The “Looking Glass” ponders economic and real estate trends through two distinct lenses: the optimist’s “glass half-full” and the pessimist’s “glass half-empty.” Buzz: California easily remains...
Southern California’s fast food restaurants saw record employment in June despite a huge jump in the minimum wage for the industry’s largest chains. To measure hiring...
Beau Bayless was sitting outside Sushi Roku at Fashion Island on Tuesday, July 5, smoking a vape pen, when he heard a commotion near the Barnes...
Three Los Angeles County men accused of taking part in an attempted armed robbery at Fashion Island in Newport Beach and dragging a 68-year-old New Zealand...
Real estate hiring heated up in May across Southern California, with staff additions running 39% faster than the seasonal norm. My trusty spreadsheet found the combined...
Southern California’s bosses added workers in May at a hiring pace 15% above the region’s pre-pandemic job growth for the month. My trusty spreadsheet, filled with...
”Survey says” looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of artful interpretation and data....
When the responses to our column at the start of the month asking the public to evaluate (or complain, or maybe even laud) the owners of...
Hiring in Southern California’s real estate-related industries essentially halted in April, at the start of the usually robust springtime sales period. My trusty spreadsheet found state...
Southern California’s unemployment rate hit an 11-month low in April. My trusty spreadsheet, filled with state job figures for the month, found Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside,...
A pregnant woman left a seven-to-nine-month-old baby girl in a shopping cart at a CVS store in Lomita on Tuesday, then walked out and took a...
In its first two years, Cruel World, which celebrates mostly the new wave, goth and post-punk music of the ’80s, would close out its day in...