By Steve Lech | [email protected] | Contributing columnistPUBLISHED: July 11, 2019 at 10:00 am | UPDATED: July 12, 2019 at 8:16 am This July marks 30 years since Riverside International Raceway closed. Once an icon of the region, and the reason many people visited our area, it fell victim to suburban pressures that eventually forced it out. The raceway opened Sept. 21-22, 1957, on roughly 520 acres of land in the Edgemont-Sunnymead area bounded by the 60 Freeway on the north, Cottonwood Avenue on the south, Day Street on the west and Frederick Street on the east. A Camaro driven by Jim Walker races through turn No. 6 in the Stock Car Products 300 at Riverside International Raceway in 1978. (File photo) The Spiratone 400 is seen at Riverside International Raceway in May 1977. (Courtesy of Riverside International Automotive Museum) SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsRiverside International Raceway is seen in 1966. (File photo) Bobby Allison (12), winner of the Winston Golden … [Read more...] about Riverside International Raceway closed 30 years ago this month
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Travel: Largest cruise ship ever to be based year-round in Southern California coming to Long Beach
By David Dickstein | [email protected] | PUBLISHED: January 12, 2019 at 11:23 am | UPDATED: January 12, 2019 at 11:25 am Come December, Southern California cruisers will say “ahoy” to the new 4,000-passenger Carnival Panorama, currently being built at the same Italian shipyard where the ship it’s replacing, the 3,100-passenger Carnival Splendor, was constructed a decade ago. Just months away from a sea test at the Fincantieri shipyard near Venice, Italy, the Panorama is the third vessel in Carnival’s Vista Class, following the 2-year-old Carnival Vista and 9-month-old Carnival Horizon. It will not only be Carnival’s largest ship — by a few tons and a few people at capacity — but the largest year-round ship ever based in Southern California. Long Beach Cruise Terminal will be her home, sharing Pier H with Carnival’s short-itinerary Imagination and Inspiration through at least May 2021. Exchanging a 10-year-old European import for … [Read more...] about Travel: Largest cruise ship ever to be based year-round in Southern California coming to Long Beach
Gala on Nguyễn Huệ Pedestrian Street celebrates 100 years of cải lương
Viet Nam News HCM CITY — A three-hour gala featuring cải lương (reformed opera) will be held on Nguyễn Huệ Pedestrian Street in HCM City on Sunday (January 13). The event, which is part of a month-long programme on traditional arts, celebrates 100 years of cải lương, according to the city’s Department of Culture and Sports. It will feature 400 young and veteran performers, musicians and dancers, many of them working for leading State-owned traditional art troupes in the city and southern provinces. Cải lương stars of different generations, including People’s Artist Lê Thủy, Minh Vương, Thanh Điền and Thanh Kim Huệ, have contributed to the art’s development. The artists will perform famous excerpts from historical plays from the 1970s and 80s that are still popular today. The excerpts will feature stories about the art’s establishment and … [Read more...] about Gala on Nguyễn Huệ Pedestrian Street celebrates 100 years of cải lương
One year later, the tax cuts are working as promised
opinion Russ Latino Published 9:56 PM EST Dec 26, 2018 As 2018 draws to a close, America is prospering in ways we have not for years. While challenges remain, we have seen record-setting wage increases and the lowest unemployment rates in two generations. Much of the credit for that goes to the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, signed into law just over a year ago, on Dec. 22, 2017. Derided in some quarters as the end of the world, the law has actually had the opposite effect in the few short months it has been around. And, because this law fundamentally shifted incentives in our tax system to promote stronger growth and investment, we will continue to feel its benefits for years to come. According to estimates from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, economic growth will be around 2 percent greater from 2018 to 2027 because of tax reform. This is projected to boost the GDP by $5.3 trillion, increase wages by an additional 1.5 percent and create … [Read more...] about One year later, the tax cuts are working as promised
Company sues to block order to contain 14-year-old oil leak
Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press Updated 9:16 am CST, Friday, December 21, 2018 FILE - This March 31, 2015, file photo shows an oil sheen drifting from the site of the former Taylor Energy oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. A federal lawsuit that Taylor Energy Co. filed Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018, in New Orleans asks the court to throw out Coast Guard Capt. Kristi Luttrell’s Oct. 23 administrative order. The suit claims the Coast Guard’s actions ignored “well-verified scientific conclusions” and were taken in response to “adverse publicity.” less FILE - This March 31, 2015, file photo shows an oil sheen drifting from the site of the former Taylor Energy oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. A federal lawsuit that Taylor Energy Co. ... more Photo: Gerald Herbert, AP … [Read more...] about Company sues to block order to contain 14-year-old oil leak