Trinity Audioplayer ready... Rarely does a governmental report make our heart race, but this mysterious footnote was a jolt: “From 2016 to 2022,” said California’s most recent dispatch on medical-aid-in-dying prescriptions and passings, “7 individuals reg... See more
Were the spiny lobsters nuked?You may have read my colleague’s story about about lobster carcasses washing up on a San Clemente beach , and suspicions that the Almost-Christmas Crustacean Massacre may have been tied to the release of wastewater — with tra... See more
It is easier to build strong children, statesman Frederick Douglass once observed, than to repair broken men.We have a decidedly mixed report card on this front in Orange County, as the county’s latest “ Annual Report on the Conditions of Children” illust... See more
The creaky feast-or-famine financial machinery that powers California’s government — your schools! your roads! your prisons! etc. — continues to rely heavily on the capricious fortunes of its richest residents.But reforms that might make revenue more pred... See more
On the longest, darkest night of the year — the winter solstice, Dec. 21 — we count our dead.Amid flickering candles and somber speeches, ceremonies commemorate the lives of homeless people who have died on America’s streets. Here in Orange County, these ... See more
