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- March 28, 2023
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Read MoreOccupational licensing needs real reform
- March 28, 2023
One-in-five Americans need to get a government license in order to do their jobs. While supporters often claim licensing is important for health and safety or critical to ensuring high-quality services are provided, such claims often fall apart under scrutiny. Occupational licensing rules are often imposed at the behest of existing professionals looking to restrict competition by imposing a barrier to entry, with little evidence such licensing is otherwise needed.
The Archbridge Institute has released a new report examining occupational licensing across America, ranking the states plus the District of Columbia according to the barriers imposed on workers and the extent of licensing requirements.
The report displays both the broad similarities and differences in how and whether states impose barriers or licensing requirements on different professions.
Every state and the District of Columbia, for example, require government-issued licenses for people who wish to work as attorneys, chiropractors, dentists and psychologists, for example.
But only eight states require government-issued licenses for drug counselors, 10 states require nutritionists to get a license, 24 states require tattoo artists to be licensed and 24 require car salesmen to be licensed.
The Archridge Institute notably ranked California 11th in the country for requiring the most licenses of the occupations they examined.
Underscoring the fact that this is not a partisan problem, the Institute ranked Arkansas, Texas, Alabama, Oklahoma and Washington State as those with the most barriers and licensing requirements in the country.
“California’s most uniquely licensed occupation is Fire/Life/Safety Technician, which is licensed only in California,” the report notes.
Past comparisons of the states have yielded even worse showings for California. The Institute for Justice’s “License to Work” series of reports, focused on low- and middle-income occupations, have generally ranked California in the top three most extensively licensed states in the country. The Cato Institute’s occupational licensing rankings, based on a select set of occupations, have also placed California in the top two, behind Texas.
As both the Obama and Trump administrations acknowledged, occupational licensing can often be a barrier to entry which limits competition and raises costs for consumers without necessarily providing much in the way of benefits for public health, safety or even quality of service.
States must seriously evaluate whether licensing is necessary.
California does have periodic sunset reviews of its occupational licensing schemes, but they tend to be perfunctory and those most incentivized to speak up during such reviews are those who benefit from licensing. Namely, the professionals who are already licensed and the professional associations incentivized to protect the turf of its members.
This is not a partisan issue. This is a common sense issue. California needs to revisit occupational licensing.
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Read MoreCSUF’s Center for Leadership renamed to honor a distinguished alum
- March 28, 2023
The contributions of a CSUF alum, an accomplished leader in a wide range of endeavors, will help to ensure that current and future Titans have the tools to become leaders themselves in their chosen professions.
During a ceremony held March 15 in the courtyard outside the CSUF College of Business and Economics, the college’s Center for Leadership was renamed the Giles-O’Malley Center for Leadership.
The center is named for 1970 CSUF graduate Terry Giles and his wife, Kalli O’Malley.
“I am feeling so humbled and so grateful and so incredibly lucky,” Giles said of the naming honor.
Owner and president of Giles Enterprises and member of CSUF’s Philanthropic Foundation Board of Governors, Giles provided a $1 million gift to further the Center for Leadership’s mission and activities.
“This is a center not just for our business school,” Cal State Fullerton President Fram Virjee said. “This is the center for the building of the future of this campus. Every student should be and will be affected by this Center for Leadership. The opportunity will be provided for them to learn what it means to be a leader.”
Along with Virjee, notables in attendance included Jay Barbuto, the center’s director and professor; Sridhar Sundaram, dean of the College of Business and Economics; Charlie Zhang, real estate developer and founder of Pick Up Stix; and many of the center’s corporate partners.
Giles, 74, grew up in an impoverished family and attended 21 schools in a 10-year period before going on to earn a debate scholarship at CSUF and a law degree from Pepperdine.
Giles’ achievements include the establishment of 35 businesses, one being a successful criminal law firm.
He owned the third-largest Canon copier distributorship and turned a failing Toyota dealership into the world’s fifth-largest.
The CSUF alum established Giles Enterprises, a holding company for his family’s array of business ventures.
Giles credited his success in large part to the education he received at CSUF, particularly on the university’s debate team.
“My experiences in the courtroom and the boardroom would not have happened at all, I don’t think, if it hadn’t been for debate at Cal State Fullerton,” Giles said.
In 1994, Giles was presented with the Horatio Alger Award, given by the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans to leaders who’ve displayed personal initiative and perseverance, embrace the free-enterprise system and aspire to achieve a better future, often in the face of adversity.
“When you think about where he started and what he has achieved, the award is almost handwritten for someone like Terry,” Barbuto said. ” He has a great eye for success and knows a great investment when he sees it. He is a master of finding a way.”
Giles’ endowment will go toward helping the center’s current initiatives and programs expand and grow, Barbuto said.
The center offers an executive speaker series, executive shadowing and networking opportunities with the center’s corporate partners that include the Honda Center, the Anaheim Ducks, Southern California Edison, Walt Disney International, the Orange County Business Council and others.
The center also curates a local television program on YouTube, “The Leadership Voice.” The show engages Orange County-area executives in discussions on leadership excellence and development while incorporating field research by CSUF faculty.
Each episode features a business or community leader who shares their experiences and knowledge to provide viewers with insight into leadership ideas. Giles himself was featured in an episode titled “Become One of the Fifteen Percent.”
The center also hosts an annual Leadership Awards banquet that recognizes Orange County and Southern California organizations in different categories of leadership.
Giles became involved with the Center for Leadership about 15 years ago when he was asked by other CSUF alumni if he would help fund the new center, which was in the planning stages at the time.
“It has turned out to be one of the best decisions that I was talked into in my entire life,” Giles said.
He also praised the work of Virjee and Barbuto for the center’s growth and impact on the CSUF campus and the community.
“The Center for Leadership wouldn’t be what it is today if it wasn’t for the hard work and dedication and passion that Jay brings to the table,” Giles said. “I’m so grateful the school brought him in to drive the program. I can’t say enough in appreciation for the job he has done.”
Giles’ $1 million gift, along with a $250,000 donation from Zhang and significant donations from philanthropists MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett, will help fund the construction of a three-story building just east of the College of Business and Economics that will be the Center For Leadership’s new home.
With construction scheduled to get underway later this year, the new center will feature a library, auditorium, conference room and faculty and staff offices.
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Read MoreTrail system in Saddleback Wilderness area debuts
- March 28, 2023
Mother Nature reclaimed the hilly area not far from Irvine Lake that was once a popular motocross course, and now that the natural habitat has been preserved, it is once again opening to people.
This time visitors will be able to hike or mountain bike the 3.3 miles of trails that will be open in the newly debuted Saddleback Wilderness during special access events hosted by the OC Parks system.
The moment officials cut the ribbon on the new Saddleback Wilderness on Monday, March 27, 70-year-old Janice Bora took off running up the dirt path.
Bora ran past OC Third District Supervisor Don Wagner, headed up a steep path and disappeared behind a curve as the rest of the dignitaries and invited volunteers started hiking up the trail to explore along behind her.
The new trail system is part of OC Park’s Irvine Ranch Open Space and was donated in 2014 to the county by the Irvine Company.
Upon receiving the land donation, the county “went through a robust environmental evaluation process,” said OC Parks Operations Manager John Gump in an email. “Once complete, we were able to design a trail system that avoided locations with sensitive resources, while also doing our best to have trails reach points of interest and scenic viewpoints for the public to enjoy.”
From the late 1960s to 1984, Saddleback Park used much of the land for a “motor playground” enjoyed by motocross riders, off-road trucks and buggies. It was one of the largest motocross tracks on the West Coast. But liability concerns and other pressures ultimately closed it, according to online histories.
In the years that followed, it was left to return to its natural state.
Gump said you can still see remnants of the former track in the trails. They follow parts of the race track and roads that visitors used to watch the competitors.
Saddleback Wilderness is being advertised as offering 360-degree views from the ocean to the mountains.
Volunteer Roxanne Bradley said, “the scenery is great and you get a good view,” but she especially like the blossoming flowers.
The Irvine Ranch Open Space it is part of includes about 25,000 acres in the eastern foothills of Orange County that stretch from the natural areas near the 91 Freeway and 241 Toll Road connection and Santiago Oaks Regional Park down to where the 133 Toll Road branches from the 241 and near Limestone Canyon.
Much of it is strictly protected because of the rare and sensitive nature of its habitats and areas are only open to the public during special access days and events.
“Many OC Parks facilities are encumbered by conservation plans that prioritize habitat protection while also securing public access and establishing approved trail systems,” Gump said. “When OC Parks received the land donation from the Irvine Company in 2014, it presented a unique opportunity to offer additional trail options for local hikers, mountain bikers and equestrians.”
Developing the parking lot and trail amenities, as well as performing the required environmental studies, cost about $514,000, about half of which was funded by an endowment that came with the land. The rest was funded by OC Parks.
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Read MoreThis ‘Schitt’s Creek’ writer has a new small-town series. Here’s ‘The Big Door Prize’
- March 28, 2023
The small town of Deerfield is a comfortably ordinary place until a mysterious machine called the Blue Morpho arrives. In exchange for a few quarters – and providing one’s Social Security number and fingerprints – the machine promises to reveal a person’s life potential.
Soon the town is in a tizzy as people learn what their future could, or should, hold – a person might be a magician, storyteller, hero, liar or royalty. In some cases, this information, which is dispensed by the machine onto a card, can rapidly upend a person’s entire life.
That’s the starting point for “The Big Door Prize,” a new comedy series based on M. O. Walsh’s book of the same name. Premiering on Apple TV+ on March 29, the show follows Dusty Hubbard (Chris O’Dowd), a local teacher, his extended family and neighbors. Each episode dives deeper into the story of a new character, like Jacob (Sammy Fourlas), a high school student whose twin brother – the local superstar athlete – recently died, or Father Reuben (Damon Gupton), the new priest in town.
The series was created by David West Read, who spoke recently by video about creating the show. Read previously wrote for “Schittt’s Creek,” and some characters, like Jacob’s dad, the widowed Beau (Aaron Roman Weiner) or Giorgio (Josh Segarra), are over-the-top in a way that’s reminiscent of that much-loved series, but mostly the show’s tone is quieter and more thoughtful.
The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Q. What would your card say?
If this machine existed, I hope it would say “writer.” I don’t really think I’m capable of doing anything else. But as the show demonstrates, knowing you’ve reached your peak is not the happiest thing either.
Q. Would you put your Social Security number and fingerprints into a mysterious machine? That seems crazier to me than believing what the cards say.
In this modern age, at a certain point I think we all say, “Well, I guess my privacy is not something I can hang onto anymore.”
I give up a lot of personal information on a regular basis and sign agreements that I don’t read. So if everyone in town was doing this and making huge changes as a result I’d probably get sucked in.
Q. What made you want to adapt this book?
I love things that blend comedy and pathos, and I love light sci-fi, where it’s our world with maybe one unnatural element. This is almost like the movie, “Big,” where a machine comes into a very natural, grounded world. It’s more about what people do as a result of the machine than the machine itself.
This book has this amazing premise but there’s also a whole cast of characters and there’s the idea of viewing this through the lens of all these different people. That made it feel like it would have legs for a series. Going deep on a different character the focus of each episode while still keeping the overarching story on the Hubbard family was part of my original pitch.
We also enjoy giving each character their own visual language and musical style in their episode. Beau’s card says “Sheriff,” and so his has a spaghetti Western theme and some of the shots are like from a John Ford movie, with references to classic Westerns.
Q. How many of the life potential cards are from the book and how many did you create?
It’s a mix. There were some we loved from the book that we adapted to the series and then we had a brainstorming day in the writers’ room to think about anything potential might be and what could go on the cards. The doctor getting “undertaker” came out of our writers’ room – it made us laugh and then suddenly we had the idea for a character.
The series is necessarily something different. The book has an ending and explanation and I wanted to build our own mythology and give ourselves the longest runway possible for this story.
After the pilot, basically none of the stories in the season are from the book. We have spun off so far so we don’t have to worry about what we did or didn’t use from the book. We’re filming something completely new.
Q. When an intriguing character appears in someone else’s episode do you think, “Oh, we should give her an episode” or is it all plotted out?
We knew which big stories we wanted to tell in the first season and are planting those characters in little moments in the first few episodes. But over the course of shooting, when actor meets role and something suddenly sparks, you think, “Hey, they could hold their own episode one day, even if we don’t have it yet.”
Q. Were you surprised by how good Sammy Fourlas was, considering his background as a TikTok star?
I never thought we’d cast a TikTok person. I don’t even have a TikTok account and I feel so old even saying TikTok. It’s amazing having someone like him with actors like Crystal [R. Fox] who has decades of stage and screen experience. Sammy has never done a movie or TV show, but he was the most grounded, natural, talented actor. Maybe more people will be discovered that way. I’m a believer.
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Q. How much do you think about dialing up or down some of the more outsized characters?
I still consider those bigger characters grounded in some truth because they’re being performative in their world for a specific reason. Beau is dealing with the loss of his son after the loss of his wife and he feels untethered in his universe. Adopting this cowboy persona works because westerns are a world of good and evil and everything is simple and it makes him feel attached to something he understands. So even though it’s ridiculous to see a guy turning his garage into a saloon and walking around in a cowboy hat and boots, it comes from a real place.
Q. How different would this have been in a bigger town or in Brooklyn or L.A.?
If this machine showed up in a big city, it might not have any impact. When there’s one new thing in a small town, it’s the only thing they’ve got. Everyone knows everything about everyone. They’re sharing what card they got with each other, and it becomes self-fulfilling in a way – if your card was true for you then maybe mine will be true for me. And then they work themselves up into a small-town frenzy.
You wonder who’s going to lie about their card, who most wants you to know what’s on their card, who’s going to tell you their card means something other than what it means. We’re trying to explore all of them.
Q. Why does getting a card change everyone’s behavior?
People start thinking about what their card would be and what they want it to be and then reacting to what it actually says. The show is about how the machine makes you dig deeper in getting to know yourself.
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Read MoreMexico: Migrants lit mattresses on fire, 39 dead near US border
- March 28, 2023
By MARÍA VERZA
MEXICO CITY — Migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico, starting a fire that left 39 dead, the president said Tuesday following one of the the deadliest incidents ever at an immigration lockup in the country.
Hours after the fire broke out late Monday, rows of bodies were laid out under shimmery silver sheets outside the facility in Ciudad Juarez, which is across from El Paso, Texas, and a major crossing point for migrants. Ambulances, firefighters and vans from the morgue swarmed the scene.
Thirty-nine people died and 29 were injured and are in “delicate-serious” condition, according to the National Immigration Institute. There were 68 men from Central and South America held in the facility at the time of the fire, the agency said. A Guatemalan official said many may have been from that Central American country.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants inside the facility in protest after learning they would be deported.
“They never imagined that this would cause this terrible misfortune,” López Obrador said, adding that the director of country’s immigration agency was on the scene.
Tensions between authorities and migrants had apparently been running high in recent weeks in Ciudad Juarez, where shelters are full of people waiting for opportunities to cross into the U.S. or who have requested asylum there and are waiting out the process.
More than 30 migrant shelters and other advocacy organizations published an open letter March 9 that complained of a criminalization of migrants and asylum seekers in the city. It accused authorities of abuse and using excessive force in rounding up migrants, complaining that municipal police were questioning people in the street about their immigration status without cause.
The high level of frustration in Ciudad Juarez was evident earlier this month when hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants acting on false rumors that the United States would allow them to enter the country tried to force their way across one of the international bridges to El Paso. U.S. authorities blocked their attempts.
The national immigration agency said Tuesday that it “energetically rejects the actions that led to this tragedy” without any further explanation of what those actions might have been.
In recent years, as Mexico has stepped up efforts to stem the flow migration to the U.S. border under pressure from the American government, the agency has struggled with overcrowding in its facilities. And the country’s immigration lockups have seen protests and riots from time to time.
Mostly Venezuelan migrants rioted inside an immigration center in Tijuana in October that had to be controlled by police and National Guard troops. In November, dozens of migrants rioted in Mexico’s largest detention center in the southern city of Tapachula near the border with Guatemala. No one died in either incident.
Mexico has emerged as the world’s third most popular destination for asylum-seekers, after the United States and Germany, but is still largely a transit country for those on the way to the U.S. It holds tens of thousands of migrants in an expansive network of detention centers and attempts to closely monitor movements across the country in cooperation with American authorities.
Karla Samayoa, spokeswoman for Guatemala’s Foreign Ministry, said that Mexican authorities had informed them that more than two dozen of the migrants who died appeared to be from the country.
Asylum-seekers must stay in the state where they apply in Mexico, resulting in large numbers being holed up near the country’s southern border with Guatemala. Tens of thousands are also in border cities with the U.S., including Ciudad Juarez.
The Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin has estimated there are more than 2,200 people in Ciudad Juarez’s shelters and more migrants outside shelters from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Colombia, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and El Salvador.
Associated Press writers Sonia Pérez D. in Guatemala City and Elliot Spagat in San Diego contributed to this report.
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Read MoreNiles: Is Universal’s new early entry a good deal or a cash grab?
- March 28, 2023
How many days are there in a year?
If you answered 365 (or 366 in a leap year), allow me to guess that you probably do not run a theme park. Because for the people who run places such as Disneyland and Universal, the answer is, “as many days as we want.”
On a growing number of dates, a theme park ticket no longer buys you admission from the moment a park first opens to the public in the morning to the final moment when it closes that night. These days, parks increasingly are dayparting their schedules with hard-ticket events and mix-ins that run outside their “normal” operating hours.
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The latest? Universal Studios Hollywood is charging $20-30 for one hour of early admission to Super Nintendo World, before the park opens to other guests. That fee is in addition to whatever daily ticket or annual pass you would use to get into the park.
Universal long has extended its days in the fall with Halloween Horror Nights, where the park closes to daytime guests to open to others who buy extra tickets for the evening. Universal’s former theme parks chairman once called Halloween Horror Nights Universal’s “thirteenth month” for all the extra ticket revenue the event generated for the company at its parks around the world.
Knott’s Berry Farm started after-hours, extra-ticketed Halloween events way back in 1973, creating a model that Universal and most other parks in the industry have followed, including even Disney with its Oogie Boogie Bash at Disney California Adventure and Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party at Walt Disney World. Disneyland also now runs multiple “After Dark” events in the winter and spring, further showing that parks can use dayparting to grow revenue at any time of the year.
But dayparting can inflict at a cost on park guests who do not buy those extra tickets. When Knott’s started what is now Knott’s Scary Farm, October was a slow month for parks, and they typically closed early from lack of demand. With extra events extending throughout the year, parks are now closing early on much busier dates.
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On the other side of the day, Universal’s early entry for its new Nintendo land means that regular park guests can no longer rope drop into an empty queue for its Mario Kart ride, as the early entrants already have filled the land. In both cases, regular park guests get less than they would have otherwise.
Many other parks, including Disneyland, also have used early admission as a free perk for guests who book a night at the parks’ on-site hotels. If those parks follow Universal’s lead, early entry might become yet another formerly free perk that becomes an upcharge, much like Disney’s free Fastpass turned into the paid Lightning Lane.
I’m happy that parks extended their year by creating events such as Halloween haunts. And many Universal fans love the convenience of guaranteed access to Nintendo with early entry. It’s all about value. If an upcharge delivers that, fans will accept and maybe even embrace it. If not, then parks should not be surprised when fans rebel and complain about cash grabs.
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Read More15th annual Cambodia Town Parade and Culture Festival returns this weekend
- March 28, 2023
The annual Cambodia Town Parade and Culture Festival — a celebration of the Southeast Asian country’s new year, which traditionally takes place from April 14 to 16 — will return to Long Beach this weekend for its 15th iteration.
The free cerebration will kick off at 10 a.m. Sunday, April 2, with a parade that starts between Cherry Avenue and Anaheim Street — and will travel about a half mile to MacArthur Park. The parade will begin after an interfaith program that will include a traditional blessing.
“We are inviting all the great spiritual leaders of Long Beach representing Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and those of the Jewish faith,” said Richer San, a member of the Cambodia Town, Inc. Board of Directors. “We want to promote peace within the community, and all are welcome.”
The Sunday event will finish with a festival — from noon to 5 p.m. — that will feature multiple performances, showcase Cambodian cuisine and art, and offer education about the country’s nearly two-millennium old cultural heritage.
Cambodia Town — which is home to the largest population of Cambodians outside of the country itself — is focused around about a one-mile stretch of Anaheim Street between Atlantic and Junipero avenues.
Long Beach became a second home for Cambodians in the early 1980s — when hundreds of thousands of Cambodian refugees flocked to the United States seeking safety from the brutality of the communist Khmer Rouge. The resulting Cambodian Genocide killed nearly 2 million people.
One exhibit that will be on display during the festival will showcase pictures taken by photographer Colin Grafton from Cambodian refugee camps in the early 1980s — where many who had experienced the horrors of war went to apply for resettlement in other countries after the Khmer Rouge fell in 1979.
“As many of them came to the United States with nothing, these photos will allow both first-generation Cambodian Americans and their children to connect with the homeland they were forced to leave,” an announcement about the exhibit said. “Cambodian and Cambodian American memories were destroyed by nearly three decades of war and genocide. These photographs will help connect the Long Beach community to their past.”
Long Beach is home to nearly 500,000 Cambodians.
The first Cambodian New Year Parade was hosted in April 2005 after years of advocacy from community members, who wanted to ensure their culture and heritage wouldn’t be forgotten in America, according to the event’s website.
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The event draws thousands to Cambodia Town every year — and offers a way for the community to celebrate the new year, honor and carry on Khmer culture and traditions, and share it with others. The organizers are expecting about 3,000 attendees this year — with millions of others expected to watch the celebrations virtually.
“Last year, we had more than 5 million viewers watching,” San said. “This year, we anticipate there will be even more people because we are really trying to get the word out early.”
This year, the event’s theme is to “Stop Hate With Love” — a mantra that calls for the coming together of Long Beach’s diverse communities.
“This means a lot to us,” San previously told the Long Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau. “We want to share our culture with Long Beach. So many good things come from this.”
The blessing starts at 9 a.m., with the parade following at 10 a.m. on Sunday, April 2, between Cherry Avenue and Anaheim Street. The festival will begin at noon at MacArthur Park, 1321 E Anaheim St.
Contributing writer Enrique Rodriguez contributed to this report.
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