Editorial: Chorus grows against bullet train
The state Legislative Analyst's Office delivered another harsh reality check to the California High-Speed Rail Authority's ill-conceived and unlikely goal of linking Northern and Southern California...
View ArticleGeorge Will: Delay the Gingrich coronation
Republicans are more conservative than at any time since their 1980 dismay about another floundering president. They are more ideologically homogenous than ever in 156 years of competing for the...
View ArticleMarie Hulett: Why some appliances are no friend to pets
Last week I received this email: "Help help.....I had no idea about the self-cleaning oven thing and I just started mine this morning for the first time ever. I did put my African Grey parrot in my...
View ArticleFrom Afghanistan, woman buys her dream home
At 3:38 p.m. on a rainy October day, Jennifer Vitela steered her black Audi convertible onto a Mission Viejo street and parked in the driveway of a two-story home. She was here to see the $600,000...
View ArticleHoliday auction to benefit Families Forward
Bid on baskets, fight local hungerFirst Team Real Estate's Irvine office invites the community to lend a hand in the fight against local hunger at its annual holiday auction from noon to 3 p.m. on Dec....
View ArticleHousing’s savior? California exports!
Veteran Southern California real estate analyst G.U. Krueger's commentary on the housing market:We all know how important economic fundamentals are for housing, which for all intents and purposes is...
View ArticleMorning letters: Shifting cash busted the school budget
TUSTIN, Phillip Yarbrough, Trustee, Rancho Santiago Community College District: The story isn’t that the Orange County Board of Supervisors took Educational Revenue Augmentation funds from schools and...
View ArticleWinter class registration begins Dec. 7
The Tustin Parks and Recreation Department will hold its winter registration for recreation classes on Wednesday, Dec. 7. Online registration starts at 5 a.m. Call before registration day at...
View ArticleTuffree touts 21st-century learning
PLACENTIA – At Col. J.K. Tuffree Middle School, teachers must fuse technology into every lesson. Seventh-grade science teacher Grace Lee's students are each armed with a laptop, learning assignments...
View ArticleO.C.'s best public middle schools 2012
Orange County's best public middle schools for 2012 provide a mix of innovative programs that promote academic achievement and foster a nurturing environment for learning. Our fourth annual middle...
View ArticleLa Paz empowers kids to succeed
MISSION VIEJO – At La Paz Intermediate School, teachers offer seventh-graders two sets of assignments in their classes – a standard program of study, and a lengthier, more challenging alternative for...
View ArticleExempted H.B. schools official to get $67,500 benefit
HUNTINGTON BEACH – A senior Huntington Beach Union High School District administrator retiring six months before her contract is up will receive retiree health benefits worth about $67,500 over the...
View ArticleO.C.'s best middle schools consistently achieve
Each time The Orange County Register has ranked the county's public middle schools, one school has consistently come close to clinching the No. 1 spot – ultimately to be rebuffed at the hands of just...
View ArticleO.C.’s arts groups depend on holidays for marketing, money
Every year, the rhythms of the season kick in around Thanksgiving: The malls are suddenly bedecked with Christmas displays; communities stage their tree-lighting ceremonies; Santas take their place on...
View ArticleMiddle schools target algebra proficiency
When Principal Christine Matos arrived at Currie Middle School in Tustin two years ago, just 2.6 percent of all eighth-graders were proficient in algebra, the worst rate of all Orange County middle...
View ArticleRemembering 'Remember Pearl Harbor'
It’s been 70 years since the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941, “the day that will live in infamy,” in the words of President Franklin Roosevelt, thrust the United States into World War II. Here's what...
View ArticleHappy Dancer fills her O.C. bucket list
GARDEN GROVE – The best friends were having lunch, perusing the newspaper for things to do, places to go, people to see. It was April, and Heather Smith, 34, and Tiffany St. John, 32 – BFFs since...
View ArticleBlues legend Hubert Sumlin dies at 80, soul great Howard Tate at 72
It's been a sad week filled with reports of too many unheralded greats leaving us -- starting with Don DeVito, veteran A&R executive for Columbia Records, who died of prostate cancer the day after...
View ArticleDec. 5 celebrity birthdays
See some of the people celebrating birthdays today. Notable personalities of the past who were born on this date can be found at the end of this slide show. Also see notable deaths of 2011. SEE...
View ArticleAfterWork: The Classic Q
When the millionaire players and billionaire owners resolved their NBA lockout and decided to play basketball again on Christmas, they pretended to care about the people they were hurting with their...
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