Statement on Google's threat to start banning journalism from its services in California in response to the California Journalism Preservation Act:

I feel left out.

I didn't have any pics with Dolores Huerta to share the other day :(

“We need to make these changes because we’re always busting at the seams,” said Brenda Castillo, Heritage Barbecue’s co-owner. “Since day one, it’s always been supply and demand. We’re trying to meet the demands of the people that come.”
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Even in death, O.J. Simpson remains something of a Rorschach test — for L.A. and all Americans.

On the question of his guilt or innocence, we’ve put our views on race and racism, policing and criminal justice system, and wealth and privilege.

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Defense in Bernstein trial puts blame on Woodward's 'internal struggles' during opening statements

Court reporting by Eric Anthony Licas
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BREAKING: Feds charge Shohei Ohtani’s ex-interpreter Ippei Mizuhara with stealing more than $16 million from Dodgers star.

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Gabriel San Román Chris Estrada - Irvine Improv April 12-14 Andre The Giant!

Check out my entrevista with Chris Estrada - Irvine Improv April 12-14, who is still that fool!

We talk about This Fool, his new comedy short film “5th of July,” Social Distortion, stand-up and being tall Mexicans!
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I hated the OJ trial being televised as a kid. I came home from school, got a bag of Doritos with Tapatío and readied to watch after school programs only to get Marcia Clark and Johnnie Cochran, instead.

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Russell Westbrook building affordable housing in South LA as a Clipper just might lift the slumlord Sterling Clipper curse!

How far the Clips have come!

#ClipperNation

I never thought I would have the chance to walk inside the Hunt Branch Library in Fullerton again.

But after 11 years, it's finally back--as a library and an arts/culture center.

Concerned residents & preservationists fought to save the Hunt and won!
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I see they switched that picture up.

I don’t think I’ve watched a Wrestlemania since 25. Lots of great matches this weekend and an epic close, but technical wrestling (a la Bret Hart) is sure out the window!

#WrestleMania

Inside the gambling ring linked to Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani and his since-fired interpreter -- as told by two bettors themselves.

'The guy seemed to run a good shop.'

(w/ David Wharton)

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My prayers have been answered!

A Juarez-style burrito restaurant is now open in Anaheim. I had to order a chile colorado burrito.

The first bite took me back to the burritos my tia from Chihuahua used to make when I visited fam in Chuco!
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Back in 2017, the white supremacist Rise Above Movement made its debut as the DIY Division at a Trump rally in HB.

Tyler Laube assaulted OC Weekly freelance reporter Frank Tristan amid a melee.

After a long legal saga, the judge wished him “best of luck” after time served.

Reading the Long Beach Watchdog during the ongoing Long Beach Media Guild strike of the Long Beach Post is a little of what it must have been like to read The Guild Daily during the Seattle Post-Intelligencer strike in 1936!
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