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I’m telling you, the bicycle folks in this town are relentless. For many of them, riding a bike is a religious experience, which may explain why you see so many of them pedaling furiously along our country roads on a Sunday morning. The other day a dedicated cyclist named Jim responded to something I wrote […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — UCLA has become the first school in the University of California system to ban smoking on campus. The Los Angeles Times says a no-tobacco policy was launched Monday on Earth Day. The policy will operate on an honor system. The ban also includes smokeless tobacco and the sale and advertising of tobacco […]
By Judy Lin SACRAMENTO (AP) — California is on track to collect $4 billion more in personal income taxes than Gov. Jerry Brown had expected, giving a potential boost to education funding, the legislative analyst’s office said Tuesday. The state has been posting strong tax collections so far this fiscal year, which ends June 30. […]
LONDON (AP) — A massive, partly fossilized egg laid by a now-extinct elephant bird has sold for more than double its estimate at a London auction. Christie’s auction house said Wednesday that the egg — a foot long and nearly 9 inches in diameter — fetched 66,675 pounds ($101,813). It had been valued at 20,000 to […]
