. It was unclear how
much each had invested.
Brian Brokaw, a represen-
tative for the investor group,
said in a statement that the
group was made up of “Cal-
ifornians who believe that
Solano County’s and Califor-
nia’s best days are ahead.”
He said the group planned
to start working with Solano
County residents and elected
officials, as well as with Tra-
vis Air Force Base, next week.
As Flannery began seeking
property, it bought so much
land, so fast, that it spooked
locals who had no idea who
the buyer was or the plans it
had in mind. Catherine Moy,
mayor of Fairfield, started
posting about the project on
Facebook several years ago
after she got a call from a
farmer about some mystery
buyer making offers through-
out the county. In an inter-
view, Moy said she had gone
to the county assessor’s office
and found that Flannery had
purchased tens of thousands
of acres.
Rep. John Garamendi, D-
Calif., who along with Mike
Thompson, another Dem-
ocrat, represents the sur-
rounding region in Congress,
said he had been trying to
figure out the company’s
identity for four years.
“I couldn’t find out any-
thing,” he said.
On Friday, he said that
had suddenly changed. This
week, representatives for
Flannery reached out to him
and other elected officials
requesting meetings about
their plans. That meeting is
now being scheduled, he said.
“This is their first effort,
ever, to talk to any of the lo-
cal representatives, myself in-
cluded,” he said.
The land that Flannery has
been purchasing is not zoned
for residential use, and even
in his 2017 pitch, Moritz ac-
knowledged that rezoning
could “clearly be challeng-
ing” — a nod to California’s
notoriously difficult and liti-
gious development process.
To pull off the project, the
company will almost cer-
tainly have to use the state’s
initiative system to get So-
lano County residents to vote
on it. The hope is that voters
will be enticed by promises
of thousands of local jobs; in-
creased tax revenue; and in-
vestments in infrastructure
like parks, a performing arts
center, shopping, dining and
a trade school.
The Bay Area is among
the country’s most expen-
sive regions, even after rent
and home prices fell after the
pandemic. Economists and
housing experts have for de-
cades blamed a long-stand-
ing housing shortage and
California’s inability to build
enough to meet demand.
Moritz nodded to this in
the email to the investor,
arguing “this effort should
relieve some of the Silicon
Valley pressures we all feel
— rising home prices, home-
lessness, congestion etc.” He
added that his group had se-
cured some 1,400 acres for
less than $5,000 per acre.
The price per acre has since
escalated, and the company’s
most recent purchases have
neared $20,000 per acre, ac-
cording to court documents
and people familiar with the
matter.
The purchases burst into
public view this spring, when
lawyers for Flannery filed a
lawsuit in U.S. District Court,
accusing landowners of col-
luding to inflate prices.
The group focused on Jep-
son Prairie and Montezuma
Hills, an agricultural patch
of eastern Solano County
between the cities of Fair-
field and Rio Vista, accord-
ing to the lawsuit. This area
is mostly unpopulated and
covered with ranches, wind-
mills and power lines.
In November 2018, the
company sent offers to “most
landowners in this area,” the
lawsuit said, and included
incentives such as allowing
sellers to retain income from
wind turbines, as well as
stay on the properties rent-
free under long-term lease-
back agreements. Over the
five years, the company pur-
chased some 140 properties
from 400 owners, the law-
suit said.
This month, a lawyer rep-
resenting landowners jointly
filed a motion to dismiss the
case. In July, three landown-
ers said they had reached a
potential settlement with
Flannery. Other owners JIM WILSON — THE NEW YORK TIMES
could not be reached for com- Ranch land and wind turbines near Rio Vista, in the Montezuma Hills area of Solano County. A
ment this week or had de- company called Flannery Associates has been purchasing large amounts of land in the area.
clined to do so.
Flannery’s offers were ceiving texts and emails with for a project that “would in- highway bisecting the re-
creating multimillionaires a poll gauging their opinions clude a new city with tens of gion that she said was al-
across the county, but no on a number of questions. thousands of new homes, a ready clogged by super-com-
one seemed to know what One asked them to rate the large solar energy farm, or- muters driving to the edges
the mysterious company in- favorability of several names chards with over a million of the Bay Area and beyond.
tended to do with land that including “Joe Biden,” “Don- new trees, and over 10,000 The area is also prone to reg-
now amounted to a large ald Trump” and “Flannery acres of new parks and open ular droughts and is at high
chunk of the entire county. Associates.” Another ques- space.” risk for wildfires.
That changed last week, tion began with a description Moy cited poor infrastruc- “It seems very pie in the
when residents started re- of a possible ballot initiative ture, including the two-lane sky,” she said.
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for the first time.

“I’ve never played anything else my
entire life except softball,” said Contreras,
one of two team captains. “So, when it
was brought up at school, it was some-
thing new and just a breath of fresh air.”
Marisol Reza is a member of the Roy-
als’ wrestling team (also a relatively new
sport at Rosary) and learned about flag
football from her coach Nadia Escamilla,
who is also defensive coordinator for the
Royals’ flag football team.
“Coach Nadia said it’s a good sport to
play for conditioning,” said Reza, whose
whole family plays football. “So, I de-
cided to try a new sport again. I love it. I
love the team. I love our coaches.”
Katie Meneses, the starting quarter-
back and co-captain is one of the few
players on the Royals who have several
years of experience in flag football.
Signing up for her was a no-brainer.
“I already kind of knew of Coach Go-
gan, so I thought that it was going to be
an overall good program,” she said.
Girls flag football will be played in
the fall, same as boys tackle football and
while the object of flag football is essen-
tially the same as traditional football,
there are some major differences be-
tween the two sports.
Flag football games will be seven on
seven, compared to 11 on 11 in tradi-
tional football.
The width of the fields are 30 yards
minimum to 40 yards maximum, the SOPHOMORE MELINA GONZALEZ RUNS WITH THE BALL AS SENIOR KATIE MENESES ATTEMPTS TO PULL HER FLAG. ALSO PICTURED: (IN THE BACKGROUND) SENIOR ISABELLA
length is 50 yards minimum to 80 yards MONTANO; (LEFT) JUNIOR SAMANTHA WOSK. PHOTO BY DREW KELLEY/DIOCESE OF ORANGE
maximum plus two end zones (10 yards
each). play in the Trinity League along with JSer- led by Coach Josh Goedl, who formerly announcement.
Games consist of two, 20-minute halves ra, Orange Lutheran and St. Joseph High served as strength and conditioning coach Santa Margarita’s first ever flag foot-
with a running clock until the last two School of Lakewood. and linebacker coach for the Orange Lu- ball coach is Brad Finneran, a 2004 Santa
minutes of each half. CIF-SS playoffs will not take place in theran football team. Margarita graduate who played football
There are no kick-offs. Teams take pos- the inaugural season since less than 20% of After he was officially announced as and basketball for the Eagles and went
session of the football on their 20-yard line the Southern Section’s member schools are the Monarchs’ flag football coach in June, on to play Division 1 college football at
or on the 10-yard line for 50-yard fields. fielding teams. Goedl said he was proud to be represent- Villanova.
Touchdowns are six points and there are However, teams will be permitted to ing a school with a such a deep athletic “I am looking forward to returning to
no point-after kicks. Successful conver- organize their own playoff tournaments at history. Santa Margarita in this role and am excited
sions from five yards are one point. the end of the regular season. “I will bring my level of expertise, drive about the inaugural girls flag football
Blocking and tackling are not allowed, Teams are permitted to play up to 28 and skills to these young ladies and I look season,” said Finneran, when asked what
nor are moving screens or setting picks. games during the season. forward to setting the bar high during this he was most looking forward to in his new
The Royals, Monarchs and Eagles will Mater Dei’s flag football team is being inaugural season,” Goedl said following the role. C

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Violence
FROM PAGE 1
Canyon on Wednesday and
shot nine people, killing
three.
That his wife was among
those who were gravely in-
jured, not killed, and that
Snowling died during a
shootout with Orange
County Sheriff’s deputies,
not by his own hand, are
only slight variations in
what experts describe as a
grim pattern: When domes-
tic violence escalates to its
apex and turns deadly, what
was private often becomes
public, and the range of vic-
tims often spreads beyond
the fighting couple.
It’s also not rare.
In Orange County, an inti-
mate partner, usually a wife
or girlfriend, is killed about
once every six weeks, usu-
ally by a current or former
partner, such as a husband
or boyfriend. That statistic
comes out of a 2022 report
by researchers at UC Irvine,
who tracked 11 years’ worth
of county data connected to
local domestic-violence-re-
lated homicides.
Cases studied in the Do-
mestic Violence Fatality
Review resulted in 113 fa-
talities, including intimate
partners and children and
strangers, as well the killers
themselves, about a third of
whom died by suicide.
A necdotally, domes-
tic violence has been part
of several local high-pro-
file homicides — from an
Aug. 3 shooting in which
an allegedly inebriated Or-
ange County Superior Court
judge allegedly drew a gun
from an ankle holster and
used it to shoot his wife, to
the 2011 massacre at Salon
Meritage in Seal Beach, in
which an angry ex-husband
shot and killed his ex-wife
and seven others.
It’s unclear if the violence
that took place at Cook’s
Corner was preceded by
physical violence during
the Snowlings’ marriage.
The couple’s divorce re-
cords, filed late last year in
Ventura County, do not in-
clude complaints of physical
abuse or any requests for re-
straining orders.
But if there was emo-
tional abuse — something
that reportedly was part of
their marriage — the leap to
homicide also wouldn’t be
particularly unusual. Only
about half the cases studied
by UC Irvine involved previ-
ous connections to police or
courts, and in many others
the first public sign of physi-
cal violence was a homicide.
“When the abuse esca-
lates to this stage, it im-
pacts more than just the
victims. It impacts every-
body,” said Maricela Rios-
Faust, chief executive of
Human Options, a non-
profit that helps abuse vic-
tims and works to reduce
domestic violence.
“And it very much is a
public health issue.”
Human Options also was
part of the 2022 report from
UC Irvine. And Rios-Faust
noted that the report in-
Shooting
FROM PAGE 1
The sheriff said the gun-
man had left behind writings
that led investigators to be-
lieve that he committed the
shooting because it was the
fifth anniversary of when an-
other gunman opened fire
during a video game tour-
nament in Jacksonville, kill-
ing two people before fatally
shooting himself.
The shooting occurred
just before 2 p.m. at a Dol-
lar General about three-
quarters of a mile from
Edward Waters Univer-
sity, a small historically
Black university. The sher-
iff said the suspect was seen
on campus shortly before the
shooting, putting on his vest
and a mask.
“I can’t tell you what his
mindset was while he was
there, but he did go there,”
the sheriff said.
Edward Waters University
students were being kept in
their dorms, the school said
in a statement. No students
or faculty are believed in-
volved, the school said.
The shooter had driven to
Jacksonville from neighbor-
ing Clay County. Shortly be-
fore the attack, the shooter
had sent his father a text
message telling him to
check his computer. The fa-
ther found the writings and
the family notified 911, but
Police tape surrounds Cook’s Corner in Trabuco Canyon on Friday. On Wednesday, an angry husband killed three and wounded his wife and five others.
Janine Hutfless sets out buckets for flowers Saturday in front of Cook’s Corner in Trabuco Canyon, where a memorial for
Wednesday’s shooting victims is growing. The buckets were donated by The Home Depot in Foothill Ranch.
cluded data from the Salon
Meritage shooting, which
was the county’s most le-
thal mass shooting.
That massacre, she said,
mirrored the events at
Cook’s Corner in several
ways. Critically, she said
both shootings were car-
ried out by aggrieved ex-
spouses who were taking
their abuse public.
“It’s a pattern,” Rios-
Faust said. “It goes from be-
hind closed doors to a very
public display.”
Jane Stoever, a law pro-
fessor at UC Irvine and di-
rector of the UCI Initiative
to End Family Violence,
which conducted the report
on local domestic violence
deaths, also noted parallels
between the two incidents.
“Our county is forever
haunted by the Seal Beach
Residents gather for a prayer near the scene of a mass shooting Saturday in Jacksonville, Fla.
the shooting had already be-
gun, the sheriff said.
“This is a dark day in
Jacksonville’s history,” Wa-
ters said. “There is no place
for hate in this community. I
am sickened by this cowardly
shooter’s personal ideology.”
He said the investiga-
tion will continue and that
the shooter’s home is being
searched.
Mayor Donna Deegan said
she is “heartbroken.”
Salon Meritage massacre,
and now the Cook’s Corner
mass shooting, and should
be motivated to change.”
Family courts, Stoever
added, could be “the site
for early intervention, pub-
lic health approaches, and
taking seriously domestic
violence — for the safety
of families and communi-
ties.” Other experts also say
outside channels — police,
courts, counselors — can
play a role in preventing do-
mestic violence, or keeping
it from escalating.
Rios-Faust said several
local police agencies, in-
cluding Irvine, Santa Ana
and Anaheim, are starting
to focus on domestic dis-
putes as a way to prevent
violence and homicides.
She said emotional and
physical abuse are funda-
“This is a community
that has suffered again and
again,” Deegan said. “So
many times this is where we
end up. This is something
that should not and must
not continue to happen in
our community.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis, after
speaking by phone with the
sheriff, called the shooter a
“scumbag” and denounced
his racist motivation.
“This guy killed himself
MINDY SCHAUER — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
mentally similar and prone
to escalate over time, and
that when police officers
and others incorporate that
knowledge into their work
they can see potential fu-
ture danger in even seem-
ingly minor incidents.
All abuse, physical or oth-
erwise, is “ultimately about
control,” Rios-Faust said.
And big changes in a re-
lationship, such as divorce
filings and separation, can
lead to emotional manipu-
lation escalating into phys-
ical confrontation that can
result in a death.
“Things can build up
fairly quickly,” Rios-Faust
said. “That’s something that
I don’t think everybody re-
alizes.”
Another common thread
is guns. The shooters in
Seal Beach and at Cook’s
JOHN RAOUX — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
rather than face the music
and accept responsibility for
his actions,” said DeSantis,
who was in Iowa campaign-
ing for the Republican presi-
dential nomination. “He took
the coward’s way out.”
Both President Joe Biden
and Attorney General Mer-
rick Garland were briefed on
the shooting, officials said.
Penny Jones told the The
Associated Press that she
worked at the store, located
PAUL BERSEBACH — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Corner, for example, both
owned several weapons and
used them to carry out vio-
lence against spouses.
Research suggests that,
too, is a theme.
A study published last
year in the Annals of Inter-
nal Medicine — in which re-
searchers funded by Stan-
ford University and the Na-
tional Collaborative on Gun
Violence Research tracked
all deaths in California
over a 12-year period —
found that homicide rates
were twice as high for peo-
ple living with a gun owner
when compared with peo-
ple who don’t live with gun
owners. And when looking
only at homicides that oc-
curred in homes, the Stan-
ford researchers found that
spouses or intimate part-
ners were seven times more
a few blocks away from her
home, until a few months
ago.
“I’m just waiting to hear
about my co-workers that I
used to work with,” Jones
said. “I don’t know if it’s safe
to move about the neighbor-
hood.”
Jones added that she was
“feeling awkward, scared.”
“I don’t want to leave my
house,” she said. “I’m think-
ing, do I want to go back to
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2023
likely to be killed if their
partner owned a gun, and
that 84% of the victims in
those cases were female. (In
the UCI study, about 88% of
the victims were identified
as female.)
Experts say such statis-
tics are why domestic vio-
lence needs to be treated as
a public health issue.
“A public health approach
is needed in addition to le-
gal protections as people
experience job loss, finan-
cial crisis, divorce, custody
disputes, or domestic vio-
lence charges,” Stoever said.
“From a public health
perspective and all that
we know of lethality risks,
when someone feels they
are losing everything or
has a dramatic life shift,
this is an especially impor-
tant time for someone else
to hold their guns. A pub-
lic health approach can
bring about cultural change
around firearms the same
way that the campaigns
against smoking did in re-
cent decades.”
It’s also part of why Cali-
fornia’s red flag gun law in-
cludes an option in which
spouses can ask courts to
remove guns from a do-
mestic partner if they feel
threatened. But that rule is
only starting to be encour-
aged by some police depart-
ments and prosecutors, and
only in some jurisdictions.
That said, if domestic
violence is to be treated
as a public health issue —
and result in fewer shoot-
ings like what transpired at
Cook’s Corner — Rios-Faust
and others say long-stand-
ing stigmas about it need
to end.
“I think we’re making
progress to getting people
to want to talk about it,”
Rios-Faust said.
“But there’s still a lot of
room to grow on that,” she
added. “It’s still hard for
people to recognize there’s
a pattern, and that it only
escalates.”
the store? Is this going to
start happening more fre-
quently? I don’t know what
the cause of it is. I’m con-
fused. It’s a lot of different
feelings going on right now.”
The deadly shooting took
place within hours of the
conclusion of a commemo-
rative March on Washington
in the nation’s capital, where
organizers drew attention to
the growing threat of hate-
motivated violence against
people of color.
The attack on a shopping
center in a predominately
Black neighborhood will un-
doubtedly evoke fears of past
shootings targeting Black
Americans, like the one at
a Buffalo, New York, super-
market in 2022, and one at
a historic African Methodist
Episcopal church in Charles-
ton, South Carolina, in
2015.
The Buffalo supermar-
ket shooting, in particular,
stands apart as one of the
deadliest targeted attacks
on Black people by a White
lone gunman in U.S. history.
Ten people were killed by the
gunman, who has been sen-
tenced to life in prison with-
out the possibility of parole.
Spencer reported from
Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
and Ahmed reported
from St. Paul, Minnesota.
Associated Press writers
Aaron Morrison in New
York and Mike Balsamo in
Washington contributed.
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RELIGION

L.A. archbishop celebrates Mass to honor ethnic, cultural diversity

By Allyson Vergara
avergara@scng.com
Each week, Catholic
Masses are celebrated in
more than 40 languages
across the Archdiocese of
Los Angeles.
Archbishop José H. Go-
mez celebrated the region’s
ethnic and cultural diver-
sity at the “One Mother,
Many Peoples” Mass and
procession Saturday at the
Cathedral of Our Lady of
the Angels in downtown
L.A.
A Votive Mass was cel-
ebrated in honor of Our
Lady of the Angels, patron-
ess of L.A. and the Archdi-
ocese. Representatives of
nearly 40 ethnic communi-
ties, along with those from
papal orders and fraternal
service orders, gathered to
pray for peace and unity, a
news release said.
The event featured tra-
ditional dances and multi-
lingual prayers, with many
from across the region
dressed in cultural attire.
Organizers said they
hope to invoke the inter-
cession of the Blessed Vir-
under the patronage of Our
Lady of the Angels.
People from myriad cul-
tures could be seen in L.A.’s
downtown cathedral dur-
ing the service.
Referring to Mary, the
mother of Jesus Christ, Go-
mez said during his homily
on Saturday evening: “We
are her children. Each one
of us, we have one mother,
Do you see one mother and
where we are? Many peo-
ples. And today we come
to her from every nation
in faith and feeling love.
Today, we are celebrating
once again the beautiful
diverse cultures and lan-
guages that make up the
one family of God in the
Archdiocese of Los Ange-
les.”
Gomez added: “We im-
plore her intercession for
our city. And for our coun-
try. And for all countries.
And for the whole world.
PHOTO BY HOWARD FRESHMAN We pray today especially
Representatives of nearly 40 ethnic communities within the Archdiocese participated in the One Mother, Many Peoples for our families and our
Catholic Mass and Procession on Saturday at the Cathedral of our Lady of Angels in downtown Los Angeles. children. We ask her, Mary,
our blessed mother, to turn
gin Mary to bring L.A.’s di- sus. Arcángel in 1781, the first forth from the Mission to her eyes of mercy toward
verse communities closer Ten years after the found- church in the L.A. Archdi- found the city of Los An- us. And to look upon us in
together and closer to Je- ing of Mission San Gabriel ocese, a diverse group set geles on September 4, 1781, her maternal care.”

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Patrick Kennedy
September 16, 1934 - July 25, 2023
Yorba Linda, CA
Patrick Edward Kennedy passed away peacefully at the
age of 88 on July 25, 2023, in Yorba Linda, California.
He was born on September 16, 1934, in Detroit, Michi-
gan. He was preceded in death by his wife Ellen Therese
Kennedy and his parents Angus and Blanche Kennedy.
He is survived by his children Jennifer Kennedy and Karl
Kennedy, his grandchildren, Marin Alford and Angus Al-
ford and his goddaughter Ellen (Tony) Martinez. He is
also survived by his six siblings, Richard (Pauline)
Kennedy, Carole Kasper, Jack (Sheila) Kennedy, Eileen
( John) Hughes, Paul ( Jeani) Kennedy, and James
Beverly Tobeck Kennedy, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins.
November 6, 1929 - July, 25 2023
Clifton Hatter
January 12, 1943 - August 3, 2023
Tustin, CA
Placentia, CA Our beloved mother, Beverly Tobeck, long-time resident
Clifton Onie Hatter was born on Jan. 12, 1943, in Besse- of Tustin, CA, passed away on July 25, 2023. Born in
mer, Alabama. He passed away in Fullerton, California, Minneapolis on Nov. 6, 1929. Preceded in death by par-
on Aug. 3, 2023, at the age of 80 from congestive heart ents, Hector and Bertha, husband Ervin, four siblings
failure. and infant daughter Jane. Survived by children, Fred
He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Mari, and an old- (Rosie) Blanch, Bill Blanch, Lynda (Mark) Galarneau,
er brother, William. He was preceded in death by sister grandchildren, Rhea, Laura (Robert), Erik and Zoe and
Midge and brother Johnny. He had no children of his one great-grandchild. Beverly had a 20-year career run-
own but he was known as “Big Daddy” to hundreds of ning the payroll dept. at the UPS hub in Anaheim, CA.
athletes and staff over more than three decades at Cal Beverly was kind, loving, funny and generous. We will
State Fullerton, where he was athletics equipment man- miss her every day. Till we meet again Mother.
ager and so much more from 1974 to his final retirement Funeral service at Saddleback Chapel, Tustin, CA on,
in 2006. August 29th. Private interment at El Toro Memorial Park,
Cliff met Mari at a small church where she and her col- Lake Forest, CA.
lege roommate assisted with music duties. His work ca-
reer began as a part-time shoe clerk and three months
later he was assistant manager. Another promotion to su-
pervisor led to a move to Milwaukee to support Nunn
Bush Shoes personnel.
Tiring of the travel after three years, they moved to At- Since 1973 The Neptune Society
lanta where they opened their own store. When they vis- Bill Nishitsuji of Orange Co. has honored cremation wishes of their
ited Mari’s family in Southern California they liked the October 3, 1932 – August 11, 2023 clients.
climate so much they sold the store and their home and Fullerton, CA
never went back. Cliff’s employment at CSF also was Mail in this coupon today for
spontaneous as he went from an interested sideline ob- Bill Nishitsuji, 90-year-old, Colorado-born, resident of
server at a football practice to a volunteer helper to Fullerton passed away on August 11. He is survived by a FREE information packet.
equipment manager in a matter of days. his loving family, daughters, Lori (Kevin Pratt), Wendy
Cliff was a trusted confidant to CSF co-workers, ath- and Deron Nishitsuji; grandchildren, Matthew Jacoby, ______________________________________________
letes, coaches and athletic directors. He was a father Amanda, Lauren and Lindsey Liu; also survived by many
confessor and sounding board for new game strategies. nieces, nephews and other relatives.
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He stretched budgets tighter than size 34 pants on a Memorial service will be held at Wintersburg Pres-
250-pound tackle. He made work fun while tutoring byterian Church on Saturday, September 2nd, 2023, Rev-
three future collegiate equipment managers in Gary erend Ted Esaki officiating. 2000 N Fairview St, Santa ______________________________________________
Hazelitt (San Jose State, Stanford and currently Michi- Ana, CA 92706. Address City Zip
gan), Jay St. Clair (Pacific) and Joe Camacho (currently The family kindly requests Aloha Casual or Favorite
Fullerton). Dodger attire.
He had a conspirator in head athletic trainer Jerry 758 W. 19th St. (800) 225-1601
Lloyd, who preceded him in death in 1996. Known col- Costa Mesa, CA 92627 (949) 646-7431
www.fukuimortuary.com (213)626-0441 F.D.Lic. # 1305
lectively as “Gasoline and Matches,” they staged im-
promptu “routines” worthy of professional comedy clubs.
Scams were common. Everyone was a potential target. DEAR LOVED ONE
They sought bragging rights as opposing “head coaches” You are not forgotten loved one
for the Spring intrasquad football game between the Mad Nor will you ever be,
Hatters and Lloyd’s Boys. Fair play was optional. They As long as life and memory last
were at their best on the road when they would ex- We will remember thee
aggerate the extent of Fullerton’s barely adequate athletic This is a journey
We must all take,
facilities to gullible non-conference peers. They And each must go alone,
co-owned a physical therapy business for a few years in It’s all part of the Master’s plan,
Anaheim. A step on the road to home.
Cliff’s passions away from Titan Gym were following Al- You are away, yet ever near.
abama football, traditional country music and golf. He Your presence fills each day.
Your voice, your smile
hit the ball straight if not far and in January of 2001 he Are everywhere,
logged a hole-in-one at Alta Vista Country Club in Pla- A memory away
centia where he worked part-time. At home, all focus Now you are gone,
was on Mari, a native Cuban who could understand But in our hearts, Alex Anderson
Cliff’s southern drawl and match his storytelling ability. You are – and will always be June 26, 1989 - July 10, 2023
A part, of everything we do Costa Mesa, CA
Her father granted permission to wed Cliff only after a Or say.
lengthy “conversation” between the Spanish-speaking fa- With a shattered heart, we announce the death of 34 year old Alex Robert Anderson.
You left us many memories, We lost Alex on July 10 with a freak blood clot to his heart. Alex was an avid camper
ther-in-law-to-be and Alabama-speaking son-in-law-to-be. Your love is still our guide;
A Celebration of Life is pending. And though we can not see you, and hiker every weekend. If he could fit it in, he hiked every peak in Southern Cal-
You are always at our side. ifornia and visited every California National Park, except Lassen, which he was going
to do in September. Alex went to College Park School, Davis School and graduated
from Costa Mesa High School. He went to Orange Coast College receiving a hor-
To place an obituary or funeral notice in the newspaper ticulture degree and went to Fullerton studying history. While in high school he was
the youngest docent at Bowers Museum and worked full-time at Stated Bros. After col-
and online go to scngobits.com or call 714-796-7983 lege, Alex went to live in a tent on a farm in Quincy, California with his then-wife, Lau-
followed by Option 2. ran. Alex leaves behind his dad, Jeff Anderson, his mom, Kim Anderson, and sister,
Natalie Anderson.
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OBITUARY
Legendary game show host Bob Barker is dead at age 99
Presided over ‘Truth
or Consequences’ and
‘The Price Is Right’
By Frazier Moore
AP Television Writer
Bob Barker, the enduring,
dapper game show host who
became a household name
over a half century of host-
ing “Truth or Consequences”
and “The Price Is Right,” has
died. He was 99.
Barker — also a longtime
animal rights activist — died
Saturday morning at his
home in Los Angeles, publi-
cist Roger Neal said.
“I am so proud of the trail-
blazing work Barker and I
did together to expose the
cruelty to animals in the en-
tertainment industry and in-
cluding working to improve
the plight of abused and ex-
ploited animals in the United
States and internationally,”
said Nancy Burnet, his long-
time friend and co-executor
of his estate, in a statement.
Barker retired in June
2007, telling his studio au-
dience: “I thank you, thank
you, thank you for inviting
me into your home for more
than 50 years.”
Barker was working in ra-
dio in 1956 when producer
Ralph Edwards invited him
to audition as the new host
of “Truth or Consequences,”
a game show in which au-
dience members had to do
wacky stunts — the “con-
sequence” — if they failed
to answer a question — the
“truth,” which was always
the silly punchline to a rid-
dle no one was ever meant to
furnish. (Q: What did one eye
say to another? A: Just be-
tween us, something smells.)
In a 1996 interview with
The Associated Press, Barker
recalled receiving the news
that he had been hired: “I
know exactly where I was,
I know exactly how I felt: I
hung up the phone and said
to my wife, ‘Dorothy Jo, I got
it!’”
Barker stayed with “Truth
or Consequences” for 18 years
— including several years in
a syndicated version.
Meanwhile, he began
hosting a resurrected ver-
sion of “The Price Is Right”
on CBS in 1972. (The origi-
nal host in the 1950s and ’60s
was Bill Cullen.) It would be-
come TV’s longest-running
game show and the last on
a broadcast network of what
in TV’s early days had num-
bered dozens.
“I have grown old in your
service,” the silver-haired,
perennially tanned Barker
joked on a prime-time tele-
vision retrospective in the
mid-’90s.
CBS said in a statement
that daytime television has
lost one of its “most iconic
stars.
“We lost a beloved mem-
ber of the CBS family to-
COURTS
Former L.A. councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas could face prison term
By By Fred Shuster
City News Service
Prosecutors on Mon-
day are expected to urge
a federal judge to sen-
tence prominent Los An-
geles County politician
Mark Ridley-Thomas to six
years behind bars for vot-
ing in support of county
contracts that would favor
USC while accepting ben-
efits for his son from the
university.
“This was a shakedown,”
prosecutors wrote in sen-
tencing papers. “Not the
kind in movies with bags
of cash or threats of force.
But the kind that is polite
and pervasive. The kind
that happens too often by
sophisticated, powerful
people. The kind to which
society, sadly, has become
so accustomed that it often
goes unreported and rarely
yields consequences for the
offender but strikes a dev-
astating blow to the integ-
rity of our democratic sys-
tem.”
Defense attorneys are
asking for a term of home
confinement and no prison
time.
The 68-year-old Rid-
ley-Thomas was convicted
March 30, while he was a
suspended member of the
L.A. City Council, on single
counts of conspiracy, brib-
ery, honest services mail
fraud and four counts of
Bob Barker, 83, waves goodbye as he tapes his final episode of “The Price Is Right” in Los Angeles on June 6, 2007. Barker signed off from 35 years on
the game show and 50 years in daytime TV in the same low-key, genial fashion that made him one of daytime TV’s biggest stars.
day with the passing of Bob
Barker,” the network said,
noting that he had “made
countless people’s dreams
come true and everyone feel
like a winner when they were
called to ‘come on down.’”
In all, he taped more than
5,000 shows in his career.
He said he was retiring be-
cause “I’m just reaching the
age where the constant effort
to be there and do the show
physically is a lot for me. ...
Better (to leave) a year too
soon than a year too late.”
Comedian Drew Carey was
chosen to replace him.
Barker was back with
Carey for one show broadcast
in April 2009. He was there
to promote the publication of
his memoir, “Priceless Mem-
ories,” in which he summed
up his joy from hosting the
show as the opportunity “to
watch people reveal them-
selves and to watch the ex-
citement and humor unfold.”
“There hasn’t been a day
on set that I didn’t think of
Bob Barker and thank him. I
will carry his memory in my
heart forever,” Carey wrote in
a post on X, the site formerly
known as Twitter.
Barker well understood
the attraction of “The Price
Is Right,” in which audi-
ence members — invited to
“Come on down!” to the stage
— competed for prizes by try-
ing to guess their retail value.
“Everyone can identify
with prices, even the pres-
ident of the United States.
Viewers at home become in-
honest ser-
v ices w ire
fraud, stem-
ming from
his time
serving on
the county
Board of Su-
pervisors. Ridley-
J u r o r s , Thomas
who reached
their verdicts on their fifth
day of deliberations in Los
Angeles federal court, ac-
quitted him of a dozen
fraud counts.
Along with the prison
sentence, federal prose-
cutors are recommending
that U.S. District Judge
Dale S. Fischer impose a
three-year term of super-
vised release and a fine of
$30,000.
In defense papers, Rid-
ley-Thomas’ attorneys ar-
gued for a probationary
sentence along the lines
of the penalty handed to
his co-defendant, Marilyn
Flynn.
Flynn, an 84-year-old
former dean of the social
work school at USC who
pleaded guilty to bribing
the veteran politician, was
sentenced last month to
18 months home confine-
ment and ordered to pay a
$150,000 fine.
Counsel for R idley-
Thomas recommend a pro-
bationary sentence, with
“substantial” home con-
finement, community ser-
Barker, 83, blows a kiss goodbye to fans as he tapes his
final episode of “The Price Is Right.”
volved because they all have
an opinion on the bids,”
Barker once said. His own
appeal was clear: Barker
played it straight — warm,
gracious and witty — refus-
ing to mock the game show
format or his contestants.
“I want the contestants to
feel as though they’re guests
in my home,” he said in 1996.
“Perhaps my feeling of re-
spect for them comes across
to viewers, and that may be
one of the reasons why I’ve
lasted.”
As a TV personality,
Barker retained a touch of
the old school — for instance,
no wireless microphone for
him. Like the mic itself, the
mic cord served him well as
a prop, insouciantly flicked
and finessed.
His career longevity, he
said, was the result of being
content. “I had the opportu-
nity to do this type of show
vice, a financial penalty,
“and any other punitive
and restorative conditions
that the Court deems fit is
fair and reasonable,” de-
fense documents show.
“A just sentence must
consider whether impos-
ing a significantly differ-
ent sentence from that im-
posed on Dean Flynn lends
to the appearance of vin-
dictiveness for proceeding
to trial,” according to Rid-
ley-Thomas’ attorneys.
The final decision is up
to Fischer.
In a letter filed with the
court, Bernard Parks, a re-
tired Los Angeles Police
Department chief and ex-
councilman — who lost to
Ridley-Thomas in the 2008
race for county supervisor
— said the prosecution’s
recommendation of a six-
year prison sentence “is
too lenient.”
According to Parks,
“what was missed in the
sentencing recommenda-
tion was how Mr. Ridley-
Thomas’ colleagues were
also victimized by his
crimes. He misled his col-
leagues by soliciting their
voting support, while fail-
ing to advise them of his
corrupt behavior. By do-
ing this, he led them to the
brink of corruption, which
cast doubt on their hon-
esty, integrity and opened
the door for their constit-
uents to believe they were
and I discovered I enjoyed it
... People who do something
that they thoroughly en-
joy and they started doing
it when they’re very young,
I don’t think they want to
stop.”
Barker also spent 20 years
as host of the Miss USA Pag-
eant and the Miss Universe
Pageant. A longtime animal
rights activist who daily
urged his viewers to “have
your pets spayed or neu-
tered” and successfully lob-
bied to ban fur coats as prizes
on “The Price Is Right,” he
quit the Miss USA Pageant in
1987 in protest over the pre-
sentation of fur coats to the
winners.
Among his activities on
behalf of animals was a
$250,000 donation to Save
the Chimps, the Fort Pierce,
Florida-based organization
said in an emailed statement
Saturday.
involved in his schemes.”
Urging the judge to im-
pose “the highest penalty
that his crimes allow,” the
former police chief wrote
that Ridley-Thomas’ “con-
tinued failure to accept
responsibility or show re-
morse is also reprehensi-
ble. What’s more, he’s at-
tempted to use his race
to undermine the public’s
faith in the judicial process
and has encouraged others
to do so as well.” Parks, like
Ridley-Thomas, is Black.
According to the pros-
ecution, Ridley-Thomas
shook down Flynn, and in
doing so made his demands
known: “Help me and my
son in exchange for Los An-
geles County business.”
Prosecutors say Flynn
got the message: “Aware
that lucrative County con-
tracts and an amendment
to the existing Telehealth
contract hung in the bal-
ance, Flynn worked tire-
lessly, for over a year, to de-
liver seemingly any bene-
fit and perk at her disposal
to please defendant and his
son.”
Ridley-Thomas has vehe-
mently denied any wrong-
doing. He did not testify in
his own defense during the
three-week trial, but his
attorneys argued repeat-
edly that nothing he did
amounted to a crime.
Federa l prosecutors
based their case on a long
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“Bob Barker’s kind spirit
lives on at Save the Chimps,
where we walk every day on
the road named for him after
his game-changing contribu-
tion,” said Save the Chimps’
CEO Ana Paula Tavares. At
the time of the donation,
Barker said that he hoped
chimpanzees tortured “phys-
ically and mentally” for years
when being used for research
experiments would find “the
first peace, contentment and
love they have ever known at
Save the Chimps.”
In 1997, Barker declined to
be a presenter at the Daytime
Emmy awards ceremony be-
cause he said it snubbed
game shows by not airing
awards in the category. He
called game shows “the pil-
lars of daytime TV.”
He had a memorable
cameo appearance on the
big screen in 1996, sparring
with Adam Sandler in the
movie “Happy Gilmore.” “I
did ‘The Price Is Right’ for
35 years, and they’re asking
me how it was to beat up
Adam Sandler,” Barker later
joked.
Sandler paid tribute to
Barker on Instagram Satur-
day with a series of images
of them together. “The man.
The myth. The best. Such a
sweet funny guy to hang out
with.” Sandler captioned the
post. “Loved talking to him.
Loved laughing with him.
Loved him kicking the crap
out of me.”
In 1994, the widowed
Barker was sued for sexual
string of emails and let-
ters they say showed that
Ridley-Thomas, one of
the most formidable pol-
iticians in Los Angeles,
“used his publicly-provided
privileges to monetize his
elected office and demand
benefits for his son.”
Aware that Flynn needed
county contracts and an
amendment to a Telehealth
contract, Ridley-Thomas
made county business con-
tingent on benefits for his
son, Sebastian, including
admission to USC to ob-
tain a master’s degree, a
full-tuition scholarship to
attend USC for free, a paid
professorship to teach at
USC while simultaneously
enrolled as a student,
and the secret funneling
of $100,000 from the fa-
ther’s campaign commit-
tee account through USC
to a nonprofit his son was
spearheading called the
Policy, Research & Prac-
tice, according to trial tes-
timony.
“Witness testimony and
hundreds of emails ad-
mitted at trial, as well as
Flynn’s admissions in her
plea agreement, make
clear that defendant drove
and orchestrated this cor-
rupt scheme,” prosecutors
wrote.
In their argument for
probation and home con-
finement, defense attor-
neys maintain there is no
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A
harassment by Dian Parkin-
son, a “Price is Right” model
for 18 years. Barker admitted
engaging in “hanky panky”
with Parkinson from 1989-91
but said she initiated the rela-
tionship. Parkinson dropped
the lawsuit in 1995, saying it
was hurting her health.
Barker became embroiled
in a dispute with another
former “Price Is Right”
model, Holly Hallstrom, who
claimed she was fired in 1995
because the show’s producers
believed she was fat. Barker
denied the allegations.
Neither uproar affected
goodwill from the audience.
Born in Darrington,
Washington, in 1923, Barker
spent part of his childhood
on the Rosebud Indian Res-
ervation in South Dakota,
where his widowed mother
had taken a teaching job. The
family later moved to Spring-
field, Mo., where he attended
high school. He served in the
Navy in World War II.
He married Dorothy Jo
Gideon, his high school
sweetheart; she died in 1981
after 37 years of marriage.
They had no children.
Barker was given a life-
time achievement award at
the 26th annual Daytime
Emmy Awards in 1999. He
closed his acceptance re-
marks with the signoff:
“Have your pets spayed or
neutered.”
AP Entertainment Writer
Anthony McCartney
contributed to this report.
need to incarcerate Ridley-
Thomas.
“He has been in the pub-
lic eye for decades,” his
lawyers wrote. “His rep-
utation was built on eth-
ical community empow-
erment. The shame of his
convictions is punishment
and provides ample specific
deterrence.
“With the felony convic-
tions, his service in public
office is over. He has lost
his city council position
and may lose his pension.
Now nearing 70 years of
age, he faces a desperately
uncertain financial future.
And a lengthy sentence is
not needed to protect the
public.”
Ridley-Thomas served
on the Los Angeles City
Council from 1991-2002,
then was a member of the
Assembly and state Senate
before being elected to the
powerful county Board of
Supervisors in 2008, serv-
ing until 2020, when he re-
turned to the City Council.
R id le y-T hom a s w a s
suspended from the City
Council following the Octo-
ber 2021 federal indictment
that also named Flynn as
co-defendant. After the
guilty verdicts, Heather
Hutt was appointed as the
new councilwoman for the
10th District.
Attorneys for Ridley-
Thomas are appealing the
conviction.
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1963 MARCH ON WASHINGTON
A person holds an image of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. while listening to speakers during the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington
at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday.
60th anniversary marked
by National Mall crowds
By Aaron Morrison
and Ayanna Alexander
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON >> Thousands con-
verged Saturday on the National
Mall for the 60th anniversary
of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s
March on Washington, saying a
country that remains riven by ra-
cial inequality has yet to fulfill his
dream.
“We have made progress, over
the last 60 years, since Dr. King
led the March on Washington,”
said Alphonso David, president
and CEO of the Global Black Eco-
nomic Forum. “Have we reached
the mountaintop? Not by a long
shot.”
The event was convened by the
Kings’ Drum Major Institute and
the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National
Action Network. A host of Black
civil rights leaders and a multi-
racial, interfaith coalition of al-
lies rallied attendees on the same
spot where as many as 250,000
gathered in 1963 for what is still
considered one of the greatest
and most consequential racial
justice and equality demonstra-
tions in U.S. history.
Inevitably, Saturday’s event
was shot through with contrasts
to the initial, historic demonstra-
tion. Speakers and banners talked
News feed
SEVERE WEATHER
Tropical Storm Franklin
turns into a hurricane
Tropical Storm Franklin
strengthened to a hurricane
Saturday, becoming the sec-
ond hurricane of the Atlan-
tic season with the poten-
tial of gaining major storm
status, the National Hurri-
cane Center said.
As of 2 p.m. PDT Satur-
day, Franklin was about
280 miles northeast of
Grand Turk Island of Turks
and Caicos and was moving
north-northwest at almost 8
mph, the center said.
Franklin’s maximum sus-
tained winds increased to
nearly 85 mph. The center
said that “further strength-
ening” was expected and
that Franklin could become
a major hurricane early this
week.
A major hurricane has
sustained winds of at least
111 mph, corresponding to
a Category 3, 4 or 5 hurri-
cane.
The center said satel-
lite and microwave imag-
ery showed that Franklin
had become better orga-
nized Saturday. “Early visi-
ble satellite images showed
a ragged eye, which has be-
come cloud filled in the last
hour or two,” it said.
— The New York Times
about the importance of LGBTQ
and Asian American rights. Many
who addressed the crowd were
women after only one was given
the microphone in 1963.
Pamela Mays McDonald of
Philadelphia attended the initial
march as a child. “I was 8 years
old at the original March and
only one woman was allowed to
speak — she was from Arkansas,
where I’m from. Now look at how
many women are on the podium
today,” she said.
For some, the contrasts be-
tween the size of the original
demonstration and the more
modest turnout Saturday were
bittersweet. “I often look back
and look over to the reflection
pool and the Washington Mon-
ument and I see a quarter of a
million people 60 years ago and
just a trickling now,” said Mar-
sha Dean Phelts of Amelia Is-
land, Florida. “It was more fired
up then. But the things we were
asking for and needing, we still
need them today.”
As speakers delivered mes-
sages, they were overshadowed
by the sounds of passenger planes
taking off from Ronald Reagan
National Airport.
Rugby games were underway
along the Mall in close proximity
to the Lincoln Memorial and jog-
ELECTION 2024
Trump raises $7.1M as
arrest rallies backers
Former President Don-
ald Trump raised $7.1 mil-
lion since his arrest in Geor-
gia on Thursday as his cam-
paign sought to capitalize on
the mug shot taken at a Ful-
ton County jail, according to
a person familiar with the sit-
uation.
Trump brought in $4.18 mil-
lion just on Friday, the high-
est single-day haul of his 2024
presidential campaign effort,
the person said. His campaign
has taken in nearly $20 million
in the past three weeks — a
span that covers his two most
recent indictments in Wash-
ington and Georgia, according
to the person, who asked not to
be named.
Fundraising accelerated
after he returned to X, the
social media platform for-
merly known as Twitter,
for the first time since Jan-
uary 2021, to post his mug
shot and a link to a fundrais-
ing landing page, the person
said. Politico earlier reported
the figures. The $7 million
raised is roughly a fifth of the
more than $35 million he re-
ceived in the second quar-
ter through the Trump Save
America Joint Fundraising
Committee.
— Bloomberg
gers and bikers went about their
routines.
Yolanda King, the 15-year-old
granddaughter of King Jr., roused
marchers with remarks delivered
from the same spot her grandfa-
ther gave the “I Have A Dream”
speech 60 years ago.
“If I could speak to my grand-
father today, I would say I’m sorry
we still have to be here to reded-
icate ourselves to finishing your
work and ultimately realizing
your dream,” she said.
“Today, racism is still with us.
Poverty is still with us. And now
gun violence has come for places
of worship, our schools and our
shopping centers.”
From the podium, Sharpton
promised more demonstrations
to push back against injustices,
new and old.
“Sixty years ago, Martin Luther
King talked about a dream. Sixty
years later, we’re the dreamers.
The problem is we’re facing the
schemers,” Sharpton said. “The
dreamers are fighting for voting
rights. The schemers are chang-
ing voter regulations in states.
The dreamers are standing up
for women’s right to choose. The
schemers are arguing whether
they are going to make you stop
at six weeks or 15 weeks.”
After the speeches, the crowd
MIDDLE EAST
U.S. knew Saudis were
killing African migrants
Last fall, U.S. diplomats
received grim news that
border guards in Saudi Ara-
bia, a close U.S. partner in
the Middle East, were using
lethal force against African
migrants who were trying
to enter the kingdom from
Yemen.
The diplomats got more
detail in December, when
United Nations officials pre-
sented them with infor-
mation about Saudi secu-
rity forces shooting, shell-
ing and abusing migrants,
leaving many dead and
wounded, according to U.S.
officials and a person who
attended the meetings.
In the months since, U.S.
officials have not publicly
criticized the Saudis’ con-
duct, although State De-
partment officials said this
past week, following a pub-
lished report of the killings,
that U.S. diplomats have
raised the issue with their
Saudi counterparts and
asked them to investigate.
Bit it remains unclear
whether those discussions
have affected any Saudi ac-
tions.
— The New York Times
ANDREW HARNIK— THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
marched to the Martin Luther
King Jr. Memorial.
Several leaders from groups
organizing the march met Fri-
day with Attorney General Mer-
rick Garland and Assistant Attor-
ney General Kristen Clarke of the
civil rights division to discuss a
range of issues, including voting
rights, policing and redlining.
Saturday’s gathering was a pre-
cursor to the actual anniversary
of the Aug. 28, 1963 March on
Washington. President Joe Biden
and Vice President Kamala Har-
ris will observe the march anni-
versary on Monday by meeting
with organizers of the 1963 gath-
ering. All of King’s children have
been invited to meet with Biden,
White House officials said.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Wash-
ington remarks have resounded
through decades of push and pull
toward progress in civil and hu-
man rights. But dark moments
followed his speech, too.
Two weeks later in 1963, four
Black girls were killed in the 16th
Street Baptist Church bombing in
Birmingham, Alabama, followed
by the kidnapping and murder
of three civil rights workers in
Neshoba County, Mississippi
the following year. The trage-
dies spurred passage of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964.
FUKUSHIMA PLANT
Residents careful after
wastewater release
IWAKI, JAPAN >> Fish auc-
tion prices at a port south
of the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant were
mixed amid uncertainty
over how seafood consum-
ers will respond to the re-
lease of treated and diluted
radioactive wastewater into
the ocean.
The plant, which was
damaged in a 2011 earth-
quake and tsunami, began
sending the treated water
into the Pacific on Thursday
despite protests at home
and in nearby countries
that are adding political
and diplomatic pressures to
the economic worries.
Hideaki Igari, a middle-
man at the Numanouchi
fishing port, said the price
of larger flounder, Fukushi-
ma’s signature fish known
as Joban-mono, was more
than 10% lower at the Fri-
day morning auction, the
first since the water release
began. Prices of some aver-
age-size flounder rose, but
presumably due to a limited
catch, Igari says. Others fell.
It was a relatively calm
market reaction to the wa-
ter release.
— The Associated Press
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INDICTMENTS
Trump,
18 others
already
at odds
By Richard Fausset
and Danny Hakim
The New York Times
Even as former President
Donald Trump and his 18
co-defendants in the Geor-
gia election interference case
turned themselves in one by
one at an Atlanta jail this
past week, their lawyers be-
gan working to change how
the case will play out.
They are already at odds
over when they will have
their day in court, but also,
crucially, where. Should
enough of them succeed, the
case could split into several
smaller cases, perhaps over-
seen by different judges in
different courtrooms, run-
ning on different timelines.
Five defendants already
have sought to move the state
case to federal court, citing
their ties to the federal gov-
ernment. The first one to file
— Mark Meadows, Trump’s
chief of staff during the 2020
election — will make the ar-
gument for removal Monday,
in a hearing before a federal
judge in Atlanta.
Federal officials charged
with state crimes can move
their cases to federal court
if they can convince a judge
that they are being charged
for actions connected to their
official duties, among other
things.
In the Georgia case, the
question of whether to
change the venue — a le-
gal maneuver known as re-
moval — matters because it
would affect the composition
of a jury. If the case stays in
Fulton County, the jury will
come from a bastion of Dem-
ocratic politics where Trump
was trounced in 2020. If the
case is removed to federal
court, the jury will be drawn
from a 10-county region of
Georgia that is more subur-
ban and rural — and some-
what more Trump-friendly.
Because it takes only one
not-guilty vote to hang a
jury, this modest advantage
could prove to be a very big
deal.
The coming fights over the
proper venue for the case are
only one strand of a compli-
cated tangle of efforts being
launched by a gaggle of de-
fense lawyers now represent-
ing Trump and the 18 others
named in the 98-page racke-
teering indictment. This past
week, the lawyers clogged
both state and federal court
dockets with motions that
will also determine when the
case begins.
SCOTLAND
High-tech aids search
for Loch Ness Monster
LONDON >> Mystery hunt-
ers converged on a Scottish
lake Saturday to look for
signs of the mythical Loch
Ness Monster.
The Loch Ness Center
said researchers would try
to seek evidence of Nessie
using thermal-imaging
drones, infrared cameras
and a hydrophone to de-
tect underwater sounds in
the lake’s murky waters.
The two-day event is being
billed as the biggest survey
of the lake in 50 years and
includes volunteers scan-
ning the water from boats
and the lakeshore, with oth-
ers around the world join-
ing in with webcams.
Alan McKenna of the
Loch Ness Center said the
aim was “to inspire a new
generation of Loch Ness en-
thusiasts.”
McKenna told BBC radio
the searchers were “look-
ing for breaks in the surface
and asking volunteers to re-
cord all manner of natural
behavior on the loch.”
“Not every ripple or wave
is a beastie. Some of those
can be explained, but there
are a handful that cannot,”
he said.
— The Associated Press
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2023
WAR IN EUROPE
Shelling kills civilians in With Prigozhin’s death, Putin
Ukraine’s northeast area projects a message of power
By Susie Blann
The Associated Press
KYIV, UKRAINE >> Russian
forces struck a cafe in a key
front-line area in north-
eastern Ukraine on Satur-
day, killing two civilians
and wounding a third, re-
gional officials said.
The shelling near the
city of Kupiansk came
as U.K. officials said that
Russia may try to retake
the area, which was cap-
tured by Kyiv in a light-
ning counteroffensive last
September after more than
six months of Russian oc-
cupation. Fierce fighting
there earlier this month
prompted mandatory evac-
uations and fears of a sec-
ond Russian takeover.
Russian shells on Sat-
urday morning struck the
cafe in Podoly, an east-
ern suburb of Kupiansk,
regional Gov. Oleh Synie-
hubov said in a Telegram
post. He added that rescue
teams were working at the
site.
U.K. military intelli-
gence on Saturday as-
sessed that Russia may “in-
crease the intensity of its
offensive efforts” around
Kupiansk and nearby Ly-
man in an attempt to take
pressure off its forces near
Bakhmut and in the Za-
porizhzhia region, where
a Ukrainian counteroffen-
sive has reportedly made
gradual gains.
Igor Konashenkov, a
spokesman for the Rus-
sian defense ministry, said
in a regular briefing Satur-
day that Moscow’s forces
had “improved their posi-
tion along the front line”
in the Kupiansk area and
repelled five Ukrainian as-
saults over the previous
day. He did not give fur-
ther details regarding any
troop movements.
Earlier this month,
Ukrainian authorities or-
dered a mandatory evac-
uation of nearly 12,000 ci-
WAR IN EUROPE
Russia’s Wagner mercenaries now face uncertainty
By The Associated Press
The Wagner Group’s
presence extends from the
ancient battlegrounds of
Syria to the deserts of sub-
Saharan Africa, projecting
the Kremlin’s global influ-
ence with mercenaries ac-
cused of using brutal force
and profiting from seized
mineral riches.
But that was under Yevg-
eny Prigozhin, who in what
may have been his final re-
cruitment video, appeared
in military fatigues and
held an assault rifle from
an unidentified dry and
dusty plain as he boasted
that Wagner was “making
Russia even greater on all
continents and Africa even
more free.”
A private jet carrying
Prigozhin and his top lieu-
tenants crashed northwest
of Moscow on Wednesday,
two months after he led an
armed rebellion that chal-
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A man sells balloons next to piles of sandbags blocking
windows of an old building in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday.
vilians from 37 towns and
villages around Kupiansk,
citing a concerted effort by
Russian troops to punch
through the front line.
After the Russian oc-
cupiers left Kupiansk last
year, Ukrainian authori-
ties said they found torture
chambers and mass graves
in the region.
Ukrainian officials so far
have reported limited ad-
vances in Kyiv’s large-scale
counteroffensive launched
in early June, including in
the southern Zaporizhzhia
region and on the outskirts
of Bakhmut, the site of the
war’s longest and bloodi-
est battle before falling to
Moscow in May.
A Washington-based
think tank said late Fri-
day that Ukrainian forces
were pushing forward in
Zaporizhzhia after advanc-
ing into the village of Ro-
botyne earlier last week.
The Institute for the Study
of War in its latest assess-
ment cited pro-Kremlin
military bloggers express-
ing concern over a lack of
reinforcements and troop
locations in the area,
while the Ukrainian Gen-
eral Staff that same day
claimed unspecified fur-
ther successes south and
southeast of Robotyne.
Also on Saturday, a new
drone attack on Moscow
lenged the authority of
Russian President Vladi-
mir Putin. There is wide
speculation that the mer-
cenary leader, who is pre-
sumed dead, was targeted
for assassination because
of his uprising, although
the Kremlin has denied in-
volvement.
The crash has raised
questions about the future
of Prigozhin’s private army,
which fought alongside
Russian troops in Ukraine
before his brief uprising
against military leaders in
Moscow.
Russian authorities have
cited the need to await
DNA test results to confirm
Prigozhin’s death, but Pu-
tin expressed condolences
after the jet fell from the
sky. The Russian leader also
has ordered Wagner fight-
ers to sign an oath of alle-
giance to the Russian state,
according to a decree pub-
lished on the Kremlin’s
August
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forced an early-morning
temporary shutdown of all
three major airports serv-
ing the city, Russian state
media reported. Officials
blamed Ukraine for what
appeared to be the latest
of near-daily strikes on
the Russian capital and the
surrounding region.
Kyiv has since early
this year sought to take
the 18-month war into the
heart of Russia, also say-
ing recently that it was be-
hind strikes on Russian
military assets behind the
front lines.
Russia’s defense min-
istry and Moscow Mayor
Sergey Sobyanin said that
a drone was shot down
over the Istra district of the
Moscow region, some 30
miles west of Red Square.
Sobyanin said in a Tele-
gram post that there were
no immediate reports of
any casualties or damage.
According to Russia’s
state Tass agency, the
Sheremetevo, Domodedovo
and Vnukovo airports all
suspended flights for over
an hour early Saturday.
Russian Telegram chan-
nels on Saturday posted
videos, some of them ap-
parently from home se-
curity cameras, of what
they claimed was Russian
air defense downing the
drone.
website late Friday and ef-
fective immediately.
The order followed the
Kremlin’s denial Friday
of suggestions from West-
ern officials and news me-
dia that the Wagner leader
may have been killed on Pu-
tin’s orders.
In African countries
where Wagner provided
security against extremist
organisations like al-Qaida
and the Islamic State group,
officials and commentators
predicted Russia would
likely maintain a presence,
placing the mercenaries un-
der new leadership.
Others, however, say Pr-
igozhin built deep, personal
connections that Moscow
could find challenging to
replace quickly.
Africa is vitally impor-
tant to Russia — economi-
cally and politically.
This summer, Wagner
helped secure a national
referendum in the Central
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ANALYSIS
By Anton Troianovski
and Valerie Hopkins
The New York Times
Just as the news broke
Wednesday of the pre-
sumed death of merce-
nary chief Yevgeny Pr-
igozhin, President Vlad-
imir Putin of Russia was
presiding over a televised
World War II anniversary
ceremony on a dark stage
lit dramatically in red.
He staged a moment
of silence, flanked by ser-
vice members in dress
uniforms, while a metro-
nome’s beats sounded, like
the slow ticking of a clock:
Tock. Tock. Tock.
The eerie split screen —
the reported fiery demise
of the man who launched
an armed rebellion in June
and the Russian president
telegraphing the state’s
military might — may have
been coincidental. But it
underscored the imagery
of dominance and power
that Putin, 18 months into
his full-scale invasion of
Ukraine, appears more
determined than ever to
project.
Prigozhin may have been
brutally effective, throw-
ing tens of thousands of
his fighters into the maw
of the battle for Bakhmut
in eastern Ukraine, tying
up Ukrainian forces in
the process and hobbling
Kyiv’s ability to stage a
counteroffensive. His in-
ternet “troll farm” helped
the Kremlin interfere in
the 2016 U.S. presidential
election, and his merce-
nary empire helped Russia
exer t inf luence across
Africa and the Middle
East.
But with his June rebel-
lion, Prigozhin threatened
something even more sen-
sitive: Putin’s own hold on
power.
A f ter the cra sh of
Prigozhin’s plane Wednes-
day, the Kremlin appears
to be sending the message
African Republic that ce-
mented presidential power;
it is a key partner for Ma-
li’s army in battling armed
rebels; and it contacted the
military junta in Niger that
wants its services following
a coup.
Expanding ties and un-
dercutting Western influ-
ence in Africa is a top pri-
ority as the Kremlin seeks
new allies amid its war in
Ukraine, where Wagner
forces also helped win a
key battle. Africa’s 54 na-
tions are the largest voting
bloc at the U.N., and Mos-
cow has actively worked to
rally their support for its in-
vasion.
Linda Thomas-Green-
field, the U.S. ambassador
to the U.N., said Friday that
Wagner’s forces “are desta-
bilizing, and we’ve encour-
aged countries in Africa to
condemn their presence.”
The Republican Front in
the Central African Repub-
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A banner of Yevgeny
Prigozhin, with words in
Russian reading “In this hell
you were the best” lies at a
memorial in St. Petersburg,
Russia, on Friday.
that no degree of effective-
ness and achievement can
protect someone from pun-
ishment for violating Pu-
tin’s loyalty.
“ Ever yone’s a f ra id,”
Konstantin Remchukov,
a Moscow newspaper edi-
tor with ties to the Krem-
lin, said of the reaction
among the Russian elite to
the plane crash Wednesday
that Western officials the-
orize was caused by an ex-
plosion on board.
Never before has some-
one so central to Rus-
sia’s ruling establishment
been killed in a suspected
state-sponsored assassi-
nation, said Mikhail Vino-
gradov, a Moscow political
analyst.
“This is a rather harsh
pr e c e de nt ,” V i no g r a -
dov said, adding that the
Kremlin appeared to be
doing little to dissuade
Russians of the view that it
had sanctioned Prigozhin’s
killing. After all, if mem-
bers of the ruling elite con-
cluded that one of the Pu-
tin system’s most pow-
erful players had been
killed against the Krem-
lin’s wishes, it would send
a devastating signal of Pu-
tin’s loss of control.
Dmitr y Peskov, the
K remlin spokesperson,
said Friday that the sug-
gestion by foreign officials
that the Kremlin was be-
lic, which is allied with the
country’s ruling party, on
Thursday reiterated its sup-
port for Russia and Wag-
ner, saying they were “de-
termined to fight alongside
the African people as they
struggle for self-determi-
nation.”
Wagner forces have
served as personal body-
guards for President Faus-
tin Archange Touadera,
protecting the capital of
Bangui from rebel threats
and helping Touadera win
the July 30 constitutional
referendum that could ex-
tend his power indefinitely.
Central African activ-
ist and blogger Christian
Aime Ndotah said the coun-
try’s cooperation with Rus-
sia would be unaffected
by new leadership at Wag-
ner, which has been “well-
established” in the country
for years.
But some in the Central
African Republic denounce
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hind Prigozhin’s death was
an “absolute lie.”
To some, the fact that
Prigozhin was able to sur-
vive for two months af-
ter staging his rebellion
was more surprising than
the crash of his private
jet.
In an address to the na-
tion June 24, as Prigozhin’s
forces were marching on
Moscow and already in
control of a city of a mil-
lion people in Russia’s
southwest, Putin accused
the warlord of “betrayal.”
And betrayal, Putin has
said previously, is the one
act that cannot be for-
given. So when Putin ap-
peared to strike a deal with
Prigozhin allowing him to
retreat safely to neighbor-
ing Belarus, the act struck
some Russians as a sign of
the president losing con-
trol. The view was mag-
nified when photographs
sur faced of Prigozhin
meeting with African offi-
cials on the sidelines of Pu-
tin’s marquee summit with
African leaders in St. Pe-
tersburg in July.
“After he ‘forgave’ Pr-
igozhin, it was under-
stood by those around him
as weakness,” said Alexei
Venediktov, who headed
the liberal Echo of Mos-
cow radio station before
the Kremlin shut it down
last year.
Venediktov, in an in-
terview in Moscow on
Thursday, argued that Pr-
igozhin’s apparent death
had streng thened Pu-
tin’s dominance in the
Russian political system
after the chaos of the re-
bellion.
Now, “Putin has shown
his elite,” Venediktov went
on, that “any betrayal will
be found out.”
U.S. officials are in-
creasingly certain that
Prigozhin was killed in
Wednesday’s crash, and
that Putin ordered the as-
sassination.
the mercenaries, and the
U.N. peacekeeping mis-
sion there criticized them
in 2021 for human rights
abuses.
“A state’s security is its
sovereignty. You can’t en-
trust the security of a state
to a group of mercenaries,”
said Jean Serge Bokassa,
former public security min-
ister.
Nathalia Dukhan, a se-
nior investigator at The
Sentry, a policy organiza-
tion based in Washing-
ton, predicted the Kremlin
would try to bring Africa
closer into its orbit.
“Wagner has been a suc-
cessful tool for Russia to ex-
pand its influence efficiently
and brutally,” she said. “In
the midst of all the turmoil
between Putin and Pr-
igozhin, the Wagner opera-
tion in Central Africa only
deepened, with increased
direct involvement by the
Russian government.”
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MAUI FIRES AFTERMATH MAUI FIRES AFTERMATH

Bare electrical wire,

leaning poles probed
By Jennifer McDermott,
Bernard Condon
and Michael Biesecker
The Associated Press
In the first moments of
the Maui fires, when high
winds brought down power
poles, slapping electrified
wires to the dry grass be-
low, there was a reason
the flames erupted all at
once in long, neat rows —
those wires were bare, un-
JAE C. HONG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS insulated metal that could
A Hawaiian flag and crosses honoring the victims killed in a recent wildfire are posted spark on contact.
along the Lahaina Bypass in Lahaina, Maui, last week. Videos and images an-
alyzed by The Associated

Hawaii’s cherished notion of Press confirmed those

wires were among miles
of line that Hawaiian Elec-
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Utility poles stand in Lahaina on the island of Maui,
Hawaii, on Aug. 16.

family, the ohana, endures tric Co. left naked to the

By Bobby Caina Calvan,
Jae C. Hong and
Mike Householder
The Associated Press
LAHAINA, HAWAII >> Fami-
lies were torn asunder. A
community is reeling with
grief. More than 100 people
have perished and dozens
more remain missing after
flames and smoke barreled
from the hills and annihi-
lated the historic town of
Lahaina.
But even in places over-
whelmed by despair and
devastation, the Hawaiian
spirit known as ohana en-
dures.
In the Hawaiian lexicon,
ohana is a sensibility, a way
of thinking that means fam-
ily, belonging, community
and so much more — sol-
ace in a time of calamity.
It is a unifying principle in
an increasingly fragmented
world. And in recent weeks,
amid misfortune, the word
has taken on profound im-
portance in a place appeal-
ing for help.
“In times like this, ohana
gets stronger,” says Dustin
Kaleiopu, whose Maui roots
date back to when mon-
archs ruled the islands.
The kanaka of Hawaii,
the Native Hawaiians who
inhabit the islands, value
ohana, which extends be-
yond the familial ties of
blood. It is a life nourished
by kinship.
“In a small town like La-
haina, we all know each
other. We’ve all grown up
together,” says Kaleiopu,
whose ohana came to his
aid after he and his grand-
father escaped the flames
that turned their home into
a mound of ash and charred
debris. “It’s such a tight-knit
community.”
Finding grace and sol-
ace can be almost unimag-
inable when the very world
around you is burning. This
is what Lahaina faces to-
day as the smoke begins to
clear.
T housands of other
homes are gone. At least 115
people are confirmed dead.
And by some counts, more
than 100 of Lahaina’s resi-
dents remain unaccounted
for: fathers and mothers,
husbands and wives, broth-
ers and sisters, young and
old, friends and neighbors
— all part of someone’s
ohana.
“There’s plenty of fami-
lies who’ve been displaced
by the fire. So we’re going
to take care of our commu-
nity as much as possible.
So in this sense, our com-
munity is the ohana,” says
Kapali Keahi, whose family
has lived on Maui for gen-
erations.
In the days, and now
weeks, after the deadliest
wildfire in the United States
in more than a century,
families who lost homes
and possessions continue
to depend on the generos-
ity of relatives, friends and
even strangers. Shipments
of food, clothes and every-
day necessities keep arriv-
ing from the state’s other
islands, including Oahu,
home to Honolulu.
Online fundraisers, many
set up by displaced families,
have raised hundreds of
thousands of dollars, much
of it from distant places.
One relief fund has well
surpassed $1.2 million, its
6,400 donors hailing from
every part of the globe.
weather and often-thick fo-
liage, despite a recent push
by utilities in other wild-
fire- and hurricane-prone
areas to cover up their lines
or bury them.
Compounding the prob-
lem is that many of the
utility’s 60,000, mostly
wooden power poles,
which its own documents
described as built to “an
obsolete 1960s standard,”
were leaning and near the
end of their projected lifes-
pan. They were nowhere
close to meeting a 2002
national standard that key
components of Hawaii’s
electrical grid be able to
withstand 105 mph winds.
A 2019 filing said it had
fallen behind in replac-
ing the old wooden poles
because of other priori-
ties and warned of a “seri-
ous public hazard” if they
“failed.”
Google street view im-
ages of poles taken before
the fire show the bare wire.
It’s “very unlikely” a
fully-insulated cable would
have sparked and caused a
fire in dry vegetation, said
Michael Ahern, who re-
tired this month as direc-
tor of power systems at
Worcester Polytechnic In-
stitute in Massachusetts.
Experts who watched
videos showing downed
power lines agreed wire
that was insulated would
not have arced and
sparked, igniting a line of
flame.
Hawaiian Electric said
in a statement that it
has “long recognized the
unique threats” from cli-
mate change and has
spent millions of dollars
in response, but did not
say whether specific power
lines that collapsed in the
early moments of the fire
were bare.
“We’ve been executing
on a resilience strategy
to meet these challenges,
and since 2018, we have
spent approximately $950
million to strengthen and
harden our grid and ap-
proximately $110 million
on vegetation management
efforts,” the company said.
“This work included re-
placing more than 12,500
poles and structures since
2018 and trimming and re-
moving trees along approx-
imately 2,500 line miles ev-
ery year on average.”
But a former member
of the Hawaii Public Utili-
ties Commission confirmed
many of Maui’s wooden
power poles were in poor
condition. Jennifer Potter
lives in Lahaina and until
the end of last year was on
the commission, which reg-
ulates Hawaiian Electric.
“Even tourists that drive
around the island are like,
‘What is that?’ They’re
leaning quite significantly
because the winds over
time literally just pushed
them over,” she said.
In a late development,
a brush fire on Saturday
prompted Maui authori-
ties to evacuate residents
from a neighborhood of
Lahaina, just a few miles
from the site recently rav-
aged by blazes.
An evacuation order
had been issued for a res-
idential part of Lahaina
in the hills above Kaana-
pali resort hotels, the Ha-
waii Emergency Manage-
ment Agency said. The or-
der was for an area around
Anapuni Loop, the agency
said in a post on X, the so-
cial media platform for-
merly known as Twitter.
Later, Maui County said
in an Instagram post that
firefighters had “stopped
forward progress of the
fire.”

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
U.S. regulates cars, radio, TV; what about AI?
By Ian Prasad Philbrick
The New York Times
As increasingly sophisti-
cated artificial intelligence
systems with the potential
to reshape society come
online, many experts, law-
makers and even execu-
tives of top AI companies
want the U.S. government
to regulate the technology,
and fast.
“ We s hou ld mo v e
quickly,” Brad Smith, the
president of Microsoft,
which launched an AI-pow-
ered version of its search en-
gine this year, said in May.
“There’s no time for waste
or delay,” Chuck Schumer,
the Senate majority leader,
has said. “Let’s get ahead
of this,” said Sen. Mike
Rounds, R-S.D.
Yet history suggests that
comprehensive federal reg-
ulation of advanced AI sys-
tems probably won’t hap-
pen soon. Congress and
federal agencies have of-
ten taken decades to enact
rules governing revolution-
ary technologies, from elec-
tricity to cars. “The general
pattern is, it takes a while,”
said Matthew Mittelsteadt,
a technologist who studies
AI at George Mason Univer-
sity’s Mercatus Center.
In the 1800s, it took Con-
gress more than half a cen-
tury after the introduction
of the first public, steam-
powered train to give the
government the power to
set price rules for railroads,
the first U.S. industry sub-
ject to federal regulation.
In the 20th century, the bu-
reaucracy slowly expanded
to regulate radio, television
and other technologies. And
in the 21st century, lawmak-
ers have struggled to safe-
guard digital data privacy.
It’s possible that policy-
makers will defy history.
Members of Congress have
worked furiously in recent
months to understand and
imagine ways to regulate
AI, holding hearings and
meeting privately with in-
dustry leaders and experts.
EGYPT
To modernize Cairo, culture
gems, green spaces razed
By Vivian Yee
The New York Times
CAIRO >> Ancient tombs
have been shattered. Gar-
dens have vanished, and
with them many of Cairo’s
trees.
A growing number of his-
toric but shabby working-
class neighborhoods have
all but disappeared, too,
handed over to developers
to build concrete high-rises
while families who have
lived there for generations
are pushed to the fringes
of the sprawling Egyptian
capital.
Few cities live and
breathe antiquity like
Cairo, a sun-strafed, traf-
fic-choked desert metrop-
olis jammed with roughly
22 million people. But Pres-
ident Abdel Fattah el-Sissi
is modernizing this super-
annuated city, fast.
He is trying to buff its
unruly complexity into a
place of efficient uniformity
— the traffic tamed, the Nile
River promoted as a tour-
ist attraction, the slums
cleaned up and their resi-
dents rehoused in modern
apartments. And he consid-
ers the construction as one
of the major accomplish-
ments of his tenure.
“There is not a single
place in Egypt that has not
been touched by the hand of
development,” el-Sissi pro-
claimed in a recent speech.
So the old stone and brick
must go, paved over by con-
crete. New elevated high-
ways undulate over ancient
cemeteries, riding skinny
struts like giant gray roller
coasters. A freshly built
walkway lined with fast-
food joints runs along the
Nile, the entrance fee out
of reach for many Egyp-
tians, with consumer infla-
tion running at about 38%
annually.
New roads, overpasses
and offramps materialize
so quickly that taxi drivers
and Google Maps alike can
barely keep up. And Cairo
is not just being made over,
Some officials wonder if it’s time to regulate ChatGPT technology.
Last month, President Joe
Biden announced volun-
tary safeguards agreed to
by seven leading AI com-
panies.
But AI also presents chal-
lenges that could make it
even harder — and slower —
to regulate than past tech-
nologies.
The hurdles
To regulate a new tech-
nology, Washington first
has to try to understand it.
“We need to get up to speed
very quickly,” Sen. Martin
Heinrich, D-N.M., who is
part of a bipartisan work-
ing group on AI, said in a
statement.
That typically happens
faster when new technol-
ogies resemble older ones.
Congress created the Fed-
eral Communications Com-
mission in 1934, when tele-
vision was still a nascent
industry, and the FCC reg-
ulated it based on earlier
rules for radio and tele-
phones.
But AI, some advocates
for regulation argue, com-
bines the potential for pri-
Little more than rubble remains of a mausoleum in a
cemetery in Cairo’s famed City of the Dead in February.
but replaced: El-Sissi is
erecting a supersized new
capital, all right angles,
tall towers and luxury vil-
las, in the desert just out-
side Cairo.
The estimated cost of the
new capital alone is $59 bil-
lion, with billions more go-
ing to other construction
projects, including roads
and high-speed trains
meant to link the new capi-
tal to the old. Most of it was
paid for by debt, the sheer
mass of which has crippled
Egypt’s ability to handle
a deep economic crisis set
off by Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine.
A few weeks ago, the
moder nization ef for ts
reached Fustat, the city’s
most ancient district,
founded as Egypt’s capital
centuries before Cairo was
even a thought.
A district official knocked
on the door of artist Moataz
Nasreldin and told him to
start packing up Darb 1718,
the popular cultural center
he founded in the neighbor-
hood 16 years ago. The gov-
ernment would be widening
the road behind it to build
an elevated highway, Nas-
reldin, 62, said the official
told him.
Darb, along with some
of the nearby pottery work-
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vacy invasion, misinforma-
tion, hiring discrimination,
labor disruptions, copyright
infringement, electoral ma-
nipulation and weaponiza-
tion by unfriendly govern-
ments in ways that have lit-
tle precedent. That’s on top
of some AI experts’ fears
that a superintelligent ma-
chine might one day end
humanity.
While many want fast
action, it’s hard to regulate
technology that’s evolving
as quickly as AI. “I have no
idea where we’ll be in two
years,” said Dewey Murdick,
who leads Georgetown Uni-
versity’s center for security
and emerging technology.
Regulation also means
minimizing potential risks
while harnessing poten-
tial benefits, which for AI
can range from drafting
emails to advancing medi-
cine. That’s a tricky balance
to strike with a new tech-
nology. “Often, the benefits
are just unanticipated,” said
Susan Dudley, who directs
George Washington Uni-
versity’s regulatory stud-
ies center. “And, of course,
HEBA KHAMIS — THE NEW YORK TIMES
shops run for decades by lo-
cal craftspeople and some
nearby housing, would have
to go.
As often happens nowa-
days in Egypt, where stories
abound of government ex-
cavators and bulldozers ap-
pearing on private property
with barely any notice, in-
formation about the deci-
sion was scant.
“Every day, you wake up
and you don’t know what’s
going to happen,” said Mo-
hamed Abdin, 48, who
owns one of the workshops
slated for destruction.
Some Cairenes, as this
city’s residents are known,
are proud of the construc-
tion, seeing it as tangible
evidence of progress.
“These are the develop-
ments that the country had
to see,” a pro-el-Sissi TV
presenter, Ahmed Moussa,
said on his program re-
cently.
Others say they no lon-
ger recognize their own city.
“If you were being in-
vaded, all what you’d care
about is your monuments,
your trees, your history,
your culture,” said Mam-
douh Sakr, an architect and
urbanist. “And now, it’s all
being destroyed, without
any reason, without any ex-
planation.”
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than Lewallen, a University fessor who studies regula-
of Tampa political scientist. tion.
The counterexamples tend For now, AI policy re-
to involve technologies that mains notably biparti-
the government effectively san. “These regulatory is-
built itself, like nuclear sues we’re grappling with
power development, which are not partisan issues, by
Congress regulated in 1946. and large,” said Obernolte,
“Before we seek to regu- who helped draft a biparti-
late, we have to understand san bill that would give re-
why we are regulating,” said searchers tools to experi-
Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Ca- ment with AI technologies.
lif., who has a master’s de- But partisan infighting
gree in AI. “Only when you has already helped snarl
understand that purpose regulation of social me-
can you craft a regulatory dia, an effort that also be-
framework that achieves gan with bipartisan sup-
that purpose.” port. And even if lawmakers
agreed on a comprehen-
Brain drain sive AI bill tomorrow, next
Even so, lawmakers say year’s elections and com-
they’re making strides. “I peting legislative priori-
actually have been very im- ties — like funding the gov-
pressed with my colleagues’ ernment and, perhaps, im-
efforts to educate them- peaching Biden — could
selves,” Obernolte said. consume their time and at-
“Things are moving, by tention.
congressional standards,
extremely quickly.” Information Dept.?
Regulation advocates If federal regulation of AI
risks also can be unantic- broadly agree. “Congress is did emerge, what might it
ipated.” taking the issue really seri- look like?
O ver reg u lat ion c a n ously,” said Camille Carlton Some experts say a range
quash innovation, Dudley of the Center for Humane of federal agencies already
added, driving industries Technology, a nonprofit. have regulatory powers that
overseas. It can also become But in recent decades, cover aspects of AI.
a means for larger compa- Congress has changed in The Federal Trade Com-
nies with the resources to ways that could impede mission could use its exist-
lobby Congress to squeeze translating studiousness ing antitrust powers to pre-
out less-established com- into legislation. For much vent larger AI companies
petitors. of the 20th century, the from dominating smaller
Historically, regulation leadership and staff of con- ones. The FDA has already
often happens gradually as gressional committees ded- authorized hundreds of AI-
a technology improves or an icated to specific policy ar- enabled medical devices.
industry grows, as with cars eas — from agriculture to And piecemeal, AI-specific
and television. Sometimes veterans’ affairs — served as regulations could trickle
it happens only after trag- a kind of institutional brain out from such agencies
edy. When Congress passed, trust, shepherding legisla- within a year or two, ex-
in 1906, the law that led to tion and often becoming perts said.
the creation of the Food and policy experts in their own Still, drawing up rules
Drug Administration, it right. agency by agency has down-
didn’t require safety studies That started to change sides. Mittelsteadt called it
before companies marketed in 1995, when Republi- “the too-many-cooks-in-
new drugs. In 1937, an un- cans led by Newt Gingrich the-kitchen problem, where
tested and poisonous liquid took control of the House every regulator is trying to
version of sulfanilamide, and slashed government regulate the same thing.”
meant to treat bacterial in- budgets. Committee staffs Similarly, state and lo-
fections, killed more than stagnated, and some of the cal governments some-
100 people across 15 states. committees’ power to shape times regulate technolo-
Congress strengthened the policy devolved to party gies before the federal gov-
FDA’s regulatory powers the leaders. ernment, such as with cars
following year. “Congress doesn’t have and digital privacy. The re-
“Generally speaking, the kind of analytic tools sult can be contradictions
Congress is a more reac- that it used to,” said Daniel for companies and head-
tive institution,” said Jona- Carpenter, a Harvard pro- aches for courts.
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NEWS | THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER >> OCREGISTER.COM SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2023

MANHATTAN BEACH

Catalina Classic statue celebrates 46 years of history

By Tyler Shaun Evains
tevains@scng.com
Manhattan Beach’s pad-
dleboarding community
has set in stone — or rather,
bronze — its mark on the wa-
tersport that has an intimate
South Bay history.
The city, along with the
South Bay Boardriders Club,
cut the ribbon last week on
a statue commemorating the
Catalina Classic Paddleboard
Race. The event debuted al-
most 70 years ago, but has of-
ficially gone on annually for
46 years.
The life-size statue, on
the sand right outside of
the lower south pier park-
ing lot, depicts two paddlers
— a man kneeling on his
board about to propel into
the ocean and a woman ly-
ing stomach-down on her
board — with a third per-
son, a man, standing up with
a board behind him.
“This is a dream come
true,” South Bay Boardrid-
ers Club President Tom Hor-
ton said at the ribbon-cutting
ceremony. “I’ve made lifelong
friends because of this race,
people I never would’ve met
otherwise.”
A mini-museum at the cer-
emony detailed the event’s
history and the making of
the tributary statue, showed
photos of paddlers from the
sports inception to now and
displayed different types of
paddleboards, from early to
modern.
The monument cost more
than $40,000, with many in
the Manhattan Beach com-
munity contributing money
to pay for it.
A scatter of hands rose
throughout the crowd Thurs-
day when Buddy Bohn, a
former Los Angeles County
Lifeguard captain who re-
kindled the Catalina Clas-
sic asked how many attend-
ees had paddled in the race
throughout the years.
The Catalina Classic
started in 1955 and contin-
A ribbon-cutting Thursday presented the Catalina Classic statue near the Manhattan
Beach Pier. It celebrates the paddleboard race from Catalina Island to Manhattan Beach.
ued until a hiatus in 1960.
But in 1982, Bohn brought it
back after being persuaded
to do so by some of the origi-
nal paddlers while searching
for a 1950s-style board to do- Chamber of Commerce had
nate to the Manhattan Beach been trying for years before
Historical Society.
to restart the race, but nei-
ther Bohn nor anyone else
had added it to their to-do
list.
“I decided, maybe we
should do this thing,” Bohn
said Thursday. “Ten of us
went to do the race for the
first time” in 1982, Bohn said.
“We thought it was one-and-
done, then it started catch-
ing on.”
And a local tradition that
had nearly died was reborn.
Since then, the race has
taken place annually, except
for 2020 when the corona-
virus pandemic shuttered
nearly everything.
“It was a hometown thing
from the beginning, and it’s
a hometown thing today,”
Bohn said. “What keeps me
TYLER SHAUN EVAINS — STAFF coming back every year is, it’s
a family.”
The 46th annual race will
take place today, with par-
The Manhattan Beach ticipants beginning at 6 a.m.
from Catalina Island and ar-
riving ashore in Manhattan
then to get lifeguard leaders Beach by this afternoon.

EARTHWEEK: A DIARY OF THE PLANET

Recreation impacts
As residents around
the Northern
Hemisphere try to
escape the record late-sum-
mer heat by dipping into local
streams and rivers, a new
report by the American
Chemical Society warns that
such activities alter the
chemical and microbial
makeup of those waterways.
By comparing samples from
an undisturbed location of
Clear Creek, west of Denver,
with an area used by up to
500 people per hour over
the busy 2022 Labor Day
weekend, researchers found
those activities adulterated
the stream considerably. “We
found a lot of human
metabolites, a lot of pharma-
ceuticals, some illicit drug
and some sunscreens — really
a whole slew of compounds
that humans are
associated with,” said
researcher Noor Hamdan.
Earthquakes
A temblor in central
Colombia on Aug. 17
killed one person and
damaged the country’s
congress chamber in Bogotá.
• Earth movements were also
felt in southern Ecuador,
Southern California and
southern Azerbaijan.
Tidal protection
New research finds
that tidal flats, which
protect coastal areas
from the ocean’s pounding
waves, hurricanes and
tsunamis, have suffered
significant losses worldwide
since 1984. The study by
Florida Atlantic University
finds that climate change,
along with rapid human
development around urban
areas, especially in the United
States, have resulted in
“irreversible damage to tidal
flats.” Some of the worst-af-
fected metropolitan areas
were from Boston to the
Carolinas and Tampa Bay,
Florida, as well as the Gulf
Coast of Texas and San Jose.
The report suggests urban
planners need to regulate
development to protect the
tidal flats, which in turn will
protect their communities.
Fly fun
European scientists
say fruit flies that live
near a spinning
carousel appear to like to ride
on it just for fun in a rare
instance of playlike behavior
among insects. Tilman
Triphan and Wolf Hütteroth at
Germany’s University of
Leipzig built small arenas with
access to spinning and
nonspinning carousels, along
with food. Flies that had
access to a spinning carousel
spent upward of five minutes
on it at a time — significantly
longer than those for which
the carousel didn’t move. The
team found that some flies
seemed to “play” on the
spinning carousels much more
than others.
South seas tides
Sea levels around
islands of the
southwestern
Pacific are rising faster
than the global average,
according to the World
Meteorological Organiza-
tion. The agency warned
this means low-lying
islands in countries such as
Tuvalu and the Solomon
Islands could in time
become frequently flooded,
destroying farmlands and
residential areas. The
organization added that
marine heat waves occurred in brought inches of rainfall to
a large area northeast of
Australia for more than six
months in 2022, affecting
marine life and the livelihoods
of communities.
Tropical cyclones
Hurricane Hilary
swamped a long
stretch of Baja
California before bringing
record rainfall to parts of
Southern California.
• Tropical Storm Harold
Week ending Friday
Al Hofuf,
Saudi Arabia
Contact author@earthweek.com
©2014 Earth Environment Service
southern Texas after making
landfall near Corpus Christi.
• Hispaniola received locally
heavy rainfall from Tropical
Storm Franklin.
Highest freeze
As Europe baked
with some of the
hottest day and
night temperatures on record,
the freezing level above the
Swiss Alps rose to the highest
altitude ever measured. A
118o
-104o
Vostok,
Antarctica
Swiss weather balloon
launched from Payerne had to
climb to an unprecedented
17,400 feet before it reached
32 degrees. MétéoSuisse said
on social media the reading
constituted “a record since
monitoring began in 1954”
and surpassed the previous
record height of 17,008 feet,
set in July 2022.
Dist. by: Andrews McMeel Syndication
©MMXX Earth Environment Service

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CALIFORNIA TODAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY THE NATION

Hottest Spot Coast H: 80° L: 65° Coast H: 81° L: 68° Coast H: 83° L: 69° Coast H: 80° L: 66° Coast H: 78° L: 66° Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Death Valley 112 Inland H: 97° L: 66° Inland H: 100°L: 70° Inland H: 103°L: 70° Inland H: 98° L: 66° Inland H: 89° L: 64° Seattle
87/59
Coldest Spot
Mammoth Lakes 40 Billings
STATE EXTREMES FOR FRIDAY 87/59 Minneapolis
78/61
NORTHWEST Detroit
72/51
New York
81/67
Low clouds near Eureka today; hazy toward
Crescent City. Sunny toward Ukiah. Sunny and very Hot with sunshine. Blazing sunshine and Mostly sunny and Mostly sunny. San Francisco
Chicago
Washington
85/71
77/60
City Today Mon. Tue. warm. West wind at West wind at 4 to hot. Southwest wind hot. Southwest Southwest wind at 6 74/60
Eureka 63/55 64/55 66/54 6 to 12 mph. After- 8 mph. Afternoon at 4 to 8 mph. After- wind at 6 to 12 mph. to 12 mph. Afternoon Denver Kansas City
85/59 82/59
Ft. Bragg 66/56 69/61 68/61 noon humidity near humidity near 60% noon humidity near Afternoon humid- humidity near 65%
Crscnt. City 65/56 66/53 65/54 Los Angeles
60% at the coast, at the coast, near 55% at the coast, ity near 65% at the at the coast, near 90/70
Trinidad 63/54 62/54 65/55 near 25% inland. 30% inland. near 25% inland. coast, near 30% 40% inland. Atlanta
Ukiah 93/52 94/55 91/55 inland. 97/72
El Paso
SIERRA NEVADA Overview Patchy fog during the morning hours today will dissipate for mostly sunny skies. Daytime highs will range be-
97/73
Houston
Plenty of sunshine today; pleasant toward 108/80
Mammoth Lakes. Clear tonight. tween 77-82 along the beaches to the middle and upper 90s inland. Mainly clear skies tonight with lows from lower 60s
City Today Mon. Tue. to low 70s. Monday will turn out mostly sunny and warmer with highs from the low 80s at the coast to upper 90s inland. Miami
92/79
Bishop 94/53 97/58 98/56
Mammoth 80/44 82/44 85/44
Los Angeles Brea Pomona Ontario Air Quality Forecast
90/70 100/70 102/72 Pollution standard index measures the
Tahoe Vly. 79/43 84/42 79/41 La Habra 97/66 air quality by particles in the air. Showers T-Storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice Cold Warm Stationary
Yosemite 86/58 87/55 87/52 97/66 Yorba Linda -10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s
Greenville 89/64 90/63 89/63 San Fernando Fullerton Riverside NOT AVAILABLE
Valley 97/66
103/67 NATIONAL EXTREMES FOR FRIDAY (For the 48 contiguous states)
96/67 GOOD 0-50 PSI
CENTRAL VALLEY 98/70 Hottest spot Death Valley, Calif..............112 Coldest spot Utica, Mont..........................35
Plenty of sunshine today; hot. Clear Buena Park MODERATE 51-100 PSI Today Mon. Today Mon. Today Mon.
tonight. Torrance 95/65 Placentia Anaheim Hills UNHEALTHY FOR
97/65 101-150 PSI City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City Today Mon. Tue. 78/66 Cypress 92/69 SENSITIVE GROUPS Albany, N.Y. 77/56/pc 79/61/pc Des Moines 80/60/pc 86/63/s Norfolk 83/75/t 79/73/t
Bakersfld 93/70 94/70 98/73 UNHEALTHY 151-200 PSI Albuquerque 87/68/s 89/63/t Detroit 72/51/s 75/57/s Okla. City 89/65/t 89/64/s
Long Beach 92/65 Anaheim VERY
Fresno 99/67 100/69 100/67
96/65 Villa Park 201-300 PSI Anchorage 62/55/sh 57/52/r Duluth 72/56/pc 78/54/t Omaha 83/61/pc 85/61/s
Sacto 97/58 96/60 95/62 91/66 95/66 UNHEALTHY Aspen 76/47/t 78/47/t El Paso 97/73/s 95/71/c Orlando 90/78/t 94/76/t
Modesto 94/61 94/62 92/64 HAZARDOUS 301-500 PSI Atlanta 97/72/t 87/72/t Evansville 85/64/pc 83/58/s Philadelphia 86/70/pc 80/67/c
Merced 98/59 98/59 96/62 Stanton Orange Sources: South Coast Air
Los Alamitos Atlantic City 79/69/pc 75/70/pc Fairbanks 66/47/c 57/49/r Phoenix 112/90/s 114/91/s
Garden Grove 95/66
91/65 Quality Management District;
BAY AREA 90/65 San Diego County Air Pollution Austin 108/80/t 102/76/t Fargo 80/59/t 80/58/s Pittsburgh 79/61/pc 79/60/sh
Patchy fog, then sun today; mostly sunny Westminster 90/65 Tustin Control District Baltimore 85/70/sh 78/68/pc Flagstaff 82/52/pc 85/51/s Portland, Me. 71/55/sh 72/58/pc
Baton Rouge 104/79/t 95/75/t Grand Rapids 73/49/s 77/55/s Portland, Ore. 90/63/pc 82/63/pc
and very warm toward Napa. 87/65 93/65 Silverado Canyon Temperatures are today’s Billings 87/59/c 87/59/s Green Bay 74/52/pc 82/60/pc Providence 75/59/pc 77/62/pc
City Today Mon. Tue. Seal Beach Santa Ana 80/70 highs and tonight’s lows. Birmingham 98/75/t 89/71/t Hartford 81/60/c 79/62/s Raleigh 89/73/t 85/72/t
Napa 90/54 91/54 94/57 91/65 87/67 Bismarck 87/55/s 84/55/s Honolulu 86/74/sh 86/74/sh Rapid City 86/59/t 85/55/s
Oakland 77/59 74/58 79/59
San Fran. 77/60 76/58 79/59
Fountain Valley Irvine Boise 94/65/s 98/67/s Houston 108/80/s 100/78/t Reno 92/59/s 94/58/s

San Jose 86/60 85/58 87/60 86/65 91/65 Boston 70/61/pc 72/63/pc Indianapolis 80/57/s 79/58/s St. Louis 82/63/pc 85/65/s
Huntington Buffalo 73/53/s 76/58/pc J’ville, Fla. 93/74/pc 92/75/t Salt Lake City 94/66/s 96/69/s
Santa Cruz 82/57 78/57 78/56 Beach Lake Forest Burlington, Vt.73/56/c 78/61/pc K.C., Mo. 82/59/c 85/65/s San Antonio 105/83/s 101/80/t
Costa Mesa 94/68 Rancho Santa
CENTRAL COAST 80/65 Margarita Charlstn, S.C. 91/75/t 91/76/t Knoxville 89/73/t 78/70/c San Juan, P.R. 92/79/pc 93/78/pc
Mostly sunny today, except patchy low
83/64 Charlotte 91/73/t 83/70/t Las Vegas 105/81/s 106/84/s Santa Fe 84/57/c 84/57/t
95/69
clouds and fog toward Monterey. Cheyenne 79/54/t 69/50/t Little Rock 93/74/pc 89/70/c Savannah 93/73/t 91/75/t
Mission Viejo Chicago 74/60/s 80/63/s Louisville 85/67/c 85/63/s Seattle 87/59/s 78/56/pc
City Today Mon. Tue. Newport Beach Laguna Hills 93/68 Cincinnati 81/60/pc 80/57/pc Memphis 84/72/t 86/70/c Sioux Falls 82/61/s 88/58/s
Monterey 75/57 73/56 73/57 80/66 91/65
Cleveland 74/58/pc 75/59/s Miami 92/79/t 91/80/t Spokane 93/63/s 95/63/s
S.L. Obispo 91/62 92/61 96/60 Coto De Caza
Santa Barb. 81/59 86/61 82/61 BEACH WATCH Laguna Beach 96/68
Colo. Spgs. 79/56/t
Colum., S.C. 95/71/t
73/52/t
90/74/t
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
71/58/s
78/61/pc
78/65/s
85/63/pc
Syracuse
Tampa
75/54/pc
96/80/t
79/62/pc
93/79/t
Lompoc 80/54 80/55 82/54 Health advisories are issued when bacteria levels
Pismo Bch. 84/58 87/58 90/57
81/65 Columbus, Oh.80/57/pc 81/56/s Montgomery 101/77/s 92/73/t Topeka 87/62/c 87/65/s
exceed state standards. Here are current bacterial Aliso Viejo Concord, N.H. 72/53/c 77/57/pc Nashville 83/71/t 82/68/c Tucson 105/80/s 107/82/s
NORTHERN DESERT warnings and closures. Long-term postings; 88/64 Dallas 96/77/t 97/76/t New Orleans 103/83/s 95/77/t Tulsa 87/67/t 86/65/pc
Plenty of sunshine today; very warm 714-433-6400 or www.ocbeachinfo.com. San Juan
Capistrano Denver 85/59/t 76/57/t N.Y. City 81/67/pc 76/67/pc Wash., D.C. 85/71/sh 80/70/c
toward Baker. Clear tonight. Tip: Have your car maintained regularly to prevent oil, Laguna Niguel
City Today Mon. Tue. antifreeze and other fluid leaks.
85/63
87/63
THE WORLD
Barstow 105/73 106/77 108/78
Death Vly. 111/94 113/95 113/97 OCEAN CONDITIONS Forecasts and
graphics provided by
Dana Point
81/63
Algiers
Amman
89/68/c 85/63/s
88/65/s 87/66/s
Havana
Helsinki
85/74/t 87/75/t Paris 71/54/sh 70/54/c
66/55/sh 62/51/sh P.-au-Prince 93/72/t 96/74/pc
Lancaster 100/59 102/65 104/68 SURFING FORECAST AccuWeather, Inc. Avalon Amsterdam 65/53/r 68/53/sh HC Minh City 91/78/t 94/78/t Prague 69/57/r 62/53/sh
Victorville 100/64 101/68 103/69
Wave Sea ©2023 88/71 Athens 93/75/s 90/74/s Hong Kong 89/80/t 88/79/t Pretoria 72/41/s 73/43/s
Baker 108/72 109/74 111/79
Beaches height Shape temp. San Clemente Auckland 60/48/sh 57/39/pc Istanbul 88/73/s 88/73/s P. Vallarta 89/75/t 91/76/r
84/62
SOUTHERN MTS. & VALLEYS
Plenty of sun today; hot. Clear tonight.
Seal Beach 1-3’ Fair 67 TIDES Palm Springs
113/87
Baghdad
Bangkok
107/89/s 107/89/pc Jerusalem
94/79/pc 95/80/t Kabul
85/66/s 83/67/s
87/58/s 87/62/s
Quebec
Rabat
73/50/c 74/54/c
78/59/s 82/63/s
Huntington 3-4’ Fair+ 64 Highs 8:20 a.m. 3.7’ 6:48 p.m. 6.1’ Beijing 80/64/c 87/63/s Karachi 87/78/pc 86/78/c Rio de Jan. 67/62/r 67/64/sh
Newport 2-4’ Fair+ 64 Lows 1:39 a.m. -0.3’ 12:39 p.m. 2.7’ Berlin 71/57/c 69/56/c Lima 73/64/pc 74/65/c Rome 90/74/pc 80/68/s
City Today Mon. Tue. Salt Creek 2-4’ Fair+ 61 San Diego Bogota 69/48/s 68/48/r Lisbon 78/62/s 81/63/s San Salvador 81/70/t 79/70/r
Big Bear 82/50 85/54 84/53 Land reference point is Balboa Pier, Newport Beach
Trestles 2-4’ Fair+ 62 80/66 Budapest 97/69/c 95/68/pc London 68/52/sh 71/52/pc Santiago 68/49/s 62/37/c
L. Arrowh’d
Monrovia
84/63
98/72
87/65
103/77
87/65
104/78 Remarks: Fading S-SSW swells will UV INDEX TODAY Buenos Aires 55/46/s 58/49/c
Cabo 91/76/t 92/76/t
Madrid
Managua
78/55/pc 82/56/s
90/74/t 88/75/t
Seoul
Singapore
83/71/pc 80/74/sh
87/78/c 87/78/t
Idyllwild 88/67 93/71 93/73 mix with local NW windswell Sunday. 0-2 Low, 3-5 Moderate, Cairo 100/77/s 96/74/s Manila 86/79/t 89/78/r Stockholm 66/52/pc 59/49/c
Riverside 103/67 105/69 106/72 Average spots will hold in the knee- to 6-7 High, 8-10 Very High,
ALMANAC
9 11+ Extreme. The higher the Statistics for Sat. Calgary 81/53/s 85/55/s Mexico City 74/58/sh 74/57/r Sydney 68/53/pc 68/54/c
SOUTH COAST chest-high range while standouts have AccuWeather.com UV Index™ Cape Town 66/48/s 81/58/s Montego Bay 89/78/sh 88/78/t Taipei City 94/75/t 93/75/t
shoulder-high+ sizes. number, the greater the need for
TEMPERATURES Caracas 93/80/t 94/79/t Monterrey 99/74/pc 103/75/s Tehran 90/74/s 92/77/s
Mostly sunny today; however, patchy low
clouds and fog toward San Diego. DIVING VISIBILITY CONDITIONS eye and skin protection. High/low ............................................ 85/64 Copenhagen 69/57/sh 67/55/t Montreal 72/56/pc 76/60/pc Tel Aviv 88/79/s 88/79/s
City
Ventura
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fog.
5 Minutes in the sun before
skin damage occurs.
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Record high ................................ 99 in 1981
Cozumel
Dublin
Frankfurt
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60/51/c 65/53/pc Nairobi
69/52/c 67/56/pc New Delhi
Moscow 69/51/pc 69/48/pc Tokyo
83/54/s 82/56/pc Toronto
96/78/pc 95/78/pc Vancouver
89/78/c 88/80/c
72/54/s 74/55/s
78/58/s 72/60/c
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90/78/pc 90/79/s
64/49/c 64/54/c
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Oslo
82/62/t 79/62/t
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tonight. S 2’ swell.
Low Moderate High
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FOCUS | BENEFITS

It was created in 1935 and typically makes up almost How it is funded

one-fifth of total federal spending. Today we look at the Social Security is mainly funded through a dedicated payroll tax created by the
Federal Insurance Contributions Act. Employers and employees each pay 6.2% of
program 66 million Americans rely on called ... wages, with a cap on the amount of wages subject to the tax ($160,200 for 2023,

SOCIAL SECURITY
adjusted annually for growth in economy-wide wages).
Those who are self-employed pay both the employee and the employer share of
the tax. Those revenues are credited to the OASI and DI trust funds, which keep
track of the programs’ receipts and expenses.
The programs also receive income from a tax on Social Security benefits paid by
By KURT SNIBBE | Southern California News Group higher-income beneficiaries, as well as income generated by the investment of the
trust fund reserves in non-marketable U.S. Treasury securities. However, from the
Social Security was created with the goal of providing perspective of the government’s overall budget, the interest income paid to the
economic security to the nation’s elderly; it was expanded trust funds by the Treasury has no effect. Although it is a receipt to the trust funds,
in the 1950s to include support for the disabled. The it is an equal dollar expense to the Treasury.
program is operated largely on a pay-as-you-go basis:
current employers and employees contribute taxes that Taxation of
fund benefits to retired workers and survivors in the
Total OASDI Interest benefits 4%
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance program, as well as income in 2022: earnings 5%
disabled workers and their families under the Disability $1.22 trillion
Insurance program.
During 2022, an
Social Security is the largest program in the federal budget. The program provides
estimated 181 million
benefits to about 20% of the American population. Nearly 9 out of 10 individuals over workers had earnings
the age of 65 receive benefits, and those benefits represent about 30% of total income covered by Social
to older Americans. Security and paid $1,107
billion in payroll taxes.
Then and now Payroll taxes
In 1970, there were a total of In 2022, there were 74.7 91%
28.36 million beneficiaries. million beneficiaries. Source: Social Security Administration, The
25.7 million retired workers 65.9 million retired 2023 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees
2.66 million disabled 8.8 million disabled of the Federal Old-Age Survivors Insurance and
Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds.

Average monthly cost

Benefits vary greatly depending on age and how much an individual put into the
system over their work years. But using the average monthly amount of $1,781, the
system would cost about $133 billion a month.

Number of retired workers by age and sex

As of Dec. 31, 2022
In 1940, the life expectancy of a 65-year-old was almost 14 years;
The largest amount of
1.6 beneficiaries are age 70 with today, it is over 20 years.
2.95 million people. Age 79
In millions Age 85

The number of Americans 65 and older will increase from about 58

1.4 million in 2022 to about 75 million by 2035.
Men
58 million
Women 75 million
Age 68 has the
second-most beneficiaries In 2023, there are an estimated 2.7 covered workers per each Social
1.2 with 2.9 million people. Security beneficiary.

There are about

18.8 million
beneficiaries ages
1 62-69; 45.6% are
male, 54.4% are By 2035, the trustees estimate there will be 2.3 covered workers for
female. each beneficiary.

.8
Low-income seniors rely on Social Security benefits for
a major share of their retirement income
Social Security Benefits (Percent of total income)
.6
81% 81%
There are about 5.8 million
61% beneficiaries age 85 and
older; 37% are male, 63%
.4 39% are female.

15%
Lowest Second Middle Fourth Highest
quintile quintile quintile quintile quintile
.2 (Under ($13,499- ($23,592- ($39,298- (Over
$13,499) $23,592) $39,298) $72,129) $72,129)

Age
0 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95

Social Security surpluses/deficits (percent of GDP)

Without changes, either in the form of higher taxes on higher incomes, reduced benefits, or some combination of the two, this is how
the federal government projects Social Security funding to look over the rest of this century.
1.0%
The concepts of solvency, sustainability and budget impact are common in
discussions of Social Security, but are not well understood. Currently, the
Social Security Board of Trustees projects program costs to rise by 2035
so that taxes will be enough to pay for only 75% of scheduled benefits.
0.5%
Unless changes are made before then to shore up the program, 66 million
Social Security recipients would see their benefits cut by 23-25%.
Medicare is heading toward funding issues as well.
0

-0.5%
Each year, starting in 1941, the Social
Security Board of Trustees has presented a
required report on the financial status of
-1.0% the program to the Congress.
The Social Security Act requires that the
annual report include the financial opera-
tions of the trust funds in the most recent
-1.5% past year, the expected financial operations
of the trust funds over the next 5 years, and
an analysis of the actuarial status of the
program.

-2.0%
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060 2070 2080 2090 2100
Sources: Social Security Administration, Peter G. Peterson Foundation, The Associated Press, Forbes, Congressional Research Service
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2023
ARCHAEOLOGY
Israel may uproot ancient Christian mosaic
By Ilan Ben Zion
The Associated Press
TEL MEGIDDO, ISRAEL >> An
ancient Christian mosaic
bearing an early reference
to Jesus as God is at the cen-
ter of a controversy that has
riled archaeologists: Should
the centuries-old decorated
floor, which is near what’s
believed to be the site of the
prophesied Armageddon,
be uprooted and loaned to a
U.S. museum that has been
criticized for past acquisi-
tion practices?
Israeli officials are con-
sidering just that. The pro-
posed loan to the Museum
of the Bible in Washington
also underscores the deep-
ening ties between Israel
and evangelical Christians
in the U.S. whom Israel has
come to count on for politi-
cal support, tourism dollars
and other benefits.
The Megiddo Mosaic is
from what is believed to be
the world’s earliest Chris-
tian prayer hall that was
located in a Roman-era vil-
lage in northern Israel. It
was discovered by Israeli
archaeologists in 2005
during a salvage excava-
tion conducted as part of
the planned expansion of
an Israeli prison.
The prison sits at a his-
toric crossroads a mile
south of Tel Megiddo on the
cusp of the wide, flat Jez-
reel Valley. The compound
is ringed by a white steel
fence topped with barbed
wire and is used for the de-
tention of Palestinian secu-
rity inmates.
Across a field strewn
with cow-dung and pot-
sherds, the palm-crowned
site of a Bronze and Iron
Age city and ancient battles
is where some Christians
believe a conclusive battle
between good and evil will
transpire at the end of days:
Armageddon.
For some Christians, par-
ticularly evangelicals, this
will be the backdrop of the
long-anticipated climax at
the Second Coming, when
divine wrath will obliter-
ate those who oppose God’s
kingdom; it serves as the fo-
cus of their hopes for ulti-
mate justice.
The Israel Antiquities
Authority said that it will
decide about the move in
the coming weeks, follow-
ing consultations with an
advisory body.
“There’s an entire pro-
cess that academics and
archaeologists are involved
with,” said IAA Director Eli
Eskozido. The organization
said that moving the mosaic
from its original location
was the best way to protect
it from upcoming construc-
tion at the prison.
Jeffrey Kloha, the Mu-
seum of the Bible’s chief cu-
ratorial officer, said a deci-
sion on the loan would be
made solely by the IAA.
The museum “of course
would welcome the oppor-
tunity to educate our thou-
sands of visitors on impor-
tant pieces of history such
as this mosaic,” he told The
Associated Press via email.
Several archaeologists
and academics have voiced
vociferous objections to
the notion of removing
the Megiddo Mosaic from
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Prisoners work at a nearly 1,800-year-old decorated floor from an early Christian prayer hall discovered by Israeli archaeologists in 2005 in the Megiddo
prison. Israeli officials are considering uprooting the mosaic and loaning it to the controversial Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., a proposal that
has upset archaeologists and underscores the hard-line government’s close ties with evangelical Christians in the U.S.
where it was found — and
all the more so to exhibit it
at the Museum of the Bible.
Cavan Concannon, a re-
ligion professor at the Uni-
versity of Southern Califor-
nia, said the museum acts
as a “right-wing Christian
nationalist Bible machine”
with links to “other insti-
tutions that promote white
evangelical, Christian na-
tionalism, Christian Zion-
ist forms.”
“My worry is that this
mosaic will lose its actual
historical context and be
given an ideological con-
text that continues to help
the museum tell its story,”
he said.
Others balk at the
thought of moving the mo-
saic at all before academic
study is complete.
“It is seriously premature
to move that mosaic,” said
Matthew Adams, director of
the Center for the Mediter-
ranean World, an nonprofit
archaeological research in-
stitute, who is involved in
digs at Tel Megiddo and the
abutting Roman legionary
camp of Legio.
Asked about criticisms of
the Washington museum’s
practices, Kloha said, “Ma-
jor museums and distin-
guished institutions com-
mitted to preserving his-
tory have had to grapple
with cultural heritage is-
sues, particularly in recent
years.
“To be clear: Museum of
the Bible is proud to have
proactively launched re-
search and a thorough re-
view of items in its col-
lections,” he added. “The
museum initiated returns
where appropriate to coun-
tries of origin without obli-
gation to do so and encour-
ages other institutions to do
the same.”
Based on other finds
found in the dig and the
style of the letters in the
inscriptions, IAA archaeol-
ogists have dated the mo-
saic floor to the third cen-
tury — before the Roman
Empire officially converted
to Christianity and when
adherents were still per-
secuted. Nonetheless, one
of the donors who paid to
decorate the ancient house
of worship was a centurion
serving in the adjacent Ro-
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man legionary camp.
The mosaic bears Greek
inscriptions, among them
an offering “To God Jesus
Christ.”
Since opening its doors
in 2017, the Museum of
the Bible has faced crit-
icism over its collecting
practices and for promot-
ing an evangelical Chris-
tian political agenda. In
2018, it had to repatriate
an ancient Mesopotamian
tablet looted from Iraq
and admit that several of
the Dead Sea Scroll frag-
ments in its collection were
modern forgeries. Ameri-
can authorities also seized
thousands of clay tablets
and other looted antiqui-
ties from the museum’s
founder, Hobby Lobby
president and evangelical
Christian Steve Green, and
returned them to Iraq.
The mosaic loan would
reinforce ties between Is-
rael and the museum. The
museum sponsors two ar-
chaeological digs in Is-
rael, has a gallery curated
by the IAA. Kloha said the
museum also is planning a
lecture series featuring IAA
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An Israeli
archaeologist
points at a
portion of
the mosaic
from what is
believed to be
the world’s
earliest
Christian
prayer hall
that was
located in
a Roman-
era village
in northern
Israel.
archaeologists.
Evangelical Christians,
whose ranks have been
growing worldwide, have
become some of Israel’s
most fervent supporters, do-
nating large sums of money
and visiting the country as
tourists and pilgrims. In
the U.S., they also lobby pol-
iticians in Congress in sup-
port of Israel.
Evangelicals, who make
up more than a third of the
world’s estimated 2 billion
Christians, say their affinity
for Israel stems from Chris-
tianity’s Jewish roots.
Some view the founding
of Israel as fulfilling bibli-
cal prophecy, ushering in
an anticipated Messianic
age when Jesus will return
and Jews will either accept
Christianity or die. That te-
net has generated unease
among some Israelis, but
politicians have embraced
evangelical support for the
state nonetheless.
Since its discovery, the
mosaic has remained bur-
ied beneath the grounds
of the Megiddo Prison. But
in recent years, the Israeli
government has started ad-
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vancing a multiyear plan
to move the prison from
its current location and de-
velop a tourist site around
the mosaic.
The Tel Megiddo archae-
ological site is already a ma-
jor attraction for evangeli-
cal Christians visiting the
Holy Land. Busloads of pil-
grims stop on their way to
or from the Galilee to see
the ruins of a biblical city
and pray at the site where
they believe the apocalypse
will take place.
Neither the IAA nor the
museum would discuss the
exact terms of the loan pro-
posal, but Eskozido sug-
gested something similar to
the decadelong global tour
of a Roman mosaic found
in the central Israeli city of
Lod until Israel had com-
pleted a museum to house
it.
Experts remain skeptical
of uprooting the mosaic.
“Once you take any arti-
fact outside of its archae-
ological context, it loses
something, it loses a sense
of the space and the envi-
ronment in which it was
first excavated,” said Can-
dida Moss, a theology pro-
fessor at University of Bir-
mingham who co-wrote a
book about the Museum of
the Bible.
Rafi Greenberg, a pro-
fessor of archaeology at Tel
Aviv University, said the
proposal smacked of colo-
nialism, where historically
dominant powers have ex-
tracted archaeological dis-
coveries from colonies.
“Even if Israel doesn’t
ever recognize itself as be-
ing a colony, it is actually
behaving like one, which I
find odd,” he said. Green-
berg said that archaeo-
logical finds “should stay
where they are and not be
uprooted and taken abroad
to a different country and
basically appropriated by a
foreign power.”
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USC FOOTBALL DODGERS

PHOTOS BY KEITH BIRMINGHAM – STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Urias
hurt by
long ball
in loss
Muncy, Roberts ejected
after disputed strikeout
in eighth vs. Red Sox
By Bill Plunkett
bplunkett@scng.com
BOSTON >> In a couple months, Ju-
lio Urias will become a free agent
and his representatives at Boras
Corp. will market him as an elite
starter, a young ace capable of
leading a starting rotation.
But he has not pitched like one
all that often this season.
Urias gave up three home runs
Saturday afternoon at Fenway
Park, including a three-run shot
by Adam Duvall in the sixth in-
ning that erased a Dodgers lead
as the Boston Red Sox handed
them an 8-5 defeat.
There was plenty of drama
along the way in a series that has
been played at playoff intensity
with emotions heightened by the
number of players on both teams
facing their former mates.

STEPPIN’ OUT
USC freshman wide receiver Zachariah Branch catches a pass and runs for a touchdown past the San Jose State defense on Saturday night. Trailing 7-4 after Urias gave up
six in his six innings and the Red
Sox tacked on an unearned run in
the seventh, the Dodgers mounted
a comeback in the eighth.
Mookie Betts drove in a run
DODGERS >> PAGE 5

Freshman Branch It took a bit, but in

leads Trojans past the end, game went
San Jose State about as expected
By Luca Evans
LOS ANGELES >> For a half, at least, it’s
levans@scng.com
just as well that USC’s opener was
on the Pac-12 Networks. Who among
LOS ANGELES >> The kid had shown the Trojans would have
flashes, had drawn murmurs, sure, but wanted the masses to
he was buried. witness this? WINSLOW TOWNSON – GETTY IMAGES
Third on the list, ZACHARIAH For the first 30 min- Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias looks
BRANCH neat in black ink at wide re- utes Saturday evening, up after giving up a home run in the
ceiver on USC’s first depth chart enter- the team with the out- sixth inning to the Boston Red Sox
ing Week 0 against San Jose State. And USC wide receiver Brenden Rice runs past sized expectations — – one of three he yielded Saturday.
what else could’ve been expected? Ma- San Jose State linebacker Matthew Tago for No. 6 in the AP poll, fa- Jim
rio Williams existed, and Tahj Washing- a touchdown early in the fourth quarter. vored by 30 over San Alexander
Columnist
THE SCORE
ton hadn’t gone anywhere, and Dorian José State, star-stud- RED SOX 8, DODGERS 5
Singer was in from Arizona. THE SCORE ded, expected to make
Up next: Dodgers at Red Sox,
This room, outside wide receivers USC 56, SAN JOSE STATE 28
this just a light exer-
coach Dennis Simmons said, had bet- cise — found itself in a way too com- today, 10:35 a.m., SNLA
ter be the best in the nation. So there Up next: Nevada at USC, Saturday, 3:30 p.m., petitive game. In this case, the des-
seemed little place for a freshman, even Pac-12 Network ignation “Week 0” — and since when Inside: Freddie Freeman
one as dynamically talented as top 2023 Online: Trojan youngsters get plenty of did college football start copying high putting himself in position
USC >> PAGE 6 run against San Jose State. PAGE 6 ALEXANDER >> PAGE 6 to win his first batting title. PAGE 5

LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES

El Segundo to face Curaçao in final

By Brett R. Crossley
Correspondent
WILLIAMSPORT, PA. >> It has always
been a team effort for the El Se-
gundo All-Stars on their journey
to the Little League World Series.
On Saturday, Brody Brooks and
Louis Lappe stepped up when
needed most.
Brooks continued his torrid hit-
ting and Lappe shut down Texas
and cracked a three-run home
run in a 6-1 victory in the United
States championship game Satur-
day, setting up a final showdown
with Curaçao.
TIM NWACHUKWU – GETTY IMAGES El Segundo has triumphed in
El Segundo’s Louis Lappe hits a two-run double in the third inning of a four must-win games in five days,
6-1 victory over Texas’ Needville in the United States championship, after being on the brink of elim-
THE SCORE
EL SEGUNDO 6,
NEEDVILLE, TEXAS 1
Up next: El Segundo vs. Curacao,
Little League World Series cham-
pionship game, today, noon, Ch. 7
ination after losing 3-1 to Texas
on Monday.
“We’re battle-tested,” El Se-
gundo manager Danny Boehle
said. “We are a very hard team
to play against on both sides of
the ball.”
The world will be watch-
ing today as the team of 11- and
12-year-olds from the small South
Bay town take on Curaçao. The
kids from El Segundo now repre-
sent something bigger than their
quaint beachside city.
Now, they represent the United
States.
“El Segundo is just a wonder-
ful little town and they have never
seen something like this,” Boehle
said. “We’re such a big sports
town. It is a dream come true for
us, for our families, and for the
whole town of El Segundo. After
today, it’s for the United States of
America. That’s pretty cool.”
Immediately after Monday’s
loss to Texas, Boehle predicted a
rematch against the squad from
Needville, which he affectionately
calls “needles.”
“First time we played Texas, I
thought we played well. We hit the
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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

Santa Margarita can’t hold on against Centennial

Staff report
Santa Margarita’s foot-
ball team led in the third
quarter, but fell to Corona
Centennial 34-21 Friday
night at Saddleback Col-
lege.
The Eagles (1-1) had the
lead at halftime and with
just more than a minute
left in the third quarter
despite playing without
starting quarterback James
Johnson, who suffered a leg
injury last week.
“There’s no moral victo-
ries, but I’m really proud of
the guys and the way they
battled,” Santa Margar-
ita coach Anthony Rouz-
ier said. “Centennial does
a fantastic job. We played
our hardest, played to-
gether and never quit.”
Hunter Melton made his
first varsity start at quar-
terback for the Eagles, and
the lefty completed 7 of 17
passes for 134 yards.
Trent Mosley scored two
rushing touchdowns for
Santa Margarita from the
quarterback position in a
“wildcat” formation. He led
the team in receiving with
58 yards and ran for 43.
Sophomore cornerback
Logan Hirou had two in-
terceptions to lead the Ea-
gles’ defense, including one
he returned 75 yards for a
touchdown to give Santa
Margarita a 14-7 lead.
“Last year was his first
year of playing football
and he did things like that
consistently,” Rouzier said
of Hirou. “There’s nothing
cooler as a coach than see-
ing things click for a kid
and that happened tonight
for him.”
Centennial (1-1) was
coming off a 28-14 loss to
top-ranked Mater Dei last
week.
— Michael Huntley
In other games Friday:
ORANGE LUTHERAN 35, DE LA
SALLE 14 >> In a game that
was tied at halftime, Or-
ange Lutheran scored three
consecutive second-half
touchdowns to defeat one
of the state’s top games on
its home field in Concord.
Orange Lutheran running back Steve Chavez ran for 157 yards and three touchdowns in Friday’s win over De La Salle.
Steve Chavez was the
star of stars for Orange
Lutheran, rushing for 157
yards and three touch-
dow ns, including one
called “Beast Mode 3.0” by
the junior running back’s
coaches.
The 58-yard run late in
the third quarter included
multiple stiff arms in an
electrifying sequence that
made it 28-14.
De La Salle made a de-
fensive stop in the end zone
on the final play of the first
half to keep the score 14-14
and got the ball to start the
second half.
But the Spartans went
three-and-out and a short
punt gave the visitors pos-
session at the De La Salle
46.
Orange Lutheran cashed
in with a drive that Chavez
finished with a 2-yard run
for a 21-14 lead.
Later in the quarter, De
La Salle got what looked
like a big pass play over
the middle that would have
moved the Spartans inside
Orange Lutheran’s 30.
But the ball was stripped
and Orange Lutheran re-
covered.
After the turnover, De
La Salle held Orange Lu-
theran to nine yards in
three plays. But on fourth-
and-1 from its own 36, Or-
ange Lutheran handed the
ball to Chavez for a 6-yard
gain.
On the next snap, Chavez,
a transfer from Damien,
made the play that will go
directly to the top of his re-
cruiting highlights and was
reminiscent of Marshawn
Lynch’s “Beast Mode” runs
in the NFL.
“I had some great blocks
up front, bounced out and
from there, God paved the
way,” Chavez said, adding
that he made at least four
BRANDON VALLANCE — BAY AREA NEWS GROUP
stiff arms on defenders and
broke about six tackles.
Given how the game
started, it looked as if the
last one to score would win.
The teams combined for
28 points in the first four
possessions.
— Darren Sabedra
RANCHO CUCAMONGA 34,
SERVITE 31 >> Servite and
Rancho Cucamonga pulled
some tricks out of the bag
in the closing minutes, but
the Cougars were the only
ones with a little magic left.
Tyler Dudden’s 28-yard
touchdown pass with 47
seconds left capped a late
comeback as Rancho Cu-
camonga scored twice in
the final four minutes for a
nonleague victory over the
Friars (1-1).
Servite looked to have
the game locked up when
Quaid Carr’s touchdown
run with 4:05 left gave it a
31-21 lead.
The score was set up by
Aidan O‘Callaghan’s 44-
yard catch down the right
sideline, after not catching
a ball more than 3 yards be-
yond the line of scrimmage
all game.
“He’s a good football
player,” Servite coach Chris
Reinert said. “He’s not a
one-trick pony.”
T he C ou g a r s (2 - 0)
trumped Servite’s trick one
play later. Dudden flipped
a lateral to Jayden Coley,
which drew the defense to-
ward him. Coley stopped,
set himself and threw 25
yards downfield to Jonah
Dawson, who eluded one
tackle and was off for an 81-
yard touchdown with 3:58
remaining.
“I think we’ve run that
play once in practice, and
it didn’t turn out too well,”
Dudden said.
The Cougars got the ball
back 90 seconds later af-
ter an incomplete pass on
fourth down by Servite.
Moving from the Rancho
Cucamonga 41-yard line,
Dudden completed four of
his next seven passes for 29
yards and ran for 9 yards to
get the Cougars to the Ser-
vite 23.
An illegal procedure pen-
alty pushed them back 5
yards, and Servite’s Saxon
Churchwell knocked down
Dudden’s third-and-18 pass
with 55 seconds left. But
on fourth down, Dudden
found Jeremiah Harrison
deep down the middle for
a touchdown.
— Steve Dulas
LOS ALAMITOS 25, LA SERNA
6 >>With its normally high-
powered offense sputtering,
Los Alamitos team needed
its defense to be the differ-
ence in its nonleague game
at Veterans Stadium.
Los Alamitos’ defense
didn’t allow a point and set
up the offense for two late
touchdowns, helping the
Griffins come away with a
victory.
However, Griffins stand-
out running back Anthony
League injured his left an-
kle on a key 7-yard run late
in the game and had to be
helped off the field by team-
mates.
After the game, League
was walking with crutches
and his ankle was wrapped
in ice.
Los Alamitos (2-0) had
possession and was lead-
ing 13-6 with just under
eight minutes left in the
game when League made
runs of 7, 8, 5 and 7 yards
to help the Griffins advance
to the La Serna 17-yard line.
After League left the
game, Jerod Terry filled in
and got the Griffins closer
with runs of 6 and 2 yards
before 6-foot-2, 300-pound
Manoah Faupusa, who nor-
mally plays nose guard,
came in and barreled into
the end zone for a 3-yard
touchdown.
Los Alamitos got the ball
back on a turnover and
Terry put the game away
with a 25-yard TD run.
— Lou Ponsi

LAKERS

From undrafted to Team USA, Reaves continues climb

By Khobi Price
kprice@scng.com
Austin Reaves easily re-
called the conversation
with his agents that not only
changed his summer and
offseason plans, but also his
basketball career — and po-
tentially, life.
The Newark, Arkansas,
native was back home golf-
ing with one of his best
friends shortly before Game
1 of the NBA Finals series be-
tween the Miami Heat and
the Denver Nuggets.
They wrapped up the
third hole on the course and
were sitting in the shade to
shield themselves from
the late spring heat when
Reaves received a text from
one of his agents.
“He was like, ‘You’re
not going to believe this,’”
Reaves said.
The message: Grant Hill,
the managing director of the
USA Basketball men’s na-
tional team, reached out to
offer Reaves a spot on the
12-player Team USA roster
for the 2023 FIBA World Cup.
“I was just kind of
shocked (at) the moment,”
Reaves said. “I didn’t see
it coming. I was confident
in what I could do basket-
ball-wise, but it was some-
thing kind of caught me off-
guard.”
To Hill and Steve Kerr,
the Golden State Warriors
and Team USA head coach,
Reaves was an ideal player
for a squad prioritizing
youth, size and defense for
the tournament that is be-
ing played in the Philippines,
Okinawa, Japan and Indone-
sia through Sept. 10.
The Americans opened
with a 99-72 victory over
New Zealand on Saturday in
the Philippines, with Reaves
scoring 12 points and add-
ing six assists and two re-
bounds. Paolo Banchero of
the Orlando Magic led the
way with a game-high 21
points.
The U.S. will also face
Greece (Monday) and Jor-
dan (Wednesday) to round
out the first round of the
group-play phase, with all
There was no way that Lakers guard Austin Reaves was going to pass on an opportunity
to play for Team USA under coach Steve Kerr in the FIBA World Cup.
FIBA WORLD CUP month ahead of the 2021-22
season.
USA 99, NEW ZEALAND 72 In the past six months, in
Up next: USA vs. Greece, addition to playing for the
Group C, first round, U.S., Reaves:
Monday, 5:40 a.m., ESPN2 • Solidified himself as a
full-time starting guard late
of their group games tak- in the regular season
ing place at Manila’s Mall • Was the Lakers’ third-
of Asia Arena. best player during a deep
Reaves didn’t need a lot of playoff run, averaging 16.9
time to think about the Team points, 4.6 assists and 4.4 re-
USA offer. He discussed the bounds in 36.2 minutes (16
opportunity with his family games, all starts)
before making his commit- • Secured a signature shoe
ment a couple of days later. deal with Chinese brand Ri-
“I was just like, ‘This is an gorer that could reportedly
opportunity you can’t say no reach more than seven fig-
to,’” Reaves said. “Once we ures per year
got the offer for the oppor- • Re-signed with the Lak-
tunity, it was, ‘What was the ers as a restricted free agent
next step going forward for on an eight-figure deal that’s
this?’” worth more than 20 times
his previous contract.
The rise “It’s been crazy,” Reaves
Reaves’ inclusion on Team said. “To get here and be re-
USA’s roster is another sig- warded with the contract
nificant chapter in his rapid (and) being on Team USA ...
ascent. all those dark days not get-
It was just a little over two ting recruited, not getting
years ago that Reaves, 25, drafted, all that’s come to
went undrafted out of Okla- light.
homa and signed a two-way “The basketball gods are
contract with the Lakers in real. If you’re pure to the
August 2021 before inking a game, the game will be pure
two-year, $2.49 million stan- to you back eventually. It’s
dard NBA deal the following been a beautiful two years.”
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Reaves didn’t need much
time to mull over his free-
agency options, either.
He considered the Hous-
ton Rockets and San An-
tonio Spurs — teams that
had the ability to extend
more lucrative offers, with
the Lakers having the op-
tion to match any deal. But
Reaves agreed to terms with
the Lakers within the first
24 hours of free agency on
a four-year, $53.83 million
contract he later signed.
“That’s where we wanted
to be,” Reaves said. “That’s
where I want to be. I’ve said
many times — that’s where
I want to finish my career.
It feels like home to me. ...
To put on the purple and
gold, there’s no better feel-
ing, there’s no better orga-
nization in basketball.”
Playing in Los Ange-
les and being a member of
the Lakers — especially one
who contributed to winning
at a high level like Reaves —
comes with a certain level of
popularity.
He’s a celebrity to celeb-
rities. He’s become popular
enough to be, falsely, linked
in dating rumors with Tay-
lor Swift. But it wasn’t until
Reaves went overseas with
Team USA that he realized
how prominent he’s become.
“Being around L.A., you
feel that, but I didn’t really
feel it until we were in Abu
Dhabi,” Reaves said. “I was
just walking around with
my family and people are
screaming my name like,
‘Can I get a picture?’
“And it’s like — we’re in a
whole other country, we’re a
long way away from home,
a long way away from L.A.
and people still know who
I am. That was kind of the
moment that hit me (where)
I was like, ‘I guess, people
outside, more than I think,
know who I am.’”
The whirlwind of the past
24 months hasn’t fully set in
yet for Reaves. He acknowl-
edged it probably won’t for
a while.
“I catch myself think-
ing about it every now and
then, but I try to stay present
in what I got going on right
now,” Reaves said. “I don’t
think it’ll fully set in until I
really get time to sit down
and really just think back to
all the stuff that’s played a
part getting here.”
Team USA
If there’s anyone who can
appreciate and respect what
Reaves brings to the basket-
ball court, it’s Kerr.
The coach got a close-up
look at Reaves during their
second-round playoff series
this past spring when the
Lakers eliminated the War-
riors in six games.
“For me, after watch-
ing him kick our butt for
six straight games in the
Western Conference (semi-
finals), it was a pretty easy
choice,” Kerr quipped during
a Zoom call with reporters
last month.
A similar message was
conveyed to Reaves.
“Steve texted me probably
like three days after I com-
mitted,” Reaves recalled.
“He sent me a text along the
lines of, ‘Now that I’m not as
mad at you for beating us in
the series, congratulations’.
“I kind of told him he’s
won enough in the past 10
years or so. And he’s won
enough while he was play-
ing as well.”
Beneath the banter is mu-
tual respect.
“Austin is one of the ris-
ing young players in this
league,” Kerr said. “What
you look for in FIBA is ver-
satility. You want size defen-
sively, the ability to switch
and guard multiple posi-
tions and you want play-
making. You want guys who
can make shots, but also put
the ball on the floor and are
good passers.
“He’s a basketball player.
He’s a guy who impacts win-
ning at a really high level.”
Reaves showcased his ver-
satility during the five USA
Basketball Showcase exhi-
bition games leading up to
the World Cup, averaging
11.4 points (60.6% shooting,
57.1% from 3-point range),
2.4 rebounds and 2.2 assists
in 16.8 minutes coming off
the bench.
“Steve and all the coaches
kept preaching for me to be
myself,” Reaves said. “They
know I know how to play the
game and play the game the
right way. The message was
just be me and have fun with
this. I can use that to propel
myself forward as well.”
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8 a.m. Chinese Taipei vs. Needville, Texas, third place ESPN FROM PAGE 1 is to get to the big guys like Louis “That home run kind of silenced
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whose team produced eight hits and my teammates have done that well the taking.”
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Curaçao blanks Taiwan, returns to title game
WNBA coaching staff back from
By Spencer Ripchik
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The Associated Press
last year’s champs of the
1 p.m. Atlanta Dream at Indiana Fever NBA TV international bracket.
3 p.m. Dallas Wings at Phoenix Mercury NBA TV SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, PA. “Last year, I was here,
>>Jay-Dlynn Wiel and Na- and I was hungry for it be-
sir El-Ossais got back-to- cause it was my first time,”
5 games out Home Away back singles off Taiwanese Everett said. “It didn’t go so
ace Fan Chen-Jun and later well. We came here, we ate
MLB
scored, leading Curaçao to the cake, but we didn’t eat
Angels: 830 AM, mlb.com/angels a 2-0 victory over Taiwan the cherry. Now we got to
Today Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday
on Saturday in the semi- eat everything.”
Mets Phillies Phillies Phillies A’s finals of the Little League Taiwan dominated the
9:05 a.m. 3:40 p.m. 3:40 p.m. 10:40 a.m. 6:40 p.m. World Series. LLWS from 1969 to 1996,
Peacock BSW BSW BSW BSW Taiwan came into the winning 17 times, but has
game having outscored its GENE J. PUSKAR – THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
not won the tournament
Dodgers: 570 AM, mlb.com/dodgers opponents 25-1 in its three since. It made the cham-
previous outings at the Curaçao’s Jay-Dlynn Wiel celebrates after scoring the pionship in 2009 under
Today Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
tournament, but Curaçao game’s first run during the fourth inning Saturday. Cheng-Ta, who also man-
Red Sox D’backs D’backs D’backs Braves
10:35 a.m. 7:10 p.m. 7:10 p.m. 7:10 p.m. 7:10 p.m. — which lost 9-1 to Taiwan aged this year’s club.
SNLA SNLA SNLA SNLA SNLA on Wednesday — kept the After a steal from Jay- manager Lee Cheng-Ta “Throughout my coach-
Taiwanese bats quiet until Dlynn, Curacao had run- said. “They were supposed ing career, I understand
NFL the Caribbean team broke ners at first and third when to send it to first base or that these are kids,” Cheng-
Rams: at Seahawks, Sept. 10, 1:25 p.m., Ch. 11 through. Joshua Acosta Fernandez home base. They made a Ta said. “You cannot expect
Chargers: vs. Dolphins, Sept. 10, 1:25 p.m., Ch. 2 “I’m very proud of these laid down a bunt. The bunt wrong choice. Even then, them to be adults or like
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
guys,” Curacao manager had Fan, third baseman after the wrong choice, the MLB. They are not sta-
USC: vs. Nevada, Saturday, 3:30 p.m., Pac-12 Network
Zaino Everett said. “When Liu You-An and catcher they made a bad throw. ble, and you can’t put the
UCLA: vs. Coastal Carolina, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., ESPN
you put the ball in play, you Chen Kai-Sheng confused They’re just kids.” blame on them. They are
are going to put some runs on who was covering home Curaçao is back in the just kids.”
MLS on the board. Here we are, and who was taking the championship after losing Curaçao starter Helmir
LAFC: vs. Miami, Sept. 3, 7 p.m., Apple TV+ international champs.” ball. Liu took the ball and to Hawaii 13-3 in the title Helmijr threw 5 1/3 in-
Galaxy: at San Jose, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Apple TV+ Fan came in for the bot- overthrew Chen, allowing game last year. Curaçao, an nings, allowing just one hit
NWSL tom of the fourth to face Jay-Dlynn to score. island with a population of and striking out four. He
ACFC: vs. OL Reign, today, 5 p.m., BSSC, Paramount+ Curacao’s top of the lineup. Chen threw the ball back just over 150,000, has won left the game after reach-
Fan hadn’t allowed a hit all to Fan, but it was another the Little League World Se- ing the 85-pitch limit to a
WNBA
tournament, but Jay-Dlynn overthrow and Nasir scored ries once, in 2004. standing ovation.
Sparks: at Connecticut Sun, today, 10 a.m., CBSSN hit a hard grounder into from first, making it 2-0. It has been the runner- Liu allowed no hits and
HORSE RACING left field and Nasir followed “Liu was supposed to up three times since and struck out six in starting
Del Mar: today, 2 p.m. with a single to right. field that one,” Taiwan has five players and the for Taiwan.

MLB HIGHLIGHTS

First-place Mariners ride seven homers to latest win

By The Associated Press
Teoscar Hernández hom-
ered twice and drove in six
runs as the Seattle Mari-
ners matched a franchise
record with seven home
runs in a 15-2 rout of the
visiting Kansas City Royals
on Saturday.
Hernández hit a grand
slam to highlight a seven-
run third and added a 446-
foot shot off position player
Matt Duffy in the eighth.
Josh Rojas, Mike Ford,
Julio Rodríguez, Cal Ra-
leigh and Cade Marlowe
also homered for the Mar-
iners, who won for the 10th
time in 11 games.
Logan Gilbert (12-5) went
seven innings for Seattle,
allowing one run and two
hits. He struck out seven,
walked one and won his
sixth consecutive decision.
The Mariners improved
to 73-56 and maintained
a share of first place with
Texas in the AL West.
Seattle broke open the
game with three homers
off Jordan Lyles (3-15) in
the third inning. It came
just 11 days after the Mar-
iners went deep four times
off the Kansas City right-
hander during a seven-run
fourth inning on Aug. 15.
The Royals lost for the
ninth time in 11 games.
RANGERS 6, TWINS 2 >> Texas
stopped its season-worst
eight-game losing streak
with a victory over host
Minnesota after Robbie
Grossman and Leody Tav-
eras sparked a four-run
ninth inning with consec-
utive bases-loaded walks.
Adolis García and Mitch
Garver, who both hom-
ered earlier, greeted re-
liever Griffin Jax (5-8) with
back-to-back singles. Eze-
quiel Duran got hit in the
shoulder with a one-out
pitch to load the bases, be-
fore Grossman drew the go-
ahead walk.
After Taveras walked to
score a run, Dylan Floro re-
lieved Jax and hit Marcus
Semien with a pitch to force
in another.
Jorge Polanco homered
off Rangers starter Max
Scherzer, who had 10 strike-
outs in seven innings with
two runs allowed.
ASTROS 9, TIGERS 2 >> Alex
Bregman homered, hit two
doubles and drove in four
runs to lead Houston to a
win at Detroit.
Bregman drove in Jose
Altuve in the first, fifth and
sixth innings and scored in
the fifth, sixth and eighth.
Jose Abreu and Chas Mc-
Cormick each had two
RBIs.
Hunter Brown (10-9) al-
lowed two runs on four hits
and two walks in five in-
nings. He struck out nine.
BRAVES 7, GIANTS 3 >> Aus-
tin Riley hit his 30th home
run, Max Fried pitched six
innings and Atlanta won at
San Francisco.
Orlando Arcia also went
deep while Matt Olson had Glasnow took a no-hitter jured list by the first-place
three hits and two RBIs. into the sixth and AL wild Baltimore Orioles, who can
Fried (5-1), who remained card-leading Tampa Bay only hope his ailing elbow
unbeaten in eight career beat visiting New York. won’t keep him sidelined for
outings against the Giants, Glasnow (7-4) allowed the rest of the season.
allowed two runs and six just two baserunners on “Early indications are he
hits with eight strikeouts. walks before DJ LeMahieu has some degree of injury
He is 3-0 in five starts since
lined a single to right-cen- to the ulnar collateral liga-
returning from the IL. ter with one out in the sixth. ment,” Orioles general man-
PHILLIES 12, CARDINALS 1 >> Glasnow struck out five and ager Mike Elias said. “We
Zack Wheeler struck out walked two in six innings. have not firmed down any
10 while pitching into the The Yankees lost for the timetable.”
eighth, and Bryson Stott, 11th time in 13 games. The injury occurred Fri-
Nick Castellanos and Bran- BLUE JAYS 8, GUARDIANS 3 >> day night in Baltimore’s 5-4
don Marsh all went deep as Davis Schneider had a two- victory over Colorado. Bau-
host Philadelphia set a club run homer and an RBI sin- tista retired the first two bat-
record for home runs in a gle, helping Toronto top vis- ters in the ninth and had a
month and beat St. Louis. iting Cleveland. 2-2 count on Michael Toglia
Bryce Harper doubled Schneider went 3 for 3 before the right-hander
among his three hits and and scored three times as walked off the mound in
drove in two runs for the the Blue Jays stopped a obvious discomfort follow-
Phillies, who are in first three-game losing streak. ing his 12th pitch.
place in the wild-card Hyun Jin Ryu (3-1) al- After being examined by
standings. Philadelphia’s lowed three runs, two team trainers, Bautista left
48 home runs in August earned, and four hits in the game.
topped the 46 they hit in five-plus innings. Bautista is 8-2 with a 1.48
September 2019. José Ramirez hit his 20th ERA with 33 saves in 39 op-
Wheeler (10-6) allowed homer for the Guardians. portunities. The 28-year-old
one run, three hits and ORIOLES CLOSER ON IL >> All- has 110 strikeouts and just
walked none. Star closer Félix Bautista 26 walks in 61 innings over
RAYS 3, YANKEES 0 >> Tyler was put on the 15-day in- 56 games.
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SPORTS | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWS GROUP SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2023

MLB
Standings Reds 8, Diamondbacks 7 (11)
Cincinnati AB R H BI BB SO Avg
Friedl cf 6 1 1 0 0 1 .273
AMERICAN LEAGUE McLain 2b 6 1 2 2 0 2 .294
De L Cruz ss 4 2 0 0 2 1 .248
WEST DIVISION Steer lf 5 1 2 1 1 0 .272
Martini dh 4 0 3 2 1 0 .385
W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away
2-Hpkins dh 1 1 0 0 0 1 .184
Seattle 73 56 .566 — — 9-1 W-2 36-28 37-28
Encn-Strand 1b 4 0 1 1 1 1 .240
Texas 73 56 .566 — +1 2-8 W-1 42-24 31-32 N.Marte 3b 4 1 1 0 1 2 .227
Houston 73 58 .557 1 — 4-6 W-1 35-31 38-27 Benson rf 5 0 0 0 0 1 .271
Angels 63 67 .485 10 1/2 9 1/2 4-6 W-2 32-33 31-34 Stephensn c 4 0 3 1 0 0 .247
Oakland 38 92 .292 35 1/2 34 1/2 5-5 L-1 20-45 18-47 1-Siani pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000
EAST DIVISION Maile c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .234
Totals 44 8 13 7 6 9
W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away
Arizona AB R H BI BB SO Avg
Baltimore 81 48 .628 — — 7-3 W-4 40-24 41-24
Carroll rf 3 3 2 0 1 0 .279
Tampa Bay 79 52 .603 3 +6 7-3 W-1 44-23 35-29
K.Marte 2b 4 1 1 3 1 1 .274
Toronto 71 59 .546 10 1/2 1 1/2 5-5 W-1 33-28 38-31
Pham dh 5 0 0 0 0 3 .235
Boston 69 61 .531 12 1/2 3 1/2 6-4 W-1 36-29 33-32
Walker 1b 4 0 2 1 0 2 .272
New York 62 67 .481 19 10 2-8 L-1 36-33 26-34
Gurriel Jr. lf 5 0 0 0 0 2 .253
CENTRAL DIVISION Thomas cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .246
W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Petrson 3b 5 0 0 0 0 4 .178
Minnesota 67 63 .515 — — 5-5 L-1 38-27 29-36 Herrera c 5 2 1 0 0 1 .213
Cleveland 61 69 .469 6 11 1/2 3-7 L-1 33-33 28-36 Perdomo ss 4 1 2 1 0 0 .273
Detroit 59 70 .457 7 1/2 13 6-4 L-1 28-36 31-34 Totals 39 7 8 5 2 13
Chicago 51 79 .392 16 21 1/2 3-7 W-1 27-37 24-42 CIN 000 001 012 31 — 8 13 3
Kansas City 41 90 .313 26 1/2 32 2-8 L-2 23-40 18-50 ARI 100 030 000 30 — 7 8 0
1-ran for Stephenson in the 9th.
NATIONAL LEAGUE 2-ran for Martini in the 10th.
E: McLain 2 (5), De La Cruz (9);
WEST DIVISION LOB: Cincinnati 11, Arizona 6;
ALIKA JENNER — GETTY IMAGES 2B: Stephenson (15), Steer (30),
W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Martini (1), N.Marte (3), Carroll
Dodgers 79 49 .617 — — 7-3 L-1 43-21 36-28 Seattle’s Julio Rodriguez celebrates after hitting a two-run home run during the fifth inning. (25); 3B: Stephenson (2), Car-
Arizona 68 62 .523 12 — 8-2 L-1 34-32 34-30 roll (7), Walker (1); HR: McLain
(16), off Davies. K.Marte (21),
San Francisco 66 63 .512 13 1/2 1 1/2 3-7 L-2 35-30 31-33 off Lively; RBI: McLain 2 (50),
San Diego 61 69 .469 19 7 4-6 L-2 35-33 26-36 AMERICAN LEAGUE Houston (Verlander 9-6) at Detroit (Faedo Chicago Cubs 10, Pittsburgh 6 Martini 2 (6), Stephenson (44),
Colorado 48 81 .372 31 1/2 19 1/2 2-8 L-6 28-33 20-48 2-4), 10:40 a.m. Steer (71), Encarnacion-Strand
Cincinnati 8, Arizona 7, 11 innings
Saturday’s results N.Y. Yankees (Rodón 1-4) at Tampa Bay (Littell (16), K.Marte 3 (67), Perdomo
EAST DIVISION Today’s games
Angels 5, N.Y. Mets 3 2-4), 10:40 a.m. (42), Walker (86); SB: McLain (14),
W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Toronto 8, Cleveland 3 Chicago Cubs (Assad 2-2) at Pittsburgh (Falter Perdomo (16), De La Cruz (22),
Oakland (Blackburn 3-3) at Chicago White Sox N.Marte (4), Pham (5); SF: Walker;
Atlanta 84 44 .656 — — 8-2 W-4 44-22 40-22 Tampa Bay 3, N.Y. Yankees 0 (Clevinger 5-6), 11:10 a.m. 1-7), 10:35 a.m.
S: Carroll, Thomas; Runners left
Philadelphia 71 58 .550 13 1/2 +3 1/2 6-4 W-2 38-25 33-33 Seattle 15, Kansas City 2 Texas (Montgomery 8-10) at Minnesota (Ober Dodgers (Ferguson 7-3) at Boston (Houck 3-7),
in scoring position: Cincinnati 5
Miami 65 65 .500 20 3 2-8 L-3 37-29 28-36 Houston 9, Detroit 2 6-6), 11:10 a.m. 10:35 a.m. (Hopkins, Steer, De La Cruz, Friedl
Washington 61 69 .469 24 7 8-2 W-3 29-36 32-33 Chicago White Sox 6, Oakland 2 Kansas City (Marsh 0-6) at Seattle (Castillo St. Louis (Rom 0-1) at Philadelphia (Nola 11-8), 2). Arizona 4 (Gurriel Jr. 2, Pham,
New York 59 71 .454 26 9 5-5 L-4 31-30 28-41 Baltimore 5, Colorado 4 10-7), 1:10 p.m. 10:35 a.m. Herrera); RISP: Cincinnati 7 for 21.
Texas 6, Minnesota 2 Washington (Williams 6-7) at Miami (Chargois Arizona 2 for 11; Runners moved
CENTRAL DIVISION NATIONAL LEAGUE
1-0), 10:40 a.m. up: Steer, Benson, McLain; GIDP:
Today’s games McLain, N.Marte, Gurriel Jr.; DP:
W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Saturday’s results San Diego (Wacha 10-2) at Milwaukee (Houser
Angels (Canning 7-4) at N.Y. Mets (Peterson Cincinnati 1 (De La Cruz, McLain,
Milwaukee 72 57 .558 — — 7-3 W-7 37-27 35-30 3-7), 9:05 a.m. Boston 8, Dodgers 5 5-4), 11:10 a.m. Encarnacion-Strand). Arizona
Chicago 68 61 .527 4 + 1/2 7-3 W-1 35-30 33-31 Colorado (Blach 1-1) at Baltimore (Flaherty Washington 3, Miami 2 Cincinnati (Ashcraft 7-8) at Arizona (Cecconi 2 (Perdomo, K.Marte, Walker.
Cincinnati 68 63 .519 5  1/2 6-4 W-1 31-34 37-29 8-8), 10:35 a.m. Atlanta 7, San Francisco 3 0-0), 1:10 p.m. Walker, K.Marte).
Pittsburgh 58 72 .446 14 1/2 10 4-6 L-1 32-35 26-37 Cleveland (Syndergaard 2-6) at Toronto Milwaukee 5, San Diego 4 Atlanta (Shuster 4-2) at San Francisco (Beck Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
St. Louis 56 74 .431 16 1/2 12 2-8 L-2 28-37 28-37 (Kikuchi 9-4), 10:37 a.m. Philadelphia 12, St. Louis 1 3-2), 4:10 p.m. Cruz 1 1/3 1 1 0 0 4 23 4.19
Moll 1 1/3 0 0 0 1 0 20 1.54
Lively 5 2/3 6 3 3 0 5 66 5.17
Gibaut 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 9 3.12
Blue Jays 8, Guardians 3 Astros 9, Tigers 2 Mariners 15, Royals 2 Red Sox 8, Dodgers 5 White Sox 6, Athletics 2 Angels 5, Mets 3 Díaz 1 1 3 0 1 1 21 2.22
Cleveland AB R H BI BB SO Avg Houston AB R H BI BB SO Avg Kansas CityAB R H BI BB SO Avg Los Angeles AB R H BI BB SO Avg Oakland AB R H BI BB SO Avg Los Angeles AB R H BI BB SO Avg Sims 1 0 0 0 0 2 11 3.70
Calhoun 1b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .262 Altuve 2b 4 3 2 0 1 0 .316 Garcia 3b-ss 3 0 1 1 1 0 .280 Betts rf-2b 6 1 3 1 0 0 .312 Noda 1b-rf 3 0 1 0 1 2 .239 Rengifo ss-2b 5 1 2 1 0 0 .244 Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Ramírz dh 4 1 1 1 0 1 .278 Dubón 2b 1 0 1 0 0 0 .271 Witt Jr. ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 .278 Freeman 1b 3 0 0 0 2 2 .339 Gelof 2b 3 0 0 0 2 1 .283 Ohtani dh 3 2 2 1 2 0 .307 Davies 5 5 1 1 2 5 86 6.93
Gonzalez lf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .223 Bregman 3b 4 3 3 4 2 0 .259 Velázquez lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .231 Smith c 4 1 0 0 1 1 .268 Brown rf 2 0 0 0 1 1 .213 Drury 2b-1b 5 0 2 2 0 2 .267 McGough 1 0 0 0 2 0 18 4.40
Perez 1b 4 0 0 0 0 4 .251 Muncy 3b 5 1 1 2 0 2 .197 Moustks 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .256 Nelson 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 3.19
Laureano rf 3 0 0 1 0 0 .213 Alvarez dh 5 0 2 1 0 0 .278 a-Ruiz cf 1 1 0 0 1 0 .242
Massey 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .224 Busch 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .185 O’Hoppe c 4 0 0 0 0 0 .234 Ginkel 1 1 1 1 1 1 16 2.32
Giménz 2b 4 0 0 0 0 3 .239 a-Sngltn dh 1 0 1 0 0 0 .190 Rooker dh 5 1 1 0 0 2 .247
Rosario 2b 2 1 1 1 1 0 .239 Moniak cf 4 1 1 1 0 1 .277 Sewald 2/3 2 2 2 1 0 25 4.66
Arias ss 4 0 0 0 0 3 .202 Tucker rf 4 2 1 0 1 1 .290 Fermin c 4 0 0 0 0 2 .277 Kemp lf 1 0 0 0 2 0 .224
a-Hywrd rf 2 0 2 0 0 0 .250 Renfroe rf 3 0 1 0 1 0 .241 Mantiply 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 3 6.08
Freeman 3b 4 1 1 1 0 1 .250 Julks lf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .240 Waters rf 3 1 1 1 1 0 .235 b-CPerez 1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .220
Herndez cf 5 0 0 0 0 3 .222 Cabbage 1b 3 1 1 0 0 2 .216 Castro 0 3 3 2 0 0 13 5.37
Gallagher c 2 0 1 0 0 0 .138 McCrmik lf-rf 5 1 1 2 1 0 .278 Beaty dh 4 0 0 0 0 3 .295 Langelirs c 3 0 1 0 1 1 .207 Crismatt 2 2 1 0 0 3 34 0.00
Outman dh 2 0 0 0 2 2 .248 Velazquez ss 1 0 0 0 0 0 .187
a-Naylor c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .205 Diaz c 4 0 0 0 1 0 .279 Blanco lf-cf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .250 Butler cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .224 Castro pitched to 3 batters in
Taylor lf-ss 4 1 1 1 1 2 .222 Grichuk lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .138
Straw cf 2 0 1 0 0 0 .239 J.Abreu 1b 5 0 2 2 0 0 .234 Isbel cf 2 0 0 0 0 1 .244 c-Díaz lf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .223 the 10th.
Rojas ss 3 0 1 0 0 0 .220 Totals 36 5 9 5 3 8
Totals 32 3 5 3 0 10 Peña ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 .248 Taylor cf-3b 1 1 1 0 0 0 .200 W: Díaz 6-4; L: Crismatt 0-1;
b-Peralta lf 1 0 1 0 1 0 .271 Bride 3b 4 0 1 1 0 1 .169 New York AB R H BI BB SO Avg
Totals 32 2 5 2 2 10 SV: Sims 3.
Toronto AB R H BI BB SO Avg Meyers cf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .231 Totals 37 5 10 5 8 12 Allen ss 4 0 0 0 0 2 .205 Nimmo cf 5 0 0 0 0 2 .260
Seattle AB R H BI BB SO Avg Inherited runners-scored: Lively
Merifield lf 4 1 1 0 1 1 .289 Totals 42 9 14 9 6 4 Boston AB R H BI BB SO Avg Totals 31 2 4 1 8 11 Lindor ss 5 1 1 0 0 2 .255 2-0, McGough 1-0, Mantiply 1-0,
Bichette dh 5 0 2 1 0 1 .316 Detroit AB R H BI BB SO Avg Crawfrd ss 3 3 2 1 1 0 .268 McNeil 2b-1b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .266 Crismatt 1-0; PB: Stephenson (3).
Verdugo rf 5 1 1 1 0 2 .281 Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg
Baddoo lf 5 0 1 0 0 2 .223 Moore ss 1 0 0 0 0 1 .237 Alonso 1b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .220 Umpires: Home, Jeff Nelson. First,
Guerro Jr 1b 5 1 1 0 0 0 .269 Turner 1b 4 2 3 2 0 0 .290 Andrsn ss 4 1 1 0 0 2 .244
Rdríguez cf 3 1 1 2 1 0 .279 1-Mndck 2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .190 Chris Segal. Second, CB Bucknor.
Springer rf 4 2 1 0 0 1 .256 Greene rf 3 0 1 1 0 2 .293 Refsnyder lf 4 1 2 0 0 1 .257 Benintndi lf 3 1 1 1 1 1 .276
Marlowe cf 1 1 1 2 0 0 .253 Vogelbch dh 4 1 1 1 0 0 .224 Third, Derek Thomas; T: 3:35;
Schneider 2b3 3 3 3 1 0 .424 Torkelsn 1b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .230 Dvers 3b-ss 3 1 0 0 0 1 .272 Robert Jr. cf 4 1 2 0 0 2 .265 A: 34,028 (48,359).
Suárez 3b 2 1 0 0 2 1 .237 Duvall cf 4 1 2 3 0 1 .267 Stewart rf 3 0 2 1 1 1 .263
Jansen c 3 1 1 0 0 1 .223 Ibáñez 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .245 E.Jiménez dh 2 1 2 1 2 0 .278
Cballero 3b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .239 Story dh-ss 3 1 0 0 1 2 .220 Narváez c 3 0 0 0 1 2 .195
Chapmn 3b 3 0 1 1 1 1 .249 Carpnter dh 4 1 2 0 0 1 .293
Raleigh c 3 2 2 1 2 0 .232
Moncada 3b 3 1 1 3 1 2 .233 Ortega lf 2 0 1 0 2 0 .229 Braves 7, Giants 3
Espinal ss 3 0 0 1 0 1 .214 Vierling 3b 4 0 0 0 0 3 .259 Reyes ss 2 0 0 0 0 1 .312 Vaughn 1b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .252
THerndez rf 5 2 2 6 0 2 .259 Araúz 3b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .135 Atlanta AB R H BI BB SO Avg
Varsho cf 3 0 1 2 1 0 .221 Meadows cf 4 0 2 1 0 2 .353 McGuire c 1 0 1 1 0 0 .294
France 1b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .253 Thompson rf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .182 a-Almonte ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .067 Acuña Jr. rf 5 1 1 0 0 1 .333
Totals 33 8 11 8 4 6 Báez ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .224 Whitlock p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Harris II cf 5 0 1 0 0 2 .286
Canzone lf 5 1 1 0 0 1 .242 Sosa 2b 4 1 2 1 0 0 .175 Totals 33 3 7 2 4 10
Short ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 .222 Martin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Riley 3b 3 2 1 1 2 1 .275
Ford dh 4 2 2 2 1 1 .226 Lee c 4 0 0 0 0 2 .100
CLE 100 011 000 — 3 5 0 c-Casas ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .253 LAA 140 000 000 — 5 9 1 Olson 1b 5 1 3 2 0 1 .272
McKinsty 2b 3 1 0 0 1 1 .239 Totals 32 6 9 6 4 11
TOR 300 200 30x — 8 11 2 Rojas 2b 5 2 2 1 0 1 .300 Schreiber p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 NYM 000 201 000 — 3 7 0 Ozuna dh 4 1 1 0 0 1 .263
Kelly c 4 0 1 0 0 2 .125
Totals 37 15 13 15 7 7 LUrias 2b-3b 4 0 0 1 0 2 .222 OAK 000 000 020 — 2 4 0 Rosario lf 2 1 1 1 2 0 .262
a-grounded out for Gallagher in Totals 34 2 8 2 2 15 a-grounded out for Araúz in the
the 7th. Wong c-2b 3 1 1 0 1 1 .249 CHW 113 010 00x — 6 9 1 9th; 1-ran for Alonso in the 8th. Murphy c 3 0 0 0 0 1 .268
KC 000 010 010 — 2 5 1
E: Chapman (11), Espinal (9); LOB: HOU 100 032 030 — 9 14 0 SEA 007 131 21x — 15 13 0 Totals 33 8 10 8 3 11 E: Cabbage (1); LOB: Los Angeles Arcia ss 3 1 1 2 0 1 .275
DET 000 110 000 — 2 8 1 a-walked for Brown in the 8th.
Cleveland 4, Toronto 7; 2B: Galla- 7, New York 8; 2B: Ohtani (24), Lopez 2b 3 0 0 1 0 1 .364
E: Waters (3); LOB: Kansas City LAD 100 120 010 — 5 10 2 b-pinch hit for Kemp in the 8th. c- Cabbage (3), Drury (21), Renfroe
gher (6), Merrifield (23), Schneider Totals 33 7 9 7 4 9
a-singled for Alvarez in the 9th. 5, Seattle 6; 2B: Taylor (2), Garcia BOS 100 104 11x — 8 10 0 struck out for Butler in the 8th. (30), Rengifo (14), Stewart (5); 3B:
(2), Bichette (26), Springer (20); San Fran AB R H BI BB SO Avg
E: Báez (17); LOB: Houston 14, (17), Massey (14), Crawford (27); a-singled for Rosario in the 7th. E: Moncada (5); LOB: Oakland 11, Ohtani (8); HR: Moniak (13), off Slater cf 2 1 0 0 1 1 .246
HR: Ramírez (20), off Ryu. Free-
Detroit 8; 2B: Bregman 2 (21), HR: Waters (8), off Gilbert. Rojas b-doubled for Rojas in the 8th. c- Chicago 6; 2B: Robert Jr. 2 (32), Carrasco. Vogelbach (12), off Le-
man (1), off Ryu. Schneider (4), off b-Pedrsn lf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .239
Altuve (15), Tucker (30), Greene (3), off Lyles. T.Hernández (20), off walked for Martin in the 8th. Anderson (15); HR: Sosa (4), off one; RBI: Drury 2 (59), Moniak (40),
Allen; RBI: Ramírez (69), Freeman Rengifo (41), Ohtani (92), Stewart Estrada 2b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .274
(19), Meadows (1); HR: Bregman Lyles. Ford (13), off Lyles. Rodrí- E: Varland (1), Betts (4); LOB: Los Sears. Moncada (5), off Sears. Be-
(7), Laureano (7), Bichette (62), (13), Vogelbach (42); SB: Ohtani Flores dh 4 1 1 2 0 1 .299
(21), off Rodriguez; RBI: Bregman guez (22), off Kowar. Raleigh (25), Angeles 14, Boston 5; 2B: Betts nintendi (5), off Sears; RBI: Bride
Schneider 3 (9), Chapman (50), 2 (19), Ortega (4); Runners left in Davis 1b 4 0 2 0 0 1 .246
4 (87), J.Abreu 2 (59), Alvarez (69), off Zerpa. Marlowe (3), off David- (36), Peralta (17), Refsnyder (7), (6), E.Jiménez (53), Sosa (11),
Espinal (19), Varsho 2 (49); SB: scoring position: Los Angeles 4 Bailey c 4 0 1 0 0 3 .256
McCormick 2 (57), Meadows (4), son. T.Hernández (21), off Duffy; Turner (27), Duvall (20); HR: Moncada 3 (26), Benintendi (38).
Springer (17); CS: Varsho (6); SF: (Drury 2, Moustakas, Rengifo). DeJong ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 .231
Greene (34); SB: Carpenter (1), RBI: Waters (26), Garcia (44), Ro- Muncy (30), off Paxton. Verdugo Runners left in scoring position:
Espinal; S: Straw; Runners left New York 4 (Ortega, Narváez, Ramos lf-rf 3 1 1 0 1 1 .227
Meadows (1); SF: Greene; Runners jas (10), T.Hernández 6 (75), Ford (12), off J.Urías. Turner (21), off Oakland 4 (Butler, Allen, Brown, Araúz, McNeil); RISP: Los
in scoring position: Cleveland 3 2 (28), Crawford (41), Rodríguez 2 J.Urías. Duvall (15), off J.Urías; Schmitt 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .197
left in scoring position: Houston Rooker). Chicago 2 (Vaughn 2); Angeles 3 for 10. New York 1 for
(Ramírez, Freeman 2). Toronto 2 9 (McCormick, Meyers 2, Peña, (82), Raleigh (64), Marlowe 2 (10); RBI: Rosario (13), Taylor (39), Matos rf 2 0 1 0 0 0 .251
(Bichette, Jansen); RISP: Cleve- RISP: Oakland 1 for 9. Chicago 3 10; Runners moved up: Grichuk;
J.Abreu 2, Diaz, Alvarez 2). Detroit SB: Blanco (16); Runners left in Muncy 2 (82), Betts (90), Verdugo LIDP: Araúz; DP: Los Angeles 1 a-Mckler cf 2 0 1 1 0 1 .281
land 0 for 6. Toronto 5 for 11; GIDP: for 8; Runners moved up: Ruiz,
5 (Báez 3, Vierling, Greene); RISP: scoring position: Kansas City 3 (51), Turner 2 (84), Duvall 3 (46), (Cabbage). Totals 35 3 8 3 2 10
Calhoun; DP: Toronto 1 (Espinal, Benintendi; GIDP: Butler; DP:
Houston 6 for 18. Detroit 1 for 8; (Witt Jr., Garcia, Beaty). Seattle McGuire (15), L.Urías (11); SB: Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Guerrero Jr.). Rosario (2), Story (5); Runners left Chicago 1 (Vaughn, Anderson, ATL 101 011 030 — 7 9 0
Runners moved up: Alvarez, Mc- 3 (France, T.Hernández, Rojas); Silseth 3 1/3 2 2 2 2 3 58 4.10
in scoring position: Los Angeles Vaughn). SF 002 000 001 — 3 8 0
Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Cormick, Diaz, Bregman. RISP: Kansas City 1 for 6. Seattle 3
7 (Betts 3, Hernández, Muncy 2, Oakland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Loup 1 2/3 3 0 0 0 3 33 5.62
Allen 4 6 5 5 1 2 62 3.61 for 9; Runners moved up: Isbel. a-struck out for Matos in the
Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Freeman). Boston 3 (Verdugo 2, Leone 1 1 1 1 2 2 31 4.40
Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sears 6 9 6 6 2 8 98 4.80 7th. b-grounded out for Slater in
Morris 2 3 2 2 3 3 42 9.00 Brown 5 4 2 2 2 9 91 4.47 Story); RISP: Los Angeles 2 for 13. Soriano 2 1 0 0 0 2 24 2.81
Erceg 2 0 0 0 2 3 35 6.25 the 7th.
Karinchak 1 2 1 1 0 1 26 3.66 Lyles 3 6 7 7 3 4 81 6.51 Boston 4 for 13; Runners moved
Graveman 1 0 0 0 0 2 14 2.70 Estévez 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 3.40 LOB: Atlanta 6, San Francisco 7;
Kowar 2 3 4 4 3 1 44 6.61 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Morgan 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 3.21 Stanek 1 2 0 0 0 3 23 3.94 up: Muncy, Hernández, Devers; New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA 2B: Olson (23), Harris II (21), Davis
Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Zerpa 1 1 1 1 0 1 21 7.27 GIDP: Refsnyder, L.Urías; DP: Los Toussaint 5 2 0 0 3 4 94 4.85 (18), Matos (9); HR: Riley (30), off
Blanco 2 2 0 0 0 1 24 4.50 Carrasco 1 2/3 7 5 5 0 1 49 6.80
Davidson 1 1 2 2 1 1 19 6.48 Angeles 2 (Rojas, Rosario, Free- Shaw 1 0 0 0 2 1 18 4.97 Manaea. Arcia (15), off Jackson.
Ryu 5 4 3 2 0 5 70 2.25 Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Reid-Foley 1 1/3 0 0 0 1 3 25 0.00 Flores (19), off Fried; RBI: Olson
Duffy 1 2 1 1 0 0 18 9.00 man. Rojas, Freeman). Lambert 1 0 0 0 1 2 22 5.55
García 1 0 0 0 0 3 17 3.86 Rodriguez 4 2/3 5 4 4 4 1 96 3.21 Bickford 2 0 0 0 1 2 26 7.43 2 (112), Riley (78), Arcia 2 (49),
Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Peralta 1/3 1 2 0 1 0 18 3.18
Swanson 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 8 3.10 Vest 2/3 3 2 2 0 0 12 3.78 Smith 1 1 0 0 0 1 18 3.83 Rosario (64), Lopez (9), Flores 2
Gilbert 7 2 1 1 1 7 83 3.66 J.Urías 6 8 6 6 1 9 91 4.41 Bummer 1 2/3 1 0 0 1 4 25 6.20 (48), Meckler (1); SB: Rosario (3),
Mayza 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.99 Kolarek 1 0 0 0 0 1 7 0.00
Vasquez 2/3 1 0 0 1 0 17 4.76 Varland 1 1 1 0 1 1 14 1.50 Acuña Jr. (59); CS: Harris II (3);
Richards 2 0 0 0 0 2 28 3.55 Weaver 1 2 1 1 0 0 16 3.00 W: Toussaint 2-5; L: Sears 2-11. Ottavino 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 3.18
Brieske 1 0 0 0 0 1 19 3.00 Hudson 1 1 1 1 1 1 26 7.27 SF: Arcia, Lopez; Runners left in
W: Ryu 3-1; L: Allen 6-7. Thornton 1 1 0 0 1 3 20 2.31 Inherited runners-scored: Raley 1 1 0 0 1 0 11 2.45 scoring position: Atlanta 5 (Lopez,
Cisnero 1 3 3 3 1 1 20 5.29 Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
W: Gilbert 12-5; L: Lyles 3-15. Bummer 2-1; IBB: off Sears W: Loup 2-2; L: Carrasco 3-8; Murphy 2, Ozuna, Acuña Jr.). San
Inherited runners-scored: White 1 2 0 0 0 1 15 4.21 Paxton 4 1/3 4 4 4 5 4 92 3.99
HBP: Duffy (France); WP: Lyles, (E.Jiménez); HBP: Toussaint SV: Estévez 28. Francisco 4 (Pederson, Schmitt,
Karinchak 2-2, García 3-1, Mayza W: Brown 10-9; L: Rodriguez 9-7. Winckowski 1 1/3 1 0 0 1 1 20 3.00
Kowar; PB: Fermin (5); Umpires: (Noda); WP: Sears; PB: Lee (1); Inherited runners-scored: Loup Slater 2); RISP: Atlanta 2 for 7. San
1-0; HBP: García (Laureano), Kar- Bernardino 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 8 2.55 1-1, Reid-Foley 1-0; IBB: off Raley Francisco 1 for 6.
Inherited runners-scored: Vest Home, Ryan Wills. First, Doug Ed- Umpires: Home, Nate Tomlinson.
inchak (Jansen); Umpires: Home, Whitlock 1 2/3 4 1 1 1 3 40 5.52 (Ohtani); HBP: Soriano (Alonso); Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
2-1, Vasquez 1-1; HBP: Rodriguez dings. Second, Alfonso Marquez. First, David Rackley. Second, Ben
Adrian Johnson. First, Shane Umpires: Home, Chad Fairchild. Fried 6 6 2 2 2 8 98 2.85
(Meyers), Cisnero (Peña); WP: Third, Quinn Wolcott; T: 2:28; A: Martin 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 4 1.25 May. Third, Larry Vanover; T: 2:45;
Livensparger. Second, Charlie First, Nic Lentz. Second, Paul
Cisnero; Umpires: Home, Mike 41,744 (47,929). Schreiber 1 1 0 0 1 2 24 3.73 A: 21,508 (40,241). Yates 1 0 0 0 0 1 16 2.84
Ramos. Third, Junior Valentine; Clemons. Third, Jeremie Rehak;
Estabrook. First, Andy Fletcher. W: Bernardino 2-1; L: J.Urías 11-7; Johnson 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 0.69
T: 2:39; A: 41,924 (49,282). T: 2:57; A: 35,890 (42,136).
Second, Erich Bacchus. Third, Laz Phillies 12, Cardinals 1 SV: Schreiber 1. Orioles 5, Rockies 4 Minter 1 2 1 1 0 0 17 4.21
Diaz; T: 3:01; A: 27,103 (41,083). Inherited runners-scored: Ber- San Fran. IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Cubs 10, Pirates 6 St. Louis AB R H BI BB SO Avg nardino 2-0, Martin 3-0; HBP: Hud- Colorado AB R H BI BB SO Avg Rangers 6, Twins 2 Walker 1 2/3 1 1 1 2 3 31 2.25
Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg Brewers 5, Padres 4 Edman 2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .241 son (Devers), Schreiber (Outman); Blackmn rf 4 0 2 1 1 0 .288 Texas AB R H BI BB SO Avg Manaea 3 2/3 3 2 2 2 5 74 5.05
Burleson rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .244 Umpires: Home, Jordan Baker. Tovar ss 4 0 0 1 0 1 .258 Semien 2b 3 0 1 1 1 2 .277 Jackson 1 1 1 1 0 0 11 2.42
Tauchman cf4 2 1 0 1 1 .263 San Diego AB R H BI BB SO Avg
Gldscmt 1b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .276 First, Brennan Miller. Second, McMahn 3b 3 1 0 0 1 1 .248 Ta.Rogers 2/3 2 1 1 0 1 12 2.86
Swanson ss 3 1 1 1 2 1 .246 Kim 2b 3 1 0 0 1 0 .276 Tripp Gibson. Third, Mark Carlson; Seager ss 4 0 0 1 0 2 .343
Motter 1b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .186 Díaz c 4 1 2 1 0 1 .275 Junis 2 2 2 2 0 0 31 4.09
Happ lf 4 2 1 3 1 0 .241 Tatis Jr. rf 4 1 1 0 0 3 .263 T: 2:59; A: 35,986 (37,755). Lowe 1b 3 0 1 0 2 2 .281
Gorman 3b 3 0 0 0 0 3 .238 W: Fried 5-1; L: Manaea 4-5.
Bellinger 1b 5 2 2 2 0 0 .317 Jones lf 3 0 1 0 1 1 .282 García rf 5 2 2 1 0 2 .252
Soto dh 2 1 1 2 2 0 .258 Inherited runners-scored: Manaea
Contreras c 3 0 0 0 0 1 .255 Nationals 3, Marlins 2 Rodgers 2b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .216 Garver c 4 1 2 1 0 0 .278
Suzuki rf 5 1 2 3 0 1 .266 Machado 3b 4 0 1 1 0 1 .251 1-0, Junis 1-1; HBP: Junis (Murphy);
O’Neill lf 3 0 1 0 0 2 .240 Castro dh 3 0 1 0 0 1 .263 1-Martinez pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 .276 WP: Junis; Umpires: Home, Alex
Candlrio 3b 5 0 1 1 0 0 .312 Bogaerts ss 4 1 1 1 0 1 .261 Washington AB R H BI BB SO Avg
Palacios cf 3 0 1 0 0 1 .381 b-Trejo dh 1 0 0 0 0 0 .237 Tosi. First, Emil Jimenez. Second,
Morel dh 4 0 1 0 0 2 .249 Cmpusno c 3 0 0 0 1 1 .283 Abrams ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .249 Heim c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .267
Baker dh 3 1 1 1 0 1 .211 Chris Guccione. Third, Todd
Amaya c 3 1 0 0 1 0 .235 Thomas rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .284 Toglia 1b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .167 Jankowski lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .276 Tichenor; T: 2:41; A: 36,798 (41,915).
Gamel lf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .200
Winn ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 .172 Meneses dh 3 1 1 0 0 1 .280 B.Doyle cf 4 1 1 0 0 2 .190 E.Duran 3b 3 1 1 0 0 1 .286
Madrigal 2b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .282 Cooper 1b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .275
Totals 30 1 4 1 0 11 1-Young dh 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 Totals 34 4 8 3 3 10
Totals 37 10 10 10 5 5 Grisham cf 3 0 0 0 0 3 .204 Grosmn dh 3 1 1 1 1 1 .232 Rays 3, Yankees 0
PhiladelphiaAB R H BI BB SO Avg Smith 1b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .260 Baltimore AB R H BI BB SO Avg Taveras cf 3 0 1 1 1 0 .262
Pittsburgh AB R H BI BB SO Avg a-Sánchez ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .211 New York AB R H BI BB SO Avg
Schwrbr lf 2 1 1 0 2 0 .188 2-Chvis 1b 0 1 0 0 0 0 .256 Rtschmn c 4 0 0 0 0 3 .274 Totals 32 6 9 6 5 11
Hayes 3b 4 2 2 2 1 1 .264 Totals 32 4 5 4 4 12 LeMhieu 1b 4 0 2 0 0 0 .247
a-Rojas cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .286 Kieboom 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .286 Hndrson ss 4 1 1 0 0 1 .251
Reynolds lf 5 0 2 2 0 1 .266 Milwaukee AB R H BI BB SO Avg Minnesota AB R H BI BB SO Avg Judge dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .270
Turner ss 4 2 2 1 0 0 .252 Rtherford lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .182 Santandr dh 4 1 2 1 0 2 .254
McCtchn dh 3 0 0 0 1 3 .252 Yelich lf 3 1 0 0 1 1 .282 Julien dh 3 1 1 0 0 1 .286 Torres 2b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .268
Castro 2b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .111 Alu lf-2b 2 0 1 1 2 0 .246
Mntcstle 1b 3 1 2 2 0 0 .275 a-Frmer dh 1 0 0 0 0 1 .250 Stanton rf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .202
Joe 1b 4 1 1 0 0 3 .255 Contreras c 4 1 1 2 0 1 .276 Harper dh 4 1 3 2 1 0 .306 Adams c 4 0 0 0 0 3 .285
O’Hearn rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .295 Polanco 2b 4 1 2 1 0 0 .250 Kinr-Falfa 3b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .249
Rdríguez c 4 0 0 0 0 2 .235 Santana 1b 3 0 1 1 1 0 .214 Vargas 2b-3b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .241
Cstlans rf 5 2 2 3 0 1 .276 McKenna rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .248 Bader cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .246
Palacios rf 4 1 1 0 0 2 .203 Frelick cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .238 Call cf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .204 Kepler rf 4 0 2 1 0 1 .247
Stott 2b 4 2 2 1 0 0 .297 Hays lf 3 1 0 1 1 0 .282 Pereira lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .111
Peguero 2b 3 0 0 1 0 1 .242 Adames ss 3 0 0 0 1 1 .215 Totals 31 3 4 1 2 11 Correa ss 3 0 0 0 1 2 .227
Sosa ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 .256 Mullins cf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .248 Peraza ss 3 0 0 0 0 2 .157
Canha dh 3 1 1 0 1 2 .246 Miami AB R H BI BB SO Avg Wallner lf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .238
Suwinski cf 2 1 0 0 2 1 .202 Bohm 3b 2 1 0 1 1 1 .283 Rortvedt c 1 0 0 0 1 1 .122
Chshlm Jr cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .244 Urías 3b 3 0 0 1 0 0 .252 b-Luplow ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .219
Williams ss 3 1 1 1 0 0 .222 Turang 2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .226 Realmuto c 3 0 0 0 1 0 .248 a-Bauers ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .205
Soler dh 4 1 1 1 0 1 .239 Frazier 2b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .238 Lewis 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .318
a-Bae ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .236 Monsterio 3b 3 1 2 1 0 0 .259 Stubbs c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .212 Higashioka c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .229
Arraez 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .351 a-Wstbrg 2b 0 1 0 0 1 0 .265 Solano 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .279
Totals 33 6 7 6 4 15 Taylor rf 2 1 0 0 0 0 .217 Marsh cf-lf 4 2 2 3 0 0 .289 Totals 29 0 2 0 2 10
Bell 1b 3 1 1 1 1 1 .289 Totals 30 5 6 5 3 9
Totals 29 5 6 4 4 6 Gallo cf 3 0 0 0 0 3 .177 Tampa Bay AB R H BI BB SO Avg
Cave 1b 2 1 0 0 2 0 .235 Gurriel 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .257
CHC 003 050 002 — 10 10 0 Vázquez c 3 0 0 0 0 0 .225 B.Lowe 2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .222
Totals 32 12 12 11 7 3 Burger 3b 4 0 2 0 0 1 .349 COL 002 000 020 — 4 8 1
PIT 100 000 500 — 6 7 0 SD 010 001 020 — 4 5 2 Totals 32 2 5 2 2 12 Arozrna lf 3 1 1 0 1 1 .260
MIL 000 050 00x — 5 6 1 De L Cruz lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .257 BAL 000 013 10x — 5 6 0
a-struck out for Williams in the STL 001 000 000 — 1 4 0 J.Lowe rf 4 0 2 1 0 1 .281
Sánchez rf 2 0 0 0 2 1 .264 TEX 010 001 004 — 6 9 0
a-struck out for Grisham in the PHI 002 111 70x — 12 12 0 a-walked for Frazier in the 7th. b- Paredes 3b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .257
9th. Wendle ss 2 0 0 0 0 0 .229 MIN 001 001 000 — 2 5 0
9th. flied out for Castro in the 8th. Raley cf-1b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .256
LOB: Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 5; 2B: a-flied out for Schwarber in the a-Berti ss 2 0 1 0 0 0 .282
E: Campusano (1), Gamel (2), E: Díaz (9); LOB: Colorado 6, a-struck out for Julien in the 8th. H.Ramírz dh 2 0 0 1 1 0 .299
Happ (25), Morel (14), Suzuki (20), 7th. Stallings c 2 0 1 0 1 1 .185
Adames (12); LOB: San Diego 5, Baltimore 5; 2B: Toglia (5), Castro b-walked for Wallner in the 9th; Aranda 1b 2 0 1 1 0 1 .200
Reynolds (28); 3B: Suzuki (4); HR: LOB: St. Louis 2, Philadelphia 4; Totals 31 2 7 2 4 5
Milwaukee 5; 2B: Contreras (30), (13), Díaz (21), Mountcastle (20), 1-ran for Garver in the 9th. 1-Siri pr-cf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .223
Hayes (10), off Wicks; RBI: Swan- 2B: Turner (29), Castellanos (32),
Santana (2); HR: Bogaerts (15), off WAS 000 100 002 — 3 4 0 Santander (30); RBI: Blackmon LOB: Texas 7, Minnesota 5; 2B: Basabe ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 .286
son (65), Happ 3 (63), Bellinger Schwarber (16), Harper (24); HR:
Peralta. Soto (25), off Payamps; MIA 000 001 010 — 2 7 1 (32), Tovar (60), Díaz (61), Urías Grossman (20), Julien (13), Kepler Pinto c 3 0 0 0 0 1 .237
2 (70), Suzuki 3 (47), Candelario Baker (1), off Wheeler. Stott (13),
RBI: Bogaerts (45), Machado (38), Mountcastle 2 (64), Hays (17); HR: Garver (12), off Ryan. Totals 30 3 7 3 2 8
(9), Hayes 2 (48), Peguero (17), off Hudson. Castellanos (22), off a-singled for Wendle in the 7th;
(76), Soto 2 (78), Monasterio 1-ran for Meneses in the 9th. (53), Santander (70); Runners García (32), off Thielbar. Polanco
Williams (6), Reynolds 2 (64); Gallegos. Marsh (9), off Gallegos; NYY 000 000 000 — 0 2 1
(18), Contreras 2 (61), Santana 2-ran for Smith in the 9th. left in scoring position: Colorado (9), off Scherzer; RBI: Garver
SB: Reynolds (10); SF: Peguero; RBI: Baker (1), Harper 2 (49), TB 021 000 00x — 3 7 0
(14); SB: Taylor (7); Runners left E: Wendle (7); LOB: Washington 2 (Castro, Tovar). Baltimore 1 (35), García (94), Grossman (39),
Runners left in scoring position: Stott (53), Bohm (79), Turner (50),
in scoring position: San Diego 1 4, Miami 6; 2B: Meneses (31), (Mountcastle); RISP: Colorado 3 Taveras (58), Semien (81), Seager a-struck out for Rortvedt in the
Chicago 4 (Madrigal, Suzuki 2, Castellanos 3 (82), Marsh 3 (47);
(Kim). Milwaukee 3 (Contreras, Stallings (8); 3B: Thomas (3); HR: for 10. Baltimore 1 for 7; Runners (78), Kepler (50), Polanco (30); 8th; 1-ran for Aranda in the 7th.
Candelario). Pittsburgh 3 (Mc- SF: Bohm; Runners left in scor- Bell (8), off Irvin. Soler (34), off
Turang 2); RISP: San Diego 1 for moved up: Jones, Tovar, Rodgers, CS: Taveras (4), Semien (3); SF: E: Kiner-Falefa (5); LOB: New York
Cutchen, Palacios, Reynolds); ing position: St. Louis 1 (Winn). Weems; RBI: Alu (11), Bell (13), O’Hearn, Hays; GIDP: Rodgers,
5. Milwaukee 3 for 8; Runners Seager; Runners left in scoring 4, Tampa Bay 7; 2B: Raley (21),
RISP: Chicago 4 for 9. Pittsburgh Philadelphia 0; RISP: St. Louis 0 Soler (69); SB: Alu (4); CS: Alu (1), Mullins; DP: Colorado 1 (Rodgers, Arozarena (14), J.Lowe (24); RBI:
moved up: Cooper, Yelich, Frelick; position: Texas 3 (Taveras, García
3 for 8; Runners moved up: for 2. Philadelphia 5 for 9; Runners Berti (5); Runners left in scoring Tovar, Toglia). Baltimore 1 (Hen- H.Ramírez (49), Aranda (4), J.Lowe
GIDP: Bogaerts, Yelich; DP: San position: Washington 2 (Adams, 2). Minnesota 3 (Correa, Wallner,
Bellinger. moved up: Palacios, Baker, Turner, derson, Westburg, Mountcastle). (69); SB: Raley (13); SF: H.Ramírez,
Diego 1 (Kim, Bogaerts, Cooper). Kieboom). Miami 3 (Wendle 2, Solano); RISP: Texas 0 for 3. Min-
Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Stott; GIDP: Baker, Castellanos, Aranda; Runners left in scoring
Milwaukee 1 (Monasterio, Turang, Turner; DP: St. Louis 2 (Winn, Ed- Arraez); RISP: Washington 1 for 6. Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA nesota 1 for 5; DP: Minnesota 1 position: New York 1 (Judge).
Wicks 5 2 1 1 1 9 80 1.80 Santana). Miami 0 for 5; Runners moved up: Flexen 5 4 3 2 1 7 90 5.87 (Vázquez, Correa, Vázquez).
man, Goldschmidt. Winn, Edman, Tampa Bay 4 (Siri 2, B.Lowe,
Wesneski 1 2/3 4 5 5 1 1 39 4.96 San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA De La Cruz; GIDP: Sánchez, Soler. T.Doyle 1 1 1 1 1 0 11 3.86 Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Paredes); RISP: New York 0 for 1.
Goldschmidt). Philadelphia 1
Leiter Jr. 1 1/3 1 0 0 0 3 24 2.75 DP: Washington 2 (Kieboom, Var- Scherzer 7 4 2 2 110101 2.64 Tampa Bay 1 for 7; Runners moved
Avila 4 1/3 5 5 5 2 4 78 2.63 (Castro, Sosa, Cave). Justice 1 1 1 1 1 2 16 9.00
Palencia 2/3 0 0 0 2 1 21 4.11 gas, Smith. Abrams, Chavis). up: LeMahieu.
Barlow 1 1/3 1 0 0 2 0 28 4.85 St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Bard 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 4.30 Burke 1 1 0 0 0 1 16 3.33
Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Alzolay 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 3 2.64 Cosgrove 1 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 16 1.63 Hudson 5 2/3 6 5 5 5 1 105 4.41 Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Chapman 1 0 0 0 1 1 16 1.89
Irvin 6 4 1 1 3 3 96 4.30 Schmidt 6 2/3 6 3 1 0 5 99 4.51
Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Suarez 1 0 0 0 0 2 16 4.40 Pallante 2/3 3 3 3 0 0 15 5.16 Bradish 6 6 2 2 1 8 87 3.03 Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Ferrer 1 1/3 1 0 0 0 2 20 4.84 Peralta 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 4 3.28
Selby 2 0 0 0 0 3 25 5.91 Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gallegos 1/3 3 4 4 1 0 20 4.44 Weems 2/3 1 1 1 1 0 9 3.02 Coulombe 2/3 0 0 0 1 2 15 2.70 Ryan 5 5 1 1 2 7 80 4.33 Middleton 1 1 0 0 2 2 25 0.75
Bido 2 1/3 5 8 8 5 1 74 6.36 Peralta 5 1/3 2 2 2 3 9 94 3.95 Suárez 1 1/3 0 0 0 1 2 23 7.16 Finnegan 1 1 0 0 0 0 9 2.81 Webb 1/3 1 2 2 1 0 16 2.00 Thielbar 1 1 1 1 0 1 10 2.75 Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Borucki 1 2/3 2 0 0 0 0 20 3.54 Peguero 1 2/3 1 0 0 1 1 23 3.54 Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Hall 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 4.50 Pagán 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 3.23 Glasnow 6 1 0 0 2 4 85 3.12
Zastryzny 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 5.21 Payamps 1 2 2 2 0 0 15 2.12 Wheeler 7 3 1 1 0 10 80 3.59 Pérez 6 2 1 0 1 7 76 2.68 Cano 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 1.60 J.Duran 1 1 0 0 0 2 12 2.63 Stephenson 1 0 0 0 0 2 12 3.04
Hatch 2 3 2 2 0 1 33 2.92 Williams 1 0 0 0 0 2 14 1.46 Soto 1 1 0 0 0 0 8 4.62 Nardi 1 0 0 0 1 2 23 3.05 Jax 1/3 2 4 4 2 1 28 4.02 Adam 1 0 0 0 0 2 14 2.72
W: Bradish 9-6; L: Flexen 1-2;
W: Wicks 1-0; L: Bido 2-5; Covey 1 0 0 0 0 1 13 4.82 Scott 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 2.59 Floro 2/3 0 0 0 1 0 12 7.00 Fairbanks 1 1 0 0 0 2 17 2.48
W: Peralta 11-8; L: Avila 0-1; SV: Cano 5.
SV: Alzolay 21. Robertson 1 2 2 1 0 1 22 7.20 W: Glasnow 7-4; L: Schmidt 8-8;
SV: Williams 31. W: Wheeler 10-6; L: Hudson 5-1. Inherited runners-scored: T.Doyle W: Burke 5-2; L: Jax 5-8.
W: Weems 4-0; L: Robertson 0-3; SV: Fairbanks 17.
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HBP: Robertson (Meneses); PB: 1-0; WP: Schmidt; Umpires: Home,
Umpires: Home, Nick Mahrley. (Taylor); Umpires: Home, Lance pires: Home, Mark Wegner. First, Stallings (3); Umpires: Home, Umpires: Home, Manny Gonzalez. (Semien); Umpires: Home, Jansen Gabe Morales. First, Adam Beck.
First, Jacob Metz. Second, Vic Barksdale. First, Ramon De Jesus. Malachi Moore. Second, Bruce Pat Hoberg. First, Tom Hanahan. First, Dan Bellino. Second, Phil Visconti. First, John Bacon. Second, Dan Lassogna-DUP. Third,
Carapazza. Third, Adam Hamari; Second, Will Little. Third, Dan Dreckman. Third, Stu Scheuwater; Second, Nestor Ceja. Third, Brian Cuzzi. Third, Mark Ripperger; T: Second, Cory Blaser. Third, Carlos Clint Vondrak; T: 2:17; A: 22,943
T: 3:08; A: 34,782 (38,753). Merzel; T: 2:31; A: 39,945 (41,700). T: 2:41; A: 44,097 (42,901). O’Nora; T: 2:29; A: 13,966 (37,446). 2:51; A: 42,535 (45,971). Torres; T: 2:42; A: 25,843 (38,544). (25,025).
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2023
MLB
Plate umpire Jordan Baker ejects Dodgers manager Dave Roberts in the eighth inning.
Dodgers
FROM PAGE 1
with his third hit of the day
and the Dodgers loaded
the bases for Max Muncy,
whose 30th home run had
given the Dodgers a 4-2
lead in the fifth.
Chris Martin came in to
face him and got ahead 0
and 2. Muncy fouled off a
pitch then took a split-fin-
gered fastball down and in.
Home plate umpire Jor-
dan Baker called it a strike.
“I was shocked,” Muncy
said after the game. “It
felt very down to me. And,
looking at the replay, it def-
initely was.”
Muncy lifted his bat
over his head and heaved
it away with two hands,
prompting a response from
Baker and setting off a con-
frontation between the
two. Jason Heyward came
over from the on-deck cir-
cle to get between them,
but Baker quickly ejected
Muncy. Dave Roberts got
the same when he came
out of the Dodgers’ dug-
out to argue, spreading
his arms wide in disbelief
at the quick trigger.
“I told him the ball was
down, to which his re-
sponse was, ‘You threw
your bat,’” Muncy said, an
equipment violation that
will draw a fine. “That
kind of locked me up a lit-
tle bit and so then I just re-
sponded with, ‘I need you
to lock it in in a big situa-
tion like that.’ And he goes,
‘Oh, OK’ and threw me out.
It was as simple as that.”
August ended with a
thud for Urias, who seemed
DODGERS NOTES
Freeman again within
range of first batting title
By Bill Plunkett
bplunkett@scng.com
BOSTON >> Freddie Freeman
calls himself a “hit collec-
tor,” figuring that other as-
pects of production will fol-
low if he just keeps throw-
ing base hits out there.
A year ago, if he had
collected one more hit he
would have not only had
the first 200-hit season of
his career, but he would
have won the batting title.
As it was, Freeman (.325)
finished one point behind
Mets infielder Jeff McNeill
(.326). Freeman’s career-
high .341 average in the
abbreviated 2020 season
won him an MVP, but was
a distant third to D.J. Le-
Mahieu’s .364.
With 35 games to go in
the regular season, Free-
man is in another race for
a batting title — even if he
doesn’t want to talk about
it.
“No, because if you start
thinking about that kind
of stuff ...,” Freeman said,
raising the specter of a
2-for-20 stretch earlier this
month.
“We’re still in August,
so we can’t talk about that
yet. The last few days, I’ve
been hitting the ball hard
finally, finding a lot more
better, consistent swings
during the games. I had
about a week-and-a-half
MICHAEL DWYER – THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
to rediscover his form for
most of the month. In his
first four starts in August,
he was 4-0 with a 1.44 ERA.
But three of those starts
were at home, where Urias
has indeed been himself
this season. He is 8-1 with
a 2.30 ERA while holding
batters to a .196 average —
the kind of numbers Boras
can turn into a big payday.
Urias’ subpar season,
though, has been built on
the road. With Saturday’s
loss, he is 3-6 with a 7.07
ERA while allowing a .298
batting average in 10 starts
away from home.
At least his first post-
season start should come
at Dodger Stadium.
“No, it’s simply baseball.
It’s baseball,” Urias said in
Spanish when asked about
the home-road splits. “Ob-
viously, you have to pitch
better at home, you have
to pitch better on the road.
Simply, the team gave me
the lead and I couldn’t
keep it and, obviously,
that’s what hurts.”
Urias looked at home
through the first five in-
nings Saturday. He gave
up solo home runs to for-
mer teammates Alex Ver-
dugo and Justin Turner
— the first of three hits
in the game for Turner
— but had a 4-2 lead af-
ter Muncy’s two-run, go-
ahead homer in the top of
the fifth.
For Verdugo, it was the
third consecutive game he
has led off with a home run.
Only two other players in
MLB history have done that
— Ronald Acuna Jr. for the
Atlanta Braves in 2018 and
Brady Anderson for the Bal-
timore Orioles in 1996.
stretch
where I had
a lot of fly
outs, cuts
to the right.
Just work-
ing through
t h i n g s
Freeman again like
you have to
a couple times a year.”
Freeman was 9 for
14 through his four-hit
game Friday night, rais-
ing his average to .341 go-
ing into Saturday’s game.
Meanwhile, Marlins sec-
ond baseman Luis Arraez,
who entered August hit-
ting .381, has seen his av-
erage go into freefall, drop-
ping to .354 through Fri-
day thanks to a .236 mark
(21 for 89) in August.
By contrast, Freeman hit
.396 (36 for 91) in the first
23 games this month.
Dodgers manager Dave
Roberts has called Free-
man “the modern-day Tony
Gwynn” for his consistent
at-bats – and ability to col-
lect hits in an era when
“hitting is harder than it’s
ever been.”
Gwynn won eight bat-
ting titles during his Hall
of Fame career and Rob-
erts said Freeman has the
ability to win one himself.
“Yeah, he does. If it
wasn’t for one player,
he would have the bat-
ting title this year,” Rob-
Urias’ troubles started
in the sixth inning when
Turner led off with his sec-
ond hit — a double off the
Green Monster. Rob Refs-
nyder followed with a sin-
gle before Urias won a
seven-pitch battle with Ra-
fael Devers, striking him
out on a cutter.
Urias got ahead of the
next hitter quickly, but Du-
vall fouled off two 0-and-2
pitches before getting an-
other cutter down and in
and lifting it into the Mon-
ster Seats in left field for a
three-run home run to give
the Red Sox the lead.
“Obviously, those are
things that happen in base-
ball,” Urias said. “I feel
like I tried to attack the
first batter. That was the
key. Obviously, JT got me
with the double and I feel
that gave them the possi-
bility to change the game
for themr.”
T he Duva ll homer
seemed to unsettle Urias.
A walk and stolen base set
up an RBI single by Reese
McGuire before he could
get out of the inning.
The Red Sox sandwiched
unearned runs around
Muncy’s strikeout to take
a three-run lead into the
ninth. With the Red Sox
closer (Kenley Jansen)
sidelined by a hamstring
injury, the Dodgers loaded
the bases again with two
outs in the ninth — this
time for Betts.
The crowd gave him
another standing ovation
before his first at-bat Sat-
urday and the moment
seemed set for Betts to
play the hero. But he flew
out to deep center field to
end the game.
erts said. “And I say mod-
ern-day (Tony Gwynn) be-
cause he manipulates the
bat. He hits left and right(-
handed pitching). He uses
the whole field.
“The consistency of what
Freddie does with the bat
every year says a lot.”
Sunday Funday
R ight-hander Gav in
Stone joined the Dodg-
ers on Saturday at Fenway
Park and will be added to
the active roster for Sun-
day’s game. Roberts said
Stone might start the game
or pitch in some capacity
later in the game.
Stone and Emmet Shee-
han have pitched in games
for Triple-A Oklahoma
City recently following an
opener. Roberts said “any-
thing is on the table” when
it comes to potential roles
on a postseason roster and
getting pitchers like Stone
and Sheehan experience
being used in different
ways is “very important.”
“It’s important to run
the play out as far as giving
players some familiarity
with any role we might en-
tertain, especially a young
player,” Roberts said.
Rookie right-hander
Bobby Miller is getting an
extra day’s rest before his
next start Monday, with
Clayton Kershaw sched-
uled for Tuesday
ANGELS
Angels hang on, win
after Silseth suffers
a frightening injury
By Jeff Fletcher
jfletcher@scng.com
NEW YORK >> The Angels
were on their way to a blow-
out victory but they ended
up suffering a frightening
injury in what became a
tight game.
It would have fit per-
fectly within this mind-
numbing season except for
the fact that they still won
the game.
Right-hander Chase Sils-
eth left the Angels’ 5-3 vic-
tory over the New York
Mets on Saturday after he
was struck in the head by a
throw as he was running to-
ward third base for a possi-
ble rundown.
Silseth was down for a few
minutes before leaving the
game under his own power.
He was undergoing tests at a
nearby hospital when Man-
ager Phil Nevin spoke to the
media after the game.
“He was talking the
whole time,” Nevin said.
“He was wondering if he
covered the right base. Not
to make light of it. It’s a
scary moment, for sure. He
was talking and alert. That
part is good.”
The Angels had a 5-0
lead before the fourth-in-
ning incident, with Shohei
Ohtani contributing a dou-
ble and a triple to the early
scoring. Mickey Moniak hit
a homer.
Silseth had just allowed
his first two hits of the
game in the fourth inning.
Francisco Lindor was at
second and Jeff McNeil was
at first. McNeil took off for
second but Lindor didn’t go
to third. The Angels should
have been able to get at least
one of the runners because
of the mixup, but catcher
Logan O’Hoppe threw be-
hind McNeil, to first base.
Lindor then took off
for third, and first base-
man Trey Cabbage’s throw
to third hit Silseth in the
back of the head. The ball
bounced into foul territory
as Lindor scored and Mc-
Neil took third.
A hush came over the
ANGELS NOTES
Ohtani ‘turned down’ an
imaging offer before injury
By Jeff Fletcher
jfletcher@scng.com
NEW YORK >> Perry Mina-
sian wanted to set the re-
cord straight in the wake
of rampant questions
about the way the Angels
handled Shohei Ohtani in
the weeks leading up to his
injury.
The Angels general man-
ager called the media to-
gether in the dugout before
Saturday’s game to reveal
that the team offered to
have Ohtani undergo im-
aging earlier this month.
“He and his representa-
tion turned it down,” Mi-
nasian said. “I understand
why. It was a cramp in his
finger and they didn’t be-
lieve it warranted imag-
ing.”
T h ree week s lat er,
Ohtani was diagnosed with
a torn ulnar collateral liga-
ment that will prevent him
from pitching for at least
the rest of this season.
Minasian said there
is no reason to believe
any injury existed before
Wednesday, when Ohtani
came out of the game. An
MRI exam Wednesday re-
vealed the tear.
“From the information
we have, it happened that
last game,” Minasian said.
Ohtani’s side is operat-
ing off the same informa-
tion to which Minasian
referred. Minasian obvi-
ously would not have of-
fered the clarification to
the media without clear-
ing it with Ohtani and his
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWS GROUP
Pete Alonso of the Mets has words with Angels catcher
Logan O’Hoppe after he was hit by a pitch in the eighth
inning of Saturday’s game at Citi Field in New York.
THE SCORE
ANGELS 5, METS 3
Up next: Angels at Mets,
today, 9:05 a.m., Peacock
ballpark, and players from
both teams watched anx-
iously, as Silseth received
medical attention for a few
minutes.
“I heard he’s doing OK,”
O’Hoppe said. “It’s a tough
thing to see.”
Aside from the disturb-
ing result of the play, it
came after poor execution
by O’Hoppe, who was not
supposed to throw to first.
“You can walk it out to
second base and as soon as
somebody moves, you have an
out,” Nevin said. “It’s a teach-
ing moment. He’ll be fine.”
After Aaron Loup re-
placed Silseth, McNeil
scored to cut the lead to 5-2.
The Angels still had more
than half a game’s worth of
outs to find out of their bull-
pen, while the offense failed
to provide any insurance.
Loup got through the
fifth. Dominic Leone gave
up a Daniel Vogelbach
agent, Nez Balelo.
“I have a great relation-
ship with Nez and Sho and
obviously Ippei (Mizuhara)
is part of that,” Minasian
said. “Obviously the three
years we’ve worked to-
gether have been produc-
tive years.”
Minasian offered no
further information about
the severity of the tear, or
about what the timeline is
for Ohtani to determine
his course of treatment. If
he needs a second Tommy
John surgery, he would not
able to pitch until 2025. He
could still hit for most of
the time in between, as he
is doing now.
Ohtani had issues with
blisters and a cracked nail
in July, and he left his
Aug. 3 start after four in-
nings because of cramping
in his finger. At that time,
the Angels offered the im-
aging.
Minasian said it is al-
ways ultimately up to the
player to decide what tests
he undergoes.
“It’s a relationship of
trust,” Minasian said. “The
player and I have done it
for three years. I believe
he’s had three pretty good
seasons doing it the way
we did it. Me, person-
ally, I have zero regrets. It
happens. There are inju-
ries that happen in base-
ball. And this is an unfor-
tunate one. That is obvi-
ously tough for us, tough
for him and tough for the
game. He’s obviously great
to watch on both sides.”
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homer in the sixth to make
it 5-3.
José Soriano pitched
a perfect seventh before
getting into a jam in the
eighth. He hit Pete Alonso
in the head with a curveball.
Alonso had some words for
Soriano and the benches
brief ly emptied, but no
punches were thrown and
no one was ejected.
“I watched a lot of Mets
game I’ve seen Pete’s taken
a lot of balls up top,” Nevin
said. “I totally understand
that. I mean, it was a break-
ing ball. We’re not trying to
hit anybody, but I under-
stand when you get hit up
upstairs a lot, anything’s
gonna set you off a little
bit. I have no problem with
it. He’s a competitor. Obvi-
ously Soriano is not trying
to throw at anybody.”
Soriano ended up strand-
ing two runners, holding
the two-run lead for closer
Carlos Estévez.
Estévez worked the ninth
to record his 28th save of
the season, and lock up the
Angels second series victory
in August.
Ohtani took the ball
again for his normal turn
a week after the cramping
incident. He was able to get
through his start Aug. 9, al-
though afterward he said
he didn’t feel like himself.
He then asked to have a
start skipped because of
fatigue, so the Angels al-
lowed him two weeks be-
fore the start against the
Cincinnati Reds.
“Didn’t go on the IL,”
Minasian said. “He kept
playing, kept hitting. Felt
good when he threw. He
was ready to pitch. He
knows himself as well as
anybody. When he says ‘I’m
ready to go,’ there’s nobody
I believe more. Let me put
it that way.”
Also
First baseman Nolan
Schanuel was scratched
from the Angels lineup
Saturday because of what
manager Phil Nevin de-
scribed as food poisoning.
Nevin said “hopefully”
Schanuel would be able to
play today. …
Shortstop Zach Neto
(lower back inflammation)
said he ran, played catch
and was to begin taking
dry swings Saturday, his
second day of baseball ac-
tivity since going on the
injured list. He said there’s
no timetable for his re-
turn. “I’m actually feel-
ing way better,” he said.
“Sometimes I wake up a
little sore, but that sore-
ness is going away day by
day.”
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL USC NOTES

Wide receiver Tahj Washington, center, celebrates with teammates Austin Jones, left, and Kyron Hudson on Saturday.
USC
FROM PAGE 1
recruit Branch, even one
who’d drawn praise from
Simmons like so: “From a
talent standpoint, he’s dif-
ferent.”
But hours later, after
Branch surprisingly lined
up at slot receiver to start
against San Jose State,
that talent unleashed in
the third quarter of a 56-28
USC blowout win, the true
freshman with the pearly-
white grin snaring a pass
from USC quarterback Wil-
liams and darting into the
end zone for his first Tro-
jans touchdown. He hit the
Cristiano Ronaldo “suiii” in
the end zone after, a youth-
ful explosion of joy that
came, to the postgame-po-
dium smiles of head coach
Riley and quarterback Wil-
liams, from playing the
FIFA video game.”
It was momentous. It was
also nothing compared to
what’d come next.
At the end of the third
quarter, after San Jose State
receiver Nick Nash made
a ridiculous one-handed
bobbling touchdown grab
to set up a kickoff, Branch
USC’s Caleb Williams shows off his nails with his dog’s
name Supa on National Dog Day after Saturday’s win.
line before cutting back to
the middle for a victory lap
of a 96-yard touchdown re-
turn.
He dropped the ball as
the Coliseum rocked and
held his arms outstretched,
palms up, as he neared the
stands.
“Once I touched that end
zone,” Branch beamed, “the
crowd tapped me up a lit-
tle bit.”
Truly, it’s downright im-
possible to overshadow
Williams, who picked right
back up where he left off
with a magic-casting 2022
season in the second quar-
ter, recovering a fumble
on a snap miscommunica-
tion and in the same mo-
PHOTOS BY KEITH BIRMINGHAM — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
weaving his way through
a sea of Trojans. No longer
buried. A star had arrived.
“It’s great to see a young
guy like that come in,”
Washington said of Branch
postgame, “and know what
he’s working for, and knows
what he wants to do.”
It was scintillating —
and nearly enough to dis-
tract from an ugly defen-
sive start. In the first half
Saturday, outside of some
legitimately solid stretches
of play — strong pressure
from Oklahoma State trans-
fer linebacker and now-cap-
tain Mason Cobb and some
eye-popping bursts off the
line from Georgia State
transfer Jamil Muhammad
USC youngsters
get plenty of run
versus San Jose St.
By Luca Evans
levans@scng.com
LOS ANGELES >> By all con-
ventional wisdom, one
would have believed, Sat-
urday’s Week 0 opener
against San Jose State
would’ve provided a cushy
second-half battleground
for the new kids to get
some run. Trot out Caleb
Williams and the veteran
cast of receivers, let them
bomb away and light up
the scoreboard, and see
what a talented group of
freshmen could do in gar-
bage-time, right?
Not so fast. Three true
freshmen — linebacker
Tackett Curtis, offensive
lineman Alani Noa and
receiver Zachariah Branch
— started for USC on Sat-
urday, all of whom had
made a dynamic impres-
SUMMARY
sion in camp but had to
San Jose St. 0 14 7 7 — 28 leapfrog significant depth
USC 7 14 21 14 — 56
to earn a surprising spot.
First Quarter
USC — Singer 13 pass from Ca.Williams
Curtis, who’s earned
(Lynch kick), 6:32. nicknames from “Captain
Second Quarter America” to the Williams-
SJSU — K.Robinson 1 run (Halvorsen dubbed “destroyer,” has
kick), 14:12.
USC — Washington 76 pass from been rising as the cream
Ca.Williams (Lynch kick), 9:38. in the Trojans’ linebacker
USC — Jones 2 run (Lynch kick), 3:33.
SJSU — Nash 28 pass from Cordeiro
crop ever since he elected
(Halvorsen kick), :08. to enroll early and be-
Third Quarter gan turning heads in the
USC — Jones 3 run (Lynch kick), 10:45. spring. His start Saturday
USC — Za.Branch 25 pass from
Ca.Williams (Lynch kick), 6:00. alongside human-hom-
SJSU — Nash 32 pass from Cordeiro ing-missile Mason Cobb
(Halvorsen kick), 1:50.
came as no surprise with
USC — Za.Branch 96 kickoff return
(Lynch kick), 1:34. the praise he’s earned in
Fourth Quarter camp, but outside of a nice
USC — Rice 12 pass from Ca.Williams
(Lynch kick), 12:27.
tackle on a screen pass, he
USC — Moss 4 run (Lynch kick), 6:53. was quiet and seemed to
SJSU — Nash 2 pass from Cordeiro lag slightly in pass cov-
(Halvorsen kick), 5:08.
erage against San Jose
SJSU USC
First downs 22 26 State’s quick-hit attack.
Total Net Yards 396 501 Noa, however, was more
Rushes-yards 27-198 34-160
Passing 198 341
of a game-week surprise,
Punt Returns 0-0 3-66 forcing his way into a seat
Kickoff Returns 3-53 1-96 in a wide-ranging game
Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0
Comp-Att-Int 21-39-0 24-35-0
of offensive-line musi-
Sacked-Yards Lost 1-22 2-23 cal chairs. He was listed
Punts 7-45.714 2-41.5 as an “OR” starter along
Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0
Penalties-Yards 3-21 8-59 with Wyoming transfer
Time of Possession 31:19 30:07 Emmanuel Pregnon on
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS USC’s first depth chart,
RUSHING — San Jose St., Q.Conley 6-108,
Cordeiro 10-52, Robinson 9-28, Jernagin and based on head coach
1-5, Bates 1-5. USC, Jones 6-54, Lloyd
9-42, Joyner 5-34, Za.Branch 1-12, Barlow
2-10, Colombo 1-7, Moss 1-4, (Team)
1-(minus 1), C.Williams 8-(minus 2). ROUNDUP
PASSING — San Jose St., Cordeiro 21-38-
Notre Dame does it all,
0-198, (Team) 0-1-0-0. USC, C.Williams
18-25-0-278, Moss 6-10-0-63.
RECEIVING — San Jose St., Nash 6-89,
Ross 5-62, Robinson 3-14, Q.Conley 2-17,
Lincoln Riley’s comments
Thursday, it wasn’t hard to
see why he beat out Preg-
non to start at left guard
against San Jose State:
“He’s a smart kid, he
gets the game ... just im-
pressed with his consis-
tency, his physicality, ef-
fort and kind of mentality
he plays with,” Riley said.
Later in the first half,
running back Quinten
Joyner earned a couple
carries, and defensive line-
man Elijah Hughes — who
safety Jaylin Smith labeled
as “quick on his feet,” “elu-
sive” and a “sleeper” in fall
camp — had a few nice
plays on the interior. But
no freshman made a bet-
ter first impression than
Branch, regarded widely
as the best receiver in
the nation in the class of
2023 out of Bishop Gor-
man, who started in the
slot amid a crowded Tro-
jans receiver room and
caught a couple first-half
passes. He also flashed
game-breaking quickness
on a second-quarter punt
return, getting around a
couple of defenders in a
tantalizing display of po-
tential.
USC honors late
White, Roberts
After an outpouring
of USC support for late
Heisman Trophy winner
Charles White at White’s
funeral in February, the
Trojans announced pre-
game Saturday they’d be
wearing a no. 12 sticker on
the back of their helmets
to honor White, one of the
great players in USC foot-
ball history and still the
school’s all-time-leading
rusher.
A moment of silence was
also held at the Coliseum
on Saturday for White and
former USC fullback C.R.
Roberts, who died in July.

routs Navy in Dublin

caught a return a few yards
out from the end zone and...
slowed. Jogged. Surveyed,
blockers lining up in front
of him, ambling about for a
few yards like a cheetah lur-
ing a deer into a false sense
of security.
And then he just down-
shifted. Jets, in a split sec-
ond, seemed to roar from
Branch’s feet as he burst
up the middle, juking to
his left to make two Spar-
tans crash into each other,
bursting down the left side-
tion flinging a long dart
to Washington for a 76-
yard touchdown. And the
USC quarterback laid little
mercy on San Jose State’s
defense in the inaugural
game of a chase for another
Heisman throwing for 278
yards and four touchdowns.
But Branch left the most
invigorating impression,
stands of over 63,000 build-
ing into a roar every time he
touched the ball, taking a
punt on the next return af-
ter his 96-yard-streak and
— the line looked limp and
secondary seemed splin-
tered against a quick-hit-
ting San Jose State attack. A
28-yard run on a 3rd-and-22
from Cordeiro led to a sec-
ond-quarter touchdown,
and a complete breakdown
led to a wide-open touch-
down grab from Nash to
end the half.
USC’s offense shone as a
whole, senior Austin Jones
running for a pair of scores
and four different Tro-
jans receivers hauling in a
Jernagin 2-0, Miller 1-18, Olson 1-4, Bates
1-(minus 6). USC, Za.Branch 4-58, Singer
4-41, Robinson 3-44, McRee 3-36, Wash-
ington 2-85, Mar.Williams 2-26, R.Brown
1-14, Lloyd 1-12, Rice 1-12, Hudson 1-8,
Lane 1-5, Lemon 1-0.
touchdown. But that was
never the question for the
Trojans this year. And the
bad taste from last year’s
defensive collapse still lin-
gers.
“Everybody’s gonna write
the narrative after the first
game,” Riley said postgame.
“And listen, it’s going to be
a climb.”
By The Associated Press
Sam Hartman threw
for four touchdowns in his
Notre Dame debut and the
No. 13 Fighting Irish routed
Navy 42-3 on Saturday in a
season-opening victory in
Ireland’s capital of Dublin.
Notre Dame (1-0) scored
at will by air and on the
ground against the Mid-
shipmen (0-1), improving to
3-0 all-time against Navy in
Wake Forest, ended Notre
Dame’s nearly flawless
first half with a 29-yard
touchdown pass to Jayden
Thomas.
Navy avoided the shutout
when Evan Warren kicked a
30-yard field goal with 3:37
to play.
SAN DIEGO STATE 20, OHIO 13
>> Jalen Mayden threw two
touchdown passes to Mark
Redman and the host Az-
tecs opened the season with

Alexander
man Trophy winner, and for a score after SJSU had ing night usually isn’t as Dublin games. a win over the Bobcats.
SJSU coach Brent Bren- pulled within 35-21. polished as the one you’ll Hartman completed 19 The game turned in the
nan noted during the That kick return, by the see a few weeks down the of 23 passes for 266 yards. final minute of the first half
FROM PAGE 1 week that “we’re playing way, started wtih a little road. That explains why, “It starts up front. I had when Cedarious Barfield
against the best player in stop-and-go move reminis- for the elite teams, open- a lot of time to go through picked off a pass from Ohio
school terminology — was America.” Cordiero, the cent of a guy named Reg- ers are usually against an my reads and progressions, quarterback CJ Harris in-
appropriate, maybe even same sort of rushing/pass- gie Bush. And no, Bush’s opponent that will push and felt comfortable,” Hart- side the Aztecs’ 30 yard line.
prophetic. ing threat if not quite on number is not among but not threaten. (If they man said. Mayden then drove the Az-
There is a caste system the same level, is the re- the retired number ban- do, look out below.) Hartman connected with tecs 71 yards in 44 seconds,
in college football, as has turning Mountain West of- ners draped over the un- “It’s the first look, Jaden Greathouse on two hitting Redman for a 13-
become increasingly ap- fensive player of the year, used bleachers in the peri- right?” Riley said during scoring strikes, the second yard score as time ran out.
parent in this most re- passing for 3,251 yards style end, though it should the week. “There’s a lot a 20-yard reception that That made it 10-6 at half-
cent summer of realign- and accounting for 23 be only a matter of time, of teams that have great made the score 35-0 early in time.
ment. And in the final sea- passing touchdowns and shouldn’t it? first games that doesn’t the third quarter and kept The Bobcats then missed
son of a four-team College nine more running for Bush was a transcen- necessarily translate into the Irish offense perfect at a 31-yard field goal to cap
Football Playoff, an unfor- a team that was 7-5 and dent player for the Pete great seasons. And so it’s that point — scoring touch- the opening drive of the
giving landscape in which went to a bowl. (OK, it was Carroll Trojans, and let’s a starting point. I mean, downs in their first five pos- second half, a drive that
one loss at any time puts a the Famous Idaho Potato just say if the rules that we only get so many of sessions. chewed up more than half
team in a hole and a loss Bowl, and they lost, but a are in place today were these, and they’re all very The Irish quickly eased of the third quarter.
to a Group of Five team bowl’s a bowl.) in place two decades ago, important. fears about another possi- After a 3-and-out, San Di-
would end any champion- “The whole week, I Bush’s net worth would be “... Your challenge is, ble slow start after going ego State put together two
ship hopes right out of the didn’t get asked one ques- about what Williams’ is to- like I said, the target al- 0-2 to open last season. long drives — a 10-play, 77-
gate, Overreaction Sunday tion about San Jose State,” day, adjusted for inflation. ways moves, right? And “You couldn’t draw it yard drive for Jack Brown-
could have been particu- USC coach Lincoln Riley And it’s only one game, you’ve got to be ready to up any better,” Irish coach ing’s 21 yard field goal and
larly vicious. said. “(But) there was a re- but Branch could turn out respond to that. And so, Marcus Freeman said. an 11-play, 79-yard march
No need, in this case. spect factor for those guys to be just as transcendent yeah, I mean, it’s super im- After touchdowns runs capped by a 4-yard Redman
The eventual 56-28 in the locker room regard- a player, with speed and portant, we need to start by Audric Estimé and touchdown.
Trojans victory indeed less of anything that was moves and flair. He rushed well, but we’re going to Jadarian Price, Hartman’s The Bobcats cashed in
turned out almost as lop- overlooked on the outside.” once for 12 yards, had four need to improve a lot and first TD pass went to Great- with a 3-yard touchdown
sided as was projected Still, the vast major- receptions for 58 yards continue to grow no mat- house, who caught a deep pass from Harris to Miles
by the smart guys in Ve- ity of the 63,411 fans who and a score — a 25-yard ter what happens.” ball at the 5 and took it in Cross with 2:04 to go. The
gas, who had USC as a made it to the Coliseum reception to make it 35- Bottom line: USC won, for a 35-yard scoring play onside kick went out of
30-point favorite com- Saturday may have been 14 in the third quarter — eventually with ease, and and a 21-0 lead. That drive bounds but the Aztecs only
ing in. Yet what was sup- squirming at halftime, es- and three punt returns for a lot of players got play- was a no-huddle special re- picked up eight yards on
posed to be a throat-clear- pecially after Cordiero’s 66 yards as well as the 96- ing time (in fact, backup quiring just 1:52 and four four runs and Ohio got the
ing, bench-emptying exer- 28-yard touchdown pass yard kickoff return. All- quarterback Miller Moss plays to go 78 yards. ball back on its 35 with 55
cise was a one-touchdown to Nick Nash made it 21- purpose yards: 232. scored the Trojans’ final Navy followed with its seconds to play.
game at halftime and just 14 with eight seconds left “He didn’t try to do too touchdown). There were best drive before stalling Ohio picked up a pair of
a 14-point game late in the in the half. much, which is what guys big plays, there were op- at Notre Dame’s 20. On a first downs before New Zea-
third quarter, and Spar- But they were breath- sometimes in their first portunities to learn, and fourth-and-4, kicker Evan land Williams had an inter-
tans quarterback Chevan ing easier after USC fresh- game will do,” Riley said. the next exam will be in a Warren was wide right on ception at the 20, returning
Cordiero was keeping up man Zachariah Branch “He showed patience, es- week against Nevada. a 37-yard field goal attempt, it 40 yards before stepping
with Caleb Williams for a asserted himself, with a pecially on that return.” Don’t worry. The chal- leaving Hartman with 1:55 out of bounds with a second
while. 25-yard scoring recep- How important is Game lenges are just beginning. on the clock. to play.
Williams, of course, tion from Williams and 1? It sets a tone, but the Hartman, a grad trans- Mayden was 17 of 27 for
is the returning Heis- a 96-yard kickoff return team you see on open- jalexander@scng.com fer who set ACC records at 164 yards.
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RAMS CHARGERS

Rejuvenated ground game

positive sign for Chargers
By Elliott Teaford UP NEXT KICKING COMPETITION >>

eteaford@scng.com Season opener: Dophins Coach Brandon Staley

at Chargers, Sept. 10, used both of his kickers
The Chargers certainly 1:25 p.m., Ch. 2 for the second consecu-
hit the ground running tive game – publicly, at
during their exhibition fi- least, leaving one of the
nale against the San Fran- Kelley likely cemented biggest camp battles un-
cisco 49ers on Friday his role as Austin Ekeler’s resolved with final roster
night at Levi’s Stadium in backup by carrying twice cuts due Tuesday. Dicker
Santa Clara. Here’s what for a team-best 78 yards. made field goals of 24 and
we learned and what Third-string quarterback 35 yards and Dustin Hop-
comes next after their 23- Max Duggan gained 51 kins made a 27-yard field
12 victory gave them a 2-1 on six carries, most on goal and two extra points.
record in preseason play: designed runs that froze So, who wins the job?
RUNNING WILD >> The Char- the 49ers’ defensive line. Stay tuned.
gers vowed during the off- Tyler Hoosman rushed for RUNNING NOT THROWING
DAVID ZALUBOWSKI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS season to improve one of 43 yards on a team-high >>Duggan, in the second
Broncos tight end Albert Okwuegbunam catches a touchdown pass against the Rams in the NFL’s worst ground 12 attempts. half, and Easton Stick, in
the first half of a preseason file on Saturday night in Denver. games and judging by T he C ha rgers a lso the first, made things hap-

Rams end preseason

Friday’s results, they sure topped 200 yards rush- pen with their legs rather
seem headed in the right ing in their Aug. 12 vic- than their arms against
direction under new of- tory over the Rams, and the 49ers’ backups. Dug-
fensive coordinator Kel- it might have been closer gan completed 4 of 9

with big loss at Denver

By The Associated Press
DENVER >> The Rams are
hoping not to take Satur-
day night’s preseason finale
with them into the regular
season.
Undrafted rookie Jaleel
McLaughlin scored his
fourth touchdown of the
preseason and tight end Al-
bert Okwuegbunam caught
seven passes for 109 yards
and a TD, leading the Denver
Broncos to a 41-0 blowout of
the Rams, who finished 0-3
in the preseason.
The Rams sat QB Mat-
thew Stafford and several
other starters the entire pre-
season.
Jarrett Stidham directed
Denver to scores on its first
five drives. Wearing white
uniforms at home for the
first time in 20 years, the
Broncos built a 27-0 halftime
lead after lighting up their
mammoth new scoreboard,
the gemstone of a $100 mil-
lion offseason stadium up-
grade.
The game marked the
Broncos’ first taste of suc-
cess under coach Sean Pay-
ton, who grumbled over last-
minute one-point exhibition
losses at Arizona and San
Francisco.
The Broncos (1-2) sat Rus-
sell Wilson and most of their
starters, too. Wilson’s one TD
toss of the preseason went to
Jerry Jeudy, who is expected
to miss several weeks after
pulling his right hamstring
in the second of two joint
practices with the Rams on
Thursday.
McLaughlin, the NCAA’s
all-time leading rusher
who went undrafted out of
Youngstown State, capped
Denver’s opening drive with
a 1-yard TD run.
Brett Maher kicked field
goals of 46 and 33 yards,
Tony Jones Jr. scored from a
yard out and Stidham threw
an 8-yard touchdown pass to
MLS
JACK DEMPSEY — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rams quarterback Brett Rypien looks for a receiver during
a 41-0 setback to the Denver Broncos in a preseason game.
THE SCORE
BRONCOS 41, RAMS 0
Up next: Season opener,
Rams at Seattle, Sept. 10,
1:25 p.m., Ch. 11
tight end Albert Okwuegbu-
nam.
Okwuegbunam also had a
terrific one-handed 20-yard
catch on fourth-and-4 at the
L.A. 27 in the fourth quar-
ter, setting up Ben DiNuc-
ci’s 3-yard TD strike to Josh
Hammond, also on fourth
down.
Marvin Mims Jr.’s 50-yard
catch set up one of the field
goals and fellow rookie Drew
Sanders’ interception set up
Jones’ touchdown. Essang
Bassey also had an intercep-
tion of Stetson Bennett, who
completed just 4 of 9 passes
for 14 yards in the first half.
Stidham was 17 of 28 for
236 yards, one TD and no
interceptions or sacks in his
half of play.
McLaughlin had 10 carries
for 48 yards, four catches for
13 yards and a 19-yard punt
return in his most extensive
action of the preseason.
After Tanner Brown
missed a 39-yard field goal
that would have ended the
shutout, Ben DiNucci di-
rected a 16-play, 71-yard drive
that chewed up nearly nine
len Moore. After all, they to 300 yards if Isaiah passes for 15 yards and a
rushed for 267 yards and Spiller’s 71-yard run for 3-yard touchdown pass to
averaged 6.5 yards per at- a touchdown in the third tight end Hunter Kamp-
tempt. quarter hadn’t been nulli- moyer. Stick completed 9
Yes, the figures were in- fied by a holding penalty. of 11 passes for 38 yards.
flated by Joshua Kelley’s Spiller had 14 yards in five Duggan’s longest pass
75-yard touchdown run carries against the 49ers. play was for 9 yards.
in the first quarter. Yes, TIMELY TAKEAWAYS >> Edge Stick’s longest comple-
this was mostly another rusher Carlo Kemp was tion was for 8 yards.
battle of the backups. Yes, credited with forcing a Duggan’s TD pass came
their passing totals were fumble by 49ers running via a scramble to his right
meager at best. Yes, they back Jordan Mason near on a fourth-and-2 play at
kept it simple and on the the goal line and defen- the 49ers’ 3-yard line.
ground after building a sive back Deane Leonard Just when it seemed the
20-12 lead by the closing recovered in the end zone 49ers had him corralled,
minutes of the third quar- in the opening minutes of he zipped a pass to Kamp-
ter. the game. TV replays indi- moyer, who found a seam
It was, however, an- cated it might have been in the coverage just steps
other indication of what linebacker Nick Niemann into the end zone for a
might be possible when who punched the ball free. go-ahead score late in the
the season begins for L i neba cker Da iya n third quarter.
real on Sept. 10 against Henley intercepted a de- WHAT COMES NEXT ? >>The
the Miami Dolphins at flected pass from third- Chargers must cut their
SoFi Stadium. The Char- string San Francisco quar- roster to 53 players by
gers’ blocking was excel- terback Brandon Allen in Tuesday’s NFL-mandated
minutes and was capped by lent, with the offensive the third quarter, return- deadline. They can set
Tyler Badie’s 1-yard run that line dominating the line ing it 16 yards to the 49ers’ their 16-man practice
made it 34-0. of scrimmage and giving 18-yard line and setting up squad later in what’s come
TOMLINSON EJECTED >> Rams the running backs plenty Cameron Dicker’s 35-yard to be known around the
rookie defensive back Tre of chances for big gains. field goal that gave the league as Week 0. They’ll
Tomlinson was ejected af- Tight end Stone Smart Chargers a 20-12 lead. open the regular sea-
ter drawing a personal foul freed Kelley for his touch- The Chargers had zero son with a Week 1 game
penalty for bringing down down run with a critical takeaways in their first against the Dolphins at
Broncos rookie wideout block, for one example. two exhibitions. SoFi Stadium.
Marvin Mims Jr. by the face-
mask during Denver’s open-
ing drive.
Mims was running an
end-around and turning
up field when Tomlinson
yanked him down at about
the Rams 1-yard line. Tom-
linson’s hand appeared to re-
main entangled in the face-
mask after Mims hit the
ground. He appeared to pull
the receiver by the helmet on
the ground for a short dis-
tance before the defensive
back freed his hand from the
receiver’s facemask.
The penalty flag came out
quickly, the ball was placed
inside the 1-yard line and af-
ter a brief discussion on the
field, the officials ruled that
Tomlinson, a sixth-round
pick out of TCU, was dis-
qualified. GODOFREDO A. VÁSQUEZ — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mims did not appear to be Chargers running back Joshua Kelley runs for a 75-yard touchdown past San Francisco
injured on the play and con- 49ers safety Tayler Hawkins in the first half of Friday’s 23-12 preseason victory.
tinued to participate in the
game. Rookie Broncos run-
ning back Jaleel McLaughlin ACFC
ran the ball into the end zone
on the next play.
Angel City in need of points
with just six games to play

Galaxy resume MLS play with UP NEXT come off the field to have

a shutout victory over Chicago

By Damian Calhoun
dcalhoun@scng.com
CARSON >> The long road
up the Western Conference
standings and the hunt for
a playoff berth resumed for
the Galaxy Saturday.
Galaxy coach Greg Van-
ney said each of the final
12 games are like a play-
off game and at least for
the first, their playoff lives
are still alive and kicking
thanks to a 3-0 win over
the Chicago Fire at Dignity
Health Sports Park in front
of 19,762.
The game was the first
MLS game for the Galaxy
since July 15 and the first
since July 30, when the club
was eliminated from the
Leagues Cup competition.
Since the last game the
Galaxy played, the club un-
derwent a makeover dur-
ing the summer transfer
window, acquiring forward
Billy Sharp, defender Maya
Yoshida and midfielders Di-
ego Fagundez, Michael Bar-
rios and Edwin Cerrillo. Yo-
shida and Cerrillo were in-
serted into the starting
lineup. Sharp entered as
second-half substitute in the
70th minute and scored his
first MLS goal, converting
a penalty kick in the 90th
UP NEXT
Galaxy: at San Jose,
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.,
Apple TV+
LAFC: vs. Miami, Sept. 3,
7 p.m., Apple TV+
minute.
“They’re going to help us,
there’s no question about
that,” Galaxy coach Greg
Vanney said this week of
the new acquisitions. “The
environment is really com-
petitive. Guys are competing
to play, guys are competing
to start, and guys are push-
ing each other. We’ve added
some maturity and we’ve felt
that maturity has raised.”
The game changed in the
27th minute when Chicago
midfielder Gaston Gimenez
picked up his second yellow
card and was sent off, leav-
ing the Galaxy with a player
advantage.
It paid off in the 28th
minute off of a free kick as
Tyler Boyd scored for a 1-0
lead. The initial ball from
Douglas Costa came off of a
Chicago defender and right
into Boyd’s path.
Riqui Puig gave the Gal-
axy a 2-0 lead in the 72nd
minute with his calm finish
inside the 18-yard box.
The win moves the Gal-
axy (6-10-7) to 25 points and
now seven points behind the
ninth and final playoff spot
in the Western Conference.
“Every team we play is a
hard game, especially this
time of year when everybody
looking at the standings and
they understand, on some
level what they need to keep
moving toward the playoffs,”
Vanney said.
CHARLOTTE 2, LAFC 1 >> Scott
Arfield scored his first ca-
reer goal late in the second
half to help Charlotte rally
past Los Angeles FC.
Charlotte (7-9-8), which
improved to 7-1-5 in its
last 12 matches at home,
grabbed a 1-0 lead on Ash-
ley Westwood’s second goal
of the season — unassisted
in the 29th minute.
Mario González netted
the equalizer in the 67th
minute for LAFC (11-7-7),
using an assist from Dénis
Bouanga to score his first ca-
reer goal in his second ap-
pearance.
Arfield delivered the
match-winner in the 75th
minute, scoring unassisted
in his third start and fourth
appearance.
Kristijan Kahlina saved
five shots for Charlotte. John
McCarthy totaled three
saves for LAFC.
By Damian Calhoun
dcalhoun@scng.com
Just like last season, the
Angel City Football Club is
within striking distance of
a NWSL playoff berth.
Its inaugural season
ended with Angel City on
the outside looking in at
the playoffs. Heading into
today’s home game against
OL Reign, the same ending
is possible.
Angel City (4-6-6) enters
this week with 18 points,
currently in 10th place
in the NWSL. The top six
teams in the league qual-
ify for the playoffs. The
current sixth-place team is
OL Reign, a team that An-
gel City trails by six points
and has yet to defeat in its
short history.
ACFC has an eight-game
unbeaten (4-0-4) streak
since Becki Tweed was pro-
moted to interim coach.
OL Reign, which is 6-0-1
all-time against ACFC, has
lost consecutive games and
hasn’t lost three consecu-
tive games under Laura
Harvey since 2013.
“I think we’re going to
need everybody and it’s
one of those things that
are easier said than done,
because we all want to
play,” Angel City defender
and captain Ali Riley said.
“There’s so much compe-
tition now with everyone
Today: OL Reign at Angel
City FC, 5 p.m., BSSC
healthy and everyone com-
ing back and the team did
really well during the kind
of World Cup break and in
the Challenge Cup.
“Players have really
stepped up, so now when
Becki calls upon the player
she does and to play differ-
ent roles. So I think it’s go-
ing to be this balance of,
‘Can the team really buy
into that? Can the coaches
help push that and ev-
eryone have this mental-
ity?’ We can’t look too far
ahead.”
Last season, the playoff
cutline was 33 points, so
heading into the final six-
game stretch, Angel City is
aware that there is a lot of
work to be done, but points
are out there.
Jun Endo has returned
to training after her
World Cup run with Ja-
pan and will be available,
Tweed said. Also, Aman-
dine Henry, who has yet
to make her debut after
not making the French na-
tional team, will be avail-
able.
“Are the players who
don’t start, are they ready?
Are the players who do
start ready to give every-
thing they have and then
someone else finish the
game?” Riley said. “I just
think that it’s something
that we’ve wanted to have
as an identity for this club,
but we haven’t had so many
players available.
“So now that we’re in
this position, it’s a great
problem to have, but you
have to have total buy-in.
I think we’re going to see
that this weekend and then
again with the game five
days later.”
Ertz still away
Star midfielder Julie
Ertz will not be available
for today’s game, Tweed
confirmed.
“I think she just needs
another week,” Tweed said.
“Again, she has a 1-year-old
son and you know her hus-
band is in the NFL, so she
just needs a little bit more
time and we have to re-
spect that. Coming back
from a World Cup is diffi-
cult, especially when you
also have a world full of
other things, so we’re re-
specting that time that she
needs.”
Also
Angel City will hold a re-
tirement appreciation cer-
emony for OL Reign’s Me-
gan Rapinoe before the
game. Rapinoe is retiring
at the end of the season.
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SPORTS | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWS GROUP
GOLF ROUNDUP
Hovland
closes in
on Tour
victory
By The Associated Press
Viktor Hovland can’t re-
member playing this well
with every aspect of his
game, and he can’t think of
a better time for it to all come
together.
One more round of that
and he’ll have $18 million to
show for it, along with his
name on the FedEx Cup tro-
phy.
Hovland delivered another
sterling performance Satur-
day in the Tour Champion-
ship in Atlanta, a 4-under
66 that allowed him to pull
away from an All-Star cast
of contenders and build a
six-shot lead going into the
final round of the season at
East Lake.
“The list of names that’s
been on that trophy is pretty
special,” Hovland said. “It
feels more like a sprint. Ob-
viously, it’s a marathon get-
ting into this week. But it’s
hard to win the FedEx Cup
if you haven’t played well the
last few weeks.”
No one has played better.
He broke the course record
at Olympia Fields on Sunday
with a 61 that allowed him
to surge past Scottie Schef-
fler and win the BMW Cham-
pionship. He has not let up
at East Lake, even in the ex-
treme heat.
The Norwegian star was
tied with Collin Morikawa
to start the sunbaked third
round, with Scheffler, Jon
Rahm and Xander Schauffele
all lined up behind him. No
one could keep pace, espe-
cially after a 90-minute stop-
page because of storms in the
area.
Hovland, who started at
8-under par as the No. 2 seed,
was at 20 under.
Schauffele, who has never
finished worse than seventh
or shot worse than par in his
seven years playing the Tour
Championship, had a 68
and was at 14 under. All he
could think about was a pair
of 4-foot putts he missed on
the back nine — for par at No.
15, for birdie on the closing
hole — knowing how much
ground he had to make up.
“Not good enough,”
Schauffele said about his
round.
Morikawa didn’t make a
birdie until the 16th hole in
his round of 73, leaving him
seven shots behind with
Keegan Bradley.
LPGA Tour
Megan Khang birdied
four of the last five holes for
a 4-under 68 and a three-
stroke lead Saturday in the
CPKC Women’s Open in Van-
couver, British Columbia.
Seeking her first LPGA
Tour victory, Khang re-
bounded from bogeys on
Nos. 10 and 12 with birdies
on Nos. 14-16 and 18 — holing
a 15-footer on the last.
“At the end of the day I’m
just going to try my best to
keep that same mindset, stay
patient,” Khang said. “These
fairways are tight and the
greens are firm and really
just kind of trust myself out
there.”
The 25-year-old Ameri-
can had an 11-under 205 to-
tal at Shaughnessy Golf and
Country Club, the challeng-
ing water-side layout with
towering trees — and plenty
of mosquitoes. While winless
on the tour, she has 33 top-
10 finishes, career earnings
over $5 million and is ranked
27th in the world.
DP World Tour
Finland’s Sami Välimäki
and England’s Matt Wallace
shot 5-under 67s to share a
one-stroke lead over another
Ryder Cup hopeful, Nico-
lai Hojgaard, after the third
round of the Czech Masters.
Välimäki and Wallace
each carded six birdies and
one bogey to move to 16 un-
der overall at the Albatross
Golf Resort near Prague.
Wallace was happy.
PGA Tour Champions
American Paul Goydos
and Darren Clarke of the
United Kingdom both shot
6-under 66 and were tied at
11-under after two rounds of
The Ally Challenge in Grand
Blanc, Michigan.
Four others, including
Americans Harrison Frazar
and Jeff Maggert, are a shot
back at 10-under.
GOLF
Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club head pro Michael Block is the reigning PGA Professional
National Player of the Year and a nine-time Southern California PGA Player of the Year.
Club pro Block’s
‘absolutely insane’
wild ride continues
By Randy Youngman
Correspondent
How has life changed
for Michael Block since
the Southern California
club professional burst
into the national spotlight
three months ago during
the PGA Championship?
Immeasurably.
This is how Block, the
head professional at Ar-
royo Trabuco Golf Club in
Mission Viejo, summed up
the immediate and ongo-
ing aftermath of his mem-
orable week at Oak Hill
Country Club in Roches-
ter, New York, which in-
cluded a 15th-place finish
and a highlight-reel hole-
in-one in the final round
that went viral on social
media:
“It’s been crazy!” Block
said of his whirlwind post-
PGA Championship life
during an interview last
week. “Absolutely insane.”
In the span of one week
in late May, Block went
from celebrated South-
ern California PGA Pro-
fessional to national cult
hero, almost overnight.
First, he endeared him-
self to golf fans at Oak
Hill with his engaging be-
havior and then to the na-
tional TV audience during
walk-and-talk interviews
with ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt
and CBS’ Jim Nantz dur-
ing the second and third
rounds.
But the climactic, al-
most magical, moment
came during the final
round in a pairing with
tour superstar Rory McIl-
roy when Block squinted
into the sun on the par-3
15th hole and swung his
7-iron, the ball starting
on a good line toward the
green before he lost sight
of it in the afternoon sun.
Suddenly, the greenside
gallery erupted in screams
and thunderous applause.
“Went straight in the
hole!” Rory said, laugh-
ing, after slapping Block’s
hand and giving him a
hug.
“No! ... No way!” Block
said incredulously.
Yes, it did. On the fly.
Slam dunk!
And the ovation lasted
until Block arrived at the
green and pulled his ball
with the Arroyo Trabuco
logo from the cup, showing
it to the cheering crowd,
many holding their cell-
phones and beers aloft.
“The fairytale story ...
gets better!” Nantz en-
thused on the CBS telecast.
And it got even better
after Block’s sensational
up-and-down from the
deep rough on the 18th
hole, rolling in a par putt
that secured the 15th-place
finish that earned an in-
vitation to the 2024 PGA
Championship at Valhalla
Golf Club in Louisville.
For the 15th-place fin-
ish — the best by a club
pro since Lonnie Nielsen
tied for 11th at the 1986
PGA Championship —
Block received the crystal
bowl that goes to the low
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club professional in the
event and a career-best
$288,000 paycheck.
“I’m living a dream,”
Block told reporters after
the final round. “I’m mak-
ing sure that I enjoy this
moment. I’ve learned that
after my 46 years of life,
it’s not going to get better
than this. There’s no way.”
Soon thereaf ter, he
found out how wrong he
was. Shortly after signing
his scorecard and meet-
ing the media, Block re-
ceived sponsors’ exemp-
tions to compete in PGA
Tour events in Fort Worth
(Charles Schwab Chal-
lenge at Colonial) and
Toronto (RBC Canadian
Open).
Let us count the ways
his life got better and con-
tinues to get better:
• Block did 30 TV in-
terviews in the span of
a week, including “Good
Morning America” on
ABC, the “Today” show
on NBC and “CNN This
Morning.”
• In the two weeks af-
ter the PGA, Block’s Insta-
gram followers increased
from 4,000 to 250,000. To-
day, the count is 265,000.
Now, he says he is recog-
nized everywhere he goes,
including airports in other
cities.
• Since the PGA, Block
has signed several new en-
dorsement contracts, in-
cluding with Cisco, Mich-
elob Ultra, Raising Cane’s
and Corebridge Financial,
to go along with his exist-
ing TaylorMade and Nike
deals that likely will be
sweetened when they ex-
pire.
• Block has also signed
with the famed William
Morris Agency, which is
helping him schedule all
of his events and negotiate
his contracts. His agent is
Davis Holman of William
Morris Endeavor (WME).
• Though the PGA Tour
hasn’t made an official an-
nouncement, Block will be
playing in another tour
event this fall and has
been invited to compete in
the Australian Open out-
side Sydney in late Novem-
ber-early December.
• His famous ace at the
PGA Championship was
one of four nominees as
“Best Play” of the Year
during the ESPY Awards
in July. He took a limo to
the event in Los Angeles
with a few buddies and ap-
peared on stage to intro-
duce one segment of the
telecast.
“I didn’t win, but it was
an honor just to be nomi-
nated,” Block said, adding
that it was cool to meet
Mike Tyson and that he
was asked to give a put-
ting lesson to Chiefs quar-
terback Patrick Mahomes
in the Green Room.
• Block was invited to
play in a charity tourna-
ment by renowned music
producer and rap artist
DJ Khaled and, of course,
Khaled’s stacked team (in-
cluding Block and former
Masters champ Bubba
Watson) won the event at
Miami Beach Golf Club.
• Michelob Ultra Can-
ada flew Block to Toronto
to do a promotion for Mi-
chelob Ultra’s 90-calo-
rie light beer, in which
Block had 90 shots from
114 yards to try to make a
hole-in-one at Glen Abbey
Golf Club. His closest tee
shot stopped two inches
from the cup.
• The 7-iron that he
used to ace No. 15, which
“a collector in Texas of-
fered me $50,000 for,” in-
stead is headed to the PGA
of America Hall of Fame.
• When he returned
home from the PGA Cham-
pionship, Mission Viejo
Country Club in his city
of residence gave him an
honorary club member-
ship. Cadillac also gave
him an Escalade to drive
for a year.
• He says he has re-
ceived at least 10,000
emails and almost as
many texts since the PGA
Championship, and he is
still in the process of an-
swering all of them.
One of the texts, as
w idely repor ted, was
from Michael Jordan.
“Took me a day to find the
text,” Block said, laughing.
“We’re going to play golf
this winter at his course,
The Grove XXIII,” a pri-
vate, invitation-only club
that Jordan owns in Hobe
Sound, Fla.
• Block says he will also
be featured on the second
season of Netflix’s “Full
Swing” documentary se-
ries about the PGA Tour,
with behind-the-scenes
footage shot at his home
and at Arroyo Trabuco.
• In addition, the PGA of
America has invited seven
of Block’s working col-
leagues at Arroyo Trabuco
to attend the 2024 PGA
Championship at Valhalla,
with all expenses paid, so
they can watch the most fa-
mous club pro in the United
States — if not the world —
compete in another major
championship.
Interestingly, Block was
invited to play a practice
round at Valhalla last
week, and all he did was
shoot a 9-under 63, with
seven birdies and one ea-
gle, tying the course re-
cord set by Jose Maria
Olazabal during the 2000
PGA Championship. Yes,
with the cameras rolling.
As Golf Digest reported,
“The Year of Michael Block
continues.”
In case you’re wonder-
ing, Block — the reigning
PGA Professional National
Player of the Year, as well
as a nine-time Southern
California PGA Player of
the Year — is leading both
points races in 2023 as he
attempts to repeat both
honors.
So much for the notion
that things couldn’t get
any better after the PGA
Championship at Oak Hill.
“I’m living the dream,
and I’m going to ride it as
long as I can,” Block says
now.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2023
SPORTSWIRE
Kurt Busch, still
recovering from
concussion, retires
the U.S. was disqualified.
By The Associated Press
The U.S. closed the night
Kurt Busch, the 2004 with 27 medals and one
NASCAR champion who day of competition left.
stepped away from rac-
ing last season following BOXING
a significant concussion, Usyk stops Dubois
officially retired Saturday
at Daytona International to retain three titles
Speedway. Oleksandr Usyk success-
Busch, 45, held back fully retained his heavy-
tears as he called it quits weight boxing titles by
on the same stage where stopping British challenger
he celebrated one of his Daniel Dubois in the ninth
most memorable Cup Se- round in Wroclaw, Poland
ries victories — the 2017 Fighting for the first time
Daytona 500. in more than a year and
“My body is just having cheered on by fans wav-
a battle with Father Time,” ing Ukrainian flags, Usyk
Busch said, adding he has knocked down Dubois in
dealt with arthritis and the eighth round. Referee
gout while trying to recover Luis Pabon stopped the
from a rear-impact collision fight when Usyk dumped
he says rattled his brain. him again in the ninth with
“I’m very happy, com- a stiff right to the jaw.
placent,” he said. “There’s Usyk remained un-
nothing I look back on beaten at 21-0 after his sec-
and regret about having ond defense of the WBA,
this opportunity at the top IBF and WBO belts he
level of NASCAR.” took from Anthony Joshua
The Las Vegas native suf- in 2021 and held after re-
fered a life-changing con- match a year later. Dubois’
cussion in a qualifying crash record dropped to 19-2.
at Pocono Raceway last
summer. After slamming NFL
into the wall backward, Jacobs, Raiders
the front end of his Toyota
smacked it at a G-force that agree to 1-year deal
raised safety concerns about Josh Jacobs took to social
the Next Gen cars. media to say, “I’m back,” af-
NASCAR spent much of ter agreeing to a one-year
the offseason tweaking its deal to play for the Las Ve-
car to try to limit the ef- gas Raiders this season.
fects of rear-impact colli- The contract is worth
sions that wreaked havoc up to $12 million, multi-
on drivers in 2022. ple sources reported.
Busch said he continues Jacobs would have re-
to show incremental im- ceived $10.1 million this
provements and intends to season if he had signed the
return to racing one day but franchise tag tender.
has no timetable for getting Jacobs, who last season
back behind the wheel. led the NFL in rushing
Busch won 34 races in with 1,653 yards, had been
776 starts over 23 years in expected to sign with the
the Cup Series. Raiders rather than sit out
• Chris Buescher won the the season and forfeit his
NASCAR Cup Series regu- salary, but his prolonged
lar-season finale at Day- absence began to raise
tona, eliminating Chase El- questions.
liott from the playoffs and • Aaron Rodgers capped
sending Bubba Wallace his second series with the
into the postseason. New York Jets by tossing a
• Red Bull driver Max 14-yard touchdown pass to
Verstappen won the pole Garrett Wilson in the first
position at the Dutch Grand quarter of his preseason
Prix in Zandvoort for the debut against the New
third straight year. The run- York Giants at the Mead-
away Formula One leader owlands. Rodgers went 5 for
earned his 28th career pole. 8 for 47 yards and the TD in
The two-time defending his two series before being
world champion will aim replaced by Zach Wilson. .
for a ninth straight win to-
day — to equal former Red SOCCER
Bull driver Sebastian Vet- Spanish women’s
tel’s record from 2013 —
and 11th overall of a domi- coach suspended
nant season. FIFA suspended Span-
ish soccer federation pres-
TRACK AND FIELD ident Luis Rubiales while
U.S. sweeps sprint its disciplinary committee
investigates his conduct at
relays at worlds the Women’s World Cup fi-
Sha’Carri Richardson nal, which included kiss-
and Noah Lyles anchored ing player Jenni Hermoso
the U.S. to back-to-back on the lips after Spain’s vic-
victories in the 4x100, giv- tory.
ing the Americans a sweep The provisional sus-
of the short relays at the pension comes less than a
world championships for week after Spain’s 1-0 vic-
the first time since 2007. tory over England in Syd-
For Lyles, it closed out a ney, Australia, and a day
3-for-3 championships. He’s after Rubiales refused to
the first man since Usain resign, despite intense pres-
Bolt in 2015 to win the 100, sure from the Spanish gov-
200 and 4x100 at worlds. ernment, women players,
Bolt won all three races soccer clubs and officials.
at three championships, Rubiales’ conduct, which
and also at the 2008, 2012 also included grabbing his
and 2016 Olympics. Now, crotch, has overshadowed
Lyles will be trying to do the enormous accomplish-
it in Paris in 2024. ment of Spain’s first Wom-
The men stayed on the en’s World Cup title.
track to watch the women, Hermoso has said she
and when Richardson did not consent to the
crossed, lead runner Chris- kiss, and the team’s players
tian Coleman came out have said they will not play
and tackled the 100-meter any more games as long as
champion and they fell to Rubiales is in charge.
the track. Richardson will
leave Budapest, Hungary, GYMNASTICS
with her two golds, plus a Stanford’s Hong
bronze in the 200.
The U.S. women fin- wins national crown
ished in 41.03 — .18 ahead Asher Hong won his first
of Jamaica. men’s national gymnastics
Italy finished second in title in San Jose, posting a
the men’s race at 37.62, two-day total of 170.930 to
This race has never been edge college teammate Khoi
simply about speed, though, Young and Fred Richard.
and the U.S. has had tons of Hong, a sophomore at
problems with baton passes Stanford, is the first teen-
over the years. ager to win a men’s all-
Those sticks have cost the around national champi-
men wins in 12 worlds and onship since John Orozco
Olympics since 1995. The in 2012.
women have had their share
of trouble, too, and as if to NBA
drive that point home once Washington, Hornets
more, the women’s 4x400
team ran into problems. agree to 3-year deal
Quanera Hayes and The Charlotte Hornets
Alexis Holmes passed out- agreed to a three-year,
side the lane in qualifying $48 million contract with
of the longer race, where starting forward P.J. Wash-
the exchange isn’t even ington, multiple sources
supposed to be hard, and reported.
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HORSE RACING Motorsports MLS

Anarchist punches ticket

Saturday’s results
(1) Chase Briscoe, Ford, accident, 156, 9.
NASCAR CUP SERIES Galaxy 3, Chicago 0
COKE ZERO SUGAR 400 31. (9) Ryan Preece, Ford, accident, 155, Charlotte FC 2, LAFC 1
6; 32. (35) Todd Gilliland, Ford, over- Atlanta 4, Nashville 0
At Daytona International Speedway heating, 131, 5; 33. (21) Austin Dillon, Cincinnati 3, New York City FC 0

to Breeders’ Cup with win

Daytona Beach, Fla. Chevrolet, accident, 102, 7; 34. (32) Ricky Columbus 2, Toronto FC 0
Lap length: 2.50 miles Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, accident, 96, 3; Philadelphia 3, D.C. United 1
35. (5) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, accident, 94, 9; CF Montréal 1, New England 0
(Start position in parentheses)
Miami 2, New York 0
1. (11) Chris Buescher, Ford, 163 laps, 36. (8) Ryan Blaney, Ford, accident, 94, 1;
Orlando City 2, Saint Louis City SC 1
40 points; 2. (12) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 37. (16) Austin Cindric, Ford, accident, FC Dallas 1, Austin FC 0
163, 45; 3. (2) Aric Almirola, Ford, 163, 34. 94, 5; 38. (6) Riley Herbst, Ford, accident, Sporting Kansas City 3, San Jose 0
4. (23) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 163, 37; 94, 0; 39. (34) Brennan Poole, Ford, ac- Houston 3, Real Salt Lake 0
By Art Wilson
for winning trainer Doug energy and he got good 5. (14) Joey Logano, Ford, 163, 39; 6. (31) cident, 93, 0. Vancouver 3, Portland 2
Correspondent
O’ Neill, who saddled position,” he said. “We Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 163, 38; 7. (18)
Race Statistics Today’s game
three w inners overall all wanted to try to make Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 163, 39; 8. (27)
Average speed of race winner: 156.357
Seattle at Minnesota, 1:30 p.m.
William Byron, Chevrolet, 163, 35; 9. (10)
DEL MAR >> Anarchist was and moved into a tie with the finish line the quarter Kevin Harvick, Ford, 163, 36; 10. (37) mph.
forced to settle for second Philip D’Amato atop the pole. If you can win the Corey LaJoie, Chevrolet, 163, 27. Time of race: 2 hours, 34 minutes, 22 NFL
prize in his last start, but trainer standings with 15 quarter pole, you’ve got a 11. (30) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 163, 26; 12. seconds.
(4) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 163, 30; 13. Margin of victory: .098 seconds.
the 4-year-old Distorted victories. chance to win. He doesn’t (39) Michael McDowell, Ford, 163, 24; 14. PRESEASON
Caution flags: 3 for 18 laps.
Humor colt grabbed all Final time for the 7 fur- have a big stretch run, (26) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 163, 0; 15. (36)
Lead changes: 22 among 17 drivers. Saturday’s results
Chandler Smith, Chevrolet, 163, 0; 16.
the marbles Saturday in longs was 1:23.21 after but he grinds it out and (15) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 163, 30; 17. Wins: W.Byron, 5; M.Truex, 3; K.Busch, Denver 41, Rams 0
the $250,000 Grade II Pat pacesetter Brickyard Ride, we were hoping if he was (25) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 163, 22; 3; D.Hamlin, 2; K.Larson, 2; C.Buescher, Arizona 18, Minnesota 17
O’Brien Stakes at Del Mar. who finished eighth in the leading turning for home 18. (24) Erik Jones, Chevrolet, 163, 19; 19. 2; C.Bell, 1; R.Chastain, 1; R.Blaney, 1; Buffalo 24, Chicago 21
(33) JJ Yeley, Ford, 163, 0;20. (22) Daniel Green Bay 19, Seattle 15
Second behind The Cho- 10-horse field, carved out we’d have a big chance. It Suárez, Chevrolet, 163, 26.
T.Reddick, 1; J.Logano, 1; R.Stenhouse, 1;
Kansas City 33, Cleveland 32
M.McDowell, 1.
sen Vron, losing by only a splits of 21.49 and 44.44. worked out perfectly.” 21. (28) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 163, 16; Top 16 in Points: 1. M.Truex, 861; 2. N.Y. Jets 32, N.Y. Giants 24
nose, in the Grade I Bing “He was good today, full T he v ictor y wa s 22. (29) Josh Berry, Chevrolet, 163, 0; 23.
D.Hamlin, 822; 3. W.Byron, 785; 4. C.Bell, Washington 21, Cincinnati 19
(38) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, 163, 14; 24.
Crosby Stakes on July 29, of run,” Vazquez said. “I O’Neill’s 45th stakes vic- (13) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 163, 23; 25.
752; 5. K.Larson, 721; 6. B.Keselowski, Jacksonville 31, Miami 18
Tampa Bay 26, Baltimore 20
Anarchist put in a big took a little hold on him tory at Del Mar and first (20) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 163, 17; 26. 697; 7. C.Buescher, 695; 8. R.Chastain,
Dallas 31, Las Vegas 16
695; 9. R.Blaney, 694; 10. K.Harvick, 693;
run as the field turned for and he was fine with it. this summer. He’s won the (19) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 162, 14; 27.
11. K.Busch, 688; 12. T.Reddick, 683; 13. Today’s game
(7) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 161, 10; 28.
home and held off the fast- Then when I asked him, Pat O’Brien two times af- (3) Harrison Burton, Ford, 160, 9; 29. (17) J.Logano, 666; 14. B.Wallace, 590; 15. Houston at New Orleans, 5 p.m.
closing Bye Bye Bobby (33- he really went. He was a ter saddling Goldencents AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 160, 8; 30. R.Stenhouse, 566; 16. T.Gibbs, 558. End of preseason
1) to win the top prize of runner today.” for a victory in 2014.
$150,000 and earn a guar- Anarchist was fifth af- Vazquez has won three Del Mar results
anteed berth in the Breed- ter the first quarter mile, stakes this meet and Sat-
Winner — Positivity B.g.5 by Paynter out of Sam’s Sunny City,
ers’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. had moved to four th urday’s victory gave him RACE 1 by City Zip. Bred by Allen Farm, LLC (CA). Trainer: Doug F.
4 at Santa Anita. around the turn, opened seven overall at the sea- 3196 — 5 1/2 Furlongs. Maiden Claiming. 3 year olds and up.
O’Neill. Owner: C T R Stables LLC (Calvert) and Aldabbagh,
Omar; Claimed — Positivity by Giddyup JR, LLC. Trainer: Kris-
Ramon Vazquez rode up a 11/2-length lead at side track. Claiming Price $20,000. Purse $30,000. tin Mulhall; Claimed — Cyberviking by Triple V Racing, LLC.
the 5-2 favorite, who the top of the stretch and FRESU ON A TEAR >> Jockey Horse, Jockey Wt P St 1/4 3/8 Str Fin Odds
Trainer: Todd Fincher.
Claimed — Disco Ball by Amaty Racing Stables. Trainer:
scored the second graded- then withstood a late rally Antonio Fresu won two Brazen Bull, Vazquez 121 7 2 2-2 1/2 2-3 1-1 1-1/2 0.7 Sandino Hernandez, Jr; Claimed — My Man Bags by Thomsen
stakes victory of his 12- by Bye Bye Bobby and races Saturday to run his South Coast Route, Escbdo 114 2 3 4-hd 4-1 1/23-2 1/2 2-1/2 5.0 Racing, LLC. Trainer: Steve Knapp.
Cupid’s Crusader, Franco 124 1 7 7 6-hd 4-2 3-3 3/4 5.2
race career and won for Drayden Van Dyke. total to seven this week. Fordy G, E Maldonado 121 3 1 1-1/2 1-1/2 2-2 4-6 1/2 4.1 RACE 7
the third time overall. O’Neill felt good about With 20 victories, he’s Big Way, Torrealba 114 6 4 5-1/2 5-2 6-5 5-2 3/4 25.1
Missing Them, Gutierrez 121 5 6 3-2 3-1/2 5-1 6-4 1/4 49.1 3202 — 5 Furlongs (Turf). Maiden Special Weight. 3 year olds
Anarchist, who’s finished his horse’s chances af- moved into a tie for sec- Rocky Champs, Couton 124 4 5 6-2 1/2 7 7 7 47.7 and up. Purse $82,000
no worse than second in ter post positions were ond in the jockey stand- Time — :22.18 :45.89 :58.32 1:04.82 Clear. Fast. Horse, Jockey Wt P St 3/16 3/8 Str Fin Odds
10 of his 12 starts, pad- drawn Wednesday. The ings with Umberto Risp- 7 Brazen Bull 3.40 2.60 2.40
Harry’s Onthefly, Mldnado 121 11 1 1-1/2 1-2 1/21-1 1/2 1-3/4 3.9
2 South Coast Route 3.40 3.00
ded his career earnings winner started from the oli, who is in Japan com- 1 Cupid’s Crusader 2.80
Uncle Reg, Hernandez 121 1 6 3-hd 3-1 3-2 2-1 1/4 1.5
Petcoff, Torrealba 114 9 10 10-7 9-hd 8-1/2 3-1/2 17.3
to $460,508. No. 8 post. peting in an international Exacta (7-2) paid $4.90. Quinella (2-7) paid $10.60. Superfecta Bad Uncle Barry, Herrera121 10 8 9-1 1/2 8-1 1/2 5-hd 4-nk 24.2
It was also a big day “Ramon saved a lot of competition. (7-2-1-3) paid $2.72. Trifecta (7-2-1) paid $6.85.
Johnny Drama, Fresu 121 2 9 7-1 5-1 4-1 5-1/2 14.4
Winner — Brazen Bull Ch.g.3 by Munnings out of Rose Again,
by Curlin. Bred by Theta Holding 1, Inc. (KY). Trainer: Librado Antonsen, Berrios 124 6 3 2-2 2-2 2-1/2 6-1 3/4 7.5
Barocio. Owner: Rockingham Ranch. Collect Dis Money, Gtrrez 121 8 2 4-hd 6-hd 7-hd 7-1 1/4 22.7
Quintecents, Vazquez 124 5 4 6-2 4-1/2 6-1 8-1 3/4 4.4
Golf Claimed — Brazen Bull by Kline, William and Carolyn and
Bachand Jr., Richard. Trainer: Satchell Stevens. Thrust, Van Dyke 121 7 5 5-hd 7-1 9-4 9-2 3/4 24.6
as the No. 1 seed, two shots clear of Harrison Frazar.....................67-67—134 -10 Venom, Pereira 121 3 11 8-hd 10-8 10-4 10-13/4 44.4
PGA - TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP Hovland and three ahead of McIlroy. The Jeff Maggert......................... 66-68—134 -10 RACE 2 Living Life, Bravo 121 4 7 11 11 11 11 34.5
rest of the field is grouped at various Vijay Singh............................ 66-68—134 -10 Time — :22.14 :45.13 0:56.98 Clear. Firm.
At East Lake GC stages all the way down to the last five Bernhard Langer.................... 69-67—136 -8 3197 — 5 Furlongs (Turf). Starter Allowance. 3 year olds and 11 Harry’s Onthefly 9.80 5.00 3.80
Atlanta players who start at even par. Shane Bertsch........................ 69-68—137 -7 up. Claiming Price $50,000. Purse $43,000. 9 Petcoff 11.60 8.80
Yardage: 7,346; Par: 70 Richard Green..........................70-67—137 -7 Horse, Jockey Wt P St 3/16 3/8 Str Fin Odds 10 Bad Uncle Barry 14.40
Third round LPGA - CPKC WOMEN’S OPEN John Huston.............................71-66—137 -7 Pick Three (8-6-11) paid $119.50; Pick Three Pool $167,118.
Paul Stankowski......................66-71—137 -7 Tigerhon, G Franco 122 3 5 5-1/2 5-1/2 5-hd 1-nk 4.3
Viktor Hovland............... 68-64-66—198 -20 Daily Double (6-11) paid $40.00; Daily Double Pool $51,473. Ex-
Lee Janzen................................71-67—138 -6 Rolling On, Vazquez 119 2 2 2-1 1/2 2-2 2-2 2-1/2 2.7 acta (11-9) paid $71.50. Quinella (9-11) paid $75.80. Superfecta
Xander Schauffele..........67-64-68—199 -14 At Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club
Castleknock, Hernandez 119 4 6 7 6-1 1/2 6-5 3-nk 3.4 (11-9-10-2) paid $1,351.18. Trifecta (11-9-10) paid $400.65.
Keegan Bradley............... 63-67-70—200 -13 Vancouver, British Columbia
Awesome Rhythm, Pereira 122 1 7 6-hd 4-1 4-1/2 4-1/2 6.8 Winner — Harry’s Onthefly Ch.g.3 by Khozan out of Fly
Collin Morikawa.............. 61-64-73—198 -13 Purse: $2.4 million
Wyndham Clark...............68-67-68—203 -11 Yardage: 6,685; Par: 72 Odds Devil Moon, Gutierrez
Belmont Bill, Herrera
122 7 1 1-1 1-1 1-1/2 5-ns
122 5 3 3-1/2 3-1/2 3-hd 6-8 1/4
3.1
8.1
Express, by Concorde’s Tune. Bred by Herman Wilensky
(FL). Trainer: Herman Wilensky. Owner: Herman Wilensky;
Jon Rahm.......................... 69-65-71—205 -11 Third Round
Soul of Midnight, Ramirez 119 6 4 4-1 1/2 7 7 7 31.5 Scratched — Classical, Distorted Math, Grand Tiger, Mobe
Scottie Scheffler............. 71-65-73—209 -11 Town.
Megan Khang...................71-66-68—205 -11 FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK Time — :22.02 :44.88 0:56.85 Clear. Firm.
Patrick Cantlay................. 69-68-68—205 -9 Sei Young Kim....................69-72-67—208 -8
Adam Schenk.....................63-70-69—202 -9 4 Tigerhon (FR) 10.60 5.00 3.00
Jin Young Ko....................... 69-70-71—210 -6
3 Rolling On 4.00 2.60
RACE 8
Rory McIlroy...................... 70-67-71—208 -9 Georgia Hall.......................73-68-70—211 -5 MLB
Sepp Straka........................66-71-65—202 -8 Yuka Saso........................... 66-73-72—211 -5 5 Castleknock 2.60 3203 — 6 Furlongs. Allowance Optional Claiming. 3 year olds
Favorite Line Underdog
Max Homa......................... 70-67-69—206 -8 Jodi Ewart Shadoff........... 73-72-67—212 -4 Daily Double (7-4) paid $27.60; Daily Double Pool $39,076. and up. Claiming Price $80,000. Purse $84,000.
Matt Fitzpatrick................67-68-71—206 -8 Hannah Green.....................70-71-72—213 -3 American League Exacta (4-3) paid $14.40. Quinella (3-4) paid $18.20. Superfecta
Tommy Fleetwood............ 71-70-65—206 -7 Linn Grant............................67-71-76—214 -2 at Toronto -220/+184 Cleveland (4-3-5-2) paid $15.82. Trifecta (4-3-5) paid $22.40. Horse, Jockey Wt P St 1/4 1/2 Str Fin Odds
Lucas Glover......................72-67-69—208 -7 Jeongeun Lee6....................74-69-71—214 -2 Houston -176/+148 at Detroit Winner — Tigerhon (FR) Dbb.g.5 by Bated Breath (GB) out of Arham, Berrios 120 4 6 4-1 4-3 2-11/2 1-2 1/4 4.0
Sam Burns..........................66-66-71—203 -7 Linnea Strom......................71-70-73—214 -2 Toinette (IRE), by Makfi (GB). Bred by First Racing & Imperial Desmond Doss, Hrndez 120 1 7 7-hd 5-1/2 4-hd 2-1 1/4 2.6
at Tampa Bay -126/+108 NY Yankees
Tyrrell Hatton.................... 64-67-72—203 -7 In Gee Chun........................ 74-72-69—215 -1 Bloodstock SARL (FR). Trainer: Mark Glatt. Owner: Red Baron’s
at Chicago WS -132/+112 Oakland Barn LLC and Rancho Temescal LLC. Escape Route, Herrera 120 2 3 5-1/2 6-2 6-2 3-1 3/4 10.2
Brian Harman....................68-70-70—208 -6 Nelly Korda......................... 70-70-75—215 -1 Good With People, Gtrrez 120 8 1 1-hd 1-1/2 1-hd 4-1/2 9.7
Texas Off/Off at Minnesota
Corey Conners...................70-71-66—207 -5 Scratched — Jam Session, Mr. Disrespectful.
at Seattle Off/Off Kansas City Howbeit, Fresu 120 3 8 8 7-1/2 7-4 5-2 1/2 4.8
Russell Henley................... 65-71-72—208 -5
Rickie Fowler.................... 68-73-68—209 -4
PGA CHAMPIONS - National League RACE 3 Principe Carlo, Vazquez 120 7 2 2-hd 3-1 3-1/2 6-2 1/2 3.0
Nick Taylor.........................71-67-69—207 -4 THE ALLY CHALLENGE Chic. Cubs -120/+102 at Pittsburgh Kingdom Heart, Aguilar 115 5 5 3-2 2-hd 5-1 7-7 3/4 12.3
Tony Finau......................... 70-68-70—208 -4 at Philadelphia -198/+166 St. Louis 3198 — 6 1/2 Furlongs. Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds Nabokov, Ayuso 120 6 4 6-11/2 8 8 8 25.7
Tom Kim.............................. 67-70-72—209 -3 At Warwick Hills G&CC at Miami Off/Off Washington and up. Claiming Price $20,000. Purse $32,000. Time — :21.69 :44.63 :57.36 1:10.22 Clear. Fast.
Si Woo Kim......................... 70-72-68—210 -2 Grand Blanc, Mich. San Diego -110/-106 at Milwaukee 4 Arham 10.00 4.20 3.20
Purse: $2 million Horse, Jockey Wt P St 1/4 1/2 Str Fin Odds
Sungjae Im..........................71-71-68—210 -2 at Arizona -132/+112 Cincinnati 1 Desmond Doss 3.40 3.00
Jordan Spieth......................69-71-70—210 E Yardage: 7,085; Par: 72 at San Fran. Off/Off Atlanta Pequena Tormenta, Berrios 124 7 4 1-hd 1-2 1-3 1-2 1/4 1.1 2 Escape Route 5.20
Jason Day............................ 67-70-74—211 E Second round Interleague Awesome Taylor, Torrealba 117 5 8 8-4 6-hd 2-11/2 2-2 1/2 14.7 Pick Three (6-11-4) paid $49.75; Pick Three Pool $103,900. Daily
Emiliano Grillo..................73-72-70—215 +5 Angels -116/-102 at NY Mets Back On the Street, Smith 124 3 5 5-1 1/2 5-hd 3-2 3-4 1/4 20.5 Double (11-4) paid $37.60; Daily Double Pool $38,800. Exacta
Darren Clarke........................67-66—133 -11
Taylor Moore..................... 71-75-72—218 +7 at Boston Off/Off Dodgers Roman Empress, Van Dyke 124 9 6 6-1/2 8-2 5-hd 4-3/4 40.0 (4-1) paid $19.70. Quinella (1-4) paid $19.20. Superfecta (4-1-2-
Paul Goydos...........................67-66—133 -11
Note: Scheffler started at 10-under par Stephen Ames...................... 68-66—134 -10 at Baltimore Off/Off Colorado Slam Diego, Pereira 124 2 9 9 9 7-hd 5-1/2 2.7 8) paid $69.96. Trifecta (4-1-2) paid $59.00.
Lov U Mean It, Aguilar 116 6 1 2-1/2 2-hd 4-2 6-7 3/4 41.7 Winner — Arham B.h.6 by Union Rags out of Sanaaya, by Smart
Gray Frost, Desormeaux 121 4 7 7-hd 7-2 8-5 7-2 3/4 5.6 Strike. Bred by Shadwell Farm, LLC (KY). Trainer: Vladimir
Bob Mieszerski’s Del Mar handicap Solid Tune, Ayuso 124 8 3 4-3 3-1/2 6-1 8-141/4 34.7 Cerin. Owner: Wilson, Holly and Wilson, David.
Soul of a Warrior, Gutierrez 124 1 2 3-1 4-1 1/2 9 9 8.1
Today’s first post 2 p.m. Rachel’s Coach, Maldonado 119 11 Pressed, weakened 15-1 Time — :22.25 :45.85 1:11.11 1:17.92 Clear. Fast. RACE 9
Barely Funtional, M. Gutierrez 119 7 Distant 4th at 16-1 20-1 8 Pequena Tormenta 4.20 3.00 3.00 3204 — 1 1/16 Mile (Turf). Allowance Optional Claiming. Fillies
Hijo Galante, Ayuso 124 1 Split field at 41-1 20-1 6 Awesome Taylor 8.80 5.80 and Mares. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $40,000. Purse
RACE 1
Golf Drama, A. Espinoza 119 12 Subpar all recent 20-1 4 Back On the Street 6.40 $83,000.
3207 — 6 Furlongs. Starter Optional Claiming. 2 year olds. Cowboy Charlie, Mldnado 122 14 Scratches must smile 20-1 Pick Three (7-4-8) paid $8.40; Pick Three Pool $67,566. Daily
Midnight Somewhere, Payeras 124 12 Be among also rans 30-1 Double (4-8) paid $28.80; Daily Double Pool $25,950. Exacta Horse, Jockey Wt P 1/4 1/2 3/4 Str Fin Odds
Claiming Price $50,000. Purse $50,000.
Longshot: GEEZER (8-6) paid $15.20. Quinella (6-8) paid $24.60. Superfecta (8-6-4- Linda’s Gift, Pereira 123 2 1-1/2 1-hd 1-1/21-1 1/2 1-1 3/4 4.0
Horse, Jockey Wt PP Comment Odds 10) paid $122.68. Trifecta (8-6-4) paid $66.60. Lakota Spirit, Hrnandez 123 9 7-1 7-2 7-1 4-1/2 2-1/2 3.5
Eligio, R. Gonzalez 119 5 Can turn the tables 5-2 Winner — Pequena Tormenta B.m.5 by Dialed In out of Speed Lane, Vazquez 123 1 4-2 3-hd 4-1 1/2 3-1/2 3-1/2 5.1
RACE 7 Natetwa, by Tiznow. Bred by J. Hess, R. Hess, J. M. Hess, Dr.
Ace of Clubs, Fresu 122 1 Bids for a repeat 8-5 Yerwanthere, A Fresu 125 4 9 9 9 8-1 4-1/2 4.4
A.Hess, Dr. W. Hess & Indian Creek (KY). Trainer: Jeff Mullins.
Gentlemen’s Club, H. Berrios 119 6 Benefit from race 6-1 3213 — 6 Furlongs. Maiden Claiming. 3 year olds and up. Claim- Gimme Mo Baby, Valdivia 123 5 2-1/2 2-2 2-1 2-1/2 5-1/2 6.4
Owner: Rockingham Ranch; Scratched — Everlys Girl; Claimed
Salsation, Maldonado 122 3 Exits a stakes 9-2 ing Price $50,000. State bred. Purse $42,000. — Pequena Tormenta by Tenbrink, Gene, Spetz, Eddie, Martin, Musical Rhapsody, R Gtrrez 125 3 6-1 5-hd 5-1/2 6-1/2 6-3/4 7.2
Mr. Dreamcycle, R. Vazquez 120 2 Gelded since win 8-1 Charles and Kazarian, Nicolas. Trainer: Tim Yakteen. Ankyrah, Berrios 123 6 5-1/2 6-2 6-1 7-hd 7-1 1/2 18.1
Outer Sunset, A. Espinoza 117 4 Filly vs. males 12-1 Horse, Jockey Wt PP Comment Odds Aloha Kitten, Aguilar 120 8 3-hd 4-2 3-1/2 5-1/2 8-nk 28.9
Claimed — Slam Diego by Giddyup JR, LLC. Trainer: Kristin
Longshot: GENTLEMEN’S CLUB Driver’s Ed, R. Vazquez 121 8 Benefit from last 5-1 Mulhall; Claimed — Solid Tune by Kenneth and Bon Kasinak. Shocking Grey, Herrera 125 7 8-1/2 8-hd 8-hd 9 9 12.1
Sanger, Fresu 124 10 Runner-up at 7-2 5-2 Trainer: Alfredo Marquez. Time — :24.25 :49.07 1:13.10 1:37.18 1:43.01 Clear. Firm.
Duty First, H. Berrios 121 12 Steps in for tag 3-1 2 Linda’s Gift 10.00 5.20 3.40
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Coach Cronin, Ayuso 121 2 Can’t be dismissed 6-1 RACE 4 9 Lakota Spirit 5.20 3.20
3208 — 1 1/16 Mile (Turf). Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds Johnny Paycheck, Torrealba 117 1 Switches to dirt 8-1 1 Speed Lane 4.20
and up. Claiming Prices $25,000-$22,500. Purse $44,000. Carol’s Comic, R. Gutierrez 124 3 Missed 16 chances 12-1 3199 — 1 Mile. Maiden Special Weight. 2 year olds. Purse
$82,000 Pick Three (11-4-2) paid $44.30; Pick Three Pool $65,239. Daily
Lord Tripping, Alsagoor 121 7 Be involved early 15-1 Double (4-2) paid $68.20; Daily Double Pool $55,862. Exacta (2-
Horse, Jockey Wt PP Comment Odds Nahan, Desormeaux 121 6 Trailed on turf 15-1 Horse, Jockey Wt P 1/4 1/2 3/4 Str Fin Odds 9) paid $32.90. Quinella (2-9) paid $28.80. Superfecta (2-9-1-4)
Cowboys Daughter, R. Vzquez 121 8 Had outing, beware 5-1 Reef City, Maldonado 121 5 Bumped in price 15-1 paid $114.15. Trifecta (2-9-1) paid $123.00.
Mary’s Boy Bolt, Gonzalez 120 8 6-1 5-hd 3-1/2 2-1 1-ns 50.6
Riveting Spirit, Valdivia 121 5 Completed exacta at 9-1 3-1 Torleif, D. Herrera 121 8 Son of Cyclotron 20-1 Winner — Linda’s Gift Dbb.f.4 by Arrogate out of Americana,
Malibu Rain, Desormeaux 120 2 5-1/2 6-11/2 6-4 4-1/2 2-1 3/4 10.7 by Tapit. Bred by Calumet Farm (KY). Trainer: Richard E.
Crimson Rose, J. Hernandez 121 6 Goes for new stable 7-2 Seattle Surf, A. Aguilar 115 13 Far back on grass 20-1
Mirahmadi, Hernandez 120 5 2-1/2 3-11/2 1-11-1 1/2 3-3/4 0.7 Mandella. Owner: Cronin, John, DiMarco, Anthony, Mandara,
Kuora, A. Aguilar 116 3 Beat one on dirt 6-1 Quincey, A. Espinoza 124 4 Away a long time 20-1
Miracle Mark, Herrera 120 1 7-3 1/2 7-21/2 4-1 5-4 4-1/2 5.9 Michael A., Nicotra, Fred and Varvaro, Vincent.
Dramatizer, Desormeaux 121 2 Lowered in price 10-1 Centre Circle, Van Dyke 124 11 Check back of pack 20-1
Flight Way, Fresu 120 4 4-1/2 1-hd 2-hd 3-hd 5-8 1/4 12.1
Callhercontessa, Mldnado 121 1 Trailed in NoCal 10-1 Longshot: NAHAN
Don’t Get Pickled, H. Berrios 117 4 Removes the shades 12-1
Bigredsandribeyes, Gtrrez 120 6 3-1 4-1/2 7-2 6-2 6-4 3/4 15.0 RACE 10
Sense, Smith 120 7 8 8 8 8 7-6 6.8
Quaria Thunder, Fresu 121 9 Barn entered pair 15-1 RACE 8 3205 — 7 Furlongs. ‘Pat O’Brien Stakes’. 3 year olds and up.
Point Dume, Berrios 120 3 1-hd 2-hd 5-hd 7-1 8 11.3
Bandeena, A. Espinoza 121 7 Blanking in 2023 15-1 Purse $250,000
Time — :22.48 :46.86 1:13.65 1:27.41 1:41.85 Clear. Fast.
Longshot: DRAMATIZER 3214 — 1 1/16 Mile (Turf). Claiming. 3 year olds and up. Claiming
Prices $25,000-$22,500. Purse $44,000. 8 Mary’s Boy Bolt 103.20 26.20 9.20 Horse, Jockey Wt P St 1/4 1/2 Str Fin Odds
2 Malibu Rain 8.80 6.60
RACE 3 Anarchist, Vazquez 121 8 4 5-1/2 4-1/21-1 1/2 1-3/4 2.5
Horse, Jockey Wt PP Comment Odds 1 Miracle Mark 4.20
Bye Bye Bobby, Van Dyke 121 10 10 10 10 6-1/2 2-1 33.4
One Fast Bro, Desormeaux 121 3 Likes this course 3-1 Pick Three (4-8-8) paid $732.90; Pick Three Pool $32,416. Daily C Z Rocket, Franco 121 5 8 9-7 6-1/2 4-3 3-1 3/4 15.6
3209 — 6 1/2 Furlongs. Claiming. Fillies. 3 year olds. Claiming
Grape Nuts Warrior, Valdivia 121 8 Shipper from N.Y. 9-2 Double (8-8) paid $177.80; Daily Double Pool $47,347. Exacta
Prices $50,000-$45,000. Purse $62,000. Sir Atticus, Smith 121 4 1 4-1 5-3 3-hd 4-1 3.3
Our Silver Oak, Bravo 121 10 Thrives on slices 4-1 (8-2) paid $488.40. Quinella (2-8) paid $287.00. Superfecta (8-2-
1-5) paid $753.48. Trifecta (8-2-1) paid $896.35. Spirit of Makena, Bravo 123 7 3 3-hd 2-1/2 2-1 5-2 1/4 2.8
Horse, Jockey Wt PP Comment Odds Mr. T’s Thirsty, Torrealba 114 1 Scored, claimed 5-1
Winner — Mary’s Boy Bolt B.c.2 by Bolt d’Oro out of Mary Hoist the Gold, Gutierrez 121 3 7 7-1 1/2 7-1 7-1 6-2 3/4 11.5
Big Sis Little Sis, Pereira 120 5 Back to the dirt 5-2 Discretionary Day, Mldnado 121 5 Had to need last 10-1 Moose Mitchell, Gutierrez 121 1 6 8-1/2 9-4 8-4 7-6 1/4 13.0
Edna, by Pioneerof the Nile. Bred by Ruis Racing LLC (KY).
La Paloma Blanca, A. Aguilar 115 1 Toyed with her foes 9-5 Never Seen Before, Van Dyke 121 4 Chased a repeater 10-1 Trainer: Mick Ruis, Sr. Owner: Ruis Racing LLC; Scratched — Brickyard Ride, Hernandez 121 6 2 1-hd 1-1/2 5-1 8-5 1/2 7.2
Anybody’s Choice, Torrealba 113 3 $40,000 D’Amato claim 7-2 Indy Lyon, R. Vazquez 121 2 Last on synthetic 15-1 Potential Spam. Vivir Con Alegria, H Berrios 121 9 5 2-21/2 3-hd 9-4 9-10 3/4 40.9
Silver Lightening, Mldoado 118 2 Broke maiden here 5-1 No Slo Mo, A. Espinoza 121 9 Would be a surprise 15-1 Go Joe Won, Valdivia 121 2 9 6-2 8-1 10 10 50.5
Kikilove, D. Herrera 120 4 Blinkers back on 8-1 Ishihara, Ayuso 121 7 First time on grass 15-1 RACE 5 Time — :21.49 :44.44 1:09.66 1:23.21 Clear. Fast.
R Swirvin Girvin, Valdivia 120 6 Beat pair on turf 15-1 Jacks Outlaw, G. Franco 119 6 Improvement needed 15-1
9 Anarchist 7.00 4.00 3.00
Longshot: KIKILOVE Longshot: DISCRETIONARY DAY 3200 — 1 Mile (Turf). Allowance Optional Claiming. Fillies
and Mares. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $80,000. Purse 11 Bye Bye Bobby 17.80 10.60
$84,000. 5 C Z Rocket 6.40
RACE 4 RACE 9 Pick Three (4-2-9) paid $45.65; Pick Three Pool $76,524. Daily
Horse, Jockey Wt P 1/4 1/2 3/4 Str Fin Odds Double (2-9) paid $43.60; Daily Double Pool $70,818. Exacta
3210 — 5 Furlongs (Turf). Claiming. 3 year olds and up. Claim- 3215 — 6 1/2 Furlongs. ‘Rancho Bernardo Handicap’. Stakes. Pride of the Nile, Gutierrez 117 8 7-1 1/2 7-1/2 5-hd 2-1 1-3/4 6.8 (9-11) paid $59.80. Consolation Pick Three (4-2-8) paid $14.25.
ing Prices $25,000-$22,500. Purse $44,000. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds and up. Purse $125,000. Quinella (9-11) paid $85.20. Superfecta (9-11-5-4) paid $185.29.
Kitty Kitana, J Bravo 120 1 6-hd 6-1 3-hd 1-hd 2-2 1/4 2.1
Gracelund Gray, Berrios 120 5 1-2 1-4 1-2 3-3 3-3 1/4 2.6 Trifecta (9-11-5) paid $196.35. Consolation Double (2-8) paid
Horse, Jockey Wt PP Comment Odds Horse, Jockey Wt PP Comment Odds $12.20.
Arina, J Hernandez 120 4 8 8 7-1/2 6-1/2 4-hd 6.4
Blameless, Payeras 122 8 Won, shortens up 4-1 Eda, J. Hernandez 124 8 Aims for 7th in row 2-1 Winner — Anarchist B.c.4 by Distorted Humor out of Vicarious
Freedom Lass, Fresu 120 6 5-2 5-3 6-2 5-1/2 5-nk 3.2 Won, by Elusive Quality. Bred by Centaur Farms, Inc. (KY).
Maven, R. Gutierrez 120 7 Prepped in 48 2/5 3-1 Home Cooking, Bravo 116 2 Fancies this venue 9-2
Bella D, A Aguilar 115 3 4-1 4-1 4-1 1/2 4-1 6-12 1/4 28.2 Trainer: Doug F. O’Neill. Owner: Ilium Stables, LLC; Scratched
Westward Look, G. Franco 120 3 Had lead, outfinished 7-2 Lady T, Smith 120 3 Won for this jock 7-2
Ladywearsthering, Mldndo 122 2 3-2 1/2 2-1 2-1 7-8 7-15 1/4 25.8 — Visitant.
Inch, Maldonado 120 2 Can collect a piece 6-1 Princess Adaleigh, R. Vazquez 119 6 Has clicked on main 8-1
Cashing Big Checks, Vzquz 120 7 2-13-11/2 8 8 8 33.9
Marks Hip, M. Gutierrez 117 5 Had troubled trip 10-1 Muted, Van Dyke 118 5 Tallied in Florida 10-1
Kirstenbosch, H. Berrios 121 1 Hood on for Sadler 10-1
Time — :21.31 :44.54 1:09.88 1:22.18 1:34.20 Clear. Firm. RACE 11
Irish Heatwave, Dsrmeaux 120 1 Rarte sprint try 10-1
Olivia Twist, Fresu 117 4 Back to short game 15-1 8 Pride of the Nile 15.60 7.00 4.60
Subsidize, J. Hernandez 120 10 Dips for P. Miller 12-1 3206 — 1 Mile (Turf). Maiden Claiming. 3 year olds and up.
Violent Runner, M. Gutierrez 119 7 59 DM bullet 15-1 1 Kitty Kitana (GB) 3.40 2.80
Cane Creek Road, Fresu 120 11 Must deal with post 12-1 Claiming Prices $62,500-$50,000. Purse $46,000.
Longshot: MUTED 5 Gracelund Gray 3.20
Chasing Munny, D. Herrera 120 4 Winless since 2021 15-1
Jamming Eddy, R. Vazquez 122 12 Back in nine days 15-1 Pick Three (8-8-8) paid $853.20; Pick Three Pool $123,058. Horse, Jockey Wt P 1/4 1/2 3/4 Str Fin Odds
Pick Four (4-3 /8-8-8) 4 correct paid $7,149.30; Pick Four Pool
Molto Vivace, R. Vazquez 120 6 Rider’s 2nd call 20-1 RACE 10 Rahm, Fresu 121 1 4-24-1 1/2 3-hd 2-hd 1-nk 4.7
$206,088. Pick Five (7-4-3 /8-8-8) 5 correct paid $29,892.95;
Commander Khai, A. Aguilar 115Hard to endorse 20-1 Pick Five Pool $729,950. Daily Double (8-8) paid $1,101.00; Daily St Ignacio, Dsrmeaux 120 3 6-hd 6-1/2 6-1 3-hd 2-1 3/4 2.2
Longshot: MARKS HIP 3216 — 1 Mile (Turf). Maiden Claiming. Fillies and Mares. Double Pool $48,859. Exacta (8-1) paid $31.30. Quinella (1-8) Russells Hustle, Gtrrez 121 8 8-2 1/2 8-21/2 8-2 7-1/2 3-nk 6.4
3 year olds and up. Claiming Prices $62,500-$50,000. Purse paid $26.80. Superfecta (8-1-5-4) paid $55.76. Trifecta (8-1-5) Crypto Man, Valdivia, 121 9 5-1/2 5-1/2 5-1/2 5-hd 4-ns 3.6
$46,000. paid $62.60. Hard Times, Pereira 121 6 2-hd 3-1 4-1/2 6-2 5-1/2 41.7
RACE 5 Winner — Pride of the Nile B.f.3 by Pioneerof the Nile out of
Horse, Jockey Wt PP Comment Odds Admiral Halsey, Vazquez 125 5 3-2 2-1 2-1 1/2 1-1/2 6-2 3/4 4.9
Inny Minnie, by Hard Spun. Bred by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Stormin Midnight, Ayuso 117 10 7-2 1/2 7-2 7-1/2 10 7-ns 24.7
3211 — 1 Mile. Maiden Special Weight. Fillies. 2 year olds. Adelie, Fresu 122 13 Slight edge if goes 3-1 Holdings LLC (KY). Trainer: Doug F. O’Neill. Owner: West Coast
Purse $82,000. Churchmeister, Franco 120 4 10 10 10 8-1 8-nk 30.7
Lulu Lemon Drop, J. Hernandez 116 10 1:02 2/5 SLR work 5-2 Stables, LLC.
Gaelic Nation, R Gtrrez 121 7 9-2 1/2 9-1 9-hd 9-1/2 9-ns 15.3
Horse, Jockey Wt PP Comment Odds Oak Street Beach, Van Dyke 116 2 1st time in seller 7-2
Nobel Gary, Alsagoor 121 2 1-1 1/2 1-21/2 1-1/2 4-1/2 10 35.4
Princess Midnight, Ayuso 121 4 Stretches out here 6-1 RACE 6
Greer My Dear, Maldonado 120 7 Gets more yardage 2-1 Time — :22.67 :47.40 1:13.25 1:25.80 1:37.42 Clear. Firm.
Lights Astern, Couton 116 14 Troubled in bow 10-1
Thermal, H. Berrios 120 4 Failed as choice 8-5 3201 — 6 Furlongs. Claiming. 3 year olds and up. Claiming 1 Rahm 11.40 5.60 3.60
Calabrian Queen, R. Gutierrez 116 8 Off rail, goes long 10-1
Autumn Chill, Desormeaux 120 5 Ready to go long 9-2 Prices $40,000-$35,000. Purse $53,000. 3 St Ignacio 3.80 2.80
Port Ellen, R. Gonzalez 116 7 Back with maidens 12-1
She’s My Niece, Fresu 120 6 Returns to dirt 8-1 8 Russells Hustle 3.00
Nicely Curved, R. Vazquez 116 5 Jock change again 15-1 Horse, Jockey Wt P St 1/4 1/2 Str Fin Odds
Bossy Bruin Gal, J. Hernandez 120 1 Draws rail again 10-1 Pick Three (2-9-1) paid $66.70; Pick Three Pool $223,012.
Lil Town Sis, H. Berrios 125 11 11th time the charm? 15-1 Positivity, Fresu 120 6 2 4-hd 1-hd 1-2 1-2 1/2 2.3
Great Forty Eight, Torrealba 113 2 Gets weight break 12-1 Pick Four (4-2-8 /9-1) 4 correct paid $215.35; Pick Four Pool
Viewers Discretion, Torrealba 115 16 Advising against 15-1 Cyberviking, Gutierrez 120 9 7 10 7-1 3-hd 2-2 1/4 5.3
Elyanna, R. Vazquez 120 3 Worked in 1:02 2/5 12-1 $702,048. Pick Five (11-4-2-8 /9-1) 5 correct paid $1,263.45;
Annie’s Joy, Fresu 121 9 Sheds the blinkers 15-1
Longshot: SHE’S MY NIECE Houndstooth, Torrealba 113 1 6 7-hd 5-1 4-1/2 3-1/2 13.5 Pick Five Pool $1,244,943. Pick Six JACKPOT (6-11-4-2-8 /9-1)
Unkept Secret, Valdivia 121 3 Beat two in sprint 20-1 6 correct paid $2,173.08; Pick Six JACKPOT Pool $312,304;
Disco Ball, Vazquez 120 3 9 6-1/2 2-hd 2-1 1/2 4-1/2 4.5
Happyasaclam, D. Herrera 121 1 Split cast at GG 20-1 Pick Six JACKPOT carryover $255,283. Daily Double (9-1) paid
My Man Bags, Aguilar 117 5 10 8-1/2 6-1/2 7-1 1/2 5-hd 8.5
RACE 6 Cute Khloe, R. Gonzalez 121 15 Needs to show more 30-1 $31.40; Daily Double Pool $184,727. Exacta (1-3) paid $17.40.
Bright Leaf, Gutierrez 120 7 8 9-1/2 10 8-1 1/2 6-2 1/2 20.5
Geejaytee, Alsagoor 116 12 Rehearsed in 1:01 1/5 30-1 Place Pick All 9 out of 11 paid $23,439.90; Place Pick All Pool
3212 — 5 Furlongs (Turf). Allowance Optional Claiming. 3 year Paco’s Pico, Ayuso 120 4 4 2-hd 4-1 6-1/2 7-1 11.8 $30,712. Consolation Pick Three (2-8-1) paid $13.05. Quinella
Guitar Girl, A. Escobedo 121 6 Pulled up at SA 30-1
olds and up. Claiming Price $20,000. State bred. Purse $83,000. Colt Fiction, Maldonado 120 2 3 1-1/2 3-1/2 5-hd 8-1 1/4 5.6 (1-3) paid $21.60.
Longshot: PORT ELLEN
Quick Finish, Pereira 120 10 1 5-1/2 8-1/2 9-2 1/2 9-6 1/2 36.6 Superfecta (1-3-8-9) paid $24.74. Super High Five (1-3-8-9-6)
Horse, Jockey Wt PP Comment Odds Best bet: ONE FAST BRO (8)
Tiger Dad, Herrera 122 8 5 3-hd 9-1/2 10 10 13.7 paid $869.25. Trifecta (1-3-8) paid $31.05.
Tom Horn, Pereira 119 2 Colt on the rise 3-1 Best chance bet: MARKS HIP (4)
Time — :22.43 :45.71 :57.73 1:10.26 Clear. Fast. Winner — Rahm B.g.3 by Kantharos out of Succeeding,
Resilient, Valdivia 124 4 Chased ‘Vron home 5-2 Wins (previous day/meet): 4/ 60; Money won (previous day/
meet): 29/$446.60; Money Bet: $394, 197 races 6 Positivity 6.60 3.80 3.00 by Smart Strike. Bred by Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings, Inc
Beaudacious, H. Berrios 122 10 Figures in the fray 9-2 9 Cyberviking 5.80 4.00 &Stretch Run Ventures, LLC (KY). Trainer: Peter Miller. Owner:
The SCNG is publishing the consensus box online at least 24 Rafter JR Ranch LLC, STD Racing Stable, Kagele, Tom and
Catemaco, A. Aguilar 117 9 Blew out in 35 2/5 6-1 1 Houndstooth 6.20
hours in advance of each day’s racing. See sgvtribune.com/ Miller, Andy.
Lemon Sushi, Bravo 124 6 Won by a whisker 8-1 sports/horse-racing before each racing day to get top three Pick Three (8-8-6) paid $2,050.05; Pick Three Pool $112,277.
Geezer, R. Vazquez 121 5 Sawasdee dominated 10-1 selections in each race, including best bets of the day, from Daily Double (8-6) paid $52.40; Daily Double Pool $76,956. On-Track Attendance: 11,839; Mutuel Handle: $2,084,437
Alpine Thunder, V. Espinoza 124 8 Best work at LA 15-1 our panel of handicapping experts Bob Mieszerski, Ed Wilson, Exacta (6-9) paid $13.10. Quinella (6-9) paid $19.60. Superfecta Out of State / Phone: N/A; Mutuel Handle: $12,933,253
Billy’s Bet, Fresu 122 3 Wagering elsewhere 15-1 Terry Turrell and Art Wilson. (6-9-1-3) paid $96.25. Trifecta (6-9-1) paid $69.80. Total Attendance: 11,839; Total Mutuel Handle: $20,338,627
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Quantitative Research Analyst
(Pacific Investment Management Compa-
   ny LLC – Newport Beach, CA); Mult. pos.
avail. Offering a salary range of $205,000 -
$215,000/yr. Employ analytical tech that
supp mgmt in dec-making and policy
form, and improve sales and mktg cam-
paign effectiveness for a portfolio of fin

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Reporter: Develop ideas or material for
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with Public Contract Code § 22037 and §22036, receive, up to but not
later than the below-stated date and time, sealed bids for an award
of a Contract for Bid #1444 Parking Lot 9 Improvements Project at Santa
Ana College .

1. Contractors’ License Classification. Bidders must possess the following

classification(s) of California Contractors License at the time that
the Bid Proposal is submitted and at time the Contract for the Work
is awarded: A - General Engineering . The Bid Proposal of a Bidder
who does not possess a valid and in good standing Contractors’
License in the classification(s) set forth above will be rejected for
non-responsiveness. Any Bidder not duly and properly licensed is
subject to all penalties imposed by law. No payment shall be made
for the Work unless and until the Registrar of Contractors verifies
to the District that the Bidder awarded the Contract is properly and
duly licensed for the Work.
2. Contract Time. The Contract Time is 130 calendar days from date
of Notice to Proceed to Final Completion. Failure to achieve the
Contract Time will result in the assessment of Liquidated Damages
as set forth in the Contract.

3. Job Walk. The District will conduct a mandatory Job Walk for
General Contractors and optional for Subcontractors on Wednesday,
September 6, 2023 , beginning at 9:00 A.M. Bidders are to meet at Santa
Ana College, located at 1530 West 17th Street Santa Ana, CA 92706
(enter from 17th Street, meet at the flagpole in front of Admission
Building (S). Any late attendees will not be allowed to sign-in. A Bid
Proposal submitted by a Bidder whose representative(s) did not
attend the entirety of the Mandatory Job Walk will be rejected by
the District as being non-responsive. Visitor parking stalls may be
utilized for the duration of the job walk, if available (Lot 3 at Santa
Ana College). No day parking permit is required for the job walk.
4. Submittal of Bid Proposals. All Bid Proposals must be submitted on
forms furnished by the District prior to 2:00 P.M., Tuesday, September 26,
2023 , the last time for submission of Bid Proposals and the District’s
public opening and reading of Bid Proposals. Submit Bids to RSCCD
Facility Planning, District Construction and Support Services at 2323
North Broadway, Suite 112, Santa Ana, CA 92706. Bidders are solely
responsible for timely submission of Bid Proposals to the District
at the designated location. The District shall not be responsible
for any delays or issues with mail delivery. Any bid received after
the scheduled closing time for receipt of bids shall be returned to
the bidder unopened. Bid Summary will be posted on the District’s
website ( www.rsccd.edu then click on “ Bid Opportunities ”)

5. Bid and Contract Documents. The Bid and Contract Documents are
available to all Bidders online at the District website, ( www.rsccd.
edu then click on “ Bid Opportunities ”), no later than 5:00 P.M . on
Monday, August 28, 2023 . The Bid and Contract Documents may
be available from sources other than the Purchasing Webpage,
including plan rooms. The District is not responsible for the accuracy
or completeness of Bid or Contract Documents obtained from any
source other than the Purchasing Webpage. Bidders are solely
responsible for the risk of inaccurate or incomplete Bid or Contract
Documents obtained from any source other than the Purchasing
Webpage.
6. CUPCCAA . This Project is being let in accordance with the California
Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act (“CUPCCAA”) set
forth in Public Contract Code section 22000 et seq. Contractors are
invited to complete and submit the Contractors Letter of Interest
Application to Purchasing Services Department as instructed on
the application. The Contractors Letter of Interest Application
is available on the District’s webpage (www.rsccd.edu, click on
Departments, Purchasing Services and then click on “Contractors
Letter of Interest Application”).
7. Purchasing Webpage Posting of Addenda and Bidder Questions Responses.
During the course of bidding, the District may issue addenda
(“Addenda”) or issue responses to bidder questions that do not result
in issuance of Addenda (“Bidder Questions Responses”). The District
will not distribute Addenda or Bidder Questions Responses; Addenda
and Bidder Questions Responses will be posted on the Purchasing
Webpage. The District’s posting of Addenda and/or Bidder Questions
Responses on the Purchasing Webpage is deemed the District’s
distribution of Addenda and/or Bidder Questions Responses to all
bidders.

8. Project Plan Holder List. The District’s Project Plan Holder List will
be compiled exclusively from the sign-in sheet at the Mandatory Job
Walk. Any Bidder failing to sign-in at the Mandatory Job Walk will be
excluded from Project Plan Holder List and their Bid Proposal will
be rejected by the District as being non-responsive. The District will
not have a third party maintain a bid registry/plan holder list and will
not distribute addenda directly to bidders/plan holders.
9. Prevailing Wage Rates. Pursuant to California Labor Code §1773, the
Director of the Department of Industrial Relations of the State of
California (“DIR”) has determined the generally prevailing rates of
wages in the locality in which the Work is to be performed. Copies
of the prevailing wage rates in the locality where the Work is to be
performed, entitled PREVAILING WAGE SCALE are available
to any interested party at http:// www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/statistics_
research.html . The Contractor awarded the Contract for the Work
shall post a copy of all applicable prevailing wage rates for the Work
at conspicuous locations at the Site of the Work. The Contractor and
all Subcontractors performing any portion of the Work shall pay not
less than the applicable prevailing wage rate for the classification
of labor provided by their respective workers in prosecution and
execution of the Work. During the Work and pursuant to Labor Code
§1771.4(a)(4), the DIR shall monitor compliance with prevailing
wage rate requirements and enforce the Contractor’s prevailing
wage rate obligations.

10. Bidder and Subcontractors DIR Registered Contractor Status. Each

Bidder must be a DIR Registered Contractor when submitting
a Bid Proposal. The Bid Proposal of a Bidder who is not a DIR
Registered Contractor when the Bid Proposal is submitted will be
rejected for non-responsiveness. All Subcontractors identified in a
Bidder’s Designated Subcontractors’ List must be DIR Registered
contractors at the time the Bid Proposal is submitted. The Contractor
may be subject to penalties by DIR of up to $10,000 for contracting
with any subcontractor that is not DIR registered. The foregoing
notwithstanding, a Bid Proposal is not subject to rejection for non-
responsiveness for listing Subcontractor the Subcontractors List
who is/are not DIR Registered contractors if such Subcontractor(s)
complete DIR Registration pursuant to Labor Code §1771.1(c)(1) or
(2). Further, a Bid Proposal is not subject to rejection if the Bidder
submitting the Bid Proposal listed any Subcontractor(s) who is/are
not DIR Registered contractors and such Subcontractor(s) do not
become DIR Registered pursuant to Labor Code §1771.1(c)(1) or (2),
but the Bidder, if awarded the Contract, must request consent of the
District to substitute a DIR Registered Subcontractor for the non-
DIR Registered Subcontractor pursuant to Labor Code §1771.1(c)(3),
without adjustment of the Contract Price or the Contract Time.

11. Bid Security. Each Bid Proposal shall be accompanied by Bid

Security in an amount equal to Ten Percent (10%) of the maximum
amount of the Bid Proposal, inclusive of any additive Alternate Bid
Item(s). Failure of any Bid Proposal to be accompanied by Bid
Security in the form and in the amount required shall render such
Bid Proposal to be non-responsive and rejected by the District.

12. Labor & Materials Payment Bond; Performance Bond. Prior to

commencement of the Work, the Bidder awarded the Contract shall
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Queen Latifah and Barry Gibb of
the Bee Gees, who wrote War-
wick’s 1982 hit “Heartbreaker”
with his late brothers Robin and
Maurice.
Before then, Warwick has
Southern California concerts lined
up for Friday through Sept. 3 at an
Ojai amphitheater, an Inland Em-
pire nightclub and a former movie
palace in Beverly Hills. On Nov. 17,
she will perform in a desert ca-
sino. Two of the concerts were re-
scheduled from late spring, when
Warwick had to cancel due to a
health condition.
Her concerts are made up of
her hits from the ’60s to the ’80s,
including Bacharach and David’s
“Do You Know the Way to San
Jose,” “Anyone Who Had a Heart”
and “Alfie,” according to postings
on the website Setlists.
Another song in her repertoire,
“That’s What Friends Are For,”
was written by Bacharach and
his then-wife, Carol Bayer Sager,
for the 1982 movie “Night Shift”
and recorded by Rod Stewart. But
in 1985 Warwick pulled together a
group of friends including Stevie
Wonder, Gladys Knight and Elton
John to record a cover as a fund-
raiser for amfAR, Foundation for
AIDS Research.
Warwick, 82, discussed the
high points of her career in a re-
cent phone interview from her
home in New Jersey.
She is the niece of gospel singer
Cissy Houston and the first cousin
of the late Whitney Houston, Cis-
sy’s daughter. She got her start in
music singing in church, and as
a teenager joined a gospel group
that won an amateur night con-
test at Harlem’s famed Apollo The-
ater.
From there, she put herself
through college doing session
work in recording studios, gain-
ing the attention of Bacharach
and David, who launched her solo
career. She recorded for Scepter
Records throughout the 1960s and
then spent five years with Warner
Bros. Records in the 1970s. Pro-
ducer Clive Davis invited her to
join his label, Arista, in the 1980s,
launching a resurgence in her ca-
reer and hits such as “I’ll Never
Love This Way Again.” Davis went
on to mentor Whitney Houston.
The interview touched on many
of these topics, as well as taking a
detour into “The Masked Singer,”
a Fox game show that had her
performing dressed up as “the
Mouse” in 2020.
Here are the highlights.
Q Congratulations on your up-
coming Kennedy Center
honor. Do you have any thoughts Hal David songs — not just the
about that?
A Very excited. And thrilled to
finally be recognized for my
body of work.
Q Do they include you in the
planning, or will they just
surprise you?
A I kind of made it clear that
I’d like to be totally involved. to hear.
Q How do you narrow down
your wide repertoire for
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Don’t get me wrong. When temperatures soar, I think cold en-
trees are the ticket. But a warm, sweet finish to the meal makes
it cozy. So just before we sit down to dine on a cold-plate special,
I slip a fruit-laden delicacy into the oven. Usually, it’s ready to eat
at just about the time the last dinner dish is loaded into the dish-
washer. Capped with a scoop of ice cream or a crown of whipped
cream, peach cobbler is a favorite.
This American deep-dish dessert has a rich, biscuit-type topping
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Peach cobbler
9 medium-size, ripe, yellow-flesh
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2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) cold butter, cut amount of time required to make
into small pieces
Dionne Warwick, who has a string of local gigs coming up, performs Jan. 14 at a concert celebrating Jerry
Moss, co-founder of A&M Records, at The Music Center in Los Angeles.
Songwriter Burt Bacharach gave Warwick one of her big breaks in the
1960s when he hired her to sing on demo recordings, then went on to
compose many of her hits. They’re shown in 2006.
your concerts?
A It’s not an easy task, I’ll tell own drummer. If you wanted to
you that, to narrow it down. sing his music you had to march
But after doing this for as long
as I have, I get feedback from
people. “This is my favorite song” student and I read music. It was
or “Are you going to sing this
one?” They basically almost put
the show together themselves.
Q What are the songs that you
absolutely can’t get off the
stage without doing?
A A lot. There’s “Walk On
By,” of course; “Say a Little
Prayer”; “San Jose”; “I’ll Never
Fall in Love Again.” The reper-
toire is basically the recordings
that everybody has supported
over the years.
Q What are the challenges of
singing Burt Bacharach and
music but the lyrics?
A The lyrics are the easi-
est part of singing. Hal Da-
vid, I never referred to him as
a lyricist. I referred to him as a
poet. He had an indelible way
of speaking to the heart, not at
it. I was a joy to be able to sing
and say words that people actu-
ally needed to hear and wanted
Q The music was complex at
times, wasn’t it?
2/3 cup buttermilk (shake closed
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2 teaspoons granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
DIRECTIONS
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tion. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. the degree of ripeness. If they are wedges (twist the knife against
2. Submerge peaches in boiling
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the skin easy to peel varies with
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A Absolutely. I’ve always said
that Burt marched to his
along with him. The fortunate
part of it was that I’m a music
almost like taking an exam every
time I sang his melodies.
Q What did you learn from
singing in church?
A The value of words, and the
meaning of words. Just basi-
cally the feeling that gospel mu-
sic gave me. It was a feeling of
joy and hope and inspiration, all
the things that I think people re-
ally need.
Q There are complex emotions
in Bacharach and David
songs. Is that hard to navigate?
A Sometimes, but you’re giv-
ing the feelings of the com-
poser. I don’t know how, I guess
it’s just an innate talent that I
have, of portraying what was be-
ing said. You know, you kind of
have a way of pulling emotions
out of yourself when you see and
read a certain passage. I was
much too young on many of the
occasions that I sang Hal David’s
lyrics. People kept saying, “Boy,
you’ve lived a hard life.” I hadn’t
begun my life yet. This was the
life of the man who wrote those
words.
super ripe, it may take less time.
Remove peaches with a slotted
spoon and run cold water on them. plate or a 2-inch-deep, 2-quart
Slip off skin. Cut peaches into
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DIONNE WARWICK HITS
• “Don’t Make Me Over,” 1962
• “Walk On By,” 1964
• “Message to Michael,” 1966
• “I Say a Little Prayer,” 1967
• “Alfie,” 1967
• “Do You Know the Way to San
Jose,” 1968
• “Promises, Promises,” 1968
• “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again,”
1969
• “Then Came You,” 1974
• “I’ll Never Love This Way Again,”
1979
• “Heartbreaker,” 1982
• “That’s What Friends Are For,”
1985
Source: Billboard
QHave audiences changed
over the years?
A Oh yeah. Absolutely. And
for the better, actually. I
must say that. The age range has
changed quite a bit. I’m seeing
more and more youngsters sit-
ting in the audience.
Q You recently put up a video
about Doja Cat sampling
“Walk On By.”
A this is good music. Let’s see Q
Yes, even she has said, “Oh,
what I can do with this.”
What was it like doing “The AThat was the joy after leav-
QMasked Singer”?
A It was the most fun I’ve had
in a long time. It was won-
derful. I knew that I was not go-
ing to last on the show very long.
Everybody recognizes my voice
almost immediately. It was a joy
to be able to sing at least twice
on the show.
Q Was the costume comfort-
able?
A Hm-mmm. Everybody was
saying, “Was that a heavy
thing?” It was as light as a
A I’m very excited about that.
I’m really looking forward to
feather. I don’t know about the
other contestants, but mine was
really very, very light, and I loved
the gown they had me in. They
wanted to continue the elegance
that I portray onstage. And as
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the pit to release the slices) and
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terrified as I am of mice, I had
a mouse on my head. It was the
cutest little thing!
Q Can I ask you about the
Apollo Theater? What does
that venue mean to you?
A That’s where I actually did
my very first stage perfor-
mance. The gospel singers who
were doing the program there
had the night off. And I and the
other members of the Gospel-
aires entered the contest and
won. There’s the old saying, if
you can make it at the Apollo
Theatre you can make it any-
where, and that is absolutely the
truth. That particular audience
has seen it all. And they will let
you know — yeah, you got it, or
no, you don’t have it — without
any reservations whatsoever.
QDo you recall your first time
in a recording studio?
A
Oh, sure I do. We did back-
ground work. The very first
session we did was for Sam
“The Man” Taylor and Mat-
thew Brown at Savoy Records.
We were teenagers at that time.
And then we did background
for many, many incredible art-
ists of the time. I remember viv-
idly when I first met Burt, as a
matter of fact. We were doing a
background session for the Drift-
ers. And there was a song that
Burt had written with another
songwriter, Bob Hilliard — God
rest him. It was called “Mexican
Divorce.”
QWhat was the Scepter la-
bel like?
A Florence Greenberg, who
owned and operated Scep-
ter Records, was a typical Jew-
ish mother. The joy of being part
of the Scepter roster was that
we were all treated like her chil-
dren. She was very, very caring.
She looked after us. She wanted
to make sure that we were well
taken care of and loved. She
coddled us and she scolded us.
She did all the things that a
mother would do. I got to know
her very, very well. It was a sad
day when they had to shut down
Scepter Records.
How about Arista?
Arista had the same feeling.
ing Warner Bros. I have an anal-
ogy to my adventures in the re-
cord companies that I’ve been
with. Scepter Records, my mom,
sent me to my uncle’s at War-
ner’s. And I left my uncle’s and
went to my surrogate father at
Arista — Clive Davis. I was back
with my family.
Q Barry Gibb is going to be
honored alongside you at the
Kennedy Center.
Barry’s a dear friend, and
hanging out with him. And I was
also very excited that Queen Lat-
ifah, a young lady from East Or-
ange, New Jersey, where I’m
from, is also being honored. It’s
going to be an old home week.
3. Toss peaches with lemon juice
and 1/2 cup sugar. Cover with foil
and bake 15 minutes, until the
peaches are hot and juices bubble.
Meanwhile, make topping: In a
large bowl, mix flour, 3 table-
spoons sugar, baking powder and
baking soda. Cut in butter with
a pastry blender or rub with your
fingers, until mixture resembles
small peas. Pour buttermilk over
top. Toss with a fork until the
mixture clumps together.
4. Using 2 large spoons, drop
heaping tablespoons of dough over
peaches in a single layer. In a small
cup, mix 2 teaspoons sugar and
nutmeg. Sprinkle over biscuits.
5. Bake until biscuits are golden
brown and a toothpick inserted
into them comes out clean, about
30 minutes. Set dish on wire
sweetened whipped cream.
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Desperate for a donor, a La Habra woman

By Peter Larsen
plarsen@scng.com
For months after her diagnosis,
Theresa Crockett told almost no
one the results: Her kidneys were
failing from the same hereditary
disease that left her mother and
sister on dialysis. She’d soon need
a kidney transplant.
But a transplant was a long shot
with terrible odds, Crockett knew.
The waiting list for a kidney trans-
plant in California is eight to 10
years, she says, which leaves indi-
vidual patients often soliciting do-
nor kidneys through social net-
works and word of mouth.
“Because I was advocating for
my sister, we would make T-shirts,
magnets, do social media and ask
people to share,” Crockett, 53, says
of her earlier efforts to find some-
one willing to donate one of their
kidneys to her sister, Sandy Hen-
son, 55. “But unfortunately, people
don’t share.
“They mean well, and they say,
‘I’ll pray for you,’ but they don’t
share,” she says. “So I knew I had
to do something out of the box.”
At each checkup following her
2020 diagnosis of polycystic kidney
disease, Crockett says, her nephrol-
ogist would ask if she was sharing
news that she needed a donor kid-
ney.
At each appointment, Crockett
would say no.
“For eight months, I kept it a se-
fans online to make up a little for
the cruise that was canceled.
“The way they speak, especially
reaches out to New Kids on the Block. It works. Donnie, is like they have such a
heart of gold,” Theresa Crockett
says. “I know it sounds crazy, but
this fandom is a family, and the
army that I have behind me now
with the situation proves it.
“They write me and ask how I’m
doing after my appointments be-
cause I’m documenting everything
right now (online) as it’s coming
closer,” she says. “They’re setting
up a meal train for my family for
two weeks. Just amazing.”
She couldn’t have known what
would happen when she went to
the Honda Center with her poster,
but she also says she did, in a way.
“I’m a dreamer,” Crockett says.
“So I had envisioned all this in my
head. Everything just kept fall-
ing into place and happening. Me
sharing the story alone of my sister
wasn’t working. So if it wasn’t for
the love that these fans have for this
group, and that love had these fans
sharing the story — that’s what got
the ball rolling.”
A bittersweet plea
For Theresa Crockett, finding a
donor kidney for herself came with
the bittersweet realization that her
sister, Sandy Henson, was still on
PHOTOS BY LEONARD ORTIZ — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER the transplant list, where she’s been
Theresa Crockett holds a photo of herself and her kidney donor, whom she met via their mutual love for New in line for seven years.
Kids on the Block. Crockett, who has polycystic kidney disease, tried to find a donor for years without luck. “It’s very hard,” she says of her
Finally, she created posters for New Kids events asking for help, which brought her together with her donor. own good fortune as her sister con-

Need a kidney?
cret,” she says. “I was scared and in tinues to wait. “Because I started
shock and denial. I had been help- this fight for her.”
ing my mom and my sister as their Henson is also a fan of New Kids
caretaker, so I couldn’t believe this on the Block, and she came close to
was happening to me.” getting a donor through the same
Then one day in the spring of fandom network where her sister
2022, Crockett had a different an- found hers, Theresa Crockett says.

swer.
“I told her, ‘I have a plan,’ ”
Crockett says. “She’s like, ‘What’s
your plan?’ And then I told her that
I was going to make a poster, and
I was going to hold it up at a New
Kids on the Block concert.”
Her doctor — while admitting
she too had been a fan of the boy
band that had been massively pop-
ular in the late ’80s and ’90s — was
likely thinking what you might be
now, too, Crockett says.
“I think she thought I was crazy
like some other people have,” she
says, laughing as she shares her
story in the backyard of the Hun-
tington Beach home where she
grew up and her parents still live.
“But I did it. It was May 28, 2022,
at Honda Center.
“I held up the sign and it got
Donnie (Wahlberg)’s attention,”
Crockett says. “And then he took
it, folded it up and he told me, ‘I
got you, I got you.’ ”
On Thursday, if everything goes
according to plan, Crockett will go
into surgery and come out with a
brand-new kidney donated by a fel-
low NKOTB fan from Milwaukee.
But that’s not where Crockett
wants this story to end.
A heart-shaped poster
Crockett and her son Connor
Crockett, 23, had bar stool seats at
the edge of the stage for New Kids
on the Block when they played Ana-
heim in May 2022.
She had a pink, heart-shaped
poster that she’d decorated with
the colorful precision and penman-
ship of a preschool teacher, which
You got it
she has been for the past 17 years.
On it, she wrote: “Please share my
story! I need a kidney donor.”
Asked what she hoped that
would achieve, Theresa Crockett
admits she wasn’t entirely sure.
Maybe to show up in fan photos
of the show. Maybe get seen on so-
cial media.
Connor Crockett made a TikTok
video of the moment — Wahlberg
bending down, taking the poster,
speaking to Theresa Crockett and
giving her a fist bump — which
went viral after the show.
That got enough attention from
NKOTB fans that some started the
process to become a donor, though
none of that first group made it past
the initial health questionnaire.
Wahlberg kept her sign on his
bus through the rest of the tour,
and months later posted it on the
band’s social media. But it was
the annual New Kids on the Block
cruise out of Miami where a sec-
ond sign posted by Theresa Crock-
ett caught the attention of a doc-
tor from Wisconsin named Chris-
tina Meyer.
“She saw the banner,” Theresa
Crockett says of Meyer, who knew
of her through mutual friends who
hosted a New Kids social media
show. “She talked to them about it,
and they said that they knew me
ers, the chain owned by Donnie
Wahlberg and his brothers Mark
and Paul. They also met earlier
this year at BlockCon, the first-ever
NKOTB fan convention in Chicago.
“But we really haven’t been able
to sit down and talk,” Theresa
Crockett says. “That’s the one thing
I want to do. To get to know her.”
Maybe that will happen on the
New Kids on the Block cruise in
fall 2024 — Donnie Wahlberg has
promised Theresa Crockett to
cover the cost of that for her and
her family, she says.
A family photo shows Crockett “We’re going to make shirts
holding the poster she waved in for the sail-away party,” she says.
front of the stage at Honda Center “Mine’s gonna say, ‘The new kid-
in Anaheim on May 28, 2022, to ney on the block.’ ”
get the attention of New Kids on
the Block’s Donnie Wahlberg. He Hearts of gold
took the poster and assured her he As an 18- or 19-year-old when she
would help, later posting an image first fell for New Kids on the Block,
of it on the group’s social media. she admits part of their appeal was
obvious.
and they liked me and Connor. “I was a young girl, and I thought
“That’s all she knew about me,” they were very cute,” she says. “I
she says. “And she signed up on her liked their music, so every con-
own, along with her friends.” cert I kept going back. I’ve always
So far, Theresa Crockett and had a love for them, but I think my
Meyer have only met briefly. Meyer love grew during COVID. Because
flew to California for a solo show by Donnie, he connects with his fans.
Joey McIntyre of New Kids at the He would always check in on us to
Bourbon Room in Hollywood. She make sure we are OK.”
and Theresa Crockett met before The group did a virtual cruise
the show for dinner — at Wahlburg- during the pandemic, entertaining
When Meyer applied to be a kidney
donor, one of her Blockhead friends
did, too, which at the time led The-
resa Crockett to think that both she
and Henson might have found their
transplants.
But when Meyer was approved
as a donor and the friend was not,
suddenly only Theresa Crockett
was in line for a transplant.
“I cried,” she says. “I felt very
guilty. It’s hard, very hard. When
I got the match (with Meyer), I
couldn’t tell her at first.”
Henson has told her not to feel
bad about the way things worked
out. It’s still a very emotional sub-
ject for Theresa Crockett, though,
but one she’s using to advocate for
donors for her sister in particular
and others in general.
The process is simple, she says.
All you need do is go to UCLAkid-
neydonor.org, provide the name
and birthdate of the person for
whom you’d like to be a donor, and
fill out the initial paperwork, she
says.
“People have contacted me and
said how inspired they are of me
for doing this,” Crockett says. “They
said that they have friends and
family members who keep it a se-
cret, and that was me.
“So I’m hoping this inspires oth-
ers and gives them hope,” she says.
“I want them to know that they
don’t have to do it alone. Share your
story. You don’t have to hold up a
poster at a concert.
“Just share your story because
you never know who’s willing to
step up. Share. Share and don’t let
fear stop you.”

MUSIC

Composer Jane McNealy

is making herself heard
In her 70s, the Los Angeles musician and songwriter starts a
record label to archive her work — and bring it to new listeners COURTESY OF JANE MCNEALY

By Liz Ohanesian
Correspondent
Years ago, Jane McNealy got
some advice: Digitize her reel-to-
reel archives. McNealy — who’s
worked on everything from pop
songs to musicals to film scores
— thought it was a good idea, one
she’d eventually get around to do-
ing.
“This is what I’ll do for a legacy
kind of thing,” she recalls, “and I
can give it to somebody when I die.”
Then, in 2015, she was diagnosed
with cancer and the project took on
much more urgency.
In 2020, when she was 75, Mc-
Nealy officially launched Lo-Flo Re-
cords, the label that serves as an
archive for her vast body of work,
from pop-minded recordings made
in the 1960s to jazz pieces to rei-
maginings of her music for film.
This summer, Lo-Flo has fo-
cused on a series of five previously
unreleased collaborations between
McNealy and singer Lydia Marcelle
made over 50 years ago. The third
single in the series, “This Time
We’re Really Through,” dropped on
Aug. 11. It was pre-
ceded by “Where
Has It Gone” and
“I Want to Know.”
The releases repre-
sent a time when
McNealy and Mar-
celle, who died in
McNealy 2015, were up-and-
coming talents
navigating L.A.’s music scene.
When McNealy moved to Los
Angeles from Northern California,
she settled into the Hollywood Stu-
dio Club, the residence for women
working in entertainment whose
famed alumni include Marilyn
Monroe and Kim Novak.
McNealy, who lived there at
the same time as future TV stars
Sally Struthers and Farrah Faw-
cett, wasn’t an actress. A pianist,
she had just started to get serious
about songwriting.
“I had been going around to pub-
lishers, the kind of stuff you can’t
do now, sitting down at the piano
and playing songs,” she explains.
“They would have an upright piano
and I would sing and play my song.”
While living at the Hollywood
Studio Club, she met Marcelle, a The work of Jane McNealy, shown early in her career, ranges from pop-
singer from New Orleans with re- minded recordings made in the 1960s to jazz to film music.
gional hits to her credit.
“She loved the stuff that I had would follow. A few of their works by “Running Around,” a full-length
been writing,” McNealy recalls dur- appear on the Lo-Flo release “Mar- collection of McNealy’s work that
ing a recent video chat from her sha Bartenetti sings McNealy & features performers like soul singer
home studio in Los Angeles. Kuhns.” Tami Lynn and jazz trumpeter Mel-
So did Harold Battiste Jr. A pro- While McNealy underwent che- vin Lastie, as well as a song with
ducer and arranger, Battiste had motherapy, artist and web designer Marcelle, “A Good Thing.”
his own label and publishing com- Julie Floegec, who made the videos More releases spanning Mc-
pany and had already worked with for the Marcelle releases, organized Nealy’s eclectic career have fol-
Sam Cooke and Sonny & Cher. He the archive and built a website. lowed, including a new version
wanted to get the songwriter and “This was almost without me re- of “Fly Away,” originally sung by
the singer in the studio. alizing it because I was spending a Petula Clark in the movie “Never
McNealy had some success, but lot of time in chemotherapy,” Mc- Never Land,” with Floegec on vo-
when she and Marcelle met Bat- Nealy recalls. She now had to think cals, as well as other updated ren-
tiste, it kick-started a decadeslong of a name for the project, so she ditions of music from her catalog.
working relationship between thought back to her mentor Bat- McNealy continues to make mu-
the songwriter and the producer. tiste, who was from New Orleans, sic. She has been at work on a mu-
“Everything I wrote, he wanted,” and the jazz, funk and soul that sical called “The Griffin,” an adap-
she says. “That was very cool. We had influenced her. tation of Frank R. Stockton’s fairy
started doing the demos and I con- “I decided to call it lo-flo because tale “The Griffin and the Minor
tinued to work with him.” everybody was so laid back,” she Canon.” McNealy also wrote a con-
Back when McNealy was living says. “Lo-Flo Records, just go with certo, “Through Fire and Ice: Five
at Hollywood Studio Club, another the flow, relax, enjoy it.” Stages of Grief,” inspired by her
resident introduced her to writer It took a bit of time to put to- own experience with cancer, which,
and librettist Alice Kuhns, who be- gether the team, but Lo-Flo offi- in her case, she notes, is not curable
came her longtime collaborator on cially launched in 2020 with the but is manageable. She says, “You
musicals. Their first collaboration release of the song “Turn Away can go through the different stages
to be produced, “To Be Fred,” hit From Darkness,” featuring Joyce of knowing that you have this kind
the stage in the 1970s, and others Dunn on vocals. It was followed of disease.”
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INTERVIEW

NA O M I H I R A H A R A
TUR NS A PAGE ed at
The Pasadena-based novelist was terrifi now.
her
her first Bouchercon convention. Watch
espondent
By Michael Schaub >> Corr
the annual
through the doors of Bouchercon,
In 2003, Naomi Hirahara walked g held that year in Las Vegas.
tion that was bein
mystery and crime fiction conven publishing her first mystery nov el, “Summer
She was just a few months away from ce her character Mas Arai, a Hiroshima sur-
odu
of the Big Bachi,” which would intr by Hira-
ed Pasa den a gard ener , to the world. Mas — who was inspired
vivor turn e of her crim e nov els.
to star in six mor
hara’s own father — would go on ple. You don’t
“I was terr ified ,” Hira hara reca lls. “There were thousands of peo
g to enter.”
know what kind of world you’re goin hara is making another trip to Bou
cher-
des and 13 nov els late r, Hira
Two deca g to be the toas tma ster.
o — and she’s goin
con. But this time, it’s in San Dieg dena na-
The con ven tion will be the late st book tour stop for Hirahara , the Pasa the sec-
o Pres s this mon th. It’s
published by Soh
tive whose novel “Evergreen” was an in 2021 with “Clark and Div ision,” which
ond inst allm ent in a series that beg an in 1944
a young Japanese American wom
introduced the character of Aki Ito, rati on camp.
family in the Manzanar concent
who had been imprisoned with her ated the dea th of her olde r siste r, who was
In “Clark and Div ision,” Aki investig family was relocated after their time in
re the
killed by a train in Chicago, whe her parents have been allowed to return to
Manzanar. In “Evergreen,” Aki and takes a job as a nurse’s aide at the Japanese
Aki
their home in Los Angeles, where ther suspi-
soon finds herself investigating ano
Hospital in Boyle Heights — and
cious death. Sept.
con, which runs Wednesday through
In addition to appearing at Boucher ina, Hirahara will be featured at several
o Mar
3 at the Marriott Marquis San Dieg ust and through September. She spoke about
other events in Californ ia in late Aug condensed
dena. This conversation has been
“Evergreen” via telephone from Pasa
and edited for leng th and clarity. PHOTO BY ANDY HOLZMAN
en,” is her follow-
s plac e in Boy le Nao mi Hirahara’s latest mystery, “Evergre
Aki Ito looking into a
Q
rgre en” take
Did you know when you were writ
- “Eve
up to “Clark and Division,” with heroinepital in Boyle Heights.
Q ing “Clark and Div ision” that you
be bringing Aki back?
’d Hei ghts and Litt
spend a lot of time researching wha
le Tok

ed
yo. Did you

like in
t
the
suspicious death at the Japa nese Hos

those neighborhoods look

first Mas Ara i 1940s?
No. Even with the
A novel, I thou ght of it as a stan d-
Writing “Evergreen” was so differ-
alone. Both of those books, the first
Mas Arai and “Clark and Div ision
,” A ent from “Clark and Div ision,” be-
cause I knew close to nothing abo
ut
i-
took a lot out of me. “Clark and Div e Chicago, which was really frighten-
writ
sion” didn’t take as long for me to ing. I needed my local guides to kind
al
as my debut, but it took an emotion - of show me around. But it was quit
e
toll, and I was writing most of it dur the opposit e with “Eve rgre en.” My hus -
of
ing the pandemic, too. That kind band was born in Boyle Hei ghts , and
claustrophobia, especially in the be- I worked at the newspaper, The Raf
u
ling with liv-
ginning when Aki is dea Shim po, just like Art doe s. In a way,
kind
ing in Manzanar, was a mirrored not know-
with both not knowing much and er prob-
of experience, where I was dealing ing too much can cause a writ
we
the same kind of confinement like lems. If you don’t know enough, you
’re
ope ning up, and
all were. And then it’s rs. And if you
ng going to make some erro
you’re kind of tiptoeing outside, tryi know too much, it’s hard to figure
out
Do I nee d to act
to relook at the world: ? wha t you nee d to focu s on. What’s the
rent
differently? How is the world diffe
e a important par t of the stor y? I need
So I knew that Aki was going to hav I’m writing genre fiction, so
similar psychological experience. to give just enough. The readers don
’t
of Los Ang eles
need this whole history
Mas Arai is a Hiroshima surv i-
Q
me
Aki was in Man - in 1946. What was really lucky for
vor, and of course was that the new spap er that I worked
e
zanar. Writing about that must hav c for finally became available through
arti
been painful, but was it also cath the Los Angeles Public Library as
a dig-
in any way? ital vers ion, and that gave me the key to
arou nd with it
the timeline. I did play
That’s why I like the mystery
A
the
cha ract ers hav e in a few places, but looking through
genre, because our newspaper, I could han g my imp res-
e-
agency. They’re supposed to do som sions on actual events, and that was
thing, and no matter wha t kind of
can helpful.
’t
trauma they ’ve gone through, they
had not enco un-
just stay there. If Aki Earlier this month, you were in the
tered this tragedy with her sister,
she
ev- Q
would not be able to analyze or feel . of the Japanese Hospital, where Aki
Nisei Week parade with a replica
ugh
erything the family had gone thro works. That must have been a fun
and
Because I think the inclination is, ry
“Let’s gird up. Let’s forget what hap
- surr eal exp erie nce. “That’s why I like the myste
ch ara cte rs
pened and go forward and make
the nd time genre, because our
my seco os ed
A pp
only
have agency. They’re su
s is Tha t was
best out of it.” Which in some way be in the parade. I’m a mem-
to tte r
do something, and no ma
but whe n som e-
very healthy, I guess, ’t ber of a shor t stor y contest that’s
orga- to
hap pen ed, I can
has e
what kind of trauma they’v
thing sup er trag ic yo His tori -
tak- nized through the Little Tok
ignore it. I’ve got to be there while w abo ut the replica, n’t
ing my steps forward. I know peo
ple cal Soc iety , so I kne
st named gone through, they ca
mu- which was created by an arti and it
like that, in my family and my com so fun , just stay there.”
me Mike Saijo. But it was
nity, and it is very inspirational for was cool whe n we wer e goin g dow n the
op-
to think about how they ’ve had to streets of Little Tokyo, and some
people — Naomi Hirahara
n I enco unt er toug h tim es. n
erate, whe were calling out “Boyle Heights!”
Eve
g
There is a precedent for people bein re though it had been closed since the
whe
in the muck but still figuring out ’60s, people still felt connected.
in-
to go next. In that way, it kind of
spires me. You’re going to be the toastmaster
How would you say Aki has
Q at this year’s Bouchercon in San
Q changed between the events of
“Clark and Div ision” and “Evergre
Diego. Can you give us any hints
en”? what you might have in stor e for
about
this
year’s even t?
me less naiv e.
A I thin k she’s beco
My approach is to make it a wel-
There’s still a naivete about her,
but she’s cognizant that her upbring
ing A coming place. I just want to set the
tone as the toastmaster and make
peo-
has protected her, sheltered her, from re’s goin g to be
ws ple feel welcome. The
certain experiences. I think she kno a lot of humor. I’ve done improv, so
on
that her personal exp erie nce s so far rov sess ion
t it’s Sunday we’re hav ing an imp
don’t paint the full picture of wha I with som e othe r writ ers who alle ged ly
like for all Japanese Americans. And know improv. I’m also goin g to be em-
y is
think just knowing that your stor ceeing the opening night receptio I
n, and
er stor y, I thin k
just one par t of a larg off with a gam e.
She’s we’re gonna star t it
that’s grow th. She’s still insecure. want to mak e it very inte ract ive and in-
s
married now, but even though she’ - volve both long time con fere es and new
curi
married, she still has a lot of inse g, ones. We need some music, so we’l
l put
twe ntys ome thin
ties. I think that any It’s goin g to be
going a little Beach Boys on.
no matter what era she is from, is great. And who wou ldn’ t wan t to go to
to feel that way. San Diego, you know?
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INTERVIEW

FROM GHANA WITH GRAFT

Author Yepoka Yeebo describes the challenges of reporting on crooked elites
who helped muddle the African nation’s own understanding of its past
By Stuart Miller
Correspondent

Ghana’s first president,

Kwame Nkrumah — who’d
led the nation’s fight for
independence from Great
Britain — was deposed in
a 1966 coup that was likely
backed by the Cold War-
era CIA. In the aftermath,
stories swirled that Nk-
rumah had smuggled un-
told wealth out of the coun-
try.
Later on after Nkrumah’s
death, a man named John
Ackah Blay-Miezah started
telling people that Nk-
rumah had been protect-
ing his nation’s riches in a
vault in Switzerland, stash-
ing it there until it was safe
to bring the money back
home. Blay-Miezah said
the former president had
placed him in charge of
the fund, called the Oman
Ghana Trust Fund.
It’s a great story, but
none of it was true. Blay-
Miezah was a liar and a con
man who spent decades
distorting the history of
his country to bilk inves-
tors who thought they’d
get a piece of that treasure.
His story is recounted in
“Anansi’s Gold: The Man
W ho Looted the West,
Outfoxed Washington and
Swindled the World,” by
Yepoka Yeebo. The author,
who was raised in Lon-
don by Ghanaian parents,
Yepoka Yeebo tells the story of John Ackah Blay-Miezah, other elites and Western powers in what she characterizes as the twisting of Ghana’s history.
Q How much was this
about telling John
Ackah Blay-Miezah’s story
and how much was it about
getting the truth out about
Ghana’s history and the
West’s responsibility for the
problems there?
A I grew up in London
and had not heard of
Blay-Miezah until my mom
sent me the “60 Minutes”
clip, where it was obvious
to me that his story was
patently ridiculous. But
Blay-Miezah did: He’d use
breaking news moments
like political unrest to de-
lay payments. And then I’d
see what he did creep into
the news and change peo-
ple’s interpretations of what
was happening at the time.
Then I realized you couldn’t
write about how he was able
to get away with such auda-
cious things without telling
this whole story.
But it was also impor-
tant to tell the history. Nk-
rumah has long seemed
holding state visits with
President (Bill) Clinton. But
he was actively grafting on
a massive scale all along.
Younger people who didn’t
know the past loved him
because he was incredibly
charismatic and ushered
in a period of relative pros-
perity. When his death was
announced, even my cous-
ins posted loving tributes
to him.
Q How difficult was it
to dig up the truth of
COURTESY OF YEPOKA YEEBO
get to talk died, it felt like
it was slipping through my
fingers.
stories into history, adding
real information on top of
a pile of incredibly suspect
When I went looking for history to balance the pic-
sources, they didn’t exist. ture and fill it out.
At the British Library, there
was an old magazine where
someone had ripped out the
two pages I was looking for.
Q You write about lies
changing history and
about Blay-Miezah try-
The basic information I ex-
pected to get from books
wasn’t there.
ing to run out the clock on
his trials while he ran for
president, hoping a victory
There’s a weird vacuum would solve his legal prob-
and people exploited that lems. That sounds kind of
and filled the vacuum. A lot
of sources I found are not
familiar.

details Blay-Miezah’s ex-

ploits across the decades
(with cameos by everyone
from child star turned am-
bassador Shirley Temple
Black to disgraced attor-
ney general John Mitchell)
but has greater ambitions.
In a recent video inter-
view, Yeebo discussed us-
ing this story to set the re-
cord straight on much of
Ghana’s distorted and ma-
nipulated history — from
Nkrumah to a more recent
president, Jerry Rawlings,
who Yeebo says targeted
other Ghanaians, including
her own father — and on
the damage wreaked by in-
terference from Great Brit-
ain and the United States.
my mother said, “No, this
is possible.”
It was shocking that he
was able to con so many
people, including famous
and well-respected people,
and that even now many
people still believe he was
telling some form of the
truth, thinking, “Maybe he
was a con man who didn’t
do the right thing, but the
fund exists.”
When I started out, I
thought this was just a re-
ally good yarn, very enter-
taining and messy. I love a
messy detail. But early in
the research, I realized the
con wouldn’t make sense
without context, and then
the context fed into what
outlandishly corrupt —
and he wasn’t. But that
didn’t stop people; it was
just accepted without ev-
idence. Rawlings actively
tried to murder my father,
who was a minor politician
at the time. My parents had
friends who were disap-
peared, and when I started
asking about this period it
was pretty clear they had
post-traumatic stress, and
that really broke my heart.
R awlings could see
which way the wind was
blowing and adjust. He was
brilliant at laundering his
image, breaking with his
reputation as a murderous
dictator by having a state
funeral for Nkrumah and
Ghana’s modern history?
A The idea that a con
man could manipulate
history so much surprised
me, but it was with help
from the U.K. and the U.S.
— his stories kept being re-
told and had such legs. It re-
ally breaks my heart that so
much of Ghanaian history
has been obscured or lost
and so outlandishly manip-
ulated. The worst of it was
in foreign newspapers like
The New York Times arti-
cles from the 1960s. I was
always offended by how
lazy they were.
There’s so much history
that was lost, and when
older people I was trying to
easily accessible, including
people’s personal archives
— one source I had to keep
calling at dawn so I could
look in his filing system.
One archivist friend was
walking past the high court
and there were files open to
the elements, people’s lives
rotting in the humidity. An-
other archivist friend found
more files in the basement
of a building.
It’s important to pre-
serve this history before
it’s too late and establish
research trails so others
can replicate that work and
build on it. Hopefully, many
more people will find sto-
ries and go through family
archives and write all their
A I originally thought the
problems were specific
to Ghana but they weren’t.
We all discovered over the
past couple of years how
much corruption there is
everywhere and how peo-
ple make their fortunes and
get to continue to graft af-
ter indictments and being
out of office and seemingly
being disgraced.
If I’d written this book 10
years ago people in the U.K.
and the U.S. would have
said, “That doesn’t happen
here.” But Donald Trump
and Boris Johnson, who is
also a huckster extraordi-
naire, got elected and the
book started to mean some-
thing different.

REVIEW

PHOTOS COURTESY OF KNOPF, LAKE UNION, DOUBLEDAY

Hollywood novels ready for their close-ups

4 new offerings range from sweet to salacious by
authors including Tom Hanks and James Ellroy
By Chris Hewitt
Boston Herald
From hellhole to benign work-
place, there’s a Tinseltown for
everyone in new books about
making movies.
Movie fans seem to think Hol-
lywood is falling short this sum-
mer. “Barbenheimer” has helped
turn around what was becoming
a grim season, with other antic-
ipated blockbusters such as the
“Mission Impossible” and “Indi-
ana Jones” sequels and “Elemen-
tal” not busting as many blocks
as expected/hoped.
Maybe those fans are filling
in the gaps with Hollywood-
themed books? For whatever
reason, a lot of current and up-
coming fiction tackles movie-
making, ranging from Kathleen
Rooney’s “From Dust to Star-
dust,” due Sept. 5 and mostly
set in the silent film era, to Tom
Hanks’ “The Making of Another
Major Motion Picture Master-
piece,” which takes place on
the present-day set of a Marvel-
like movie. There’s also Lindsay
Lynch’s “Do Tell,” whose main
character is a gossip columnist
in the era when “Gone With the
Wind” was sweeping the Os-
cars, and James Ellroy’s 1960s-
set “The Enchanters,” which hits
stores Sept. 12.
Ellroy’s book is the best —
and, maybe not coincidentally —
darkest of the four. Hanks’ book
presents its filmmakers with a
couple of hurdles, but it’s mostly
the tale of a merry band of hard
workers who get the job done.
Ellroy’s book, inspired by the
death of Marilyn Monroe and
her reputed relationships with
John F. and Robert Kennedy,
presents Hollywood as a violent
cesspool, virtually the opposite
of Hanks’ sweet tale.
“The Enchanters” also un-
derscores one thing that might
be a rule for Hollywood novels:
Use real names. Ellroy’s pro-
fane, scuzzy, hilarious tale is
crammed with dirt — real or
imagined — on dozens of celeb-
rities, including Elizabeth Tay-
lor and the aforementioned PO-
TUS. It gives his book a huge
leg up because we know these
“characters” the second he
name-drops them.
Lynch’s book could benefit
from star names. A sort-of mem-
oir by a fictional gossip colum-
nist named Edie O’Dare, “Do
Tell” has an entertaining point
of view — columnists are usually
the villains of Hollywood books,
not the stars, and Lynch has
compelling insight into why her
protagonist slides from second-
rate acting to first-rate tittle-tat-
tling. But too much of “Do Tell”
describes events, rather than en-
livening them, and her dozens
of Hollywood characters aren’t
memorable. “Do Tell” reads as if
Lynch wrote it using real names
and then changed them. The ef-
fect is that we simultaneously
know the characters too well
and not well enough.
One thing “Do Tell” teaches
us is that it doesn’t really seem
like gossip unless you know
who’s being gossiped about. Ell-
roy clearly knows that — it al-
most doesn’t matter if what he
says is true about Montgom-
ery Clift because, once Ellroy
has mentioned it and dozens of
other tawdry tidbits, it feels true
in his book’s gritty world.
Kathleen Rooney’s Holly-
wood is, like Hanks’, a kinder
one. Central character Doreen
O’Dare (coincidentally, Rooney
and Lynch chose the same sur-
name for their protagonists) is
a silent movie ingenue who is
telling her story, many decades
later, to a woman who’s put-
ting together a museum exhibit
about O’Dare’s career and the
1-ton dollhouse whose pieces the
actor collected over the course
of it.
There’s not much narrative
momentum, but Rooney has
done her research and she pres-
ents it gracefully, whether it’s
how much makeup needed to
be applied for early, black-and-
white movies (a lot), what hap-
pened to Mary Pickford’s career
(the Jazz Age didn’t fit her girl-
ish image) and how showbiz has
treated women during its more
than 100-year history (badly).
Like Ellroy’s and other vivid
novels about the movies, it
works because it seems to be
creating a movie in your mind.
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SUCCESSFUL AGING

How to leap hurdles to getting hired

Last week, we addressed the first part
of a question about wanting to return to
work after an unfulfilling volunteer expe-
rience. This week, we discuss the second
part of his question: How does one over-
come the societal and human
resources biases toward re-
hiring? Is there any place (or
hope) for seniors returning,
once they retire?
Let’s begin with some back-
ground information about
work, retirement and older
adults.
The trend toward early re-
tirements that occurred during the pan-
demic is about to reverse, according to
a Kiplinger newsletter. Rather than exit-
ing the labor force, more older adults are
likely to be working, and that includes re-
tirees returning to work.
Yet, at the same time, we have well-doc-
umented labor shortages in specific indus-
tries as many older adults face obstacles
to employment. Over 11 million jobs are
unfilled, while over 36% of potential work-
ers 55 or older are enduring long-term un-
employment, meaning they couldn’t find a
job for 27 weeks.
Age discrimination is one reason. Al-
though illegal, it is pervasive. A study pub-
lished by the National Bureau of Economic
Research found that workers 40 or older
are about half as likely to get a job offer as
younger workers if employers knew their
age. And 78% of older workers have re-
ported seeing or experiencing age discrim-
ination on the job. Add to that more than
14,000 claims of age discrimination filed
with the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission during fiscal 2020.
Such discrimination is a loss for em-
ployers, devastating for older workers and
a financial detriment for our country. In
2018, the U.S. lost potentially $850 bil-
lion in economic growth, according to an
Sharper skills and resume can help overcome the hiring bias that many older workers face.
AARP report.
Unfortunately, only 8% of organizations
include age as part of their diversity, eq-
uity and inclusion strategies, which likely
would address ageism.
To overcome workplace age biases,
older job seekers need to be prepared, cur-
rent, relevant and resourceful. In addi-
tion to last week’s suggestions, consider
the following from The Muse, an online
job board.
UPDATE YOUR SKILLS >> If you are unfamil-
iar with specific hardware or apps, take an
online course or a YouTube tutorial. Don’t
dismiss a job opportunity because you
don’t have those up-to-date skills if every-
thing else looks promising.
OPTIMIZE YOUR RESUME >> Know that most
resumes are not read by people but by an
applicant tracking system. That means in-
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cluding the right keywords. Learn how to
get past the robot gatekeepers.
THINK ABOUT WHERE YOU ARE VALUED >>
Look at job opportunities where age is ac-
knowledged as an asset. AARP has iden-
tified over 2,000 employers commit-
ted to older workers who have taken the
AARP Employer Pledge Program. AARP
also identifies companies with work from
home opportunities.
KEEP CURRENT >> If you are interested
in a particular industry, stay up to date.
Read about your industry, skills and latest
trends. Be ahead of the curve with your
skill set and knowledge.
DRAW ATTENTION TO YOUR ACCOMPLISH-
MENTS >> Emphasize the results you have
delivered. If the concern is ageism, omit
references to your age and stress your
achievements and what you are capable of
doing today.
ACTIVATE YOUR NETWORK >> That includes
your professional and informal ones. Net-
working is more than forwarding a re-
sume. Provide some specific information
to folks you know who can share that in-
formation with others.
SOME FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS >> The
approach to finding a job essentially de-
pends on the type of work that fits your
needs and preferences. Is it part-time,
with nothing to do with your previous
work and perhaps at a lower level com-
pared with a 40-year work history? Is the
money critical or is it an extra? Is it a con-
tinuation or variation of your previous
work? Is it time for something new? And
take a look at your neighborhood. Look
for the “We are hiring” signs. It doesn’t
hurt to ask. And if you are living with a
mate or partner, remember to have the
“work conversation” and discuss how your
work may fit into both of your lives.
Hope is an outlook on life. It can be
converted to reality by being prepared, re-
sourceful and resilient — and knowing
what you can bring to the table.
However, it may take time and a little
patience.
G.D., thank you for your good question.
Best wishes in finding that right work op-
portunity, and of course, be good to your-
self and others.
Helen Dennis is a nationally recognized
leader on issues of aging and the
new retirement, with academic,
corporate and nonprofit experience.
Contact Helen with your questions
and comments at Helendenn@gmail.
com. Visit Helen at HelenMdennis.
com and follow her on facebook.com/
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SENIOR MOMENTS
NUTRITION

Might perish
in storm or
quake but
won’t starve
I should have known when I got
the urge to make grits that something
was askew in the universe. When I
am feeling disconcerted, my Southern
roots flower and I often find myself
wanting to make grits.
There’s a quality
about this grainy sub-
stance that I find both
comforting and sustain-
ing. On winter morn-
ings, I used to gulp
some down in my col-
lege dining hall before
sprinting across cam-
pus, and I would feel
armed for anything the
day might bring.
Such was the case on the morning
of Aug. 20, when the rain from Hurri-
cane (later Tropical Storm) Hilary fi-
nally made an appearance after days
of anticipation by anxious South-
ern California residents, myself very
much included.
However, I was feeling relatively
calm and prepared even when I al-
most tripped over my disaster pre-
paredness kit, which I wrested from GETTY IMAGES
the closet floor. So when the need for Watercress. a relative of cabbage, was the most nutrient-dense vegetable named in recent research by the CDC.
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The top superfood might surprise you

equate it with any particular concern.
Though, as I was cooking, I did no-
tice that the rain was seriously esca-
lating its tap dancing on the garden
window.
“All we need now is an earth-
quake,” I said to my bowl of grits as
I sat down in front of the TV. The
words had barely left my lips as I
turned on the news announcing we
had just had an earthquake. At the
same time, I was getting a “duck and
cover” alert on my phone.
The one thing I hadn’t worried
about had happened. Was this getting
to be a pattern with me? My mind
flashed back to my recent trip to Chi-
cago, when the tornado I worried
about didn’t happen but something I
hadn’t worried about did.
If only I had worried about a 5.1
quake descending on California in
the midst of an impending hurri-
cane, I could have made a contin-
gency plan, as I did with the crack in
one of the window panes that I had
worried over for months. I finally cov-
ered it with a towel and masking tape
when I heard about the hurricane.
Not a drop of rain seeped through my
makeshift fix, but I worried that it
would.
It’s a lot of pressure worrying about
the things I might forget to worry
about.
Email patriciabunin@sbcglobal.net.
Follow her on X @patriciabunin and
PatriciaBunin.com.
We know that vegetables are often the health-
iest food on the plate — when they make it onto
the plate.
Loaded with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants
and fiber, veggies are known for their health-pro-
moting and disease-prevention properties. New
research has ranked vegetables and fruit by their
nutrient density, or the amount of nutrients ob-
tained per serving. While this information can
help us optimize our nutrition, the findings of the
study are a bit surprising.
The study by the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
vention awarded only one vegetable a perfect 100% score,
and it wasn’t cauliflower, broccoli or even kale. A lesser-
known green vegetable, watercress, took the title as top
superfood. Watercress is a leafy green vegetable in the
Brassicaceae, or cabbage, family that grows in freshwa-
ter. It has a strong peppery and even bitter flavor. Water-
cress is higher in vitamin A and potassium than other
lettuces and has more vitamin C than oranges.
While watercress can be eaten raw or cooked, how one
chooses to prepare it may depend on the type of water-
cress. Watercress sprouts or microgreens have a milder
flavor and texture, making them suitable for eating raw
in salads and sandwiches. Mature watercress leaves have
a more intense flavor and fibrous texture, and lend them-
selves to cooking in soups and stir-fried dishes or blend-
ing into a pesto, smoothies or sauces.
The downside to watercress is that it’s not very com-
mon. The other vegetables in the CDC’s top five include
Chinese cabbage, chard, beet greens and spinach, which
are more easily found in supermarkets, restaurants and
farmers markets. Other selections ranking high on
the list include parsley, romaine lettuce, mustard
greens and endive. Not surprisingly, leafy greens
like leaf lettuce, arugula and kale scored higher
than iceberg lettuce.
The nutrient density list doesn’t stop with vegeta-
bles, as fruit was included too, but all scored lower
than most veggies. Tops on the list were tomatoes,
lemons, strawberries, oranges and blackberries.
Here are seven tips to get the most nutrient-dense
vegetables and fruit into your meal plan:
• Swap out iceberg salads for spinach, romaine, aru-
gula and leaf lettuces.
• Add cooked and raw tomatoes to omelets, stews,
sauces, salads and pastas.
• Incorporate less familiar leafy green vegetables by
adding them to staple vegetable dishes. For example, add
sautéed chard, Chinese cabbage or beet greens to a broc-
coli or green bean dish.
• Include raw endive on a crudité plate with other veg-
gies and dips.
• Add freshly squeezed lemon juice to homemade
salad dressing, soups, smoothies and tea.
• Try to incorporate one of the top five vegetables into
your menu each week.
• Don’t shy away from frozen vegetables and fruit,
which typically are as nutritious as fresh produce.
LeeAnn Weintraub is a registered dietitian providing
nutrition counseling and consulting to individuals,
families and organizations. She can be reached at RD@
halfacup.com.
outandabout
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2023
The reborn cruise line’s amenities, tone and
service — and prices — check all the old boxes
Crystal
still has that polish
Story and photos
by David Dickstein
Correspondent
Twinkies, Toys R Us and Gymboree
share the distinction of being beloved
consumer brands that were euthanized
by their parent companies, but resurrected
under new ownership, to the delight of dis-
traught devotees.
A cruise line being added to the list of
brand favorites brought back from the
dead is nothing short of a maritime mira-
cle on the heels of a pandemic. But when
the gorgeous Crystal Serenity pulled into
Lisbon, Portugal, the other week, complet-
ing a 12-night maiden voyage in the Med-
iterranean, so returned industry darling
Crystal Cruises (crystalcruises.com).
For the line’s ardent and affluent follow-
ing, the 1 1/2 years spent lamenting over the
loss must have been rough — not unlike
being without one’s favorite cellophane-
wrapped snack cake or pair of children’s
retailers. The hardship could be felt all the
way in South America. Several months ago,
off French Guiana on another ultra-luxury
cruise line, an older woman from Califor-
nia felt the need to tell a travel writer that
she and her BFF were only sailing with
Silversea “because our favorite, Crystal, is
gone.”
Well, if Mark Twain cruised luxury lin-
ers instead of riverboats, he’d say that the
report of Crystal’s death is an exaggera-
tion. Administering the CPR that resusci-
tated the adored, symmetrical, crowned
seahorse logo is a company with a long
history of lux travel. A&K Travel Group,
the parent of tony tour operator Abercrom-
bie & Kent, purchased two original Crys-
tal ships: Serenity and Symphony. Recently
returned from a “shakedown” cruise, this
fan of the brand can confidently say that
if the preview sail demonstrates what life
is like under the new ownership, Crystal is
in good, well-manicured hands.
In many ways, the cruise line is better
than ever — and that’s saying a lot for a
brand that for three decades had made
good on the promise of “delivering the ex-
ceptional.” What was great before still is,
down to the bar-raising genuine hospital-
ity of the crew and OMG-worthy miso-mar-
inated black cod at Umi Uma. And what
had been somewhat lacking by Crystal
standards — the entertainment is top of
mind — is now extraordinary.
Two different production shows a night
is one area where Crystal’s new steward-
ship is spending the big bucks. Such robust
evening programming is unheard of on ul-
tra-luxury-class ships.
Within a year of buying the orphaned
Serenity and Symphony, launched in 2002
and 1995, respectively, A&K went down to
the steel to renovate these floating five-
star resorts. Other companies would be
tempted to increase density for higher rev-
enue per square foot — as Windstar did
when it cut Star Breeze’s hull to seamlessly
insert a 50-cabin section, and when Cu-
nard sliced the back of its Queen Victoria
to add 43 new staterooms. Instead, A&K
actually has reduced passenger capacity
by, among other waves of a magic wand,
enlarging suites by combining adjoining
cabins. As a result, Serenity now maxes
out at a slender 740, down from 980 pre-
sale. Its bones are actually built for 1,080
guests; the ship’s first successful liposuc-
tion was performed during a refit in 2017.
The older Symphony, which begins service
in September, now holds 606 passengers,
down from 848.
All this shape-shifting has resulted in
Crystal now sporting perhaps the best
guest-to-space ratio in the industry. On Se-
renity, returning guests will first notice the
wide, open spaces in the two-deck Atrium,
a lovely location for lounging, libations and
listening to live music. The rebuilds have
spawned redesigned stateroom categories
from as large as the 1,265-square foot Crys-
tal Penthouse Suite, with stone foyer floor
master bath, to the 215-square-foot, oddly
named Double Guest Room that comes
with a veranda or ocean view, but not the
nasty single supplement that punishes solo
travelers.
The sweet spots for accommodations are
the Sapphire Verandah Suites, and they
make up 151 of the 377 staterooms on Se-
renity. It’s a shame to call them a standard
suite because they measure a nonstandard
537 square feet. The equally plus-size bal-
cony adds another 107 to the floor plan.
Reincarnated Crystal is still as classy
as ever, just like Serenity’s godmother,
Dame Julie Andrews, whose portrait still
hangs proudly on Deck 5. Crystal’s signa-
ture Palm Court, six levels higher, out-
TRAVEL
Miso black cod at Umi Uma, the eatery
associated with chef Nobu Matsuhisa.
Under new owner A&K Travel Group, Crystal rebuilt the staterooms on Serenity not to
make them smaller, but bigger. The ship now hosts 740 passengers, down from 980.
Cuban cigars and fine cognacs can be enjoyed in the stately Connoisseur Club.
panaches rival observation lounges with
panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows, large
skylights and sweeping, unpretentious el-
egance that makes an afternoon tea and
nighttime dancing on the hardwood even
more special.
The 500-seat Galaxy Lounge and smaller
Stardust Club are the main entertainment
venues aboard Serenity. The bigger stage is
home to production shows that freshen up
old material with some of the best singers
and dancers afloat. “Crystal on Broadway”
threads selections from “Rent,” “West Side
Story” and the lesser-known, and thus re-
freshing, Renaissance-set musical comedy
“Something Rotten!” Was that an F-word
and S-word we just heard? On a cruise
ship? Yup, Crystal is that cool.
Something else that’s cool and definitely
not rotten is signing James Fox of Broad-
way and London’s West End fame to bring
his musical talents on Serenity and Sym-
phony. The versatile and personable per-
former does right by Billy Joel, a natural
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The no-meat split pea burger is good
enough to tempt committed carnivores.
program inclusion as Fox starred in the Pi-
ano Man’s jukebox musical “Moving Out.”
On another night he will present “My In-
fluences,” with personal favorites from an
array of artists and accompanied by a solid
seven-piece band.
Unlike with the competition, entertain-
ment abounds on Crystal day and night.
Besides the largest venues, there’s the Av-
enue Saloon piano bar; atrium-set Crys-
tal Cove, featuring rotating international
musicians; a movie theater; dance parties
poolside and inside; and stand-up comics
who, on Symphony, will yuck it up in Crys-
tal’s first dedicated comedy club. Always a
hit is the Crystal White Dress Party hosted
on every cruise.
More diversion is found on the top deck
for a go of paddle tennis, pickleball, golf
practice and pingpong. Elsewhere are ven-
ues for swimming, hot-tubbing, dancing
and, inside an impressive, 3,000-square-
foot fitness center, exercising. Children and
teens get dedicated spaces, as do smokers;
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Crystal
Serenity, shown
in Livorno,
Italy, comes
out west next
summer.
American cigar aficionados will appreciate
being able to legally light up real Cubans,
with or without a fine cognac, at the lordly
Connoisseur Club.
Neither Crystal ship has a casino any-
more, as gambling isn’t in the cards for
the new owners. But you can still lose your
shirt getting a massage at the Aurora spa.
Rejuvenation of the body, mind and soul
are just an appointment away.
In addition to the usual treatments, Au-
rora can work on your bloat and fatigue,
and has skin-correcting light simulation
therapy on the menu. Besides its name —
Aurora is the goddess of dawn — light also
factors in the spa’s décor; materials used
in the common areas purposely reflect and
refract natural sunshine with shimmering
splendor. One nit: The absence of refresh-
ment in the waiting room is a miss. A spa
without detox water is like a cruise ship
without an Italian specialty restaurant.
Great segue, because Crystal has that,
too. Northern Italian cuisine is what’s on
the menu at Osteria d’Ovidio, which re-
places Prego from the previous generation.
While nothing can beat the osso buco or
signature cream of mushroom soup from
before, the tortello pasta filled with braised
beef, figs and Gorgonzola cheese, washed
down with a tasty peach bellini, has the
new concept showing promise.
The other specialty restaurant, Umi
Uma, maintains Crystal’s association with
celebrity chef and restaurateur Nobu Mat-
suhisa, a master at marrying traditional
Japanese dishes with Peruvian ingredi-
ents. Winners on the menu include the
yellow jalapeño cold dish and aforemen-
tioned black cod marinated in Saikyo miso,
a richer, sweeter glaze than its saltier cous-
ins. Also sweet is that everyone gets to en-
joy the two specialty restaurants at least
once a cruise without a surcharge — a nice
treat when an order of that amazing cod
runs $50 at land-based Nobu locations in
Newport Beach, Malibu, West Hollywood
and around the world.
The other eateries on the ship, from the
more casual grill and buffet to a sit-down
tapas kitchen and main dining room, are
no worse or better than what you find on
Regent Seven Seas, Seabourn and Silver-
sea. One standout among the revamped
nonspecialty fare on Crystal is the split pea
burger, and this is coming from a strict
omnivore.
Be it as minor as a new vegetarian dish
in the buffet or as major as a ship rebuild,
Crystal is clearly not cutting corners as it
returns to service under A&K’s steward-
ship. In fact, the only noticeable sign of
downsizing by the new owners is the name.
“Crystal Cruises” has been trimmed to just
“Crystal,” but good luck getting the ma-
jority of those currently booked to change
their old ways. That’s because 8 of 10 signed
on to sail with Crystal through 2024 are re-
turning passengers, according to Cristina
Levis, CEO of A&K Travel Group.
Eighty percent also is the number of
laid-off Crystal workers who were brought
back by the new owners. Seeing familiar
faces goes a long way with brand-loyal
Crystal cruisers, especially when they’re
spending a reported average of $18,000 per
booking. That amount should rise now that
Crystal is part of a portfolio that includes
Abercrombie & Kent, known for curating
experiential travel worldwide. Shore excur-
sions and other land-based cruise exten-
sions should get a whole lot better on sails
to Alaska, the Mediterranean, Northern
Europe, Canada/New England, the Carib-
bean, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, New
Zealand and through the Panama Canal.
Voyages out of California in 2024, all on
Serenity, include an eight-night itinerary
from San Diego to Vancouver, British Co-
lumbia, that embarks June 24 (fares start
at $3,600 per person), and a six-nighter
from Vancouver to Los Angeles starting
Aug. 21 ($2,700 and up per guest). Both
journeys include calls in San Francisco and
Astoria, Oregon. Got the cruise fever for
more Crystal? A pair of world itineraries of
125 or 141 nights, the latter adding a Pan-
ama Canal segment, depart from San Di-
ego on Feb. 3.
Looking beyond next year, the 2025
itineraries are being announced soon,
and Crystal disclosed on the shakedown
that four more ships are planned to join
the fleet by 2029. The first two — a clas-
sic ocean liner with a capacity of about
650, and an ice-class expedition vessel
that holds roughly 220 — could begin con-
struction as early as June. That will in-
crease A&K’s Crystal collection to six styl-
ish ships.
Not bad for a cruise line that less than
two years ago had a burial at sea.
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YOUR DAILY BREAK |
ADVICE
Don’t want relative
barging in? Then
don’t open the door
DEAR ABBY >> How
do I get my mother-
in-law to stop drop-
ping by without
calling first? My
husband and I have
been married for Dear
26 years. Both of Abby
us have asked her Columnist
nicely over the years
to PLEASE call to
make sure it’s a good time, venient and DON’T LET
rather than just drop by
unannounced. She, how-
ever, blatantly ignores our husband should tell her
wishes and continues to do she is interrupting what
it. Even when she discovers you are doing, ask her to
it’s a bad time, she blankly please call before coming
looks at us and has this
“drop everything, I’m here” out. She won’t like it, but
attitude as she strolls in.
Once, when I had just
finished preparing a lovely
dinner I had worked hard
on for a couple of hours,
as we were sitting down
to eat, she rang our door-
bell. We had plenty of food apart. She has worked
and invited her to stay. In- here for three years now.
stead of joining us or go-
ing home, she went out our she plays dumb when I
back door and sat on our
patio — in our view. We
went out and again invited things I miss, like putting
her to join us, but she re-
fused to come in or take
the hint and leave. So we
had to see her the whole
time we were eating my
lovely dinner.
We have told her she
always drops by at the
WORST time. What I don’t tell her to leave me alone.
understand is why she gets
her jollies doing it. It could
be a nicer situation if we
had an agreed-upon time
and we could all have a
nice visit.
Normally, I have a great copy and putting in com-
relationship with her, and
talk with her frequently on she’s making you look
the phone. Two weeks be-
fore an event I was work-
ing on, I told her the fol-
lowing week I was going
to be crazy busy working
on it. She told me to not
bother calling her the fol-
lowing week so I could
concentrate on that proj-
ect. But during that busy
week, she dropped in on us
again!
I don’t think she re-
spects me at all. How do
we get through to her?
The New York Times Crossword
USE YOUR NOODLE By Manaal Mohammed / Edited by Will Shortz
Manaal Mohammed is a junior at
M.I.T. studying computer science.
The grid is full of references with
personal significance. Her mother
uses 14-Down to make rotis
and her dad keeps a 41-Across
interview stuck on the refrigerator.
ACROSS
1 Drinks named after a city
in Yemen
7 Remove, as a cap
11 Bloody Mary ingredient
18 Deluge
19 Collection of threads, of a
sort
21 Person pursuing passion,
not pay
22
Cookbook for rotelle
lovers?
25 Play lists?
26
Creature thought to
inspire mermaid legends
27 Olive oil for a macaroni
salad?
29 Chills
30 Lose it
33 Clothing style with retro
and preppy influences
34 Camel relative
36 Gate listing, for short
37 Bit of high jinks
38 “You think?’’
40 Fairy-tale antagonist
41 Best-selling personal
finance guru
43 Electrify
45 Advice for saucing a
lasagna?
50 Region of ancient
Palestine
51 Down
52 Competition for boxers
53 Martin Scorsese and
Spike Lee, for 67-Across
55 Running fettuccine
dough through the pasta
machine?
61 Concealed field, for short
62 Cacao bit
65 Pigeon’s sound
66 Rubber-stamps
67 Where Ross taught
paleontology on
“Friends,’’ for short
68 Self-serve spots at pasta
bars?
73 Star clusters?
76 Butch Cassidy, famously
77 Astronaut Jemison
79 Baked, so to speak
80 Kitchen disaster with
rotini?
86 Hits on the head,
informally
87 Topic of a traveler’s
inquiry
88 Keepsakes for some of the
world’s greatest dads?
89 Appropriate rhyme for
“stash’’
92 Hummus brand
93 “Ugh!’’
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Bestsellers Horoscope
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ended Aug. 20 is based
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kinda close friends years HARDCOVER a Dangerous Obsession: Club: Richard Osman and very likely broaden your
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1. The Creative Act: A 8. Ugly-Cute: What Matt Haig Gemini (May 21-June 20):
Way of Being: Rick Rubin Misunderstood Animals 7. The Secret History: \*\*\*\* This is a wonderful
She annoys me because Can Teach Us about Life: Donna Tartt day to entertain. Invite the
2. The Wager: A Tale of
Shipwreck, Mutiny and Jennifer McCartney gang over! People will come
know she isn’t, and she 8. The Idiot: Elif Batuman
Murder: David Grann 9. The Subtle Art of bearing gifts and treats.
constantly nitpicks at Not Giving A F*ck: Mark 9. A Little Life: Hanya This is a fortunate day for
3. Atomic Habits: An Yanagihara
Easy & Proven Way to Manson you. Someone might even
commas in places where
they should be. She also Build Good Habits & 10. What an Owl Knows: 10. The Song of Achilles: help you in your efforts to
likes to aggravate the boss Break Bad Ones: James The New Science of the Madeline Miller redecorate or improve your
Clear World’s Most Enigmatic home. Tonight: Check your
to get a rise out of him. I finances.
am not one for confron-
tation, so I grin and bear Cancer (June 21-July
it, but it’s wearing on me, 22): \*\*\*\* This is a
wonderful day to schmooze
and I don’t know how to Universal Sudoku Puzzle with friends, spouses and
— Aggravated Co-worker partners. Naturally, there is
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DEAR AGGRAVATED >>
acquaintances from your
Scratch the idea of tell- past are popping up in your
ing this girl to “leave you world again. Enjoy inter-
alone.” By editing your actions with groups and
organizations. Tonight: new
mas where they belong, faces.
Solution to last
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
GOOD. Her relationship Sunday’s puzzle \*\*\*\* Although this is a
with the boss is none of fun-loving, social day, work-
your business. related travel might occur
You do not have to be for some of you. In either
bosom buddies with your case, with fair Venus in your
co-worker. The secret is sign, you will be charming!
to find a way to coexist — Tonight: independence!
unless the situation is so Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept.
terrible that it prevents 22): \*\*\*\*\* This is
you from doing your job. a wonderful day to enjoy
playful activities with
Contact Dear Abby at children, sports events,
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69440, Los Angeles, CA social diversions. Some are
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Socialize!
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day! However, today you
are happy to hide at home
and relax among familiar
96 Big news for a co. 54 Photo-sharing social 85 Like some sedatives
97 Singer Bareilles media accounts, for short 86 Weight-to-height meas.
surroundings. You might
98 Storage story 56 “That su-u-ucks!’’ 89 Pearl units
entertain a few people,
99 Sets of mathematical 57 Snappy quip 90 One form of bark because with Mars in your
points 58 Motivational content, in 91 Third-largest city of sign now, you have a boost
100 With 108-Across, modern slang Colombia of energy! Tonight: surprise
aftermath of a farfalle 59 Bedtime brand 93 Japanese board game also company.
dinner? 60 Blast of wind called Five in a Row
105 Canvas carry-on 63 “____ do’’ 94 Tree that yields gum
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov.
107 Asanas in a sauna, say 64 Meadow sounds arabic 21): \*\*\*\*\* Get out and
108 See 100-Across 69 Some large cuts 95 Soprano’s feats schmooze with daily con-
111 Question from a poker 70 Browse social media 97 Transition tacts, siblings and relatives
dealer without commenting or 98 Together today. This is a fun-loving
112 Horror or humor posting 99 Shade of yellow day to be involved with
113 Like O. Henry’s “The Gift 71 Low digit 101 Beginner others. With Venus at the
of the Magi’’ 72 Like AAA, among all bond 102 Horn sound
114 Signifies ratings top of your chart, you look
103 Gerund end Answers to last Sunday’s puzzle
115 Jungian topic 74 “Whole ____ Red’’ (2020 104 Distinctive features of a
attractive to everyone.
116 Some party lines chart-topping album for chameleon Tonight: Pay attention.
Playboi Carti)
106 Fatty tuna, on a sushi Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec.
DOWN 75 Legal memo header menu
78
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1 “____ Dearest’’ (1981 Flair 107 Stashed
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looking good financially.
film) 109 Link letters
2 Like the musical “Come 81 Stuff oneself with 110 One making calls,
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3 Stretched out to see 83 Low digit a better job. Or you might
4 Hip things to do in Hawaii? 84 Global revolutions? improve your existing job.
5 Part of T.A.: Abbr. Keep your receipts, because
6 Style of alternative if shopping, you’re ready
rock with psychedelic
influences
to spend big! (It’s time to
7 Texas metroplex, to locals put the “b” back in subtle.)
8 Expression of amazement Tonight: Guard your posses-
9 Let go sions.
10 Truck stop purchase Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.
11 ____ audience 19): \*\*\*\*\* Lucky you!
12 “La Boh me’’ subject
This is a wonderful day to
13 The “x’’ in x2
14 Roti flour
socialize, because the Moon
15 Takes care of something
is in your sign dancing with
16 Things that snake oil Jupiter, which promotes
salesmen sell warm, friendly feelings with
17 Surgery spots, for short others. Today you will get
20
Cardinals’ org. exactly what you give, so be
23 Early 2000s virtual animal generous. Tonight: freedom!
companion
24 Lushes Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
28 “All Quiet on the Western 18): \*\*\*\* You’re happy
Front’’ setting, for short and content today. This is
31 Tom callin’s? a sociable day for many;
32
Unpaid debt however, you might choose
35 Cardinals’ org. to play things low-key and
37 Ham-and-cheese
seek solitude in beautiful
sandwich
38 Washed out, maybe surroundings — with good
food and drink, of course!
39 Word with fire or red
Your home is a happy refuge
40 Forcibly pull
41 Education acronym today. Tonight: caution.
42 Dynasty name in Italian Pisces (Feb. 19-March
history
43 Song words after “God
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with friends and groups to-
44 Bulk
45 Narrow ravine day. This is an upbeat, fes-
46 Bring out tive day! Work colleagues
47 “Barry’’ airer will be supportive. In fact,
48 Rubik who created the a romance with someone at
Rubik’s Cube
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work might begin. These are
passionate times for your
50 Pokes
sign! Tonight: new faces!
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was all my fault. “It’s this stuff called poor folks give a much
8/27
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money that bought that shouted eagerly. “It was their income to help oth-
bread, and it will get sooo good!” ers than rich people.
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also my fault. I don’t eat wheat. “We’re not buying tato pancakes — again —
white bread, but I know that stuff. It’s not good because Mom had given
he loves it so I bought for you.” our last $5 to feed some-
him some last week in a But that encounter one else’s kids. But look-
moment of extreme gro- did cause an acid flash- ing back on it, I’m proud
cery store weakness that back to my childhood. I’d of her.
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I need to stop having wheat product except Wonder Bread for my
those random moments Wonder Bread, which son. But she also would
of touching motherly was white and fluffy and have nagged him about
love when I’m walking you could mush it into closing the wrapper un-
through the supermar- a glutinous ball if you til he wept in despair in a
ket. They are never a needed an emergency much more professional
good idea. baseball. way than I ever could.
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bread isn’t even good for pose our moms were just lashes for leaving food
ducks, let alone people, so thrilled at all the mir- around and open. I’m too
so I’m not doing him any acle new products, they much of a wimp.

Sudoku Classic TM

How to play: Each row, by David L. Hoyt

column and set of 3-by-3 Use the clues to help unscramble the 8-27-23
boxes must contain the
four Jumbles, one letter to each square, I had no clue that
to form four words.
he was English.
numbers 1 through 9 Clue:
without repetition. HRECES It topped the ratings

Answers to last week’s puzzle

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Clue:
MRUYPG Like Oscar M., at times

Clue:
HADBSUN Tom H., to Rita W.
Clue: This actor, who
was born in England in
1959, was a member of
Clue:
Cambridge University’s
SILWEHT Hayden Fox used one rowing team.
Then arrange the circled letters to form the
answer, as suggested by the above cartoon
and clue.

Answer
Answers to 8/20/23 Jumbles: RANGER SEASON JANITOR VARIETY
Answer: This person’s last name at birth was Molinsky.
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to form six ordinary words. THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME 5. Refill: 2 wds. Wilder voce)
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19. Fountain order
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21. Meeting honcho muscles
22. Butter bean 7. Some market options
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25. Wheel-rotations 76. Treasure -- 10. Unfold
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27. Spirally coils
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79. Native of: Suffix
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82. Bloodhound 15. Quick upstairs
LEEETD 32. Ripple pattern motivator 16. -- de passage
33. Spear 83. Blending 17. -- corner
34. Potter’s clay
SALIEY
NLEGET 37. Crown jewels
85. Also-ran
87. Father of Abraham
18. Spoils
24. Papal fanon
crown
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arrange the the circled
circled letters
letters 88. Sothern and 26. Creative fellow
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PRINT YOUR ANSWER IN THE CIRCLES BELOW
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33. Sampras and
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48. Minced oath 96. Paddle for walking...”
34. Magwitch 55. Dries 97. Dividing
49. Glossy finish 97. Infallible of “Great 56. Not at all tasty 74. Wood strip 98. Gillette brand
Answers to last week’s puzzle 51. Parts of pumps 101. Hearing-acuity
Expectations”
57. Pro -- 76. Broadcast 99. Earns
52. Ignoble diagnostic aid 35. Sitar 77. Vessel for cooking
improvisations 59. Black 100. Journey
53. Flow against 103. A kind of verse 60. One behind the 78. Gelato: 2 wds. 102. Baseball stat.
36. Surveyor’s 80. Down Under dog
54. Estimate 105. Lie instrument other 104. Start for tourism
55. “The Merry -- of 106. Goodnight girl 38. Appearance 61. Puts forth 81. -- vital
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ICONIC ABSURD EASILY
41. White mushroom
60. All in 110. Pastry items 66. Webber-Rice 89. Exhausted
42. Basted
The GETTING ON of
tour guide’s arrangement 61. Undisturbed 111. Cat’s-paws musical 90. Cuts down
45. Underworld god
IN YEARS
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prison was — 46. Touched
63. Flavorful 68. Demi or Dudley
SENTENCE 64. Ring-tailed animal
emotionally
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By Douglas Schoen
Without even participating in
Wednesday’s Republican presi-
dential debate, former President
Donald Trump walked away
the clear winner, as none of
the eight other candidates who
were on stage in Milwaukee did
anything to close the gap with
the GOP frontrunner, who was
barely even discussed.
Put another way, the first Re-
publican debate was more nota-
ble for Trump’s absence — both
physically and as the target of
attacks — rather than anything
that other candidates did or
said, as no candidate did any-
thing to stand out from the pack
or weaken Trump’s command-
ing lead over the rest of the field.
And, while it is too early for
post-debate polling, one should
expect little, if any, decrease in
Trump’s lead.
Indeed, even when the can-
didates did discuss Trump —
whose interview with former
Fox host Tucker Carlson aired
at the same time on X (formerly
Twitter) — they mostly offered
weak criticism, clearly afraid of
alienating the party’s base and
drawing Trump’s ire. When
asked whether they would sup-
port Trump if he were to be con-
victed in any of his many legal
cases, only Chris Christie and
Asa Hutchinson said they would
not, drawing boos.
To be sure, going into the de-
OLD, CORRUPT POLITICIANS
Can’t we do better
than Trump, Biden?
By John Stossel
The betting odds say the
next election will likely be a
rematch between Joe Biden
and Donald Trump.
It’s odd, since polls show
most Americans don’t like ei-
ther man.
There are good reasons for
that. My new video covers
some of the worst.
Trump is simply mean.
He humiliates people, tak-
ing pleasure in mocking them
publicly.
In his real estate work, he’s
famous for not paying lit-
tle people who work for him.
He stiffed a cabinet-builder,
a dishwasher and a plumber.
ELECTION 2024
Former President Donald Trump steps off his plane as he arrives at
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Thursday in Atlanta.
bate, expectations should have
been tempered. Trump leads his
GOP rivals by 41 points accord-
ing to the RealClearPolitics av-
erage, and just one other candi-
date, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis,
is even polling in double digits.
That said, there were times
when various candidates at-
tempted to make the case for
why they should be the par-
ty’s nominee, even if none were
strong enough to remotely
threaten Trump’s path to the
nomination. In particular, De-
Santis, Pence, Christie, and
Haley stood out, as did Vivek
Ramaswamy.
One of the biggest ques-
No one is too small to get bad
treatment from Trump.
It’s sad that today, America
is so divided. Trump makes
that worse.
Of course, Biden is divisive,
too. Running for office, he
promised, “I will draw on the
best of us, not the worst.”
But now that he’s president,
he does the opposite. He calls
his opponents “full of anger,
violence, hate and division.”
This is drawing on “the best
of us”?
Then there are the lies.
Trump lies even about un-
important things, like the
crowd at his inauguration,
ratings for his TV show, even
claiming he won a nonexistent
STOSSEL » PAGE 4
Southern California News Group editorial board
Ron Hasse, President and Publisher
Frank Pine, Executive Editor
Salvador Rodriguez, Opinion Editor
Editorial board members:
Larry Wilson, Susan Shelley, Steven
Greenhut, Roger Ruvolo, Richard Boddie,
John Seiler
MORRY GASH — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
the background as other, more
charismatic candidates made
their case.
Former VP Mike Pence clearly
tried to associate himself with
the accomplishments of the
Trump administration, while
criticizing his former boss for
his actions and behavior sur-
rounding Jan. 6, 2021. Pence
also showed some fire by de-
manding DeSantis “answer the
question” when DeSantis ini-
tially tried dodging whether
Pence had done the right thing
in certifying the 2020 election.
The former VP also channeled
Reagan-esque Republican prin-
ciples of America’s place as the
“arsenal of democracy” vis-à-
ALEX BRANDON — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
vis supporting Ukraine against
Russia’s full-scale invasion, a po-
sition antagonistic to the MAGA
crowd.
tions going into the debate was However, Pence is arguably
whether DeSantis would capi- the furthest to the right of any
talize on the chance to reverse candidate — save for Tim Scott
his campaign, which has strug- — on abortion, and his calls for
gled amid sagging poll numbers, a national abortion ban are sure
high-level staff turnovers, and to alienate moderates and Re-
donors abandoning him over publicans who have seen anti-
his hard-right swing on posi- abortion measures fail in mul-
tions such as abortion and gun tiple states.
rights in Florida. Christie, who essentially has
The Florida governor mostly a better chance to be attorney
stayed on message, touting his general in a second Biden ad-
landslide 2022 win and his re- ministration than he does at se-
cord in the Sunshine State; how- curing the Republican presiden-
ever DeSantis noticeably shied tial nomination, often seemed
away from taking on Trump like the straight-talking attack
by name, opting for general dog he wants to be. He chas-
calls for the party to “look for- tised Donald Trump’s conduct
ward” before mostly fading into SCHOEN » PAGE 4
CALIFORNIA
Coastal cities don’t want to do
their part to allow more housing
SACRAMENTO >> One of the more the state for its failure to pro-
entertaining aspects of the cess “by right” duplex approv-
state’s battle to open up hous- als under Senate Bill 9), has
ing development to re- championed the “lo-
duce California’s housing cal control” argument
shortage is the degree to and stoked NIMBY (Not
which it has united of- In My Back Yard) fears
ficials in liberal coastal about turning this sub-
cities with those in con- urban city into an urban
servative ones. Although hell-scape.
left and right typically Steven In a column, GOP
use different rhetoric Greenhut Mayor Tony Strickland
to evade new housing Columnist vowed the city will never
bills, they are strangely be “rubber stamps for
aligned in their ultimate Gavin Newsom’s vision
quest to block permissive new of turning every community in
construction laws. California into his failed exper-
Republican-controlled Hun- iment of San Francisco, Amer-
tington Beach, which has sued ica’s worst city, whose decline
the state government to stop began on Newsom’s watch as
enforcement of state housing mayor there.” Strickland lives
mandates (and was sued first by in an “affordable-housing” unit
» ocregister.com
CIVIL LIBERTIES
American
torture
comes
home
to roost
By Andrew Napolitano
“Maybe there is a beast.
Maybe it’s only us.” — William
Golding (1911-1993), “Lord of the
Flies”
Hidden within some folks
are the souls of saints. Hidden
within others are the souls of
beasts. Torture unleashes the
beasts.
Nothing is more destructive
of human decency, nothing is
less fruitful in seeking truth,
nothing is more totalitarian and
nothing so undermines the gov-
ernment’s own cases as its use
of torture.
Yet, torture is universally con-
doned by the government.
Last week, at the U.S. Naval
Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
torture came home to roost
when the government suffered
serious setbacks in two cases.
In one, a military judge sup-
pressed the confessions of Abd
al-Rahim al-Nashiri — the al-
leged mastermind of the bomb-
ing of the USS Cole in 2000,
which killed 17 American sail-
ors — because he found that the
confessions were obtained un-
der torture. In the other, govern-
ment lawyers reluctantly agreed
to enter into a plea agreement
with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
— whom the government says
planned the 3,000 murders of
9/11 — in order to avoid defend-
ing the tortures that the CIA in-
flicted upon him.
In the former, the government
is unlikely to appeal and is now
stuck with the most adverse rul-
ing it has received in 21 years at
Gitmo. In the latter, President
Joe Biden has apparently au-
thorized Mohammed’s plea deal
and the government is now try-
ing to explain it to surviving
family members.
In both cases, the evidence of
guilt discoverable without tor-
ture was substantial. Yet, the
sickening lust for government-
inflicted pain fomented by the
morally challenged and ethi-
cally obtuse President George W.
Bush materially weakened the
government’s cases. The govern-
ment effectively tortured its own
prosecutions.
Here is the backstory.
At Nashiri’s pretrial hearing
at Gitmo last year, the psychol-
ogist in charge of interrogat-
ing him described in vivid detail
both the modern and the medi-
eval techniques of torture used
upon him.
The psychologist was called
as a defense witness in order to
demonstrate to the court that a
good deal of the evidence that
prosecutors plan to introduce
against Nashiri was obtained di-
rectly or indirectly through, or
was tainted by, his torture and
thus cannot lawfully be used at
his trial.
Torture committed by govern-
ment officials and their collabo-
rators upon a person restrained
NAPOLITANO » PAGE 4
and presumably his neighbor-
hood has yet to turn into the
Tenderloin.
In lefty near-coastal Bev-
erly Hills, Councilman John
Mirisch is raising a different
specter — that pro-housing ad-
vocates are following the model
of Texas, which has usurped lo-
cal control on social issues in-
cluding gun regulation. Mirisch
also complains about corporate
profits, the “urban growth ma-
chine” and evils of “deregula-
tion,” but arrives at the same
place as Strickland in opposing
freer housing markets. Strange
bedfellows.
Now, other coastal NIMBYs
— who claim to stand up for
principle, but seem allergic to
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Editorial
Californians
have a choice
to make on oil
Voters next year could decide two com-
peting, complex initiatives on oil wells in
California.
Last September, Gov.
Gavin Newsom signed into
law Senate Bill 1137. It es-
tablished a so-called “health
protection zone,” also called
a setback or buffer, of 3,200
feet around new or reworked
oil wellheads, which would
be banned within that dis-
tance near homes, schools,
hospitals and detention cen-
ters. Until then, there was
no limit. That’s why in some
neighborhoods in Califor-
nia you see pumpjacks bob-
bing up and down right next
to homes.
According to the Guard-
ian, most other state set-
backs are between 100 and
150 feet. And the “most strin-
gent” among major energy
states is Colorado’s 1,000
feet.
The practical impact of SB
1137 is clear. It would dra-
matically reduce California’s
ability to be energy self-suf-
ficient, kill high-wage blue-
collar jobs and make Califor-
nia even more reliant on out-
of-state and foreign oil for
years to come.
The latter issue is partic-
ularly ironic given the sup-
posed environmental con-
cerns of supporters of SB
1137. “It will only lead to sig-
nificantly higher transpor-
tation costs and an increase
in greenhouse gasses and
other emissions associated
with bringing that oil into
the state,” noted the West-
ern States Petroleum Associ-
ation.
The State Building and
Construction Trades Council,
AFL-CIO, also opposed SB
1137 at the time, noting that
California already has robust
environmental regulations.
“The production of oil in
California is under the stron-
gest environmental and la-
bor standards in the world,”
they noted. “Extraction op-
erations are regulated by
more than two dozen federal,
state, and local regulatory
agencies that enforce these
standards.”
Alas, Sacramento lawmak-
ers ignored both the petro-
leum industry and labor.
To repeal SB 1137, the Cal-
Editorial
Liberty on the rise
in Latin America
A new candidate dedicated
to economic freedom enjoys
a good chance of winning Ar-
gentina’s Oct. 22 presidential
election.
Javier Milei is an economics
professor and professed liber-
tarian, who said, “For me the
state is an enemy, as are the
politicians who live off it.”
Amen to that.
He promises to sharply cut
taxes, regulations, spending
and government jobs. To end
the country’s endemic infla-
tion, currently soaring above
a 100% annual rate, he would
end the Central Bank and
“dollarize Argentina,” mean-
ing switch to the U.S. dollar.
“This would end the fraud
of the peso, which is melting
like ice cubes in the Sahara,”
he said.
Milei and his La Libertad
Avanza (Liberty Advances)
party follow the Austrian
school of economics, whose
best known member was No-
bel laureate Friedrich Hayek,
author of “The Road to Serf-
dom.” Milei even has named
one of his dogs “Rothbard,” af-
ter American libertarian econ-
omist Murray Rothbard.
A century ago, according to
historian Paul Johnson, Ar-
gentina enjoyed the world’s
second highest income level.
Then Juan Peron was elected
in 1946 and promptly spent
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ifornia Independent Petro-
leum Association worked to
gather signatures for an ini-
tiative to put SB 1137 up for
a vote. They successfully put
on the Nov. 2024 ballot the
“California Oil and Gas Well
Regulations Referendum.”
A “Yes” vote will uphold the
law, a “No” vote will reject
the law.
The successful placement
of the referendum prompted
the Campaign for a Safe and
Healthy California, a co-
alition of environmentalist
groups, on Aug. 2 to file with
the Attorney General’s office
the Stop Toxic Oil Drilling
Act of 2024. The initiative
would affirm SB 1137. Accord-
ing to the SCNG reporter
Brooke Staggs, supporters of
that initiative have until next
April to gather about 1 mil-
lion signatures to success-
fully get it on the ballot.
Under California law, if
two initiatives cover the
same issue, the one of the
most votes prevails. In the
meantime, SB 1137 is sus-
pended until the voters de-
cide its fate.
Would the 3,200-foot “set-
back” make us more healthy?
It’s hard to say because
there are studies on both
sides, explained Robert Mi-
chaels, emeritus professor of
economics at Cal State Ful-
lerton to our editorial board.
He further noted that said
the SB 1137 setback, if it sur-
vives, probably wouldn’t in-
crease the price of gas and
diesel paid by consumers.
That’s because 70% of our oil
is already imported, mainly
from Ecuador, Saudi Ara-
bia and East Asia. How-
ever, workers in the industry
would be affected by losing
their jobs.
It seems to us SB 1137 was
made too restrictive. Col-
orado’s 1,000 feet setback
would have been more rea-
sonable. The Legislature’s
mistake should be corrected
by the voters repealing SB
1137. That won’t happen, ob-
viously.
Hence, Californians will
have the chance to do it
themselves.
and regulated the country
into the ground. Since then,
except when ruled by the mil-
itary, Peronists have won 10
of 13 elections. Incumbent
President Alberto Fernandez,
not seeking re-election, be-
longs to the Peronist Justi-
cialist Party.
“The country has been so
mismanaged and the people
are absolutely sick of it,” Ian
Vasquez, director of the Center
for Global Liberty and Pros-
perity at the Cato Institute,
told us about Argentina. He
said the “gradualism” during
the 2015-19 presidency of Mau-
ricio Macri, a non-Peronist,
didn’t work, with inflation
running above 25%. “And then
the Peronists came back in
power and have made a worse
mess of things.”
Vasquez said Milei uses a
bombastic style, much like for-
mer Brazilian President Jair
Bolsonaro and former Presi-
dent Trump. But Milei’s poli-
cies are different, he says, such
as rejecting Trump’s recent
calls for high tariffs. In other
words, unlike Trump, he’s ac-
tually committed to free mar-
ket capitalism.
Vasquez is hopeful a Milei
win would encourage other
free-market revolutions
through Latin America, which
has been ravaged by socialist
and populist pipe dreams.
Cartoonist’s take
Letters to the editor
Tucker Carlson’s
interview with former
President Donald Trump
I just finished watching for-
mer Fox host Tucker Carlson
interview former President
Donald Trump. Were there
any surprises? Not really. If
you know Donald Trump then
you know Donald Trump.
He’s as crass and caustic as he
has always been. People like
Trump don’t change, and you
either love him or you hate
him, and for the exact same
reason — his personality. Who
is right and who is wrong?
There is no correct answer to
that question. Half the coun-
try believes Trump will de-
stroy democracy while the
other half believes he will re-
store it. So, where do we go
from here? You pick a side,
pick a weapon, and see who’s
left standing when the dust
settles. Everything else is rel-
ative, and perhaps even ir-
relevant. Welcome to the Un-
United States of America.
— Arthur Saginian,
Santa Clarita
America needs a third-
party choice next year
This is the perfect time to
have a third party candidate
entering the presidential elec-
tion in 2024. It is very critical
to break the solid voting base
of both the Democratic and
Republican parties. Indepen-
dents are the key voters. Both
the Democratic and Repub-
lican parties have their solid
voting base at around 30% to
35%. That leaves almost 40%
of the voters to make a very
important decision on who
will run the greatest nation in
the world. We have conflicts
CALIFORNIA
Cities want to tax you even more
By Joan Armenta-Roberts
State lawmakers are thinking in the nation, at 7.25%.
about increasing California’s cost
of living by authorizing higher
local sales tax rates.   the effectiveness of the local cap
The sales tax is the most no-
ticeable and easy-to-understand the maximum sales tax rate any-
tax for consumers, but it inflicts where in California should be
major costs on Californians and 9.25%, it is up to 10.75% in sev-
their employers. The tax is re-
gressive, taking the heaviest fi-
nancial toll on those least able
to pay.
Sales tax dramatically in-
creases the cost of everyday ne-
cessities — and since inflation
has increased the prices of just
about everything, the tax on
those prices has increased ac-
cordingly.
This is exactly why, many
years ago, the state placed a 2%
cap on local sales taxes.
California began imposing
sales tax in 1933 at a 2.5% rate,
and within a few years, hun-
dreds of cities were imposing
their own “transactions and
use taxes” at various additional
rates. Taxpayers weren’t happy
about the hit on their budgets,
and retailers complained about
the difficulty of keeping up with sociation is leading a large co-
tax requirements.
As a solution, legislators
placed a 2% cap on the total lo-
cal transactions and use tax
rate. They also placed one state
agency in charge of administer- economy to generate revenue.
ing the tax for the state and local
governments alike, and required example, manufacturing and
local governments to use the
same exemptions as the state.
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and problems as every na-
tion does. The direction of our
country must remain the focus
no matter who’s in office. Lest
we give up out democracy.
A race between Biden and
Trump will not serve America.
Having a third party candi-
date would shed a glimmer of
light on what Americans truly
believe.
— Stephen Lucas,
Van Nuys
Trump’s mug shot
Re “Mug shot of Trump
taken at Atlanta jail booking”
(Aug. 25):
The average person would
feel getting arrested is a
shameful and humiliating ex-
perience. Donald Trump, on
the other hand, is trying to
wear it as a badge of honor.
Trump sees this as a finan-
cial gold mine. He will use
his grifting talents to bilk his
adoring and groveling sup-
porters out of their hard-
earned money.
The man has no honor, no
character and no moral com-
pass. The Republican Party
has no backbone. The famous
statement attributed to W. C.
Fields emphatically applies to
these sycophants: If at first you
don’t succeed, blah, blah, blah.
— Robert Peterson,
Murrieta
LGBT issues in the
community and public
schools in our state
Re “Protest clash over LG-
BTQ issues” (Aug. 23):
Fear of the other is a strong
dividing factor in the United
States of America (it’s even
hard to write the name of our
nation without furrowing my
This arrangement has worked
for decades, even with the state-
wide rate climbing to the highest
In recent years, however, the
Legislature dramatically reduced
by granting exceptions. While
eral areas of the state.
Now, lawmakers are plan-
ning to allow even more areas —
including Los Angeles County,
home to one-fourth of the state’s
population — to exceed the 2%
cap, paving the way for a higher
cost of living if voters approve
new tax increases.
The bills and areas targeted
for higher taxes are AB 1256,
Humboldt County; AB 1385, Riv-
erside County (the county al-
ready is authorized to exceed
the cap, but this bill would in-
crease the maximum tax the Riv-
erside Transportation Commis-
sion could charge); AB 1679, Los
Angeles County; SB 335, Santa
Clara County; and SB 862, Santa
Cruz County (for its Metropoli-
tan Transit District).
The California Taxpayers As-
alition in opposition, remind-
ing lawmakers that the tax hikes
would cause job losses and eco-
nomic damage when the state
desperately needs a thriving
Taxes influence behavior. For
research-and-development in-
dustries face a significant sales
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MICHAEL RAMIREZ — CREATORS SYNDICATE
eyebrow quizzically). Watch-
ing how some use those who
are represented in the alpha-
bet soup of LGBTQIA+ as a
wedge between various groups
is alarming. Denying the exis-
tence of a segment of the pop-
ulation, whether it be through
lack of representation in a sen-
tence of a children’s book or
not allowed to be discussed
in a high school health class,
does not make them fade out
of existence. Magical think-
ing in the human species has
done more to harm us as a
people in a nation supposedly
united by the mixture of ideas
and ideologies that our fore-
fathers had envisioned. Our
forefathers, as imperfect as
they were, embraced the con-
cept of enlightenment, not the
dark ages that some want to
return to.
— Jessica Barr,
Long Beach
EV short-haul trucks
Re “Mullen begins EV truck
production” (Aug. 23):
Who in Southern Califor-
nia believes a commercial
truck with a 120-mile range is
a good idea, other than Mul-
len executives? A range of
120 miles is a short haul in
this area. What happens to
its range when it is carrying
a maximum load? Is that 120
miles on flat terrain? We live
in a relatively hilly state.
There have been many re-
ports that loaded to capacity
the range of an EV decreases
dramatically. Plus, the weight
of the batteries will stress our
streets and highways. These
vehicles, EV cars included,
are questionable answers to a
long-term problem.
— Greg Sedoff,
tax burden in California, which
is why we lose prominent com-
panies to other states. Under
existing law, when a business
purchases manufacturing or
R&D equipment, the purchase
is subject to a one-time local
sales tax of 1.25% plus any ad-
ditional voter-approved trans-
actions and use taxes. Autho-
rizing more counties to exceed
the 2% cap would increase the
cost of doing business for crit-
ical industries — including
Santa Clara County’s semicon-
ductor manufacturing industry
and Los Angeles County’s film
and television industry.
Additionally, increasing
taxes on business inputs in-
creases production costs in
California, harming busi-
nesses and consumers alike.
To put the competitiveness is-
sue in context, while Califor-
nia lawmakers are considering
ways to increase your sales tax,
there are 49 states with lower
state sales tax rates, including
four (Delaware, Montana, New
Hampshire, and Oregon) that
don’t impose any state or local
sales tax whatsoever.
Let your representatives in the
Legislature know that your cost
of living is high enough already,
and they shouldn’t poke more
holes in the protection that tax-
payers have against exorbitant
sales tax rates.
Joan Armenta-Roberts is a
sales tax consultant with
the California Taxpayers
Association.
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EMERGENCY SPENDING
Congress never takes
its obligations seriously
Remember how, mere
months ago, the debt-ceiling
deal struck between Demo-
crats and Republicans to avoid
a government
shutdown was
touted as “an
historic first step
toward shifting
government back
toward com-
Veronique mon sense and
de Rugy conservatism?”
Columnist The hope was
that the spend-
ing caps in the
deal would actually constrain
spending. Well, it took less
than two months for politi-
cians to start evading the caps
with an old trick: emergency
spending.
In theory, there’s nothing
wrong with emergency spend-
ing. Rarely does a year pass
without some unforeseen event
requiring prompt access to
federal funds. The supplemen-
tal spending process provides
funding that cannot wait until
the next appropriations cycle.
When unexpected disasters
strike, Congress should be able
to deploy needed spending in
a speedy and temporary way.
That’s what the emergency des-
ignation allows.
The problem, however,
comes when politicians shame-
lessly abuse the emergency la-
bel to push through non-emer-
gency spending that would
otherwise violate budget con-
straints. This is exactly what’s
happening with President Joe
Biden asking Congress to agree
to $40 billion in new spending
that won’t count toward the
debt-ceiling cap. This includes
$24 billion in aid to Ukraine,
along with some funds for di-
saster relief and border en-
forcement.
No matter what you think of
the merits of helping Ukraine
repel Russia’s invasion, one
thing is for sure: The need to
fund a war that started a year
and a half ago is neither un-
foreseen nor temporary. Con-
gress already authorized $113
billion in aid to Ukraine. If leg-
islators believe more is needed,
they should debate and allo-
cate that money through the
regular budget process. They
should also decide which pro-
grams will lose funding.
The same comment applies
to the funding for issues at the
southern border, like shelter
and services for migrants and
counter-fentanyl efforts. Be-
cause these concerns are ongo-
SCAPEGOATING OPIOIDS
Misconceptions about pain treatment
By Jacob Sullum
Former New York Times re-
porter Barry Meier, whose
book about OxyContin is the
main basis for the Netflix
drama “Painkiller,” acknowl-
edges that the drug is “valu-
able for treating severe pain
caused by cancer or chronic
health issues.” The problem,
he says, was that OxyContin’s
manufacturer, Purdue Pharma,
“could only make billions from
it by lying, by saying it was
good for everyday, common
pain.”
Netflix’s six-part minise-
ries highlights that second
point, vividly portraying Pur-
due Pharma’s reckless market-
ing of OxyContin. But it dis-
misses the caveat: that there
are legitimate medical uses for
this drug and other prescrip-
tion opioids, which can make
life bearable for patients who
otherwise would suffer from
excruciating pain.
Like the 2022 Hulu drama
“Dopesick,” “Painkiller” em-
braces an indiscriminate aver-
sion to opioids. The same atti-
tude has inspired ham-handed
restrictions on pain medica-
tion, which have helped drive
drug-related deaths to record
levels while leaving millions of
patients to suffer needlessly.
Although Meier’s take on
opioids is more nuanced than
the one presented by this ad-
aptation of his book, he shares
with the screenwriters a de-
sire to pin a complex, long-run-
ning social problem on a sin-
gle villain. That much is clear
from the subtitle of his book:
“An Empire of Deceit and the
Politicians shamelessly abuse the emergency label to push through non-emergency spending.
ing, they should be addressed
through the regular budget
process. Are these important
problems? Of course. But this
call for spending should not
surprise anyone and still needs
to be weighed against other
priorities.
Indeed, putting the “emer-
gency” label on anything im-
portant (or not so important)
but not unforeseen makes a
mockery of budget rules and
the debt-ceiling caps and, in-
deed, of the very concept of
emergency spending.
In fairness to the president
and members of Congress,
this trick isn’t new. I have
been denouncing the abuse of
the emergency spending pro-
cess for almost 20 years. As I
wrote back in 2008, “Once a
small blip among federal out-
lays, emergency supplemen-
tal spending has exploded
since 2002 when the Republi-
can Congress let a key legisla-
tive restriction on its use ex-
pire.” At the time, the Bush ad-
ministration was engaged in
the never-ending war on ter-
ror. Big spenders back then
didn’t like the “only use in case
of dire emergency” constraint
or the offset requirements. So,
they got rid of both.
OxyContin is an extended-release version of oxycodone.
Origin of America’s Opioid Ep-
idemic.”
As Meier’s former employer
frequently puts it, OxyContin
is “widely blamed” for “ignit-
ing the opioid crisis.” But is it
rightly blamed?
OxyContin, which was intro-
duced in 1996, is an extended-
release version of oxycodone, a
semisynthetic opioid that had
long been available in products
such as Percocet and Percodan.
OxyContin contained a larger
dose of oxycodone, which was
supposed to be gradually re-
leased over a 12-hour period,
such that a patient could ob-
tain steady pain relief by tak-
ing two pills a day.
That safeguard, according to
labeling approved by the Food
and Drug Administration, was
“believed” to reduce the drug’s
abuse potential. As it turned
out, the original design could
be readily defeated by crush-
J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Very quickly, emergency
spending became the tool of
choice for avoiding budget con-
straints and dramatically in-
creasing government spend-
ing. The abuse has been on
going ever since. It has also be-
come quite the partisan bar-
gaining chip, with Republi-
cans granting Democrats non-
defense emergency spending
in exchange for the ability to
declare other things defense
emergencies. There is always
an excuse.
So how much money are we
talking about? Over at “The
Debt Digest,” Dominik Lett
writes: “Over the last 10 years,
Congress has spent more than
$1.3 trillion on supplemental
emergency bills. Add in emer-
gency designations from reg-
ular appropriations bills and
PAYGO emergency designa-
tions and the 10-year total
rises to an inflation-adjusted
$7 trillion — more than last
year’s entire federal budget.”
It’s time to fix the current
process and stop an abuse that
only further weakens the gov-
ernment’s fiscal condition. The
best option would be to stop
exempting emergency spending
from budget rules. That would
mean that supplemental spend-
GETTY IMAGES
ing the tablets and snorting
the powder.
According to federal sur-
vey data, however, nonmedi-
cal use of prescription pain re-
lievers rose for 11 consecutive
years before OxyContin was
introduced. And regardless
of how appealing it may have
been to drug users, OxyCon-
tin never accounted for a very
large share of the opioid anal-
gesic market.
During litigation, Pur-
due presented data indicating
that OxyContin accounted for
just 3.3% of pain pills sold in
the United States from 2006
through 2012. After adjusting
for potency, ProPublica calcu-
lated that the product’s “real”
market share was more like
16%.
OxyContin likewise ac-
counted for a relatively small
share of nonmedical use: about
17% in 2009, the year before it
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER >> OCREGISTER.COM
ing, emergency or otherwise,
must be offset with spending
cuts on other programs. Con-
gress could also retain the
emergency exemption but es-
tablish strict criteria for spend-
ing emergency declarations.
Because Congress is un-
trustworthy when it comes to
following just about any rule
that keeps it from spending
more money, approval of all
emergency spending should
require a supermajority vote
— a level of approval that
should be easy to get in genu-
ine emergencies. Or Congress
could follow the example of
many ordinary people and cre-
ate a reserve fund for its emer-
gency spending.
In the same way a diet is
more effective alongside ex-
ercise, these options could be
combined to provide more re-
straints on Congress. But no
matter which option prevails,
legislators must stop treating
predictable occasions for gov-
ernment outlays as emergencies.
Veronique de Rugy is the
George Gibbs Chair in Political
Economy and a senior
research fellow at the Mercatus
Center at George Mason
University.
was reformulated. It is hard to
reconcile these numbers with
the idea that OxyContin was
“the origin of America’s opioid
epidemic.”
If “Painkiller” merely ex-
aggerated the impact of one
product, we might chalk it
up to dramatic license. But
because this product is not
qualitatively different from
other opioid analgesics,
“Painkiller”’s indictment of
OxyContin amounts to an in-
dictment of the whole drug
category.
Among patients who use
opioids for chronic pain, ac-
cording to a 2016 research re-
view in The New England
Journal of Medicine, “rates of
carefully diagnosed addiction”
averaged less than 8%. The au-
thors concluded that “addic-
tion occurs in only a small
percentage of persons who
are exposed to opioids — even
among those with preexisting
vulnerabilities.” In 2021, a Cal-
ifornia judge who examined
the relevant evidence likewise
estimated that the addiction
rate is “less than 5%.”
“Painkiller” aims to stoke
outrage at clueless doctors who
carelessly prescribed OxyCon-
tin because they believed Pur-
due’s hype. Yet the miscon-
ceptions it reinforces have re-
sulted in a different sort of
outrage, reflected in the head-
line above a recent New York
Times video: “They Live in
Constant Pain, but Their Doc-
tors Won’t Help Them.”
Jacob Sullum is a senior
editor at Reason magazine.
Follow him on Twitter: @
JacobSullum.
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WAR IN EUROPE
Ukraine:
Why does
GOP cave
on Putin?
I suppose it’s just part of the
pineapple upside down cake
that is living in these, well, Last
Days, but when did conserva-
tives stop being warmongers?
Of course, in general, you
could ask the same question
of most liberals. Except sort of
turned around.
When did liberals
start being such
warmongers? Be-
cause in recent de-
cades, most liber-
als were crazy for
the warmonger- Larry
ing, all around the Wilson
globe, as were the Columnist
conservatives, in
heartbreakingly
long wrongheaded wars, espe-
cially in the Middle East, all as
wrong in their separate ways
as was America’s awful war in
Vietnam.
Blessings upon the actual
pacifists, few but mighty.
For most of the rest of us,
there are wars and there are
wars. None are a happy occa-
sion. Over 99% don’t merit any-
thing in the way of United
States involvement.
For the pragmatist, some do.
An unprovoked war by a Rus-
sian dictator aimed at wrongly
taking back an independent
part of the old Soviet empire
would be one of those.
Right now, and in almost
any foreseeable future, help-
ing to counter the invasion of
Ukraine at the hand of Vladimir
Putin does not involve sending
U.S. troops. Most of us pragma-
tists have never even considered
the idea.
But it does involve send-
ing money, equipment, armor
and facilitating the use of U.S.-
made aircraft. It does involve
U.S. advice — ever-mindful of
the slippery slope that started
with American “advisers” be-
ing sent to Vietnam beginning
in the late 1950s, a slope that led
to hundreds of thousands of our
soldiers sliding down it, soon
enough.
Most moderate and liberal
Americans, strongly believing
that starting a major war in Eu-
rope is tantamount to starting
a war on us, are for the current
level of U.S. support for Kyiv,
and a bit more.
So what’s the deal with the
conservative lack of support for
Ukraine, and the growing props
to Putin, including by some
presidential candidates?
A new poll of the 26% of reg-
istered Republicans who can re-
liably be called simply “right
wing”: they watch Fox News and
Newsmax, and describe them-
selves as politically “very con-
servative” — shows that just 19%
of them support providing addi-
tional support to Ukraine.
Candidate Nikki Haley holds
many positions that are just vi-
cious and inane. But the best
part of the Wednesday GOP de-
bate was when she called out Vi-
vek Ramaswamy, a Putin en-
abler, for “choosing a murderer”
over pro-American Ukraine.
“Putin has said ... once Rus-
sia takes Ukraine, Poland and
the Baltics are next,” she said.
“That’s a world war. We’re try-
ing to prevent war. Look at what
Putin did today. He killed Pr-
igozhin. When I was at the U.N.,
the Russian ambassador sud-
denly died. This guy is a mur-
derer. And you are choosing a
murderer over a pro-American
country.”
A former president who
didn’t show at the debate and
the guy in distant second place
in the polls also are Kremlin-ap-
peasers. What gives? Reds bad,
nouveau Czarists good?
Or is it just the conservative
dislike for everything Europe
in general, barring a few stat-
ist leaders in the former Soviet
bloc, ignoring the strength of
conservative movements in Italy,
France and Spain and the long-
time dominance of the literal
Conservative Party in Britain?
Obviously, there were anti-
interventionist conservative
American politicians in the past.
Charles Lindbergh was a Re-
publican, and led the “America
First” opposition to fighting in
World War II to save Europe.
It was a lousy bunch, but
they caved after Pearl Harbor.
What will it take to get right-
wing Republicans today to sup-
port freedom in Europe?
Larry Wilson is on the Southern
California News Group editorial
board. lwilson@scng.com.
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Schoen
FROM PAGE 1
and attacked Ramaswamy
over his inexperience and
flip-flopping on Trump.
Former South Carolina
Gov. Nikki Haley made a
well-rounded case for her
candidacy, especially on
foreign policy and abor-
tion. She slammed Pence’s
proposed national abor-
tion ban, saying, “No Re-
publican president can
ban abortions any more
than a Democrat pres-
ident can ban all those
state laws.”
Fur ther, Haley, who
served as ambassador to
the UN under Trump, also
took Ramaswamy to task
over his calls to end U.S.
support for Ukraine, and
lack of foreign policy ex-
perience, saying Ramas-
wamy has “No foreign
policy experience, and it
shows,” drawing raucous
applause from the crowd.
For his part, Ramas-
wamy, the 38-year-old bio-
tech entrepreneur, clearly
reveled in being the cen-
ter of attention and the
one taking the most shots
from other candidates.
He has been climbing in
polls, but remains at just
7%, hampered by a low na-
tional profile and no gov-
erning experience. How-
ever, his profile is likely to
see some improvement, as
he sparred with Christie,
Haley, DeSantis and seem-
ingly everyone on stage.
Ramaswamy offered lit-
tle in terms of substance,
even seeming arrogant at
times, but in a primary
election dominated by
personality over policies,
he held his own, did not
wilt under the lights of his
first-ever debate, and suc-
ceeded in bolstering his
image as the young, en-
ergetic, political outsider
who deserves to be taken
seriously.
M o r e o v e r, R a m a s -
wamy cemented himself
as Trump’s most vocal de-
fender among the other
candidates, even chal-
lenging Mike Pence to
“Join me in making a com-
mitment that on day one
you would pardon Don-
ald Trump” and declaring
Trump “the best president
of the 21st century.”
Ultimately, while many
of the candidates on the
stage in Milwaukee did
their best to convince Re-
publican voters that they
should be the party’s nom-
inee, it is incredibly un-
likely that any of them
did enough to seriously
challenge Trump, who de-
spite not being on the de-
bate stage, walked away
the winner, and remains
poised to secure a third
straight GOP presidential
nomination.
Douglas Schoen is a
longtime Democratic
political consultant.

anything that Nashiri told

Napolitano
FROM PAGE 1
by the government is a fel-
ony punishable by up to 20
years in a federal prison,
and its fruits are inadmis-
sible in all courts.
For many years, the
CIA documented tor-
ture through videos of its
masked agents and con-
tractors torturing its cap-
tives so it would have a re-
cord of the events with-
out the need for revealing
the participants’ identity.
But the tapes of Nashiri’s
torture were destroyed ei-
ther by the chief CIA offi-
cial in the United States
in charge of torture or his
then-chief of staff. That
chief of staff, Gina Has-
pel, nicknamed by her col-
leagues “Bloody Gina,”
would go on to become the
director of the CIA.
What caught the eyes of
those of us who monitor
these events was the men-
tion of the name of the
CIA official under whose
watch Nashiri’s torture oc-
curred and who wrote de-
tailed, graphic descrip-
tions of it to her bosses.
That official is the same
Gina Haspel. She was the
head of the CIA station at
Thailand in 2002, at which
Nashiri was tortured, and
she was the senior mem-
ber of the torture team.
After nearly drowning
and severely beating him
repeatedly, locking him in
a coffin and raping him
for months, Bloody Gina’s
team suspended Nashiri
them is profound. This is
the first time in Gitmo’s
gruesome, 21-year history
that the feds have suffered
such a setback and due
process has enjoyed such a
triumph.
In Mohammed’s case,
his defense team has told
the judge and the prose-
cutors that it will call his
torturers as witnesses.
They will be forced to de-
scribe under oath the
crimes that they commit-
ted upon Mohammed.
Fearing the public re-
sponse to torture, and un-
able ethically to defend it,
the military and civilian
prosecutors earlier this
month entered into a pre-
liminary plea agreement
that will avoid a trial,
eliminate the death pen-
alty and avoid government
embarrassment.
Torture — no matter
the goal — is the most ty-
rannical government over-
reach imaginable. It pre-
sumes that there are no
natural rights or moral
CHARLES DHARAPAK — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS standards; it utterly ne-
Dawn arrives in 2013 at the now closed Camp X-Ray, which was used as the first detention facility for al-Qaida and gates the personhood of
Taliban militants who were captured after the Sept. 11 attacks, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. the victim; it reveals that
there is no end to what
by his wrists secured be- ter the torture. Thus, his Nashiri, who has the cuted felony. the government can do
hind his back until his torture was fruitless ex- same speedy trial rights Civilian judges would and get away with. It is ex-
arms were nearly pulled cept to undermine the gov- as anyone being prose- have dismissed the pressly prohibited by the
out of their shoulder sock- ernment’s case. Why? If a cuted by the government, charges against Nashiri Constitution and federal
ets. defendant says under tor- has been waiting for his because of the torture. But law.
Nashiri’s torture went ture “I did it,” and then trial for 16 years. He is on at Gitmo, where the judge Torture is government
on in Afghanistan, Thai- says the same not un- his second team of mili- and the prosecutors have by beasts. A government
land, Poland and at Gitmo. der torture, neither state- tary and civilian defense the same boss — the sec- that unleashes beasts —
Afterward, the interroga- ment may legally be used lawyers. His first team retary of defense — the the American government
tion team concluded that against him. quit when they discovered niceties of due process are — recognizes no limits on
Nashiri was being truth- Bush and his lawyers that their communications sometimes overlooked. its powers.
ful and essentially said the and torturers did not with their client had been Thus, the significance
same things under torture know Criminal Procedure secretly recorded by fed- of the ruling preventing To learn more about Judge
as he told interrogators af- 101. eral agents — an unprose- prosecutors from using Andrew Napolitano, visit

about that. He pressured a possible war. Asked if

Stossel Vice President Mike Pence
not to certify electors,
“U.S. forces ... would de-
fend Taiwan in the event
FROM PAGE 1 then whipped his support- of a Chinese invasion,” he
ers into a frenzy about it. responded “Yes.”
“Man of the Year” award. But Biden is corrupt, The president’s national
And of course, he lies too. Asked about his son’s security adviser quickly
about the big things, like work in China, Biden took that back. But it was
winning the last election firmly responded, “My son the fourth time Biden
“by a landslide.” has not made money in ... committed the U.S. to a
But Biden lies, too. China.” war to defend Taiwan, and
When Georgia required But his son admits mak- the fourth time his staff
voters to show identifi- ing money from China! took it back.
cation, Biden called that Biden claimed he “never Biden is 80. I’m old, too,
“Jim Crow on steroids.” He discussed with my son but I just make videos. I’m
said that again and again. or my brother or anyone not trying the be presi-
But that’s a lie. Jim else anything having to dent.
Crow stopped Black peo- do with their business, pe- Trump is old, too. He’s
ple from voting. After riod.” 77, but calls himself “a
Georgia’s law passed, a But his son’s business young vibrant man.” A
poll found “zero percent of partner says Hunter put few years ago, he got a
Black voters said they had THE ASSOCIATED PRESS his father on speaker- doctor to approve a letter
a poor voting experience.” This combination of photos shows former President Donald Trump, left, and President phone when Hunter met saying Trump would be
Biden has long lied Joe Biden. President Biden and Trump are preparing for a possible rematch in 2024. But a with potential business as- “the healthiest individual
to advance himself. He new poll finds a notable lack of enthusiasm within the parties for either man as his party’s sociates. ever elected!” That doc-
claimed he was “the first leader, and a clear opening for new leadership. The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Maybe Biden’s lies aren’t tor later admitted that
in his family ever to go Center for Public Affairs Research finds a third of both Democrats and Republicans are lies. Maybe he’s just old Trump wrote the letter
to a university.” But he unsure of who they want leading their party. and confused. But that’s himself.
wasn’t. disturbing, too. These are our choices!
He plagiarized that line He repeatedly says he fusing to acknowledge the tion. Recently he announced Two old, corrupt liars?
from a British politician. was arrested at a civil seventh, his son Hunter’s I hate political prosecu- that the United States Can’t we do better?
He lied about his law rights protest, but that’s daughter, born out of wed- tions, but so much of what “plans to build a rail-
school performance, say- not true. lock. Only when even lib- Trump does is just sleazy. road from the Pacific all Every Tuesday at
ing he graduated in “the This year, one cruel lie eral media criticized him, He paid a porn star hush the way across the Indian JohnStossel.com, Stossel
top half of (his) class.” He caught up with him. For did he finally acknowledge money and lied about it. Ocean.” Across the ocean? posts a new video about
actually ranked 76th out years, Biden insisted he the little girl. He refused to return clas- On “60 Minutes,” he the battle between
of 85. had six grandchildren, re- Then there’s the corrup- sified documents and lied committed America to government and freedom.

Homes
Greenhut
exempt additional coastal ing supply — including the
properties have resulted in along construction of the rent-
the commission removing Pacific restricted units this bill
FROM PAGE 1 its opposition to the bill. Coast encourages — is the best
Why is this important? Highway way to moderate pricing.
newcomers moving into SB 35 had a measurable north of More supply is the solu-
their cities — have some- impact on the construc- the pier are tion. Protecting a commu-
thing new to get agitated tion of affordable-housing shown in nity’s “fabric” is pabulum
about. Senate Bill 423 is projects. “Between 2018 Huntington — and it locks in the cur-
still alive in the Califor- and 2021, developers pro- Beach in rent situation.
nia Legislature. It would posed about 18,000 hous- March. Environmental groups
extend the provisions of a ing units statewide under are complaining, also.
landmark 2017 law, Sen- S.B. 35 — including about JEFF GRITCHEN They pay lip service to
STAFF
ate Bill 35, which autho- 13,000 low-income units, PHOTOGRAPHER the need for more hous-
rized a “streamlined, min- according to preliminary ing construction — but
isterial approval process” data from UC Berkeley’s like the coastal cities ap-
for multi-family projects in Terner Center for Hous- parently want it built any-
cities that aren’t meeting ing Innovation. Of those, where else. That’s the bot-
their state housing man- more than 11,000 qualified tom line. The state has
dates. for streamlining under the been underbuilding hous-
That law sunsets in law,” the Mercury News re- struction and imposing new residents don’t get a gued: “The fabric of our ing for years, which has
2026, but SB 423 would ported. overly burdensome and ar- say, so the local default po- coastal communities led to eye-popping prices,
extend it for another de- Another significant pro- bitrary regulations, the sition often is “no”. Coun- will be forever changed. especially in sought-after
cade. What’s really got vision of SB 423: it ex- market will rise to the oc- cils often force developers And for what? SB 423 coastal cities. The answer
the no-growth cities up- pands the streamlining to casion and boost supply to reduce the number of will encourage higher is to build more. Sorry,
set is one short line in the market-rate projects. That and open up housing at all units when they do OK a density and perpetuate but building it in someone
bill language: “Strikes might not create many ad- price points. project. And California En- gentrification with little to else’s backyard is no lon-
out S.B. 35’s exclusion of ditional units given that, Developers should be vironmental Quality Act no affordability.” ger an option.
the coastal zone.” Exist- as a Reason writer noted, free to build more of ev- (CEQA) lawsuits derail or The letter adds that
ing law requires projects pro-union prevailing-wage erything — from single- delay projects. rents for one-bedroom Steven Greenhut is
to still gain approval from laws make it costly to family houses to apart- The bill’s opponents apartments in North San Western region director for
the slow-growth California build these projects with- ments — without sub- continue to throw con- Diego County start at the R Street Institute and
Coastal Commission. That out subsidies. Still, it’s im- jective approval (while tradictory arguments at $5,750 a month and new a member of the Southern
would end and developers portant to expand dereg- following zoning rules, as the wall. In their letter multi-family homes are California News Group
would no longer have to ulation beyond subsidized the bill requires). Few cur- of opposition to S. 423, selling for nearly $3 mil- editorial board. Write to
endure that excruciating projects. If the govern- rent residents want more some coastal city officials lion. It’s true many newer him at sgreenhut@rstreet.
process. Amendments that ment stops stifling con- congestion, and yet-to-be in San Diego County ar- units are pricey, but add- org.
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ELECTION 2024 GOP CANDIDATES

Another dark money Why back

plan to ‘protect’ elections
The New York Times re-
ported recently that a Demo-
cratic group is starting a non-
profit that plans
to spend $10 mil-
lion to “protect”
election officials,
who are said to
have faced “in-
creased threats in
Susan recent years” and
Shelley who have been
Columnist “resigning at an
alarming rate.”
You would
think local law enforcement
agencies, and maybe even the
FBI, would be investigating
these threats and taking action
to protect election officials.
If that’s not happening, then
maybe there’s another rea-
son that “threats” are cited in
a story about a nonprofit group
raising $10 million for next
year’s election.
The new group is called Value
the Vote, and it’s a 501(c)(4) non-
profit under the IRS code. Value
the Vote was started by the
Democratic Association of Sec-
retaries of State, which exists to
help Democrats get elected to
the job responsible for oversight
and administration of state and
local elections. DASS spent $30
million on the midterms last
year.
Value the Vote plans to “ini-
tially focus on five battleground
states,” The New York Times re-
ported, specifically, “Georgia,
Arizona, North Carolina, Ne-
vada and Wisconsin.”
What is the group planning
to do in these states that are
considered critical to the out-
come of the next presidential
election? “The group will look
to counter election misinforma-
tion,” the Times reported, “in-
cluding with paid digital adver-
tising, and will begin a voter
registration program” that will
be “focusing heavily on Black
and Latino communities, which
have tended to back Democrats
in greater numbers.”
The technical name for this is
“campaign spending.”
However, campaign spending
is highly regulated by the Fed-
eral Election Commission and
various state agencies. Cam-
paign committees and political
parties must report every dona-
tion along with the name, ad-
dress, occupation and employer
of the donor, and there are strict
limits on how much an individ-
ual donor may contribute.
It’s different for nonprof-
its. They can accept donations
without the limits and disclo-
sures required of political cam-
paign committees, but the de-
gree of their engagement in po-
litical campaigns is limited by
GOP DEBATE
IFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, in 2016. The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative pumped
about $350 million into the nonprofit Center for Tech and Civic Life to be pushed out in “election grants.”
federal law. According to the In-
ternal Revenue Service, a 501(c)
(4) “may engage in political
campaigns on behalf of or in op-
position to candidates for public
office provided that such inter-
vention does not constitute the
organization’s primary activity.”
But what is the “primary ac-
tivity” of Value the Vote if not to
go into key battleground states
ahead of the 2024 election and
intervene in the election? The
group will be paying for voter
registration of Democratic-lean-
ing groups and digital advertis-
ing to combat “misinformation”
as they define it.
Even if the IRS chooses to
leave Value the Vote alone and
never investigates how it’s rais-
ing or spending its money, the
group could face legal trouble in
the states. Twenty-five of them
have passed laws banning or re-
stricting the use of private fi-
nancing in public elections.
The list includes two of the
five “battleground” states on
Value the Vote’s things-to-do
list: Georgia and Arizona. A
third state on the list, North
Carolina, has a bill in the legis-
lature that would ban election
officials from accepting outside
funding.
The landslide of legislation
stems from one of the curious
things that happened ahead of
the 2020 election, along with
the government’s determination
that a novel virus spreads at
polling places but not at protest
marches. There was an unprec-
edented infusion of hundreds
of millions of dollars from non-
profit organizations into elec-
tion administration all around
the country.
The Chan-Zuckerberg Initia-
tive, a 501(c)(3) that under the
Internal Revenue Code is “abso-
lutely prohibited from directly
or indirectly participating in,
or intervening in, any political
campaign on behalf of (or in op-
position to) any candidate for
elective public office,” pumped
about $350 million into the
nonprofit Center for Tech and
Civic Life to be pushed out in
“election grants.”
The Chicago-based CTCL
was founded in 2012 by three
individuals who worked to-
gether at the New Organizing
Institute, described by Influence
Watch as “a major training cen-
ter for left-of-center digital ac-
tivists” and by a Washington
Post reporter as “the Demo-
cratic Party’s Hogwarts for dig-
ital wizardry.” Several board
members of the CTCL, accord-
ing to Influence Watch, have
“strong ties to Democratic polit-
ical operations.”
In December 2020, NPR pub-
lished an article headlined,
“How Private Money From
Facebook’s CEO Saved The 2020
Election.” It quoted Bill Turner,
an election official in Chester
County, Pennsylvania, who said
the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative’s
money was essential to prevent-
ing an “election meltdown” be-
cause Congress didn’t provide
enough funding for such things
as drop boxes and new equip-
ment to process mail ballots.
The CTCL gave Chester County
$2.5 million from the funding
provided by Mark Zuckerberg’s
foundation. That was more than
the county’s entire 2020 bud-
get for voting services. Chester
County, NPR notes, is “one of
JEFF CHIU — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
several large suburban counties
that ring Philadelphia — once-
Republican strongholds that
have shifted in Democrats’ favor
in recent years.” Hillary Clinton
did well there in 2016, but Joe
Biden did nearly twice as well
in 2020.
Hans von Spakovsky, a former
Federal Election Commission
member, called Zuckerberg’s
flood of money “a carefully or-
chestrated attempt to convert
official government election of-
fices into get-out-the-vote opera-
tions for one political party and
to insert political operatives into
election offices in order to influ-
ence and manipulate the out-
come of the election.”
A lot of state lawmakers
agreed with that assessment,
which is why 25 states now
have laws banning or limit-
ing the use of money from pri-
vate groups in election admin-
istration.
That brings us back to the
threat of threats against elec-
tions officials. The Times re-
ported that campaign finance
experts think the laws, which
are untested, might have some
“gray areas” that allow for “se-
curity donations.” So “threats”
may be a loophole for nonprofits
to fund Democratic campaign
operations.
It’s looking like the 2024 elec-
tion could be a fight between
those who think election secu-
rity means having citizen poll
watchers, and those who think
dark money is democracy’s best
protection.
Write Susan@SusanShelley.
com and follow her on Twitter
@Susan_Shelley
Trump if
you know
he’s bad?
By Matt Fleming
It’s impossible to support
Donald Trump for president if
you really think he violated the
Constitution and tried to over-
turn the will of the voters on
Jan 6, 2021 right?
Right?
Sadly, no.
At the Republican presidential
debate this past week, a major-
ity of the Republicans on stage
said they would support Trump
if he is the eventual Republican
nominee.
But many of these same Rep-
bulicans also said former Vice
President Mike Pence did the
right thing by certifying elec-
tion results that Joe Biden was
the winner.
We all remember what hap-
pened on Jan. 6: a violent mob,
under delusions of a stolen elec-
tion fanned by Trump, stormed
the Capitol and attacked police
officers. Meanwhile, Trump pres-
sured Pence to pursue a dubious
(illegal) legal theory to abuse his
power as president of the Senate
to give the election to Trump.
“(Trump) asked me to put him
over the Constitution,” Pence
said on Wednesday. “I had no
right to overturn the election.”
Yet Pence was among those
who raised their hand and com-
mitted to voting for Trump if
he is the GOP nominee for pres-
ident.
Pence was the most egre-
gious example, but he wasn’t
the only one. Sen. Tim Scott of
South Carolina said Pence “ab-
solutely” did the right thing, be-
fore launching a filibuster about
the “weaponization” of the De-
partment of Justice.
Florida Gov. Ron Desantis
tried avoiding the answer before
finally admitting Pence did the
right thing and then blah blah
blah something about “the fu-
ture.”
Former South Carolina Gov.
Nikki Haley also agreed Pence
did the right thing, as did for-
mer New Jersey Gov. Chris
Christie, former Arkansas Gov.
Asa Hutchinson and some guy
from North Dakota who may or
may not be the governor (does
anyone know for sure what re-
ally happens up there?).
But then, with the exception of
Hutchinson and Christie, they all
said they’d support Trump if he
were the nominee, which is crazy.
Actually, the question is
would they support Trump if
he’s the nominee and convicted
of one or more of the many
crimes for which he’s been in-
dicted. But conviction shouldn’t
matter. Indictments shouldn’t
even matter. Jan. 6 alone should
be disqualifying.

Foreign policy views are revealing

Essentially what these can-
didates were saying was that
Trump tried wrongly overturn-
ing an election and in doing so
violated his oath of office in an
effort to seize power, but most
Eight hopefuls for the 2024 mutually exclusive, but rather Former U.N. would still vote for him.
Republican nomination de- two sides of the same coin. En- Ambassador Talk about a lack of good
bated the other night. But be- gaging with foreign leaders Nikki Haley judgment.
cause they’re running for doesn’t belittle domestic speaks during Businessman and overper-
president, the litmus test concerns; it enhances a a Republican forming gadfly Vivek Ramas-
for judging them needs nation’s capacity to solve presidential wamy didn’t concede that Pence
to be based on the most those concerns by build- primary debate did the right thing and eagerly
important presidential ing partnerships, foster- on Wednesday shot up his hand to say he’d sup-
power: foreign policy. ing trade relationships, in Milwaukee. port Trump (he even said he’d
The Constitution gives and mitigating security MORRY GASH
pardon Trump, which is really
the president broad pow- Tahmineh threats. A president who THE ASSOCIATED something if you think about it).
ers to spearhead Amer- Dehbozorgi overlooks global dynam- PRESS He’s not a hypocrite, just a sy-
ica’s foreign policymak- Columnist ics in favor of focusing cophantic fanboy (if Trump had
ing. With this plenary solely on domestic mat- been at the debate, Ramaswamy
constitutional power, the ters could inadvertently might have thrown his box-
president can steer the nation’s undermine national interests in ers toward Trump’s lectern and
course globally, making choices an interconnected world. If Russia extends its influence tion further incentivized the Is- asked that he sign his chest).
that can influence international Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over Ukraine unchecked, it lamic Republic’s hostage-taking God Bless Hutchinson, who
relations, trade and security. took a more pragmatic route could embolden China’s ambi- schemes. The U.S. government argued over boos how on many
Therefore, a pivotal factor in in his approach. He indicated tions for Asian dominance. Fur- unfroze $6 billion in Iranian as- fronts Trump was unfit for of-
evaluating these contenders lies that he would cut off funding thermore, aligned interests in sets in exchange for the release fice (14th Amendment, morally,
in their stance on foreign policy. to Ukraine if allies do not pull countering Western influence of American citizens kidnapped violating Republican National
Though widely described by their weight. Reading between could propel Russia and China by the Ayatollah’s regime. Over- Committee rules), and Christie,
political pundits as the win- the lines, although DeSantis is into closer collaboration, trans- seeing the humanitarian utility who said: “Someone’s got to stop
ner of the debate, biotech en- not thrilled about prolonged lating individual gains into col- of these funds under U.S. sanc- normalizing this conduct.”
trepreneur Vivek Ramas- support of Ukraine, he under- lective triumphs. As we navigate tion laws is almost impossible, Christie spent years sucking
wamy falls short as a candidate stands the strategic importance a rapidly evolving global arena, so now Iran could ramp up its up to Trump, but he is at least
equipped to tackle national se- of international cooperation America needs a vision to safe- nuclear program or continue doing the right thing now (even
curity threats as revealed in against the United States’ ad- guard its interests, bolster its al- military campaigns against U.S. if it is just a political strategy,
the debate. “I find it offensive versary, Russia. liances, and secure its place as a allies. which it seems to be). It’s never
that we have professional politi- Based on her understand- leader on the world stage. The Biden administration has too late to do the right thing.
cians who will make a pilgrim- ing of foreign policy, it was By recognizing and articulat- weakened the U.S. on the global Desantis is right that Repub-
age to Kyiv, to their pope, [Pres- Nikki Haley, former ambassa- ing this, Nikki Haley embodies stage, exposing us to threats licans need to focus on the fu-
ident Volodymyr] Zelenskyy [of dor to the United Nations, who the leadership that our nation from enemies like China and ture if they want to be success-
Ukraine], without doing the won the debate. With her ex- urgently requires to navigate Russia; our next president must ful. However, that doesn’t mean
same for the people in Maui or tensive background as a former the challenges that lie ahead. staunchly safeguard our nation minimizing or burying what
the south side of Chicago,” he U.N. ambassador, her composed This stands in contrast to against these perils. Trump did on Jan. 6 for political
said. By implying that engaging responses and her deep grasp President Biden, who has left a Based on the first GOP de- convenience.
with foreign leaders necessar- of global dynamics, Haley dis- shameful legacy in foreign pol- bate, Nikki Haley is the candi- Too many Republicans on the
ily belittles domestic concerns, played a level of expertise that icy. date capable of providing that debate stage wanted to have it
Ramaswamy oversimplifies the clearly outshone her rivals. The botched withdrawal leadership. both ways, but few voters are
complexities of international re- Haley recognized that from Afghanistan and the cha- likely to reward them for down-
lations. Leadership involves a Ukraine acts as the U.S.’s first otic scenes unfolding as the U.S. Tahmineh Dehbozorgi is playing insurrection.
delicate balancing act where ad- line of defense against Rus- exited the region are still on a columnist for Southern
dressing domestic issues and sia, emphasizing that “a win American voters’ minds. More California News Group. Follow Follow Matt on Twitter @
engaging internationally aren’t for Russia is a win for China.” recently, the Biden administra- her on X: @DeTahmineh. FlemingWords
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Dear Friends,
Join us for the 22nd annual Festival of Children® at South Coast Plaza,
where the theme this year is “The Sky’s the Limit”! I am thrilled to invite
you to this exciting monthlong event as we celebrate National Child
Awareness Month and get inspired by the limitless possibilities you can
achieve if you really want to.

Each weekend in September, you will embark on a journey filled with

wonder and discovery. Festival of Children® is designed to inspire young
minds and ignite their imaginations. Through captivating activities and
engaging performances, we aim to create an atmosphere where dreams
take flight.

Immerse yourself in the vibrant energy of the Festival as you explore over
70 children’s charities and a multitude of experiences that encourage
creativity, curiosity, and exploration. From hands-on crafts to captivating
performances, there is something for everyone to enjoy!

It is a privilege to welcome two new charities to this year’s Festival of

Children®:

n Otra Mas - Located in San Juan Capistrano, Oltra Mas provides

equine assisted therapy and mental wellness programs.

n Forever Kids - Located in Covina, Forever Kids places life-changing

materials such as books, music, and videos in the hands of children,
youth, and families to give sustaining values and ethics that will help
positively influence their choices and behavior.

We are grateful to our sponsors, volunteers, and partners whose support

has made this Festival possible. Their dedication to nurturing the dreams of
children is truly commendable.

I look forward to seeing you at Festival of Children®, where the sky’s the
limit! Your presence adds a special element to this communitywide event,
and we hope it will be a memorable experience for you and your family.

Warm regards,

Sandy Segerstrom Daniels

Founder & Executive Director
Festival of Children Foundation
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movement towards building a better future for all.
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25 Years of
Inspiring Hope
helping kids fight cancer since 1998
In honor of our 25th anniversary, Hyundai Hope On Wheels announces an
unprecedented $25 million in pediatric cancer research grants this year,
elevating our lifetime contribution to $225 million. Thanks to Hyundai
and its dealers, we are moving closer to a cure by funding nearly 1,300
research studies at 175 medical institutions nationwide.

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SE P T E MBE R 1 –3 0, 2 02 3

SEPTEMBER 1–30 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

CRATE & BARREL / CAROUSEL COURT
MACY’S HOME STORE WINGS
12–4 p.m. Arts and Crafts hosted by NCL
Plaza Hours Canstruction Exhibit-
Come and check out amazing 12–2 p.m. OCSA Face Painting
sculptures built with cans!
(benefiting Orange County Food Bank) 1–3 p.m. Wellness Village Resource Center

12:00 p.m. Sage Hill School Arts Showcase

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 1:00 p.m. Endeavor School of the Arts

1:45 p.m. Hālau Hula Lani Ola

CAROUSEL COURT
2:30 p.m. Anaheim Ballet School
12–4 p.m. Arts & Crafts hosted by NCL
3:15 p.m. Adaa Bollywood Dance Academy
1–3 p.m. Wellness Village Resource Center
4:00 p.m. Godfrey the Magician
12:00 p.m. Opening Ceremonies featuring the Hi-Tops

12:30 p.m. Bob Baker Marionette Theater

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
1:15 p.m. The Joy of Dance
CAROUSEL COURT
Anaheim Ballet 2:00 p.m. Arts and Learning Conservatory

3:00 p.m. Bob Baker Marionette Theater 12–4 p.m. Arts and Crafts hosted by
Chuck Jones Center for Creativity
4:00 p.m. Broadway on Tour
1–3 p.m. Wellness Village Resource Center

2:00 p.m. Mater Dei Performing Arts Showcase

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
1:00 p.m. Festival Ballet Theatre
CAROUSEL COURT 1:40 p.m. BGCHV Clubhouse Academy Performance

12–4 p.m. Arts and Crafts hosted by NCL 2:15 p.m. Grandeza Mexicana

1–3 p.m. Wellness Village Resource Center 3:00 p.m. Ballet Etudes

12:00 p.m. TBA 3:40 p.m. OC Dancing Ballroom

1:00 p.m. The Premier Ballet School of Orange County 4:15 p.m. Viorhythm

2:00 p.m. Claudia de la Cruz Flamenco

3:00 p.m. MyArts Showcase

Bob Baker Marione
tte Theater
4:00 p.m. Island Inspirations

All events subject to change without notice.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

CAROUSEL COURT CAROUSEL COURT

12–4 p.m. Arts & Crafts hosted by NCL 12–4 p.m. Arts & Crafts hosted by NCL

1–3 p.m. Wellness Village Resource Center 1–3 p.m. Wellness Village Resource Center

12:00 p.m. We Break Hip Hop Dance Company 12:00 p.m. KidSingers

1:00 p.m. Foundations Dance Company 1:00 p.m. HBP Dance Extreme

2:00 p.m. Center Stage Studio 2:00 p.m. OCSA Las Estrellas Ballet Folklorico Viorhythm

2:45 p.m. OCCTAC Student Showcase 3:00 p.m. West Coast School of the Arts

4:00 p.m. Irvine Piano Studio 4:00 p.m. Festival Ballet Theatre

JEWEL COURT JEWEL COURT

1:30 p.m. The All-American Boys Chorus 12:30 p.m. Voices of Hope Children’s Choir

3:30 p.m. The All-American Boys Chorus 2:30 p.m. Freedom Aerial

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

CAROUSEL COURT CAROUSEL COURT

12–4 p.m. Create Grow & Eat Planting Project 12–4 p.m. Arts & Crafts hosted by NCL

1–3 p.m. Wellness Village Resource Center 12–2 p.m. OCSA Face Painting
The Wellness Villag
11:00 a.m. Avanti Aerial Arts 1-3 p.m. Wellness Village Resource Center e

12:15 p.m. FOCUS Dance Center 12:00 p.m. Huston Performing Arts

1:00 p.m. OCSA MONTAGE! 1:00 p.m. Ballet Folklorico Raices de Mexico

1:40 p.m. Orange County Song & Dance 2:00 p.m. OCSA Bel Canto Singers

2:15 p.m. Thistle Irish Dance 2:40 p.m. OCSA Ballroom Blitz

3:00 p.m. St. John the Baptist Clover Choir 3:15 p.m. V & T Dance

4:00 p.m. PT Ballet 4:00 p.m. Closing Ceremonies featuring the Hi-Tops

JEWEL COURT

1:30 p.m. Ruby Karen Project / OC Aerial Arts

3:30 p.m. Ruby Karen Project / OC Aerial Arts

ALL EVENTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.

r
Dance Cente
ALL CRAFT EVENTS ARE WHILE SUPPLIES LAST.

All craft events are while supplies last.

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Thank You to our participating charities

n Anaheim Ballet n Family Support Network n Otra Mas

n Arts & Learning Conservatory
n Assistance League of Newport Mesa
n Assistance League of Santa Ana (ALSA)
n Beyond Blindness
n Bolsa Chica Conservancy
n Boys & Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley
n Braille Institute
n ChildHelp
n Child Creativity Lab
n Chuck Jones Center for Creativity
n Colette’s Children’s Home
n Community Action Partnership of Orange County
(CAP OC) / OC Food Bank
n Court Appointed Special Advocates
of Orange County CASA
n Easter Seals Southern California
n Extraordinary Lives Foundation
n Families Forward
n Festival Ballet Theatre n Pacific Symphony
n Festival of Children Foundation n Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation
n First Tee - Orange County n Philharmonic Society of Orange County
n Forever Kids n Pretend City Children’s Museum
n Foster Care Auxiliary n Radiant Health Centers
n Friendly Center n Ronald McDonald House Orange County
n Fristers n Segerstrom Center for the Arts
n GiGi’s Playhouse Orange County n South Coast Repertory
n Healthy Smiles for Kids of Orange County n The All-American Boys Chorus
n Human Options n The Autism Community In Action (TACA)
n Illumination Foundation n The Jessie Rees Foundation / NEGU
n Make-A-Wish Orange County and the Inland Empire n The Premier Ballet School of Orange County
n MOMS Orange County n The Raise Foundation
n Orange County Arts and Disability n The Wooden Floor
n Orange County Council, Boy Scouts of America n Thomas House Family Shelter
n Orange County Head Start, Inc. n Unlimited Possibilities
n Orange County School of the Arts n V and T Dance

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National Child Awareness Month (NCAM) began as a local effort led by Festival
of Children Foundation (FOCF) and its founder Sandy Segerstrom Daniels to
refocus the nation’s attention on improving the lives of all children in America
and shining a light on the charities that serve them. On July 26, 2023, the United
States Senate passed S.Res.313 by Unanimous Consent designating September
2023 as National Child Awareness Month for the 16th consecutive year.

7.2 116,249
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various campaigns, we have been able to programs
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It’s South
Mini Fact: South Carolina facts
• Columbia is
Many homes
and businesses the capital. It is in the

Carolina,
in the largest center of the state.
city, Charleston, • Music, dance,
are in historic theater and art fill
The South Carolina

Y’all
buildings, some Charleston each year State House in
more than 300 at the Spoleto Festival Columbia.
years old. USA. Charleston
is the home of the first theater, first
photo by Melanie McCue ballet company and the oldest musical
South Carolina is the 23rd-most populated border is made up of beaches, but there are organization in the U.S.
state, with about 5.3 million people. As our also marshes in the south. Many islands off • The first U.S. textile school was set
eighth state, it was admitted to the Union on the coast, such as Hilton Head and Kiawah up at Clemson University in 1899. The
May 23, 1788. Island, are favorite places for vacationers. Citadel, the Military College of
This Southern state offers so much in The biggest uncut South Carolina, is in Charleston.

© The Citadel
American history and regional culture. Let’s group of bald cypress Its programs include academics
explore! and tupelo trees in and military discipline.

photo by Chris M. Morris

The Palmetto State the world is in the • Agricultural products include
For more than 1,200 years, Native Francis Beidler Forest tobacco, rice, chickens, greenhouse plants,
Americans lived in South Carolina. The near Harleyville. turkeys and cotton. South Carolina also
Spanish set up the first European settlement The Blue Ridge produces chemicals, paper products and
Some of the trees in the
in 1526. Mountains in the Francis Beidler Forest are machinery.
The British later northwest attract more than 1,000 years • President Andrew
claimed the area and hikers and fishers. old. Jackson, born in 1767, is
named it after King Forests cover about two-thirds of the state. claimed by both North and
Charles I. (Charles is Fearsome storms South Carolina. However,
“Carolus” in Latin.) They The palmetto tree Hurricanes and Jackson considered himself to President
is featured on the
divided it into South and state flag. tropical storms be a native of South Carolina. Andrew
North Carolina. happen regularly • The Riverbanks Zoo and Jackson
In the 1700s, South Carolinians were in South Carolina. Garden in Columbia is known
leaders in the fight against the British in the for its work in species survival. It is home
photo by Mike Burton

The strongest
Revolutionary War. hurricane to to more than 2,000 animals.
Many enslaved people worked in its cotton, affect the state in
rice and indigo plantations. (Indigo is a plant Wreckage in the aftermath of recent years was
used to make a violet-blue dye.) In December Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Hurricane Hugo Resources
1860, South Carolina was the first state to vote in 1989, which hit
to secede, or separate from the United States, Sullivan’s Island as a Category 4 storm. On the Web:
before the Civil War. In fact, the first shots Sports and fun • bit.ly/MPSoCa
fired in that war were aimed at Fort Sumter in Darlington Raceway is the site of
Charleston Harbor. NASCAR races and the Southern 500 stock At the library:
Natural wonders car race. There are no professional sports • “Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One
Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea
South Carolina has 187 miles of coastline teams in the state, but the NFL’s Carolina
Turtles” by Philippe Cousteau and Deborah
along the Atlantic Ocean. Most of that Panthers have training facilities there. Hopkinson
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Words that remind us of South Carolina are hidden in this puzzle.
Some words are hidden backward or diagonally, and some letters Caroline: How do we know
are used twice. See if you can find: that the ocean is friendly?
Cam: It waves!
ATLANTIC, CHARLES, H R E T M U S S D N A L S I P
COAST, COLUMBIA, A N I L O R A C H T U O S C O
CULTURE, CYPRESS, R N O S K C A J M Q V S E U G Eco Note
FORT, HARBOR, HISTORY, B R Z H H I S T O R Y S R L I
HURRICANE, INDIGO, O A S N I A T N U O M T P T D
Northern Afghanistan’s
ISLANDS, JACKSON, R C T C I T N A L T A O Y U N
middle is being carpeted by a new generation
MOUNTAINS, NASCAR, T S N O S E D E C E S R C R I of Moroccan locusts, which the U.N. Food
SECEDE, SOUTH CAROLINA, R A L A C H A R L E S M N E R and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says could
STORM, SUMTER. O N O F C O L U M B I A Q C E destroy the region’s crops should they mature.
F C H U R R I C A N E L T Y N Villagers and farmers have been collecting
the young “hoppers” and killing them before
they can fly and swarm across the land. “You
Cook’s Corner kill millions of locusts that way. The problem
is, there are billions of locusts,” said FAO
Carolina Peach Cake representative Richard Trenchard. An invasion
of Moroccan locusts in 1981 wiped out about
You’ll need: • 1 teaspoon baking soda
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a quarter of Afghanistan’s national harvest.

• 2 cups sugar • 1 teaspoon salt adapted with permission from Earthweek.com
• 1 cup oil • 3 peaches, diced

For later:
• 3 eggs, beaten • 1 cup pecans, chopped
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Watch your newspaper for articles about
What to do: tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic
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2. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. Mix well.
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Use the letters in the boxes to make a word with the same meaning as
the clue. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of letters in
the solution. Each letter combination can be used only once, but all letter
combinations will be necessary to complete the puzzle.
1. small (6)
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ANALYSIS INSIGHTS & INDICATORS

California
jobs growth
ranks last
in the U.S.
California’s job growth
started the year as the nation’s
worst, and Texas and Florida
were the best.
I probably
could stop here.
My trusty
spreadsheet re-
viewed the Bu-
reau of Labor Sta-
tistics Quarterly
Census of Em-
ployment and
Wages. The study
is based on un-
employment insurance data
filed by bosses versus the more
closely followed monthly job re-
ports derived from employer
surveys. These quarterly num-
bers give a different — some say
better — snapshot of job market
conditions.
When it came to the hiring
pace as the year started, Cali- PETER HAMLIN — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
fornia tied for last among the “Most of the risks we deal with as human beings come from things that are not explainable,” says science adviser Arati Prabhakar.
states with Iowa at 0.9% job

Science adviser calls for more

growth versus March 2022. The
next slowest were the District of
Columbia at 1.1% and Connecti-
cut and Oregon at 1.4%.
No. 1 was Texas at 4.3%. Flor-

safeguards against AI risks

ida was second at 4.1%. Then
came Nevada at 3.8%, Okla-
homa at 3.6% and South Caro-
lina at 3.4%.
By the way, the nation added
jobs at a 2.5% pace in this pe-
riod.
Details By Matt O’Brien
The Associated Press
He says we must get to point that they are opaque. They
are black box in nature. But

where we know enough about

Let’s remember California re- most of the risks we deal with
mains by far the nation’s larg- When President Joe Biden as human beings come from
est job market with 17.8 million has questions about artifi- things that are not explain-
workers. Next comes Texas at
13.6 million, Florida at 9.6 mil-
lion, New York at 9.4 million
cial intelligence, one expert he
turns to is his science adviser
Arati Prabhakar, director of
their safety to really use them able. As an example, I take
medicine every single day.
While I can’t actually predict
and Illinois at 5.9 million. the White House Office of Sci- venture capitalist. what it is and how people are exactly how it’s going to inter-
But the Golden State’s hefty ence and Technology Policy. She spoke with The Associ- using it. Then immediately he act with the cells in my body,
job market moved slowly in Prabhakar is helping to ated Press earlier this month just goes to the consequences we have found ways to make
early 2023. guide the U.S. approach to ahead of a White House-or- and deep implications. Those pharmaceuticals safe enough.
Yes, California did add safeguarding AI technology, ganized test of AI systems at have been some very good con- Think about drugs before
159,000 jobs in the past year relying in part on cooperation the DefCon hacker convention versations. Very exploratory, we had clinical trials. You
— but that’s a proportionally from big American tech com- in Las Vegas. The interview but also very focused on ac- could hawk some powder or
small share of its workforce. panies like Amazon, Google, has been edited for length and tion. syrup and it might make you
Size didn’t seem to hinder three Microsoft and Meta. clarity. better or it might kill you.
other job markets in creating
new paychecks: Texas added
559,400, tops in the U.S., fol-
The India-born, Texas-
raised engineer and applied
physicist is coming at the Q Does the president come
to ask you about AI?
Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer (who’s
pushing for AI regulations)
Q
But when we have clinical tri-
als and a process in place,
we started having the techni-
lowed by Florida at 379,681 and problem from a career bridg- says making AI models ex- cal means to know enough to
New York at 264,035.
The lowest wages were found
in Mississippi at $944, then
ing work in government — in-
cluding leading the Defense
Department’s advanced tech-
A I’ve had the great privi-
lege of talking with him
several times about artificial
plainable is a priority. How re- start harnessing the value of
alistic is that? pharmaceuticals. This is the
journey we have to be on now
West Virginia at $1,062, Mon-
tana at $1,079 and Idaho and
South Dakota at $1,084.
nology research arm — and
the private sector as a former
Silicon Valley executive and
intelligence. Those are great
conversations because he’s la-
It’s a technical feature
of these deep-learning,
ser-focused on understanding machine-learning systems,
A
for artificial intelligence. We’re
not going to have perfect mea-
AI » PAGE 2
The sluggish job growth
likely contributed to relatively
small California pay raises.
The keyword is “relatively” as
Golden State wages rose 5.5% CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE
in a year. That might seem like
a decent raise but among the
states increases were smaller
only in New York at 2.1% — a
Medical Board can’t pay its bills, seeks higher fees
bad year on Wall Street — then By Annie Sciacca
it hasn’t had the budget to carry year, according to its 2022 an- ics say the group is trying to
Delaware at 4.8%, Massachu- KFF Health News
out its mission properly. It also nual report. whittle away the board’s power
setts at 5%, and D.C. at 5.1% would mandate new procedures But the California Medi- by depriving it of funding.
The biggest pay jumps were California doctors and state for investigating complaints. cal Association, which repre- The legislation, sponsored by
found in Alaska (10.3%), Idaho lawmakers are squaring off Patient advocates say the sents physicians, again is fight- Sen. Richard Roth, a Riverside
(10.1%) and North Dakota again over the future of the board, which oversees about ing proposed increases in the Democrat, also would require
(9.8%). No. 6 was Florida at Medical Board of California, 150,000 physicians and sur- fee, which was unchanged for board staffers to interview pa-
9.3%. Texas was No. 17 at 8.1%. which is responsible for licens- geons with active licenses in the more than a decade before be- tients or families before closing
U.S. pay was jumping at a ing and disciplining doctors state, is hamstrung by a lack of ing raised in 2021 after a con- their complaints, create a unit
6.6% annual pace in early 2023. and has been criticized by pa- funding and clunky processes, tentious debate. Now lawmak- to better facilitate communica-
No wonder the Federal Reserve tient advocates for years for be- and that its shortcomings pose ers want to boost the license re- tions and improve efficiency by
is so worried about inflation ing too lax. a risk to the public by allowing newal fee to $1,289 every two changing procedures and ad-
and wages in this cost-of-living A bill before the Legislature bad doctors to continue prac- years, up from $863 currently. justing standards of evidence
headache. would significantly increase ticing. The board opened only The doctors’ lobby largely for investigations.
the fees doctors pay to fund about 1,000 investigations out defeated the 2021 efforts to Another provision would al-
LANSNER » PAGE 2 the medical board, which says of nearly 10,000 complaints last strengthen the board, and crit- BOARD » PAGE 2

The California Index

A weekly look at how inflation, the pandemic and other factors affect our economy.
5.1
5 4.5
July
2022
5.6
5.7 4.9
July
2023
Unemployment rate
By county, not seasonally adjusted
0-2.4%
4.4 Eureka 4.9 2.5-4.9%
Stock performance Jan. 20, 2021 4 4.1 4.3 4.6 5.1 4.7
Thursday Redding 5-7.4%
S&P Index Mar. 4, 2020 Biden presidency
begins 4,376.31 State avg. State avg. 7.5-9.9%
Gov. Newsom 4.9 6.1 4.8%
4,500
declares state 4.9 4.1% 5.5 10-12.4%
Chico
of emergency 5.4 4.4 3.3 6.3 4 12.5-14.9%
4,000 over COVID-19 3.8 3.2 4.3 5.2 3.8 15% or greater
4.5 9.1 5.2 3 5.3 10.7 6.2 3.7
3,500 5.7
3.2
6.9
3.8 State vs. national
3.1 3.8 3.7 4.4 Sacramento Unemployment rate,
3,000 2.9 5.2 3.3 6.9 seasonally adjusted
3.8 4.1 4.4 4.8
4 4.6 15% July
2,500 2.6 3.4 4.3 3.3 3.9 4.8
3.4 5 3.3 4.1 6.1 3.6 10% Calif.
2.4 S.F. 3.2 4.6%
3.2 5.3 3.7 4.1 6.5Merced4.5
Sep Jan May Sep Jan May Sep Jan May Sep Jan May
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Unemployment 2.3 2.6 5.9
3 3.5 7.2
5% 3.5%
claims 7.1 6 8.6 7.1
U.S.
Performance of selected top California companies 4 4.8 0%
Statewide. Weekly, Jan Jan Jan Jan
Thursday's close Market cap 5-day 1-month 3-month YTD 1 year not seasonally adjusted. 4.4 Monterey 5.4 Fresno
3.5 3.7 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23
Adobe $512.43 $233.6B 0.2% -0.3% 30.7% 52.2% 26.8% 1M 4.3 8 4.9 9.8
6.4 7.9
Alphabet (Google) $130.42 $1,641.2B 0.0% 0.4% 4.9% 46.9% 10.8%
Apple $176.38 $2,757.6B 1.4% -8.7% 2.0% 35.7% 3.7% 800k Aug. 19 3 3.3 Bakersfield
38,349
Disney $82.47 $150.9B -4.0% -3.4% -6.4% -5.1% -29.7% 60k 6.8 San Luis Obispo 8.4
600k Barstow
Meta (Facebook) $286.75 $737.9B 0.6% -8.0% 13.4% 138.0% 69.9%
40k 4.1 4.8
20k 3.2 3.6
Netflix $406.93 $180.3B 1.0% -1.5% 13.3% 38.0% 73.9% 400k 3.6 4.9 4.2 5.4
0k Santa Los Angeles
NVIDIA $471.63 $1,164.9B 8.8% 2.8% 24.1% 222.0% 163.0% Jun. Jul. Aug. Barbara
200k 10 15 19 3.2 4.2 3.6 Riverside 5
salesforce.com $205.51 $200.2B 0.8% -8.7% -2.1% 55.0% 18.1%
Tesla $230.04 $720.8B 4.9% -10.0% 24.7% 86.7% -22.3% 0
3.4 15.2 3.9 17.7
Visa $239.47 $487.4B 0.9% 2.2% 7.2% 15.2% 14.1% Jan Jan Jan Jan San Diego
2020 2021 2022 2023
Sources: Google Finance and MarketWatch.com Source: Bureau of Labor and Statistics Source: Employment Development Dept. BAY AREA NEWS GROUP
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WEEK IN REVIEW “The simple reality is ber, the executive director

Board
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low patients and relatives
to make a statement dur-
ing the investigation about
how a doctor’s negligence or
misconduct affected them
— similar to crime victims
speaking during a sentenc-
ing hearing in criminal
court.
The bill faces a pivotal
vote in the Assembly’s Ap-
propriations Committee
this month.
Most California licensing
boards are funded through
license fees. Currently, den-
tists pay $668 for a two-
year license renewal, plus
other permitting fees such
as $325 for general anesthe-
sia or $650 for oral surgery.
Attorneys actively practic-
ing in California pay $510
annually.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS But the medical associa-
The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against SpaceX, the company founded and tion insisted in a memo that
run by Elon Musk, for alleged hiring discrimination against refugees and others. it “cannot agree to a fee in-
crease of nearly 50% that
that the board is not able to
pay its bills,” a spokesper-
son for the Medical Board
read from a joint statement
from Randy Hawkins, the
vice president of the board,
and Richard Thorp, a for-
mer president of the Cali-
fornia Medical Association
and current member of the
board, at a committee hear-
ing last month.
“We are physicians in
private practice, and this
fee increase will impact us
personally, albeit at an in-
creased cost of less than
$20 per month,” the state-
ment read. “We do not see
this as a burden but rather
as an investment into the
organization that helps en-
sure that physicians have
the confidence of the pa-
tients that we are privileged
to treat.”
Roth points out that the
Medical Board, which con-
sists of eight physicians and
seven members of the pub-
lic, has little control over
staffing costs.
of Consumer Watchdog, a
consumer and patient ad-
vocacy organization.
The California Medical
Association already has
blunted some aspects of
the bill, including securing
the removal of a provision
to add two more members
of the public to the board,
which would have made it
a public-member majority
instead of its current phy-
sician majority.
The association also is
opposed to a provision cur-
rently in the bill that would
lower the standard of proof
for disciplining doctors in
instances besides those in
which they could lose their
licenses.
Tracy Dominguez, a Ba-
kersfield resident whose
daughter, Demi, and grand-
son, Malakhi, died in 2019
from complications of se-
vere preeclampsia , is
among those advocating
for reforms.
One of the physicians
who treated Dominguez’s

DOJ sues SpaceX, saying

will primarily go toward Its 169 employees work daughter prior to her death
building a multimillion- for the state and are cov- had already been accused
dollar reserve fund and fu- ered by labor agreements by the Medical Board of
ture programs for the Med- negotiated by statewide em- gross negligence that led

it discriminated against ical Board.”

“If the bill is passed in
its current form, it would
ployee unions.
Consumer advocates say
the opposition from the
to the death of a young
mother, according to medi-
cal board documents. Advo-

refugees, asylum-seekers
The U.S. Department of Justice on
Thursday sued SpaceX, the rocket com-
pany founded and run by Elon Musk, for
alleged hiring discrimination against
refugees and people seeking or already
granted asylum.
The complaint, filed in an administra-
tive court within the department, asserts
that SpaceX wrongly claimed that federal
export control laws barred it from hiring
anyone but U.S. citizens and permanent
residents. As a result, it discouraged ref-
ugees and asylum-seekers and grantees
from applying for jobs at the company,
according to the complaint.
The department charged that SpaceX
also refused to “fairly” consider applica-
tions from this group of people or to hire
them. The positions in question included
both ones requiring advanced degrees
and others such as welders, cooks and
crane operators at the company.
The U.S. is seeking “fair consideration
and back pay” for people who were de-
terred from or denied employment at
SpaceX because of the company’s alleged
discrimination, in addition to undeter-
mined civil penalties.
SpaceX, which is based in Hawthorne,
did not reply to a request for comment.
Powell signals Fed will raise rates
if needed, set to keep them high
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell
said the US central bank is prepared to
raise interest rates further if needed and
intends to keep borrowing costs high un-
til inflation is on a convincing path to-
ward the Fed’s 2% target.
“Although inflation has moved down
from its peak, a welcome development, it
remains too high,” Powell said in a speech
Friday at the U.S. central bank’s annual
conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
“We are prepared to raise rates further if
appropriate, and intend to hold policy at
a restrictive level until we are confident
that inflation is moving sustainably down
toward our objective.”
The Fed chief welcomed the slower
price gains the U.S. economy has achieved
thanks to tighter monetary policy and fur-
ther loosening of supply constraints after
the pandemic. However, he cautioned that Compiled from Associated Press,
the process “still has a long way to go.” Bloomberg and staff reports.
At the same time, Powell suggested the
Fed could hold rates steady at its next
meeting in September.
“Given how far we have come, at up-
coming meetings we are in a position
to proceed carefully as we assess the in-
coming data and the evolving outlook and
risks,” he said.
The overall message is that the Fed has
stepped into a more gradual approach to
policymaking and is focused on balanc-
ing the risk that inflation could remain el-
evated with the possibility that too much
tightening could trigger a downturn.
A year ago in the same forum, Pow-
ell said the Fed was taking “forceful and
rapid steps” to quell inflation. While the
central bank has covered a lot of ground
since then, the message picked up where
he left it in 2022: The job’s not done.
Kaiser Permanente workers
begin strike authorization votes
A coalition of unions representing
85,000 Kaiser Permanente workers said
it was to begin gathering strike autho-
rization votes Saturday as rank-and-file
employees gear up for a possible unfair
labor practices strike that could begin as
early as Oct. 1.
If a walkout happens, it will impact
scores of Kaiser hospitals and clinics in
California, union officials said.
The voting begins in Denver and ends
Sept. 13, working its way through Kaiser
facilities in California, Colorado, Oregon,
Hawaii, Maryland, Virginia, Washington
and the District of Columbia.
In a statement issued Thursday, Kai-
ser said “important progress” already has
been made through labor negotiations,
despite the threat of a possible walkout.
“This tactic does not reflect any break-
down in bargaining, nor does it indicate a
strike is imminent or will happen at all,”
the company said. “We urge our employ-
ees to reject any call for a strike and con-
tinue to focus on providing care and ser-
vice to the patients who need them.”
Kaiser said it has plans in place to en-
sure patients will have access to medical
care in the event of a strike.
have vast, negative impacts
on the practice of medicine
and health care delivery in
California,” it added.
George Soares, a legisla-
tive advocate for the Cali-
fornia Medical Association,
told lawmakers last month
that the association would
be willing to accept a fee
increase, but that $1,289 is
too much — more than dou-
ble the national average for
state medical licenses. A
July working paper from
the National Bureau of Eco-
nomic Research found phy-
sicians’ annual earnings av-
erage $350,000 across the
U.S.
The medical board sup-
ports the bill and says a fee
hike is needed to cover op-
erations, repay millions of
dollars in loans, and estab-
lish a three-month reserve.
Over the past two years, the
Department of Consumer
Affairs, which is responsi-
ble for the operations of the
medical board and other li-
censing boards, has had
to backfill the board’s $79
million budget, using a to-
tal of $18 million in loans
from Bureau of Automotive
Repair license fees to cover
the gap.
doctors’ lobby is part of a
yearslong effort to weaken
the board and deprive it of
adequate funding.
A report about the Medi-
cal Board’s operations con-
ducted by a consulting
firm that serves as the en-
forcement monitor for the
board, Alexan RPM Inc.,
underscored the board’s fi-
nancial challenges and rec-
ommended adopting auto-
matic annual fee increases
tied to the consumer price
index, or something similar.
Some lawmakers sug-
gested the fees could be de-
termined on a sliding scale
based on doctors’ income.
Critics have complained
for years that the medical
board doesn’t hold doctors
accountable often enough.
Families that file com-
plaints against doctors fre-
quently go years without
updates on the status of in-
vestigations, and they often
aren’t told why when their
complaints are rejected.
“This is kind of the cul-
mination of two things: pa-
tient advocacy trying to
make changes and a few
years of very recent, di-
rect pushes by the Legis-
lature,” said Carmen Bal-
cates at Consumer Watch-
dog allege his negligence
already had caused death
or permanent injury of
other mothers and babies
he treated, and that he was
already banned from prac-
ticing in some hospitals at
the time he treated Demi
Dominguez but had been
allowed to keep his license.
Tracy Dominguez said
she hopes changing evi-
dentiary standards and
strengthening the medical
board overall “will put dan-
gerous doctors away.”
And a chance to pro-
vide a victim impact state-
ment would be important
for families hurt by med-
ical neglect, she added. It
would be “an opportunity
for them to hear from the
family, directly — to know
that she was a person, not
just a number.”
KFF Health News is
a national newsroom
that produces in-depth
journalism about health
issues and is one of the
core operating programs
at KFF — an independent
source of health policy
research, polling and
journalism.

California lawmakers want to boost a doctor’s license renewal fee to $1,289 every two
years, up from $863 currently. The California Medical Association, which represents
physicians, is fighting the proposed increase.

AI
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sures, but I think we can
MAP BY get to the point where we
FLOURISH know enough about the
safety and effectiveness of
these systems to really use
them and to get the value
that they can offer.
propriately and leading to
wrongful arrests of Black
people. And then privacy
concerns. All of our data
that’s out in the world,
each individual piece may
not reveal much about us,
but when you put it all to-
gether it tells you rather a
lot about each of us.
Q Seven companies (in-
cluding Google, Mi-
every good intention in the
world, the realities of op-
erating in the market are,
by definition, a constraint
on how far these individ-
ual companies can go. We
hope many more will join
them and voluntary com-
mitments will grow. We
just have to be clear that’s
only one part of it. That’s
companies stepping up to
their responsibilities.

boldens workers but scares off some em-

Q What are some spe-
cific AI applications
you’re concerned about?
Lansner ployers.
crosoft and ChatGPT-
maker OpenAI) agreed
in July to meet voluntary
But we in government
need to step up to ours,
both in the executive
AI safety standards set by branch and for the legisla-

FROM PAGE 1
to
Plus, California bosses are struggling
hire primarily because the state’s A Some of the things
we see are big and
the White House. Were
any of those commitments
tive branch.

Bottom line
supply of job seekers is underwhelming,
and few folks are willing to relocate to
the Golden State. In an age of inflation-
obvious. If you break the
guardrails of a chatbot,
which people do routinely,
harder to get? Where’s the
friction? Q Do you have a time-
line for future actions
(such as a planned Biden
On one hand, California’s addition of phobia, high-cost locations like Califor-
159,000 jobs over 12 months with state- nia seem even less desirable.
wide pay increasing at a 5.5% pace And, yes, it seems California can’t
and coax it to tell you how
to build a weapon, well,
clearly that’s concerning.
A I want to start by just
acknowledging how
fortunate we are that so
executive order)? Will it in-
clude enforceable account-
ability measures for AI de-
doesn’t seem terrible. keep up with the nation’s new eco- Some of the harms are many of the companies velopers?
And it’s not. The 0.9% growth rate of nomic powerhouses of Texas and Flor- much more subtle. When that are driving AI tech-
early 2023 equals the hiring pace for the ida. Whether that’s a state ego problem
state so far this century. or a serious economic threat remains to
But in this year’s red-hot job market, be tallied.
these systems are trained
off human data, they
sometimes distill the bias
nology today are Ameri-
can companies. It reflects
a long history of valuing
A Many measures are
under consideration.
I don’t have a timeline for
those California upticks were badly un- that’s in that data. innovation in this country. you. I will just say fast.
derperforming the swift national pace. Jonathan Lansner is the business There’s now a fairly sub- That’s a tremendous ad- And that comes directly
The technology industry’s challenges columnist for the Southern California stantial, distressing his- vantage. from the top. The presi-
aren’t good news for California hiring. News Group. He can be reached at tory of facial recognition We also just have to be dent has been clear that
The state’s robust labor movement em- jlansner@scng.com. systems being used inap- very, very clear that with this is an urgent issue.
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WOMEN ON MONEY & MINDSET

For sandwich generation, paperwork is the meat

By Teresa J. Rhyne acting in the best inter- victims of scams. A reg- have estate planning doc-
est of the parent. How- ular review of bank ac- uments in place, but they
ever, such actions confuse counts can catch fraud are more than five years
The sandwich genera- the parent, can sometimes earlier. old, have them updated.
tion is typically defined as cause irreparable harm to Forms and laws may
parents in the age range of the siblings’ relationship Estate planning have changed, but it’s also
40 to 60. and can result in a con- documents a good idea to have docu-
This typically is the servatorship of the parent ments reflecting their cur-
stressed-out group of folks — much more costly and Do your parents have rent wishes. If your par-
caring for both growing time-consuming than hon- their estate planning doc- ents are married, and
children and aging par- est and open conversations uments in place? At a min- their trust was done be-
ents. It’s a lot. when mom or dad still has SCNG ILLUSTRATION USING ISTOCKPHOTO imum, there should be a fore 2012, definitely have it
But there’s good news the capacity. For the sandwich generation of caretakers, getting will stating who is to act reviewed. There was a ma-
— there are ways to make Have the conversation. paperwork in place for children and parents is the key to as executor and how they jor tax law change in 2012
these obligations easier, And get the documents in managing complex family issues. wish their estate to be dis- that means older trusts
and there could be some- place. tributed. If they have as- might be much more com-
thing in it for you, too, be- an advance health care di- talized in an emergency, sets in excess of $184,500 plicated than is now nec-
sides good karma. Again, it’s the rective (also known as a you’ll be able to get the in- without co-owners, ben- essary.
documents health care power of attor- formation you need with a eficiaries or “payable on
The need for ney) and HIPAA form. HIPAA form. death” designations, a pro- Review your
agreement As I mentioned in my If you, your adult child bate will be required un- documents
last column, when your and/or your parent re- Durable power of less there is a trust. Pro-
With minor children, it’s child turns 18, he is a le- side in California, use the attorney bate is a long and expen- Did you name other
clear that the parent(s) is gal adult. That means you California statutory form sive process in California people (your own par-
in charge. With aging par- no longer have the right (last updated in 2019). The As with your adult chil- and is generally something ents, perhaps) as succes-
ents, if there is more than to make decisions for him, form needs either two wit- dren, in addition to the to avoid. sor trustees of your trust
one child, determining re- nor can you obtain infor- nesses who are not named health care directive, have But do not rush to add or power of attorney for
sponsibilities can be diffi- mation about him from in the document (and at your parent sign a durable your name to your parents’ you? Are they named as
cult. Don’t wait until there third parties (schools, hos- least one of whom is not power of attorney autho- accounts or deeds, even the guardian of your mi-
is an emergency to discuss pitals, banks). This can related) or a notary. rizing you (or a sibling, or with the good intention of nor children?
with your parents and come as a shock to par- The advance health another responsible party, sharing it with your sib- Does that still make
your siblings who will be ents, especially in an care directive authorizes as agreed upon) to make lings. There are potential sense?
responsible for what. Your emergency. a named agent to make decisions and act on his gift and property tax con- Every adult — kids
parents likely will want The loss of a parent’s health care decisions for behalf in the event of his sequences involved that over 18, you, mom and
to remain independent as sharp decision-making the principal when they incapacity or by his choice. should be discussed with dad — should have an ad-
long as possible. skills can be equally diffi- are unable to do so. It also With a properly exe- an attorney. vance health care direc-
But at some point, it cult for you and your par- provides some guidance cuted and activated power Instead, a living trust tive, HIPAA form, and du-
may be wise to have some- ent, who has until this for the types of decisions of attorney, the agent des- should be considered if rable power of attorney in
one else with authority point made his own deci- the principal would like ignated will be able to ac- your parent still has the place. An adult with as-
to act as well. And in the sions, and once even made made. The agent named is cess bank accounts, pay mental capacity to do so. sets of any kind should
event of incapacity, where decisions for you. also the party who has au- bills, and handle insur- The trust also will spec- have a will and likely a
will your parents live? Talk to your parents thority for post-death mat- ance claims and legal mat- ify who is to become the trust.
Who is paying for what? about their finances, fu- ters (autopsy, organ dona- ters, among other things, trustee in the event of You’ve got responsibil-
Who will make health care ture plans and care. Make tions, funeral home selec- on behalf of your parent. your parent’s incapacity. ity for your children and
decisions? Who will make sure they have the neces- tion, cremation, etc.). The power of attorney If your parent uses a trust your parents, so why not
financial decisions? sary documents in place, A HIPAA form al- does not take any rights to transfer assets at death make it easier on yourself
Unfortunately, I have and lead by example — lows a party to desig- away from your parents — to his children, he may be by planning ahead?
too often seen battles be- you get yours in place, and nate third parties with and that may be important able to provide you with
tween siblings. Sibling make sure any child of whom medical personnel for them (and you) to hear. some asset protection, in- Teresa J. Rhyne is an
One rushes mom or dad yours 18 or older also has can communicate. This A power of attorney cluding protection from attorney practicing in
off to an attorney to have them in place. can be extremely impor- merely allows the agent to future ex-spouses, by estate planning and
himself named as trustee If your parents know tant as a parent ages. Be- act on the parents’ behalf leaving the assets to you trust administration
and power of attorney or everyone is doing it, they ing able to speak directly as well. in a trust that does not in Riverside and Paso
added to bank accounts. may feel less like they’re to healthcare providers This can be important distribute outright but in- Robles, CA. She is also
Then along comes Sib- losing control. may help you understand to monitor bank accounts stead gives you specific the No. 1 New York Times
ling Two and takes mom sooner, rather than later for unusual spending, for- control and benefits. bestselling author of “The
or dad to yet another at- Advance health care if health or capacity is- getting to pay or double- This is not a “do it your- Dog Lived (and So Will I)”
torney for the same doc- directive sues arise. paying bills, and out-and- self online” trust, however, and “Poppy in The Wild.”
uments. They each may Furthermore, if your out fraud. Senior citizens so please see an attorney. You can reach her at
have believed they were First, every adult needs child or parent is hospi- are all too frequently the Note: If your parents Teresa@trlawgroup.net.

AUTOMAKERS
Nobody Beats Our Coverage.
New cars under $20,000
dwindle to just 1 vehicle N a m e Yo u r Te r m

5
By Tom Krisher
existed,” she said. “Not even if more customers knew
The Associated Press
close.”
The scarcity of small cars
about it.
“There aren’t that many
7, 11, or 14 Month
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Just five years ago, a at dealerships helps explain Mitsubishi dealers, and

price-conscious auto shop-
per in the United States
could choose from among
a dozen new small cars sell-
ing for under $20,000. Now,
there’s just one: The Mit-
subishi Mirage. And even
the Mirage appears headed
for the scrap yard.
At a time when Amer-
icans increasingly want
pricey SUVs and trucks
rather than small cars, the
Mirage remains the lone
new vehicle whose aver-
age sale price is under 20
grand — a figure that once
marked a kind of unoffi-
cial threshold of affordabil-
ity. With prices — new and
used — having soared since
the pandemic, $20,000 is no
longer much of a starting
point for a new car.
This current version of
the Mirage, which reached
U.S. dealerships a decade
ago, sold for an average of
$19,205 last month, accord-
ing to data from Cox Auto-
motive. (Though a few other
new models have starting
prices under $20,000, their
actual purchase prices,
with options and shipping,
exceed that figure.)
The Mirage, with hatch-
back and sedan versions,
costs less than half of what
the average U.S. new vehicle
why the average new vehicle
costs so much: Detroit’s Big
Three automakers — Gen-
eral Motors, Stellantis and
Ford — began to jettison
the compact and subcom-
pact car business about five
years ago. Low profit mar-
gins for small cars and con-
sumers’ increasing shift to
SUVs and trucks made the
decision an easy one. Like-
wise, Toyota and Honda
later halted U.S. sales of
their subcompacts.
Then a pandemic-re-
lated computer-chip short-
age slashed global auto pro-
duction. Vehicles were sud-
denly in short supply at a
time of high demand. Prices
shot up.
Another factor that has
swollen average prices
is that 32 models in the
United States now have sell-
ing prices above $100,000,
according to Cox. As re-
cently as 2018, only 12 mod-
els sold for over 100 grand.
At an average sale price of
$29,000, even most used ve-
hicles cost more than a new
Mirage.
Despite the low price,
U.S. sales of the Mirage
have been sluggish. Mit-
subishi sold only 5,316 in
the first half of the year —
44% below the same period
%
they don’t have a very loud
voice in the advertising
world,” she said.
In addition, Krebs said,
Mitsubishi buyers tend to
have lower-than-average
credit scores, and many of
*
them have been priced out
of the auto market entirely
because higher loan rates
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have sent monthly pay- Options Available
ments surging.
A buyer who put down
a 10% payment at the av-
erage Mirage sales price of
$19,205 would owe roughly
$365 each month for 60
months at a 7% loan rate.
The latest data suggests
that Mitsubishi’s decision to
phase out the Mirage might
be premature. Overall sales
of small cars, after having
dropped in seven of the past
10 years, are up 11.7% in the
first half of the year. Some
of that gain may reflect
more interest from consum-
ers concerned about higher
gas prices, Krebs said, but
most of it represents fleet
sales to rental car compa-
nies.
“It’s not going to be
where it used to be,” she
said of small-car purchases.
Mitsubishi can afford to
H U R R Y ! L I M I T E D T I M E O F F E R
sell the Mirage for less than
its competitors do for simi-
lar vehicles because it’s such

does. That average is now
just above $48,000 — 25%
more than before the pan-
demic struck three years
ago.
“I just won’t pay that
kind of price,” said Karen
Schaeppi of suburban Min-
neapolis, who bought a red
Mirage sedan last month for
around $19,000. Schaeppi,
who is 78, said she could
have afforded an average-
priced new vehicle. But be-
cause she’s only 5 feet tall,
she wanted a small car so
she could see easily over the
hood.
When she set out to re-
place her 2008 Ford Focus,
Schaeppi was surprised to
find no small cars available
at the dealers she visited —
at any price.
“There was nothing that
in 2022.
And it might not be avail-
able at all in a couple of
years. The trade publica-
tion Automotive News re-
ported last week that Mit-
subishi will stop selling the
Mirage by mid-decade. Mit-
subishi, part of the Nissan-
Renault alliance, declined
to comment. But its web-
site says production of the
Mirage in Thailand, where
it is built, is ending.
Once the Mirage disap-
pears, Mitsubishi’s least
expensive vehicle would
be the Outlander Sport
small SUV. It starts around
$24,600, which includes
shipping.
Michelle Krebs, an an-
alyst at Cox Automotive,
said she thinks sales of the
Mirage would be stronger
S ave Smarter
an old model that money
to develop it has long since
been spent, said Sam Abuel-
samid, an analyst for Guide-
house Insights.
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Even as the Mirage ap-
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out, some other cars and
SUVs have average sales
prices only slightly above
$20,000. They include the
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CALIFORNIA HOUSING

Record $4,359 monthly payments

A California house
hunter has to endure a re-
cord-high $4,359 monthly
payment to buy the me-
dian-priced, single-fam-
ily home.
My trusty spreadsheet
analyzed the California
Association of Realtors
statewide homebuying
data for July and its data-
base of stats dating to 1990.
Sales of existing, single-family
houses dropped to a 277,000-a-
year pace — 13th-slowest on re-
cord.
Top line
California house pay-
ments get so high — for
the second month in a
row?
First, there’s the
$832,340 median selling
price in July, the eighth-
highest as tracked by
Realtors. Even though
it was down 1% for the
month, it’s essentially flat
over the past 12 months after
recovering from an 18% crash
from May 2022 to February.
Plus note that mortgage rates
skyrocketed to an average 6.84%
for 30-year home loans in July.
That’s well above 5.41% a year
1990. (Note: Rates hit a 21-year
high of 7.09% on Aug. 17!)
Assuming current rates along
with a 20% down payment, buy-
ers get an estimated $4,359
house payment. That’s up 1% in
a month, up 17% in a year — and
up 110% since February 2020,
just before coronavirus upended
the economy. Yes, more than
double.
And that assumption of a 20%
down payment means our hypo-
thetical buyer also has to have
$166,000 in spare cash to make
the purchase pencil out, which
is no small sum.
CHART BY FLOURISH

So, how did this yardstick for ago and the 5.96% average since PAYMENTS » PAGE 5 California house payments.

MORTGAGES HOT HOMES

Priced out
of housing
market? Do
not give up
Every now and again, I’m in
search of the best mortgages to
get would-be buyers into South-
ern California’s tight housing
market. Recently, I
found the mother
lode.
Wescom Credit
Union has the
deal of the decade.
Maybe the century.
You can bor-
row as much as
$750,000 without
a down payment.
That’s incredible!
You can be a first-time buyer
(primary residence only) or a
veteran homeowner looking to
make your next move, for ex-
ample. Occupying co-owners
are good to go. No income caps,
which is also huge.
Many housing agencies and PHOTOS BY GEOFF YALE PHOTOGRAPHY
mortgage lenders have so-called The living room of the Pasadena home, which is on the market.
affordable housing mortgages

Victorian relocated from another

that almost always come with
income caps. And they are lim-
ited to first-time buyers (which
means no homeownership in the
past three years).

Pasadena lot selling for $2.55M

Non-occupant co-borrowers
are not allowed to apply for this
Wescom program. You’re in if
you are buying a single-family,
condo or planned unit develop-
ment (town house). It’s a no-go
if you are considering multiple
units, manufactured homes or
even a mobile home.
If you happen to be looking to
get out of Dodge (Southern Cali-
fornia) you can use this bonanza
of a mortgage deal anywhere in
California.
But there are a few catches,
according to Kasey Dering-
ton, a mortgage loan officer at
Wescom.
First, you have to be a
Wescom member, which means
you are a resident of Southern
California or a student studying
in Southern California or you
belong to a local place of wor-
ship. Membership costs as little
as $1 to join the credit union.
You’ll find this program only
through Wescom. Mortgage bro-
kers and mortgage bankers can-
not offer this deal.
Homebuyers also must con-
tribute a minimum of $1,000 or
1% of the sales price, whichever
is greater, according to Wescom.
For example, on a $750,000,
zero-down mortgage, you’ll need
$7,500 in cash. Chances are, be-
LAZERSON » PAGE 5
By Sandra Barrera
sbarrera@scng.com
A Queen Anne Victorian-
style home in a historic, tree-
lined Pasadena neighbor-
hood has come on the mar-
ket for $2.55 million.
With a wraparound front
porch and double entry
doors, the 3,009-square-foot
residence opens into a large
foyer with a grand staircase.
Beyond lie five bedrooms and
three bathrooms.
Records show the house,
dating to 1895, was relocated
to the quarter-acre-plus lot
on which it now sits around
1906.
“There’s a long history of
houses being moved in Pas-
adena,” said Andrew Salim-
ian, preservation director Located in a historic, tree-lined neighborhood in Pasadena, this Queen Anne Victorian-style
at Pasadena Heritage, ex- home has hit the market for $2.55 million for the first time since 1995.
plaining that today homes
are generally cut into pieces, house and move it with expansion was a motivator. sive, and labor and land were
moved by truck and put back horses and wagons.” Salimian said relocating a plentiful and cheap.
together on-site. “Back then, In the city’s early days, home was cost-effective be- In the case of this Queen
they would pick up the whole traffic congestion or road cause materials were expen- PASADENA » PAGE 5

FIGHTING INFLATION

Mortgage rates hit 7.23%; borrowing costs soar 18%

It’s least affordable
housing market in
almost 4 decades
From staff
and news service reports
Mortgage rates contin-
ued to surge last week, ris-
ing to their highest level
since 2001.
In turn, borrowing costs
have jumped 18% in a year.
The 30-year fixed-rate
mortgage averaged 7.23%
in the week ending Thurs-
day, up from 7.09% the
week before, according to
data from Freddie Mac re-
leased Thursday. A year
ago, the 30-year fixed-rate
was 5.55%.
Last week’s average rate
was the highest the 30-
year, fixed-rate mortgage
has been since June 2001,
when it was 7.24%.
Here’s how payment on
a $600,000 mortgage has
changed in this rising rate
era …
• At the latest 7.23% rate,
the monthly payment would
be $4,084.
• That’s 12% higher than
what would have been paid
at 2023’s February low of
6.09%.
• It’s also 18% above than
a year ago’s 5.55%.
• And it’s 66% higher
than January 2021’s all-time
low of 2.65%.
• It’s 56% higher than the
start of the pandemic era,
February 2020, when rates
were 3.45%
House hunters are en-
countering the most unaf-
fordable market in almost
four decades. Borrowing
costs that have doubled
since early last year are
keeping current homeown-
ers from moving and list-
ing their properties for sale.
Prices are climbing as buy-
ers determined to seal a
deal are left to compete for
a supply of choices that Sam
Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief
economist, called “woefully
low.”
Rates have been above
6.5% since the end of May
and have been climbing
higher since mid-July. Prior
to last week’s rate, the last
time rates were over 7%
was in November of last
year when they hit 7.08%.
And indications of ongo-
ing economic strength will
likely keep mortgage rates
where they are or send them
higher in the short term,
Khater added.
Mortgage rates have
spiked during the Fed-
eral Reserve’s historic in-
flation-curbing campaign,
sending home affordability
to its lowest level in several
decades. Buying a home is
more expensive because of
the added cost of financ-
ing the mortgage and ris-
ing home prices.
The inventory of existing
homes has dramatically de-
clined as homeowners who
previously locked in lower
rates are reluctant to sell.
RATES » PAGE 5
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Y

U.S. MARKET

Home sales slumped in July amid rising rates

Despite those falling
numbers, prices
continued to climb
By Alex Veiga
The Associated Press
Sales of previously occupied
U.S. homes fell in July to the slow-
est pace since January as elevated
mortgage rates and a stubbornly
low inventory of homes on the
market combined to discourage
many would-be homebuyers.
Existing home sales fell 2.2%
last month from June to a sea-
sonally adjusted annual rate of
4.07 million, the National Asso-
ciation of Realtors said Tuesday.
That’s below the 4.15 million pace
that economists were expecting,
according to FactSet.
Sales slumped 16.6% compared
with July last year. It was also the
lowest home sales for the month
of July since 2010.
The annual sales decline was
steepest in markets across the
Northeast and Midwest, where
sales slumped 20% or more, the
NAR said.
Despite falling sales, competi-
tion for a near-historic low level
of homes on the market helped
drive prices higher. The national
median sales price rose 1.9% from
July last year to $406,700, mark-
ing the first annual increase in
prices since January.
The shortage of homes for sale
has kept the market competitive,
driving bidding wars in many
places, especially for the most af-
fordable homes. Roughly 35% of
homes sold in July fetched more
than their list price, said Lawrence
Yun, the NAR’s chief economist.
“At least when it comes to home
prices, it looks like the housing re-
cession is already over,” Yun said.
All told, there were 1.11 million
homes on the market by the end
of last month, an increase of 3.7%
from June but down 14.6% from a
year earlier, the NAR said.
Homes listed for sale in July
typically sold within just 20 days,
with 74% staying on the market
for less than a month.
All told, the number of homes
on the market at the end of July
amounted to a 3.3-month sup-
ply at the current sales pace. In
a more balanced market between
buyers and sellers, there is a five-
to six-month supply.
The combination of high bor-
rowing costs and intense com-
petition for the most affordable
homes on the market is keeping
many first-time buyers on the
sidelines. They accounted for just
30% of home sales last month,
though that was up from 27% in
June, the NAR said.
“There’s virtually no inventory
at the lower price point,” Yun said.
The latest housing market fig-
ures are more evidence that many
house hunters are being held back
by a persistently low inventory of
homes for sale and rising mort-
gage rates.
The average rate on a 30-year
home loan hovered just below
7% last month and has contin-
ued climbing, reaching 7.09%
last week, according to mortgage
buyer Freddie Mac. The average
long-term U.S. mortgage rate is
now at its highest level in more
than 20 years.
High rates can add hundreds of
dollars a month in costs for bor-
rowers, limiting how much they
can afford in a market already un-
A sign noting
a pending
sale is shown
in front of a
home Aug. 20
in Concord,
Mass. Sales
of previously
occupied U.S.
homes fell in
July to the
slowest pace
since January.
PETER MORGAN
THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS
affordable to many Americans.
They also discourage homeown-
ers who locked in those low rates
two years ago from selling.
Mortgage rates have been ris-
ing along with the 10-year Trea-
sury yield, lenders use to price
rates on mortgages and other
loans. The yield has been climb-
ing as bond traders react to more
reports showing the U.S. economy
remains remarkably resilient,
which could keep upward pres-
sure on inflation, giving the Fed-
eral Reserve reason to keep inter-
est rates higher for longer.

Lazerson
FROM PAGE 4
tween settlement costs
and escrow impounds
(property taxes, mortgage
insurance and fire insur-
ance), you’ll be spending at
least $7,500.
Doing the math
Let’s use the example
of a zero-down, $650,000
loan with a 720 FICO score
(all borrowers must be a
minimum 720). You can
grab a 30-year mortgage
which adjusts every six
months after being com-
pletely fixed for the first
seven years.
It has a 7% start rate
without points.
The principal and in-
terest payments would be
$4,325. Assuming a 1.25%
property tax rate, your
monthly property taxes are
$677. The monthly mort-
gage insurance is $325, ac-
cording to Derington. Let’s
say your homeowner’s in-
surance is $162. Exclud-
ing any HOA fee, your total
payment is $5,489.
For loan amounts
greater than $650,000 and
up to $750,000, borrowers
will need a minimum 740
FICO.
If you don’t have a 720
middle FICO score (as re-
quired by Wescom), an-
other interesting find is
Rocket Mortgage’s One+,
which allows the lowest
middle FICO score down
to 620.
Rocket grants 2% of the
purchase price toward
your minimum 3% down
payment. Your down pay-
ment contribution is 1% of
the sales price.
You do not have to be
a first-time buyer. The
big catch? This program
caps the loan amount at
$350,000.
One+ has the following
income caps at 80% of the
area median income: San
Diego County is $93,440,
in Los Angeles County
and Orange County, it’s
$84,160 and $75,600 in
Riverside and San Ber-
nardino counties.
Admittedly, it’s going
to be tough to thread this
needle in San Diego, Los
Angeles and Orange coun-
ties. Perhaps the Inland
Empire is a better fit.
“We don’t have to count
overtime or bonuses to
avoid putting the buyer
over the income limit,”
said Jeremy Bednarz-Gray,
division vice president of
sales at Rocket Mortgage.
“There are 992 active list-
ings at $368,000 or less in
Riverside County.”
I went to the Rocket
pricing engine. I came
up with a $360,000 sales
price for a Riverside
County property with a
$349,200 loan amount. As-
suming a 689 FICO score,
a 30-year fixed rate shows
7.25% with $929 in orig-
ination points. The to-
tal loan payment (includ-
ing lender-paid mortgage
The 30-year fixed rate aver-
aged 7.23%, 14 basis points
higher than the previous
week. The 15-year fixed
rate averaged 6.55%, 9 ba-
sis points higher than the
previous week. The Mort-
gage Bankers Association
reported a 4.2% mortgage
application decrease com-
pared with the previous
week.
Bottom line: Assuming
a borrower gets the aver-
age 30-year fixed rate on a
conforming $726,200 loan,
last year’s payment was
$798 less than last week’s
payment of $4,944.
What I see: Locally, well-
qualified borrowers can
get the following fixed-rate
mortgages with 1 point:
a 30-year FHA at 6.375%,
The 30-year fixed rate averaged 7.23% last week, 14 basis points higher than the previous a 15-year conventional at
week. The 15-year fixed rate averaged 6.55%, 9 basis points above the previous week. 6.375%, a 30-year conven-
tional at 6.875%, a 15-year
insurance) is $2,847. As- good enough to meet your tion for you to explore for conventional high-bal-
suming a $6,000 monthly space needs and proximity affordable type mortgage ance at 6.875% ($726,201
income, the borrower to work, school and local programs, down payment to $1,089,300), a 30-year
should qualify. Full disclo- amenities? assistance and the like is high-balance conventional
sure: My mortgage broker- Southern California downpaymentresource. at 7.125% and a jumbo 30-
age, Mortgage Grader, is a News Group columnist com. Other options include year fixed at 7.125%.
Rocket customer. Jonathan Lansner has going directly to CalHFA, Note: The 30-year FHA
According to Apart- written a multitude of ar- Golden State Finance Au- conforming loan is lim-
mentList.com, the median ticles about people leaving thority and Affordable ited to loans of $644,000
rent for a two-bedroom in California for other parts. Housing Clearinghouse, in the Inland Empire and
Riverside County is $1,912. Let’s face it: California is Pathways to Homeowner- $726,200 in L.A. and Or-
The website’s data sug- not ideal for lower-income ship and Neighborworks. ange counties.
gests rents have dropped folks attempting to get on “We focus on govern- Eye-catcher loan pro-
4.9% over the previous 12 the road to homeowner- ment, nonprofit and mu- gram of the week: a 30-
months (July 2022 through ship. The general cost of nicipal programs,” said year fixed rate at 6.5%,
July 2023). living in the Golden State Sean Moss, EVP of Prod- with 2 points’ cost.
Are you better off buy- is extraordinary. The bot- uct and Operations at
ing a starter home at tom line is going to other Down Payment Resource. Jeff Lazerson is a
$360,000 to just get in the parts of the state is an- “You should check to be mortgage broker. He
homeownership game? other option you might sure grant funds are (read- can be reached at 949-
Or are you better off rent- want to consider. ily) available.” 334-2424 or jlazerson@
ing? Can you find a place Another honorable men- Freddie Mac rate news: mortgagegrader.com.

Pasadena
FROM PAGE 4
Anne, it was moved around
the corner.
The George E. Hutchins
house, named after its orig-
inal owner who the listing
touts as “a descendant of
British royalty,” is a cul-
tural heritage landmark in
Pasadena and contributes
to the Park Place-Arroyo
Terrace Historic District’s
select structures from 1895
to 1916. It may also qualify
for the Mills Act, which
provides property tax sav-
ings in exchange for pre-
serving and maintaining
historic properties.
According to co-listing
agent Wayne Rog of Engel
& Volkers, the house has
been thoughtfully main-
tained and updated by its
longtime owners. Records
show they bought it for
$505,000 in July 1995.
Polished hardwood floor-
ing adorns the house, while
the walls are covered with
period-appropriate wallpa-
per.
Bay windows anchor the
living and formal dining
rooms. Additionally, the
dining room boasts a dec-
orative fireplace and access
to a side porch by a door.
Upgrades have been
made to the kitchen, in-
cluding Viking appliances,
a custom tin ceiling and
granite countertops. Its
checkered floors flow into
the breakfast area, which
offers backyard views.
The office has built-in
bookcases, an attached
bathroom and access to the
rear porch and backyard.
All the bedrooms but
one are on the second floor.
Not included in the over-
all square footage? There’s
a 1,131-square-foot finished
attic accessible by a pull-
down ladder and complete
with windows, two ceiling
fans, a closet and a porch.
Additionally, the detached
carriage house boasts am-
ple parking for two vehi-
cles and a stairway that
leads to a fully finished
room spanning 351 square
feet.
Behind the carriage
house is an additional 131
square feet with two stor-
age closets that can double
as another office, as well as
a studio or workroom.
The manicured back-
yard features a gazebo.
Sallie Buckle of Engel &
Volkers shares the listing.
Payments
FROM PAGE 4
Details
Only 16% of California
households could qual-
ify to buy a median-priced
single-family home in the
second quarter, accord-
ing to a Realtor affordabil-
ity index.
That’s why the statewide
sales pace is 9% slower
than a year ago and 34%
below the 34-year average.
Even many current own-
ers can’t afford to buy at
today’s prices. So, they
stay put and don’t list their
homes for sale.
just 16 days, the 32nd-low-
est level over the past 34
years. Time on the market
is down 11% in a year, and
down 62% versus the aver-
age of 42 days since 1990.
Bottom line
Historically speaking,
California’s record pay-
ment stood at $3,040 a
month from June 2007,
near the peak of the great
bubble era, until March
2022 — that’s almost 15
years.
And now in the pan-
demic era, new records
have been set seven times
in 17 months as this home-
buying-cost benchmark
soared 31%.

Rates
FROM PAGE 4
The combination of low in-
ventory and high costs has
squeezed would-be home-
buyers and sent overall
home sales way down.
The inventory shortage
pushed purchases of pre-
viously owned homes last
month to the slowest pace
since the start of 2023, ac-
cording to the National As-
sociation of Realtors. With
few listings on the resale
market, contracts to buy
new homes rose to the
highest level in more than
a year, government data
showed Wednesday. Some
of the biggest builders are
able to offer better mort-
gage rates than borrowers
otherwise would have ac-
cess to.
“There are slightly more
new homes available, and
sales of these new homes
continue to rise, helping
provide modest relief to
the unyielding housing
inventory predicament,”
Khater said in the state-
ment.
Inflation is cooling, but
other recent economic re-
ports have been stron-
ger than expected. That
“leaves the door open for
a healthy debate about the
right move” at the Federal
Reserve’s meeting next
month, said Danielle Hale,
chief economist at Realtor.
com.
Though policymakers
are widely expected to
hold interest rates steady
this time, “The more open
question is whether addi-
tional hikes are in store
as we near the end of the
year,” Hale said.
Bloomberg News, CNN
and Jonathan Lansner of
the Southern California
News Group contributed
to this report. Contact
Lansner via email at
jlansner@scng.com/.
As a result, statewide
supply has only been lower
in six other months since
1990, my spreadsheet esti-
mates. California listings
are down 27% in a year
and 68% below the 34-year
average.
And it’s also clear most
successful buyers are those
with deep pockets who
seem in a hurry to make
a deal.
Selling speed has quick-
ened. The typical list-
ing is on the market for
So do prices stay largely
unaffordable and elevated
while sales stay slow? Do
mortgage rates tumble
to fix the financial imbal-
ance?
Or does pricing break
in order to get house hunt-
ers back in a serious buy-
ing mood?
Jonathan Lansner is the
business columnist for the
Southern California News
Group. He can be reached
at jlansner@scng.com.
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Real estate news >> Australian battery company leases U.S. base in Rancho Santa Margarita
An Australia-based
battery tech company is
planting roots in Orange
County, leasing its first
U.S. location in Rancho
Santa Margarita.
EVO Power USA Inc.,
a battery energy stor-
age company, signed a
15,070-square-foot indus-
trial lease at 30452 Espe-
ranza.
The terms of the lease
were not disclosed.
“After searching lo-
cations in several other
Western states for our first
U.S. location, we chose the
Orange County area be-
cause of the area’s growth
in renewable energy as
well as the access to pre-
mier labor in this spe-
cialty,” said Jamie Allen,
Group chief executive of
EVO Power.
JLL, which represented
the company in the lease,
said EVO Power will use
the building as its U.S.
headquarters. GOOGLE STREET VIEW IMAGE
The EVO team will
work on design engineer- The Australia-based company EVO Power leased its first U.S. location in Rancho Santa Margarita. The battery energy storage company signed a
ing, assembly, testing and 15,070-square-foot industrial lease at 30452 Esperanza.
distribution of its battery
energy storage systems or its completion in 1968.
BESS. Property records show the
The landlord, Fauna 43 complex first listed in Feb-
LLC, was represented by ruary for $7.195 million.
Lee & Associates. An offer for $6.8 million
“As growth from e-com- listed in June apparently
merce companies in Or- fell through.
ange County slows slightly, The August sale repre-
we are seeing increased in- sented a 16.2% price cut
terest for industrial space for the buyers.
from renewable energy Just a week ago, we re-
companies especially as ported that another 12-
the federal government unit property, not quite
has been extending subsi- 2 miles to the west, sold
dies to manufacturers of for $3.2 million. The four-
clean energy technologies COURTESY OF HEATHER DAENITZ MORGAN SKENDERIAN INVESTMENT REAL ESTATE GROUP building complex span-
in the U.S. under the Infla- TMC Hospitality in Irvine has acquired the 107-acre This 12-unit apartment complex in Costa Mesa sold to VWC ning 7,530 square feet sold
tion Reduction Act,” said Buttonwood Farm & Winery in Santa Ynez Valley. Terms of LLC for $5.7 million, or $475,000 per unit. The 55-year-old for $246,154 per unit and
Kris Smith, a vice presi- the deal were not disclosed. TMC bought the property with property at 2312 Santa Ana Ave. sits on a 36,155-square- marked the property’s first
dent at JLL. Simpatica, a Camarillo-based sustainable farming company. foot lot and was sold by the Tipton Family Trust. sale in 30 years. In July,
EVO’s products work several fourplexes sold
with various solar and July said they would de- project for TMC. Buttonwood and the op- unit apartment complex for top dollar across the
grid support applications, velop a battery cell elec- Buttonwood Farm & portunity to create spe- in Costa Mesa sell to VWC county in 1031 exchanges.
the company’s website trode facility. Winery was created in cial experiences for locals LLC for $5.7 million or
states. 1968 as a home to horses and travelers alike in a $475,000 per unit. Real estate transactions,
In other battery tech Hospitality firm TMC and organic vegetable community that we enjoy The 55-year-old prop- leases and new projects,
news related to Orange buys agritourism farm farms, the company said. working with.” erty at 2312 Santa industry hires, new
County, Enevate in Ir- The vineyards and wine- The hospitality com- Ana Ave. sits on a ventures and upcoming
vine said it was partner- Irvine-based TMC Hos- making came in 1983. To- pany this year bought 36,155-square-foot lot and events are compiled
ing with a South Korean pitality has acquired the day, the property has a 42- Drift Hotels in Santa Bar- was sold by the Tipton from news releases by
battery maker to develop 107-acre Buttonwood Farm acre vineyard, a 10-acre bara and Palm Springs. Family Trust. The com- contributing writer Karen
a manufacturing facility & Winery in Santa Ynez farm, a winery, tasting plex features two-bedroom Levin. Submit items and
somewhere in the United Valley. room and gardens. Small apartment apartments with parking high-resolution photos via
States. The terms of the deal “It’s an honor for But- complex trades hands garages apart from the liv- email to Business Editor
The company, which is were not disclosed. tonwood Farm & Winery ing quarters. Samantha Gowen at
developing fast charging TMC bought the prop- to join our growing portfo- Small multifamily prop- Nick Gould at Morgan sgowen@scng.com. Please
and “high energy density” erty with Simpatica, a Ca- lio of hospitality projects,” erty deals continue to at- Skenderian Investment allow at least a week for
battery tech for electric ve- marillo-based sustainable said Philip Bates, CEO of tract investors in Orange Real Estate Group said it publication. All items
hicles, and South Korea’s farming company. It will TMC Hospitality. “We are County. was the first time the com- are subject to editing for
JR Energy Solution in late be the first agritourism excited about the future of The latest deal saw a 12- plex had been sold since clarity and length.

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HOA HOMEFRONT

My HOA feels like a communist state

Q It is my opinion we
the homeowners have
no rights in being run by a
board of directors, a man-
agement
company as
well as the
law. Sounds
to me like
commu-
nism where
some com-
rades dic-
tate based
on their laws
how what is
managed which way. The
law provides them immu-
nity and the homeowner
has to pay for their mis-
take. On top of that, there
is no accountability or re-
sponsibility for their ac-
tions. The homeowner
pays, pays and pays but
has no say so unless the
owners have a majority to
vote them out and then
the management company
still runs the show.
— Yuk, J.K., Anaheim

A HOAs aren’t for ev-

erybody. The most
important fact to remem-
ber is that in HOAs one
trades pure independence
for the gain of shared ben-
efits that might not other-
wise be achievable to an
individual homeowner.
If one wants absolute in-
dependence and individ-
ual control, common inter-
est communities are not a
great fit.
Unfortunately, too many
homeowners fail to recog-
nize the trade-offs. They
want the use of the swim-
ming pool (but they don’t
want to be assessed for it),
the enforcement of rules
against unruly neigh-
bors (but not against
themselves) and protec-
tion from community eye-
sores (as long as they can
do what they want to their
home).
HOAs offer the conve-
nience of shared services
and amenities that are
A reader says the homeowners in his homeowners association have no rights in being run by a board of directors. “Sounds to me like communism where
some comrades dictate based on their laws how what is managed which way,” the reader wrote.
helpful to seniors and peo-
ple starting their careers
who may not have time to
handle all the responsibil-
ities of individual home
ownership. HOAs also are
more achievable for first-
time homebuyers, due to
the higher density of con-
dominium associations
making property owner-
ship more affordable.
Some people like the
fact that they don’t have to
worry about landscaping,
fencing, roofs and the like,
and that a group of elected
volunteers (the board) is
handling things for ev-
eryone, aided by a profes-
sional manager. ing like the homes around by buying into the HOA HOAs should be “out-
Another HOA benefit is them. band together for their lawed.” Sorry, but that is
architectural conformity HOAs must have boards common benefit. For those ridiculous. Instead of re-
and maintenance stan- to run them — the whole who cannot accept sharing viling HOAs, consider
dards, preserving a neigh- community cannot be ex- with others and who need making them better. Con-
borhood’s attractive ap- pected to vote on ev- personal control, HOAs sider exploring resources
pearance and making it ery contract or mainte- may not be the right home available for homeowner
more desirable. My neigh- nance decision. Although location. So read the pur- leaders, such as caionline.
borhood is quite old, with an HOA poorly run by vol- chase documents carefully org.
no design restrictions unteers who don’t under- BEFORE closing escrow to
or other controls. Con- stand their role as ser- confirm whether the home Kelly G. Richardson is
sequently, homes some- vants (not bosses) to their is in a homeowners associ- a fellow of the College of
times are left completely communities can make all ation community. Community Association
unmaintained with high HOAs look bad, don’t as- Common interest com- Lawyers and partner of
weeds in the front yard sume all HOAs are bad munities play a criti- Richardson Ober LLP,
and the neighborhood’s just because your HOA cally important role in the a California law firm
original architectural may not currently be do- housing sector and are vi- known for community
consistency erodes each ing a good job. tally necessary for many association advice.
year with each new re- HOAs are not commu- homeowners. I occasion- Submit column questions
model that looks noth- nist but are neighbors who ally read statements that to kelly@roattorneys.com.

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COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE

Reminder how weather affects property

On Aug. 16, the first re-
ports of a tropical storm
brewing off the coast of
Baja California were filed.
Over
the next
few days,
the storm
gained in-
tensity and
at its peak
had winds
allowing
it to claim
Category 4
status — one
below the largest breed, a
Category 5. Catastrophic
flooding, crippling winds
and record rainfall were
predicted to hit SoCal as
the first storm of its kind
to make landfall in 84
years barreled toward our
coast.
As I write this col-
umn, Hurricane Hilary is
headed up through North-
ern California, Oregon and
Idaho and fortunately not
leaving much destruction
in its wake. Sure we had
some flooding in the In-
land mountains and val-
leys, but for the most part
very little wind or rain in
Orange County. I’ve defi-
nitely witnessed more tor-
rential downpours during
ERIC VILCHIS — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
El Niño storms.
You may be wonder- A bus is reflected in floodwaters on Foothill Boulevard near Cedar Avenue in Rialto on Monday. The right lane was closed because of rainwater from
ing what a freak hurricane Tropical Storm Hilary the day before.
has to do with commercial
real estate. Indulge me as Location matters as flooding and wind dam- cial real estate ventures leaks is before you have gether to rebuild and re-
I draw a few parallels. The path of a hurricane age, and track along with might need to adapt to one. vitalize. This mirrors the
is critical in determining the need for businesses changing market dynam- collaborative efforts that
Resilience and its impact, and similarly, to assess risks associated ics, technology trends, or Community impact can occur in the aftermath
preparedness the location of a commer- with their real estate. Are shifts in tenant needs. Hurricanes impact not of economic downturns or
cial property can greatly you covered in the event only individual proper- changes in the commercial
Just as communities influence its success. Prox- of a cyberattack? With so Infrastructure and ties but also the broader real estate market. I recall
and individuals need to imity to employees, sup- many carriers leaving Cal- facilities management community. Similarly, the an investor telling me in
prepare for hurricanes pliers and customers are ifornia, have you had a re- state of commercial real 2010 that we were enter-
and other natural di- critical. Businesses must cent chat with yours to in- Hurricanes can damage estate in a region can af- ing the best buying cycle
sasters, businesses also carefully choose their real sure your coverage is se- infrastructure, and busi- fect the local economy and of a lifetime — and he was
need to have contingency estate locations to ensure cure? nesses must invest in re- vice versa. Vacancy in a re- correct!
plans and strategies in accessibility, exposure and pairs and maintenance to gional mall or a dark big-
place to withstand un- the ability to weather eco- Adaptation and keep their operations run- box retailer — such as Allen C. Buchanan is
expected challenges. nomic storms. recovery ning. I received a call last the one near our house a principal with Lee &
Is your manufacturing month from a client seek- — cause tenants to seek Associates Commercial
business able to sustain Risk assessment After a hurricane, com- ing referral to a roofer. other addresses. Real Estate Services in
a power outage? Do you and mitigation munities and businesses Mind you, he had no idea Orange. He can be reached
have an alternate ship- must adapt to new condi- we’d have rain in August. Economic resurgence at abuchanan@lee-
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OC home prices and sales

Orange County home sales data for June ORANGE COUNTY’S REAL ESTATE SCENE
Source: CoreLogic; provided by DQNews 1,500
$1.025 million $1.059 million
Median Sales Median home price June 2022 June 2023
ZIP previous % change previous % change 1,000
code 4 weeks from ’22 4 weeks from ’22
Aliso Viejo 92656 $860,000 5.2% 34 -48.5% $900,000 950
Anaheim 92801 $755,000 9.4% 27 22.7% June 2021
Anaheim 92802 $780,000 11.1% 18 12.5%
Anaheim 92804 $800,000 -4.4% 27 -38.6% 900

Anaheim 92805 $723,500 -4.2% 23 -46.5%

850
Anaheim 92806 $820,000 -7.7% 17 13.3%
Anaheim 92807 $985,000 -10.9% 33 -8.3%
Anaheim 92808 $1,140,000 42.1% 13 -40.9% $765,000
$735,000 June 2020 800
Brea 92821 $985,000 -3.0% 25 4.2% June 2019
Brea 92823 $1,125,000 -3.3% 3 -50.0%
750
Buena Park 90620 $820,000 -1.8% 31 -6.1%

In thousands
Buena Park 90621 $810,000 3.3% 15 -16.7%
Capistrano Beach 92624 $1,862,500 30.2% 4 33.3% 700
Corona Del Mar 92625 $3,750,000 26.1% 23 -11.5%
Costa Mesa 92626 $1,259,750 3.3% 34 17.2% 650
Costa Mesa 92627 $1,185,000 -8.8% 30 -36.2%
Cypress 90630 $884,000 -7.9% 24 -22.6%
600
Dana Point 92629 $1,625,000 16.1% 34 -15.0%
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Foothill Ranch 92610 $1,220,000 10.9% 9 -40.0%
Fountain Valley 92708 $1,078,000 3.7% 35 -20.5% Sales volume
Fullerton 92831 $980,000 16.7% 22 -12.0% 3,142 2,480 4,164 2,753 2,296
Fullerton 92832 $767,000 -15.2% 12 20.0% June 2019 June 2020 June 2021 June 2022 June 2023
Fullerton 92833 $902,500 2.5% 28 -30.0% 4.0
Fullerton 92835 $860,000 -28.3% 31 6.9%
3.5
Garden Grove 92840 $900,500 15.1% 34 0%
Garden Grove 92841 $950,000 15.2% 8 -52.9% 3.0
Garden Grove 92843 $817,500 6.2% 14 -17.6%
2.5
Garden Grove 92844 $728,000 5.1% 9 -18.2%

In thousands
Garden Grove 92845 $950,000 3.6% 15 -28.6% 2.0
Huntington Beach 92646 $883,750 -7.0% 42 -33.3%
1.5
Huntington Beach 92647 $1,070,000 -4.9% 31 0%
Huntington Beach 92648 $1,495,000 28.3% 45 2.3% 1.0
Huntington Beach 92649 $1,257,500 -11.0% 32 -11.1%
0.5
Irvine 92602 $2,506,500 26.8% 29 -9.4%
Irvine 92603 $1,800,000 -15.3% 21 16.7% 0
Irvine 92604 $1,400,000 23.3% 21 -27.6%
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Irvine 92606 $1,320,000 38.2% 3 -70.0%
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Irvine 92612 $1,150,000 21.1% 25 -35.9%
Irvine 92614 $1,133,000 34.9% 16 -46.7%
Irvine 92617 $767,000 54.5% 5 0%
Irvine 92618 $1,330,000 -9.6% 98 -15.5%
INVENTORY OF HOMES FOR SALE 30-YEAR FIXED MORTGAGE RATE TYPICAL MORTGAGE PAYMENT* L.A.-O.C. RENT INFLATION
Irvine 92620 $1,430,000 -7.7% 29 -56.7%
2,434 7.23% $5,471 5.8%
La Habra 90631 $715,000 -13.5% 35 -27.1% AS OF AUG. 17 AVERAGE FOR WEEK ENDING AUG. 24 JUNE JULY
La Palma 90623 $1,061,000 4.8% 5 -37.5% Market time: 1.54 Change from month Last year-over-year
(months to sell all was 6.55%, up before: 9% rent drop in Los
Ladera Ranch 92694 $1,017,250 -9.6% 94 23.7% from previous week.
O.C. listings at the The average principal Angeles and Orange
Laguna Beach 92651 $3,500,000 48.5% 19 -32.1% current buying pace) 30-year rates averaged
and interest payment counties:
The $1 million-plus 7.7% since 1971.
Laguna Hills 92653 $1,077,500 8.8% 18 -30.8% is $805 higher than September 2010.
market equals 66.4% 2023’s average
Laguna Niguel 92677 $1,154,000 -7.0% 71 -11.3% the year before.
of listings. is 6.6%.
Laguna Woods 92637 $475,000 16.4% 38 -26.9% *Payment for median-priced Orange County home using a 30-year fixed with 20% down
Sources: CoreLogic, Steve Thomas, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Freddie Mac SCNG
Lake Forest 92630 $1,217,500 15.0% 74 -22.9%
Los Alamitos 90720 $997,000 -31.2% 24 60.0%
Midway City 92655 $1,007,500 29.2% 2 100.0%
Mission Viejo 92691 $1,100,000 3.5% 47 -21.7%
Mission Viejo 92692 $920,000 -7.1% 70 -6.7%
Newport Beach 92660 $2,932,500 21.6% 25 -26.5%
Newport Beach 92661 $6,750,000 60.7% 5 0%
Newport Beach 92662 $3,195,000 -34.6% 5 -16.7%
Newport Beach 92663 $4,100,000 245.3% 17 -39.3%
Newport Coast 92657 $3,850,000 -12.7% 13 -7.1%
Orange 92865 $990,000 10.6% 16 -15.8%
Orange 92866 $1,166,000 19.6% 4 -55.6%
Orange 92867 $1,050,000 5.0% 33 0%
Orange 92868 $740,000 -11.2% 9 -50.0%
Orange 92869 $975,000 -10.3% 33 -21.4%
Placentia 92870 $835,000 -11.2% 41 10.8%
Rancho Santa Margarita 92688 $925,000 8.2% 35 -43.5%
San Clemente 92672 $1,482,500 1.0% 18 -43.8%
San Clemente 92673 $1,675,000 0.8% 35 16.7%
San Juan Capistrano 92675 $1,350,000 3.4% 61 29.8%
Santa Ana 92701 $450,000 -33.8% 13 -38.1%
Santa Ana 92703 $640,000 -11.7% 18 -5.3%
Santa Ana 92704 $755,000 31.3% 23 -25.8%
Santa Ana 92705 $1,600,000 17.4% 31 -32.6%
Santa Ana 92706 $998,000 7.9% 12 9.1%
Santa Ana 92707 $625,500 -11.6% 12 -40.0%
Seal Beach 90740 $1,550,000 21.6% 19 -17.4%
Silverado 92676 $810,000 13.3% 3 -40.0%
Stanton 90680 $730,000 17.7% 19 11.8%
Sunset Beach 90742 $2,525,000 N/A 2 N/A
Trabuco Canyon 92679 $1,512,500 10.7% 41 -18.0%
Tustin 92780 $861,000 -14.5% 22 -15.4%
Tustin 92782 $1,210,000 0.4% 25 19.0%
Villa Park 92861 $1,760,000 -33.5% 10 25.0%
Westminster 92683 $917,500 -0.3% 40 -23.1%
Yorba Linda 92886 $1,097,500 -7.0% 50 -2.0%
Yorba Linda 92887 $1,212,500 -5.6% 32 23.1%
Total resale houses $1,208,000 1.2% 1,492 -12.1%
Total resale condominiums $750,000 3.2% 629 -25.0%
Total new homes $1,159,750 -21.1% 172 -18.9%
All homes $1,059,000 3.3% 2,296 -16.6%

PRICES SALES VOLUME

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1.2% 3.2% -21.1% -12.1% -25.0% -18.9%
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MEDIAN PRICE SALES VOLUME HOME PAYMENTS

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$1,059,000
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2,296
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Median price up from Sales volume down from O.C. home payments up
a year ago a year ago from $4,666 a year ago
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