14+ hour, 1+ min ago   (441+ words) From the number of songs with September in the title, songwriters have been drawn to this month for decades. According to Billboard, September leads all others as the most popular month name in song titles. The result is a remarkable…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1275+ words) Roughly 650,000 Californians each year choose to become ex-Californians. Now, we can forever debate the reasons behind the long-running pattern of exits to elsewhere in America or the statistical significance of those departures. But today, as a public service, let’s simply…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (610+ words) A steady flow of federal funding is crucial for advancing research into Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, UC Irvine research leaders told U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla during a roundtable discussion on campus Tuesday afternoon. “A cut isn’t just…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (466+ words) We’re hearing a lot about fraud in federal programs lately. The new Ground Zero for fraud is in California, where a perfect storm of bad government has formed in the last few years. The worst cases involve Medicare and Medicaid....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (639+ words) At a certain point, I had to tell my brother to stop explaining his job to me. Also, to stop sending me cute cartoons and jokes from his workplace. This is not because my brother is boring or that I…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (872+ words) George Pelecanos always intended to return to Derek Strange, the private investigator at the heart of five novels he wrote between 2001 and 2012. But since the last one, “Right as Rain,” Pelecanos has been a bit busy: There have been two…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (524+ words) When it comes to the Olympic Games sprinting our way in the summer of 2028, everyone wants to talk about money, and no one wants to talk about sports. It wasn’t just sports. The Olympic Arts Festival was 10 weeks of world-class…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (500+ words) For years, California has struggled with substantial debt and deficits. Instead of working to reduce the state’s overall debt, policymakers have consistently borrowed more money and passed and expanded programs and public-sector retirement benefits without fully funding them. California has…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (259+ words) Krista Diamond might not seem like the type of person to be fascinated by paparazzi. Diamond discussed her novel via telephone from her home in Las Vegas. This conversation has been condensed and edited for length and clarity. Q. How did…...