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• Del Mar horse racing consensus picks for Friday, November 15, 2024

  15-11-2024 16:14 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Del Mar horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Eddie Wilson, Kevin Modesti and Mark Ratzky. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Friday, November 15, 2024.
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• Donald Trump has no discernible interest in fiscal responsibility

  15-11-2024 20:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Elon Musk, President-elect Donald Trump’s bounciest adviser, thinks he can identify “at least” $2 trillion in federal budget cuts. Although critics derided the billionaire entrepreneur’s suggestion as improbably ambitious, that assessment hinges on political assumptions rather than a cleareyed understanding of what could be accomplished if Trump were serious about restoring fiscal discipline.
  Unfortunately, there is little reason to think he is. Trump’s record durin
  
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• More people embracing leaves: ‘What falls in my yard stays in my yard’

  15-11-2024 20:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Fall leaves get a warm welcome from Christie Hunt.
  The River Forest resident rakes them into her flower beds, where they decay, providing fertilizer and valuable winter habitat for bees, moths, butterflies and fireflies.
  She also piles leaves around her fig tree, where they provide protection against the cold.
  And when Hunt uses up her own leaves, she gets creative.
  “I know this is going to sound a little strange,” she recently told a neighbor. “But I could really use some more
  
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• California’s rent control rejection might point to national appetite for different approach

  15-11-2024 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Robbie Sequeira | (TNS) Stateline.org
  California voters this month trounced a proposal to lift statewide restrictions on local rent control, signaling to other left-leaning states that similar caps on skyrocketing rents might be an uphill climb.
  It was, in fact, the third time Californians have said no.
  The measure’s defeat disappointed tenant advocates who argue that rent control would help curb the rapid rise in rents across the state. But for landlords and the housing industry, the late
  
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• Fighting conspiracy theories with comedy? That’s what the Onion hopes after its purchase of Infowars

  15-11-2024 19:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID BAUDER,  AP Media Writer
  Headlines from the satirical website the Onion on Thursday: “New Dating Site Suggests People You Already Know But Thought You Were Too Good For.” “Trump Boys Have Slap Fight Over Who Gets to Run Foreign Policy Meetings.” “Here’s Why I Decided to Buy Infowars.”
  Only one has the ring of truth. Sort of.
  The bylined author of the Infowars article, Bryce P. Tetraeder, doesn’t actually exist. And the Onion doesn&rsq
  
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• Thanksgiving 2024: Great Orange County restaurants to pick up your stress-free feast

  15-11-2024 19:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Don’t want to spend too much time in the kitchen? Don’t want to bother making reservations for dining out? Fret not: A handful of choice Orange County restaurants are offering takeaway Thanksgiving feasts for those who yearn for neither fuss nor muss this holiday season. From barbecue spots offering smoked meats galore to traditional oven-roasted birds with all the fixings, these spots have you and your gaggle of guests covered.
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• USC football vs. Nebraska: Who has the edge?

  15-11-2024 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  USC vs. Nebraska
  When: 1 p.m. Saturday
  Where: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  TV/radio: FOX (Ch. 11)/710 AM
  Records: USC 4-5 (2-5 Big Ten), Nebraska 5-4 (2-4)
  Injuries
  USC: QUESTIONABLE: CB Jacobe Covington (undisclosed), S Kamari Ramsey (undisclosed)
  Nebraska: OUT: OT Turner Corcoran (hamstring); QUESTIONABLE: G Micah Mazzcua (undisclosed), DB Malcolm Hartzog (hamstring); PROBABLE: QB Dylan Raiola (back),
  What’s at stake? Bowl eligibility – possibly – for USC
  
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• Calls mount for House ethics panel to release Gaetz report

  15-11-2024 19:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Calls are mounting for the U.S. House Ethics Committee to make public a report that could shed more light on sexual misconduct allegations involving Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz and his ties to disgraced former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg.
  Gaetz’s Wednesday resignation from Congress halted the House investigation, which is said to be “highly critical” of the North Florida Republican. The Ethics Committee was set to vote on the report Friday, Punchbowl Ne
  
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• Early Black Friday deals are live — don’t miss out

  15-11-2024 19:12 via ocregister.com
  
  There’s something for everyone with these can’t-miss deals
  For seasoned shoppers, Black Friday is a holiday in its own right. Whether you’re ready to start ticking names off your holiday shopping list or just want to treat yourself to items you’ve had your eye on, you can score big savings on everything from laptops to sunscreen.
  Not sure where to start? We’ve gathered our favorite Black Friday discounts to save you the trouble. We’re excited to see deals
  
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• California taxpayers need protection from Newsom, not from Trump

  15-11-2024 19:12 via ocregister.com
  
  There appears to be no limit to the hubris of Governor Gavin Newsom. While the state continues to suffer from failed progressive policies that hemorrhage productive citizens and businesses leaving California, Newsom is laser-focused on being the most prominent figure of the Trump resistance. 
  Just two days after Donald Trump’s victory for the nation’s highest office, Gov. Newsom called newly elected state lawmakers into a special session, ostensibly for the purpose of safeguardi
  
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• Newsom’s posturing offers little comfort to Trump foes

  15-11-2024 19:04 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO – If California progressivism were the answer to Donald Trump’s MAGA-inspired populist bluster, then we’d be watching news of President-elect Kamala Harris’ Cabinet appointments. Instead Trump swept the swing states, won the popular vote and saw Republicans secure control of both houses of Congress. The message voters sent might not be entirely clear, but they certainly didn’t say, “We want California values!”
  Harris, of course, was a product
  
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• Check out our OC photographers’ favorite images from October 2024

  15-11-2024 19:04 via ocregister.com
  
  We asked our photographers to pick their favorite moments from September 2024, and here are some of the images they selected.
   
  Students dance to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ during the Orange County School of the Arts Halloween festivities in Santa Ana, CA on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. Students could participate in a costume contest and the flash mob dance as part of their yearly celebrations. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  An OCFA Firehawk next to a
  
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• Republican election sweep emboldens Trump’s tax cut dreams

  15-11-2024 18:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Mark Niquette and Enda Curran | (TNS) Bloomberg News
  The Republican sweep of the presidency and Congress has transformed what could have been a struggle to merely renew Donald Trump’s tax cuts into a multi-pronged campaign to slash levies in new and bigger ways.
  The incoming Republican majorities in the House and Senate mean Trump can enact a tax bill without making concessions to Democrats. Republicans will only be constrained by how much deficit spendin
  
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• Texas Supreme Court rules against lawmakers who stopped execution with last-minute subpoena

  15-11-2024 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By NADIA LATHAN, Associated Press/Report for America
  The Texas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a legislative subpoena cannot be used to stop an execution after Republican and Democratic lawmakers used the novel maneuver to pause Robert Roberson’s lethal injection at the last minute.
  The ruling addressed a subpoena issued for Roberson by the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee last month that was seen as a way to delay his execution.
  But the high court ruled that “under th
  
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• Lower taxes, higher tariffs: What Trump’s tax plans mean for you

  15-11-2024 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Kemberley Washington | (TNS) Bankrate.com
  Taxes may not be the first thing on your mind following the presidential election, but there’s no doubt that tax policy will play a key role in the year ahead, given that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is set to expire at the end of 2025.
  The TCJA was the largest overhaul of the tax code in three decades, with massive changes for both individual and business taxpayers. During his presidential campaign, Trump said he wanted to make
  
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• Marvel pressures Disneyland to make Avengers Campus ‘bigger’

  15-11-2024 18:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige is actively involved in the planning process for the Avengers Campus expansion at Disney California Adventure and very opinionated about the project that will double the size of the super hero land.
  Feige and Disney parks chairperson Josh D’Amaro discussed the Avengers Campus expansion at the Disneyland resort that includes two new Marvel-themed attractions during D23 Brazil over the weekend.
  “Kevin puts a lot of pressure on me,” D’Ama
  
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• Orange County boys basketball preview: Los Alamitos’ group of ‘neighborhood’ players ready to challenge top teams

  15-11-2024 18:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Transfers to Orange County boys basketball programs include many in-county transfers, some out-of-county transfers, some interstate transfers and even a few arrivals from Africa.
  It’s different at Los Alamitos. The varsity roster is composed of players who have played all of their varsity basketball in the Griffins program. Los Alamitos coach Nate Berger is proud of that.
  “I’m not battling through the transfer portal the way other people are,” Berger said at last week&rsq
  
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• Thanksgiving 2024: These chain restaurants will be open and serving turkey dinners

  15-11-2024 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Many restaurant chains will be closed on Thanksgiving, which falls on Thursday, Nov. 28 this year.
  But several chains have announced they will be open and serving turkey dinners.
  Several of the following chains require reservations and it’s a good idea to make them if you can. Details come from chains’ websites, social media and news releases. Prices may vary by location.
  Acapulco Restaurant & Cantina: An all-you-can-eat buffet will be served 11 a.m.-8 p.m. It will feature turkey
  
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• Audit finds failures, shortcomings in UCLA response to encampment violence

  15-11-2024 18:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Citing multiple shortcomings, failures and breakdowns in UCLA’s response to a pro-Palestinian encampment and a violent attack by counter-protesters, an independent auditor issued a series of recommendations Thursday aimed at ensuring a smoother response if future political disruptions occur.
  The audit was ordered by University of California President Michael Drake in May following several days of unrest on the Westwood campus, beginning when counter-protesters attacked the encampment with
  
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• Lebanon’s prime minister asks Iran to help secure a cease-fire in Israel-Hezbollah war

  15-11-2024 17:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By BASSEM MROUE and DAVID RISING, Associated Press
  BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister on Friday asked Iran to help secure a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah and appeared to urge it to convince the militant group to agree to a deal that could require it to pull back from the Israel-Lebanon border.
  The prime minister made the comments in talks with Ali Larijani, a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Larijani’s visit to Lebanon
  
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• Here are the people Trump has picked for key positions so far

  15-11-2024 17:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By THOMAS BEAUMONT
  President-elect Donald Trump is filling key posts in his second administration, and it’s shaping up much differently than his first. He’s prioritizing loyalists for top jobs.
  Trump was bruised and hampered by internal squabbles during his initial term in office. Now he appears focused on remaking the federal government in his own image. Some of his choices could face difficult confirmation battles even with Republicans in control of the U.S. Senate.
  Here&
  
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• Laguna Beach tourism bureau to contribute $500,000 a year to make downtown more appealing

  15-11-2024 17:13 via ocregister.com
  
  An effort to enhance visitor and resident enjoyment in Laguna Beach’s downtown will get some extra oomph from a new agreement for Visit Laguna Beach to give $5.5 million to the city over the next 11 years to improve the area.
  The tourism bureau’s contribution will fund downtown improvements and services with about $500,000 each year through June 30, 2035, with a special focus on the historical, cultural and environmental components unique to the increasingly popular beach town’
  
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• The end of the Cheney dynasty

  15-11-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  All elections mark beginnings and endings.
  One thing this election brought was the end of the dynasty that began when Dick Cheney, age 34, became President Gerald Ford’s chief of staff. After Ford lost to Jimmy Carter in 1976, Cheney went back to his native Wyoming and in 1978 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a moderate Republican. In the 1980s as minority whip, he promoted President Ronald Reagan’s program of cuts in taxes and regulations, which produced strong ec
  
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• Is your business running out of time to file under the corporate transparency act?

  15-11-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  On Jan. 1, 2024, a new federal law came into effect, requiring more than 30 million small- and medium-sized businesses to report ownership information to the federal government by Jan. 1, 2025.
  If the law applies to your business, you’re running out of time. Failure to timely file the report could result in fines of at least $500 per day, up to $10,000 maximum, and two years’ jail time.
  What is it?
  The Corporate Transparency Act was enacted to eliminate anonymity in business ownershi
  
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• HOA Homefront: Can the board remove a phantom director?

  15-11-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: Our board has a member whose participation is perfunctory at best. He rarely responds to emails or participates in email discussions. I have missed meetings. When he does attend meetings, he rarely participates in discussion. May the board vote to remove him? We would like to open the position up to someone who would be actively engaged. — WE, Carlsbad
  A: There can be many reasons why directors who are not fulfilling their leadership role but won’t step aside. Sometimes directors
  
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• Vision to revive a South Laguna estuary gets city support

  15-11-2024 16:47 via ocregister.com
  
  A Laguna Beach environmental nonprofit is gaining traction for its vision of restoring a South Laguna estuary to create a scenic gateway to the town that would also create a habitat link between the ocean and the nearby canyons and wildlands area.
  For decades, the marshy area of the estuary at the end of Aliso Creek and the sand berm at Aliso Beach have been swamped by runoff draining from inland development along the 35-mile watershed that starts in the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains and
  
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• 1 million Southern California homes are worth $1 million or more

  15-11-2024 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  “How expensive?” tracks measurements of California’s totally unaffordable housing market.
  The pain: Southern California last year surpassed having 1 million homes valued at $1 million or more.
  The source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a LendingTree report looking at Census stats on owner-occupied homes worth $1 million or more in 2023 in 50 large US metropolitan areas – including seven from California.
  The pinch
  There were a total of 1.08 million seven-figure homes last
  
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• Development begins on $100M private facility at John Wayne Airport for general aviation

  15-11-2024 16:09 via ocregister.com
  
  The county’s plans for an overhaul of its general aviation facilities at John Wayne Airport – think private aircraft from little two-seaters to corporate jets – is now seeing ground break on a $100 million, 14-acre facility that will be the largest private investment in the airport’s history.
  The OC Board of Supervisors previously approved 35-year leases with three operators that will help drive the county’s general aviation improvement plans and on Thursday of
  
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• You weren’t seeing double — there were indeed adjacent highway signs saying the same thing

  15-11-2024 15:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Q. Dear Honk: There were at least three exit signs along the southbound 73 Toll Road back in September that had been replaced with IDENTICAL signs located several feet away. These are at the Newport Coast Drive, Laguna Canyon Road and Greenfield Drive exits. BOTH sets of signs remained. Why replace what appear to be perfectly good signs? How much did they cost? Why didn’t they remove the old signs at the same time? Leaving them in place has only highlighted the apparent wastefulness and ab
  
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• Video: Steve Fryer and Dan Albano make their predictions for quarterfinals of CIF-SS football playoffs

  15-11-2024 09:26 via ocregister.com
  
  In this week’s OCVarsity Gridiron video, Dan Albano and Steve Fryer discuss Orange County’s top football games in the quarterfinals of the CIF-SS playoffs and make their predictions.
  They discuss: Northwood at Murrieta Mesa (Division 6), El Modena at Thousand Oaks (Division 4), San Juan Hills at Oaks Christian (Division 2), JSerra vs. Orange Lutheran at Orange Coast College (Division 1) and Centennial at Mission Viejo (Division 1).Related ArticlesHigh School Sports | El Rancho f
  
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