How to get free Dave’s Hot Chicken on Drake’s birthday on Tuesday, Oct. 24

• October 20, 2023

Dave’s Hot Chicken will be giving away a free chicken tender or slider to its app users 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, to mark the birthday of the rapper Drake.

Drake, who is an investor in the Pasadena-based chain, will turn 36 on that date. He is currently riding high on Billboard charts thanks to his new album “For All The Dogs.”

The offer is only available to in-person guests who visit a participating location and scan their app at the register, according to an Instagram post.

The chain was founded by Dave Kopushyan and a group of friends in Los Angeles in 2017 and has been rapidly growing through franchising. There are now more than 140 locations, according to representatives.

The menu is mostly sliders and tenders, which can be customized with seven levels of heat, as well as slaw, fries and mac and cheese.

Information: daveshotchicken.com

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Orange County Soccer Club rides enthusiasm into USL Championship playoffs

• October 20, 2023

Orange County Soccer Club has experienced some ups and downs recently and this season has been no different.

In its 10-year anniversary season, OCSC fired its coach early in the campaign and had doubts about its future.

However, earlier this month, a new deal was reached with the city of Irvine to keep the club at Championship Stadium at Orange County’s Great Park for the next 10 years.

Five months prior, Morten Karlsen took over as interim coach, replacing Richard Chaplow in May. Karlsen led OCSC from a 1-4-3 record (9 points) to a 17-11-6 mark (57 points) and a second-place finish in the Western Conference.

OCSC will host El Paso Locomotive FC in Saturday’s first round (7:30 p.m., ESPN+) of the USL Championship playoffs.

“For any fan supporting a team, it is a roller coaster,” OCSC president of business relations Dan Rutstein said. “In 2021, we embarked on an incredible run to win (the championship) and last year, we followed that up by finishing at the bottom of the league.

“This year, we turned things around, our coach has done a remarkable job and we finished with the No. 2 seed, guaranteed of playing at home (for the first two rounds).”

The club also revealed an investment program allowing fans to buy a piece of ownership stake in the club, starting at a minimum investment of $100 up to $25,000.

“Orange County residents can’t own a piece of the Ducks or Angels, but you can own a piece of your local soccer club,” Rutstein said. “Soccer is growing quickly and we’re part of that growth. We’ve had more sellouts than ever before. We’ve sold two more players to Europe.

“There’s so much happening and we’re excited to see who wants to be part of the ownership group.”

Fans in Europe will also get an opportunity to buy an ownership stake. Orange County has partnerships with Rangers in the Scottish Premiership and Feyenoord of the Dutch Eredivisie.

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El Paso won the first meeting against Orange County 1-0 on April 8. The second one ended in a scoreless draw Sept. 9.

If Orange County wins Saturday, it would host the winner of the San Diego Loyal SC-Phoenix Rising FC game in the second round.

“We’re hoping to have a deep run and eventually get a second start on our chest,” Rutstein said.

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Some of O.C.’s best Texas-style barbecue can be found inside this liquor store

• October 20, 2023

Located inside a nondescript liquor store just off the 73 at the border of Costa Mesa and Newport Beach, Jeff Hayes spends his Saturdays smoking and serving slow-cooked Central Texas-style barbecue from the shop’s corner deli section.

“Everybody that comes here really enjoys it,” says Hayes, founder and pitmaster of JW Hayes BBQ. “We don’t have a lot of good barbecue in Orange County, so what I wanted to do was try to stimulate some excitement for barbecue.”

Hayes started learning the ins-and-outs of proper barbecue in 2013. Soon thereafter, he entered competitions to show off his skills, which also helped him hone his craft. But the rigors of competitive cooking had him yearning to open up his own place where he could both connect with customers and focus more on his culinary prowess minus the competitive angle.

“I ended up getting burned out on doing competitions and had a hankering to get my own commercial smoker,” he says. After putting in an order request for the highly sought-after Moberg Smoker, which is prized among pitmasters in Texas and beyond, he received two 500-gallon smokers from the Texas-based manufacturer. Since February of this year, Hayes, along with the assistance of his son, Kyle Hayes, and family friend Brayden Burke, have worked at Minute King Deli serving brisket, chicken, ribs and more from the liquor store’s deli counter.

“We do it all on-site too with the smokers just outside the back of the store,” he says.

The pared-down menu keeps it simple: beef brisket, pork ribs, pork butt pulled pork, turkey, and chicken are regularly featured each week, with specials like BBQ pulled pork sandwiches, brisket burgers and tri tip making frequent appearances. Smoked mac and cheese, smoked pinto beans with jalapeños, and coleslaw sides are also available.

A tri-tip beef roast is sliced for a customer on Saturday, October 14, 2023. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)

Hayes says he draws inspiration primarily from Central Texas style barbecue, but also from two lauded spots here in Southern California — Moo’s Craft Barbecue in Los Angeles and Heritage Barbecue in San Juan Capistrano, two acclaimed barbecue purveyors that also started out underground and gained traction by word of mouth.

A contractor by day, which has been his full-time job for the past 37 years, Hayes says he hopes to go full-time in the next two to three years. “I also want to add a Sunday service at some point in the near future,” he says.

Until his vision of a brick-and-mortar space become a reality, barbecue fans can line up at JW Hayes BBQ on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Find it: JW Hayes BBQ at Minute King Market, 3530 Irvine Ave. (at Bristol St.), Newport Beach; instagram.com/jwhayesbbq

Some of OC’s best bbq can be found inside The Minute King liquor store where Jeff Hayes prepares Texas-style BBQ in Newport Beach. Customer Chante Lasane picks up a bunch of pork ribs and some beef brisket on Saturday, October 14, 2023. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)

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Ozempic threatens profits at food and beverage makers worldwide

• October 20, 2023

By Bailey Lipschultz, Katrina Compoli and Angel Adegbesan | Bloomberg

A new class of weight-loss drugs has rattled global equity markets, sending shares of everything from food and beverage companies to medical-device makers tumbling. As earnings season kicks into high gear, firms are expected to reveal if consumer behaviors are being altered by the likes of Ozempic.

So far, fear has driven investors to sell consumer-exposed stocks. A basket of such companies — including Oreo cookies maker Mondelez International Inc. and Modelo beer producer Constellation Brand Inc. — is down nearly 9% since early August with losses roughly double those of the S&P 500 Index, while makers of things like insulin pumps have wiped out close to a third of their value over the same stretch amid concerns that fewer people will need their products.

Also see: Ozempic for weight loss is disrupting companies’ business model

Commentary from food company Nestle SA and alcohol purveyor Pernod Ricard SA, along with surgical-robot maker Intuitive Surgical Inc., will shed more light on the impact of Novo Nordisk A/S’s Ozempic on consumers’ appetite and overall health Thursday.

These weight-loss drugs — known as GLP-1s — are expected to dominate corporate earnings calls. References to the injections — including Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy — have risen in recent quarters.

PepsiCo Inc. set the tone last week, saying the appetite-suppressing drugs aren’t affecting it. The soda and snack giant raised its 2023 earnings forecast as consumers splurged on higher-priced snacks. Rival Coca-Cola Co. is next to report results on Oct. 24, followed by Hershey Co. and Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. next week.

“It’s going to get addressed on every one of their calls,” said Jeff Doerfler, senior lead equity analyst at Huntington Private Bank.

Broader adoption of the weight-loss drugs that cut food and beverage volumes by 1% to 2% could be detrimental to snack wrapper makers, according to Citigroup analyst Anthony Pettinari, who cut price targets on Ardagh Metal Packaging SA and Crown Holdings Inc.

Also see: Oprah Winfrey has entered the Ozempic chat

“It might represent half or more of packagers’ trend volume growth,” the analyst wrote in a note. Crown and Packaging Corp of America are among those set to commence earnings for the group on Monday.

Similarly, restaurant investors are fearing the worst, according to BTIG analyst Peter Saleh. The majority of the S&P Composite 1500 Restaurants Index has spiraled in the past two months, nearing a 12-month low last week before rebounding.

Investors will need to wait until the end of the month for results from McDonald’s Corp. and Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. Saleh expects the drugs to have limited negative implications for food operators’ earnings. Meanwhile, Nestle SA said GLP-1 drugs haven’t had an impact on sales after the company reported that revenue growth decelerated to the weakest pace in almost three years.

“This is not the only fear impacting restaurant sentiment right now, recent consumer malaise and industry sales softness are also top of mind, but we feel the impact from weight loss drugs is overblown,” he wrote.

For health-care companies, management teams will need to assure investors that Ozempic will have little influence on profit expectations. Abbott Laboratories provided some relief Wednesday morning, reporting quarterly results that revealed growth for its medical devices across heart disease and diabetes, shaking off concerns that GLP-1s would hurt business.

“We’re not guessing anymore in terms of what the impact is or is not,” said Jared Holz, a managing director at Mizuho, adding that whether investors will believe what they hear remains to be seen.

With the market for GLP-1s possibly reaching $100 billion by 2030, according to analysts at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the drugs will continue to captivate investors and analysts across all sectors. Just this week, some frenzied equity investors looking to find potential winners were burned when a Chinese company apologized for misleading investors after talking up ties to the weight-loss treatments.

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Pence faces cash shortage, campaign viability questions

• October 20, 2023

By Jill Colvin | Associated Press

NEW YORK — With three months to go before the Iowa caucuses that he has staked his campaign on, former Vice President Mike Pence faces mounting debt and lagging poll numbers that are forcing questions about not only whether he will qualify for the next debate, but whether it makes sense for him to remain in the race until then.

Pence ended September with just $1.18 million left in his campaign account, a strikingly low number for a presidential contest and far less than his rivals, new filings show. His campaign also has $621,000 in debt — more than half the cash he had remaining — and is scrambling to meet donor thresholds for the Nov. 8 debate. While he would likely meet the debate’s polling requirements, Pence has struggled to gain traction and is polling in the low single digits nationally, with no sign of momentum.

Former President Donald Trump, meanwhile, is leading every one of his rivals by at least 40 points in national polls and ended September with $37.5 million on hand.

People close to Pence say he now faces a choice about how long to stay in the race and whether remaining a candidate might potentially diminish his long-term standing in the party, given Trump’s dominating lead. While Pence could stick it out until the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses, visiting the state’s famous Pizza Ranch restaurants and campaigning on a shoestring budget, he must now weigh how that will impact his desire to remain a leading conservative voice, according to the people, some of whom spoke on condition of anonymity to share their unvarnished views.

“For Pence and many of the others, you gotta start looking and saying, ‘I’m not going to go into substantial debt if I don’t see a pathway forward,’” said former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who ran against Trump in 2016 but abandoned his bid after concluding “the Trump train had left the station.”

Pence, for the moment, is pressing forward. He held a Newsmax town hall in Iowa Tuesday night and fundraisers this week in Cleveland, Philadelphia and Dallas. He was to speak at the Republican National Committee’s fall retreat Friday night and at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Annual Leadership Summit in Las Vegas next week — all opportunities to pitch deep-pocketed donors to keep his campaign afloat.

The super PAC supporting Pence is also continuing its efforts, fundraising and conducting extensive voter outreach, including knocking on nearly 600,000 doors and counting.

The campaign is also working aggressively to reach the 70,000-donor threshold needed to qualify for next month’s debate and expressed confidence they could get there if they try — even as others remain skeptical he can make it.

“I know it’s an uphill climb for a lot of reasons for us, some that I understand, some that I don’t,” Pence acknowledged as he spoke to reporters in New Hampshire last week after formally registering for the state’s first-in-the-nation primary.

Still, some in Pence’s orbit believe he has important contributions left to make in the primary, particularly after the Hamas attack on Israel pushed foreign policy to the forefront. Pence has argued he is the most qualified candidate to deal with issues abroad, saying in the August debate that “now is not the time for on-the-job training.”

Pence, they say, feels a renewed sense of purpose given his warnings throughout the campaign against the growing tide of isolationism in the Republican Party. Pence has used the conflict to decry “voices of appeasement,” which he argues embolden groups like Hamas.

Another person cautioned that Pence, a devout Evangelical Christian who sees the campaign as a calling, may respond differently than other candidates might in his position if he feels called to stay in the race.

If he decides to exit, Pence would have a potential platform in Advancing American Freedom, the conservative think tank he founded after leaving the vice presidency.

In the meantime, the campaign has been working to cut costs, including having fewer staff members travel to events.

Regardless of what he decides, the predicament facing the former vice president underscores just how dramatically Trump has transformed the GOP.

Pence, in many ways, has been running to lead a party that no longer exists.

He has cast himself as the field’s most traditionally conservative candidate in the mold of Ronald Reagan. But many of his positions — from maintaining U.S. support for Ukraine’s defense against the Russian invasion to proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare — are out of step with much of his party’s base.

He also faces fallout from Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump’s supporters — some chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” — stormed the Capitol building, sending him running for his life. Trump tried to falsely convince Pence and his own followers that the vice president somehow had the power to overturn the results.

Pence has repeatedly been confronted on the campaign trail by people who accuse him of betraying Trump, who still promotes falsehoods about the 2020 election — often several times a day.

But Pence has also faced the same challenge as every candidate in the field not named Trump, a singular figure whose grip on the party has only intensified as he has been charged with dozens of crimes.

“If something big doesn’t happen on Nov. 8, the primary is over. Some would argue it is now,” said Walker, who entered the 2016 Republican primary as a front-runner only to end his campaign in September 2015, months before a single vote was cast, amid mounting debt.

An August AP-NORC poll found Republicans split on Pence: 41% held a favorable view of the candidate and 42% an unfavorable one. Nationally, a majority of U.S. adults — 57% — view him negatively, with only 28% having a positive view.

Some are hoping Pence doesn’t give up. In Iowa, Kelley Koch, chair of the Dallas County Republican Party, said she felt Pence had struggled to define himself beyond Trump and said many remained skeptical of his actions on Jan. 6.

But she said following the attack on Israel, with all eyes now on the Middle East and a new war, that Pence could have a moment to break through.

“He is such a pro on foreign policy. That’s one of his strengths. And he has that over a lot of the new rookie candidates who are in the race. He should run on that,” she said. “I would think that that would be just a major trumpet setting the stage for Mike Pence to step up and take the mic.”

Associated Press writer Holly Ramer in Concord, New Hampshire contributed to this report.

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Israel-Hamas war exposes ugliness here at home

• October 20, 2023

The brutal conflict between Israel and Hamas may be thousands of miles away from our shores, but it has unleashed considerable ugliness here at home.

The most prominent and egregious problem has been the confusion among supporters of the Palestinians who in fact reveal deep-seated anti-Semitism and apparent sympathy for Hamas rather than their victims.

Across the country, radical left-wing groups have revealed themselves as supporters of Hamas’ violent attacks on innocent people, including children. These include chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America and the Black Lives Matter movement, which issued statements characterizing Hamas’ murder of innocent people as somehow righteous.

Our universities have also been home to such filth.

At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Professor Mika Tosca recently came to national attention for writing, “Israelis are pigs. Savages. Very very bad people. Irredeemable excrement. … May they all rot in hell.”

Closer to home, Professor Jemma Decristo at the University of California, Davis, who threateningly posted: “one group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these zionist journalists who spread propaganda & misinformation they have houses w addresses, kids in school they can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more.”

Decristo was a signatory of a letter, signed by hundreds of University of California students, alumni and professors blaming Israel for the actions of Hamas terrorists.

“At this time, we refuse any calls for ‘peace’ which are just calls for the quiet submission of Palestinians to an early grave,” the bizarre letter reads.

To be sure, ugliness doesn’t just come from those who side with Hamas.

In Illinois, a 6-year-old Muslim boy was senselessly stabbed to death by the landlord of the home in which he lived.

“Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the on-going Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis,” the sheriff’s statement said, according to the Associated Press.

It is sadly reminiscent of the sort of violence and Islamophobia seen in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Elsewhere, a professor at Washington University was reportedly fired after celebrating the Israeli bombing of Gaza, saying it was, “a much needed cleansing, yes, but not an ethnic one. Israel is not targeting humans.”

And on the policy front, we have seen the once-reputable Heritage Foundation indulge pure xenophobia by attacking any notion of resettling Palestinian refugees here in the United States by saying, “The Palestinian population has no interest in assimilating into American culture and governance or in expressing loyalty to America or our allies.”

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To be clear, though, resettlement of Palestinians is not particularly common, typically less than 100 people per year over the last decade.

But Heritage’s assertion is a slap in the face to the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian-Americans who live here among us. Reducing whole groups of people to mere caricatures is wrong. For decades, America has successfully resettled people from all over the world and it should continue doing so.

It is understandable that there is great disagreement over the broader conflict. But people need to keep their heads in check.

All sensible people should oppose terrorism and terrorist actions. All sensible people should hope that as few innocent lives are lost are possible. And all sensible people should be able to recognize that not everything is black and white.

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Native lands lack clean water protections, but more tribes are taking charge

• October 20, 2023

Alex Brown | (TNS) Stateline.org

Across the roughly 1,300 square miles of the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwest Minnesota, tribal members harvest wild rice in waters that have sustained them for generations. They’ve been working for decades to restore sturgeon, a culturally important fish, and they harvest minnows and leeches to supply bait for anglers across the country.

But the White Earth Band can no longer depend on the clean, abundant waters that make those activities possible. Droughts brought on by climate change and irrigation for agriculture have threatened the reservation’s rivers and lakes. Manure runoff from factory farms could poison the water that’s left.

Last year, the tribal government passed an ordinance to restrict withdrawals of water from the reservation and adjacent lands that share an aquifer. Under the statute, farms and other businesses seeking to withdraw more than 1 million gallons per year must obtain a permit from the tribe.

“White Earth firmly believes that if they did not take this action, the health and well-being of their members would be imminently harmed,” said Jamie Konopacky, the tribe’s environmental attorney. “Because of the growing concern about massive water appropriations, they passed this ordinance to give themselves independent permitting authority.”

The tribe’s action has not stopped the state from issuing water withdrawal permits on reservation land, a dispute currently being contested in tribal court. While the legal battle is with a farmer, not the state, Minnesota officials are examining the jurisdictional issues in play, and the tribe is urging them to recognize its sovereignty.

White Earth leaders are joining a growing effort by tribal nations to protect waters in Indian Country — asserting their sovereignty to target pollution that’s threatening wild rice in Minnesota, shellfish in Washington and salmon in California.

Some of the nations have passed tribal ordinances to regulate polluters on reservation lands. Others have sought authority under the federal Clean Water Act to establish their own water quality standards, giving them a legal mechanism to combat pollution coming from upstream.

“The tribe’s treaty right to harvest and consume shellfish and finfish is not a meaningful right if they’re not safe to eat,” said Hansi Hals, natural resources director for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula.

Last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe approval to issue its own water quality standards under the Treatment as a State (TAS) program. That status essentially gives tribes the same regulatory power over certain water quality programs as states, once they have proven their jurisdiction on waters that run through or connect to reservation and tribal trust lands. The tribe plans to adopt standards under that authority sometime next year.

Meanwhile, the EPA is working to establish “baseline” water quality standards for tribes that have not yet adopted their own, ensuring that all Native lands receive Clean Water Act protections.

As tribes establish their own standards and permitting programs, some experts believe they could play a critical role in fighting pollution and ensuring that the resources they depend on for subsistence and cultural values are preserved.

But tribal leaders acknowledge that regulatory programs are expensive and time-consuming to establish, and some tribes can’t afford them. And many tribes that seek to assert their sovereignty risk costly legal battles with industry-friendly states, which are reluctant to give up their own permitting authority. Meanwhile, a new presidential administration could appoint EPA leaders hostile to tribal interests, undoing recent efforts.

Asserting sovereignty

In 1987, Congress passed a provision allowing tribes to set their own water quality standards in the same manner as states, recognizing that Native reservations had been left out of the powers delegated to states under the Clean Water Act.

“Clean Water Act standards don’t exist in Indian Country,” said Jim Grijalva, a professor at the University of North Dakota School of Law and a longtime advocate for tribal water programs. “The problem is a racist assumption that tribes shouldn’t have the governmental right to do anything.”

While the Treatment as a State program sought to correct that, its lengthy and complicated approval process has made it challenging for tribes to pursue that option. Only 84 of the nation’s 574 federally recognized tribes are recognized under the TAS program. And only 326 tribes have reservation land, further limiting the nations that can apply.

But momentum is growing. A 2016 EPA rule streamlined the application process, and 22 tribes — more than a quarter of those approved — have earned TAS status since 2020.

“The learning curve has been slow at times, but tribes are realizing the ability to use their sovereign authority under the Clean Water Act as part of their arsenal for protection,” said Ken Norton, chair of the National Tribal Water Council, a tribal advocacy group.

Norton also directs the Tribal Environmental Protection Agency for the Hoopa Valley Tribe in California, which was among the first tribes approved for TAS status in 1996. The tribe’s regulatory authority on the Klamath River enabled it to negotiate the extension of a state-run salmon hatchery that was slated to close under a dam-removal plan.

“Our voice at the table, not as a stakeholder but as a regulatory entity, was strengthened because we had these federally approved water quality standards,” Norton said.

Grijalva, the law professor, noted that tribal standards can take into account factors such as the dietary habits of Native people who harvest food from the landscape.

“Tribes have inherent rights to make value judgments that are different than their neighbors,” he said. “If you set a dioxin standard, mercury standard or selenium standard based on risk to the average white guy, you’re not accounting for the tenfold increase in exposure to an Indigenous person.”

In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, members of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community fish for lake trout, brook trout and walleye on the reservation’s lakes and rivers. The tribe earned TAS status in 2020 and is working to issue water quality standards by the end of the year.

“We’re a fishing community, so the protection of water quality is of utmost importance,” said Dione Price, the tribe’s environmental specialist and environmental health section lead. “This really does give the tribe a seat at the table in water protection.”

The Karuk Tribe in California also received TAS approval in 2020. Grant Johnson, the tribe’s water quality program manager, said that step came after years of securing funding, hiring staff and building proficiency to ensure it could craft detailed regulations, monitor its waters and enforce its standards.

The Keweenaw Bay and Karuk tribes are among the 37 nations that have received TAS authority but are still working to issue water quality standards or waiting on EPA approval of those thresholds. While many are well underway, the staffing levels and expertise required to run a water quality program remain a major hurdle for some tribes.

“It’s great to take advantage of the politically open moment, but many tribes don’t have the resources and support to make their own standards,” said Sibyl Diver, a lecturer at Stanford University’s Earth Systems Program who has published research on TAS.

Diver also noted that many reservations are within states that are hostile to tribal sovereignty and environmental regulations. Such tribes are likely to face lawsuits from state governments and conservative groups, and may not have the resources for expensive legal battles.

New authorities

While many tribes have set standards that are more stringent than their neighbors, experts say that even thresholds that only match federal minimums give tribes a major tool. Just by holding that authority, tribes can participate in permitting decisions on upstream waters.

For the Chehalis Tribe in Washington state, water quality standards allow it to protect the salmon that swim in the Chehalis River.

“The tribe having its own standards means that if there’s a project or an issue that’s happening upstream, the tribe now has a say in what’s happening rather than waiting for the federal government to act on it,” said Jeff Warnke, the tribe’s director of government and public relations.

While more tribes work toward that regulatory power, others have started by setting tribal ordinances for their own reservations. Some, like the White Earth Band in Minnesota, see the establishment of an internal program as a precursor for pursuing TAS authority. Norton, with the National Tribal Water Council, said more tribal nations have issued such regulations in recent years, although specific figures are hard to come by.

Meanwhile, more tribes may seek to create or expand water ordinances after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this year to remove millions of acres of wetlands from Clean Water Act jurisdiction, leaving their protection up to states and tribes.

As more tribes work to set up their own programs, the EPA has proposed a “baseline” water quality standard for tribal lands that are not yet covered under TAS. If the rule moves forward, it would provide protection for 76,000 miles of rivers and streams and 1.9 million acres of lakes and reservoirs that currently lack standards, the agency said.

“Some states like the fact that there’s no rules in Indian Country,” said Grijalva, the law professor. “But if a significant part of the country is not protected because it doesn’t have the most basic water quality standards, EPA isn’t doing its job.”

The federal agency did not make a spokesperson available for comment.

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No. 25 UCLA looks to get back on track at Stanford

• October 20, 2023

UCLA and Stanford will compete in the 95th game of their football series that started in 1925. It may also be their last for some time.

In 2024, both teams will go their separate ways as UCLA (4-2 overall, 1-2 Pac-12) heads to the Big Ten Conference and Stanford (2-4, 1-3) will join the ACC conference.

The rivalry has always carried a level of intrigue since 2018 because of the friendship and level of respect between UCLA coach Chip Kelly and former Stanford coach David Shaw.

Shaw will not be on the opposing sideline this season after he decided to resign in late November after 12 seasons at his alma mater. What’s more, Shaw has been seen wearing blue and gold this year as his son, Carter Shaw, joined the Bruins as a preferred walk-on receiver this season.

Following Shaw’s resignation, Downey native Troy Taylor was hired away from Sacramento State, where he went 30-8 in three seasons, to oversee the Cardinal.

“I don’t know Troy very well at all,” Kelly said of the former Utah offensive coordinator (2017-18). “I’ve met him at league meetings but I don’t know him that way. … I have a lot of respect for Troy and he did an unbelievable job at Sacramento State and he’s doing a really good job now.”

Taylor and the Cardinal are coming off a 46-43 come-from-behind double-overtime victory against the Colorado Buffaloes last week.

When UCLA has the ball

Quarterback Dante Moore has thrown six of his seven interceptions throughout the first three games of conference play, including a pick-6 in the first half of each of those games.

There’s no indication Kelly will send someone other than Moore out to be the starter this week.

“The quarterback is a very talented guy,” Taylor said. “He’s young and you see him growing, but he has a lot of ability.”

The Bruins tried to get backup quarterback Collin Schlee involved on offense and did find some success with the use of his mobility in last week’s Oregon State loss before he suffered an upper-body injury and did not return.

Schlee was not seen at practice early in the week and it appears unlikely that he will play Saturday. It remains unclear if Kelly will look to deploy any other quarterbacks to complement Moore this week.

The Bruins could benefit running the ball against a Stanford defense that’s allowed 4.61 yards per carry and 138.2 rushing yards per game.

Led by Carson Steele’s 110 yards on 22 carries, UCLA rushed for 287 yards last week, but Kelly was not satisfied with the performance.

“We need to be more consistent rushing the football,” Kelly said. “There were a lot of big runs, but I think we left some meat on the bone and we need to be more consistent in all phases of what we’re doing on offense right now.”

When Stanford has the ball

The UCLA defense has been fairly consistent this season, but Oregon State provided its biggest challenge last week, producing 415 total yards and three receiving touchdowns.

The Bruins were also limited to just two sacks and a forced fumble last week. Linebacker Oluwafemi Oladejo and safety Kamari Ramsey led the defense with eight tackles each. Oladejo also had the fumble recovery and a pass breakup. Edge rusher Laiatu Latu had four tackles and 0.5 sacks.

The defense will have to get back on track and apply pressure to rattle first-year starting quarterback Ashton Daniels.

“They have one of the best defensive lines in our conference,” Taylor said. “(Latu) is really good.”

Daniels threw for 396 yards and four touchdowns against Colorado. Both were season highs. The sophomore quarterback also served as the Cardinal’s leading rusher with 39 yards on 16 carries.

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Wide receiver Elic Ayomanor also had a breakout game with 13 receptions for 294 yards and three touchdowns. No other receiver had more than four receptions in the win.

“He played really fast (against Colorado),” Taylor said about Ayomanor. “We always knew he had the potential to do that. A lot of it is just confidence. … This is something he can build upon.”

No. 25 UCLA (4-2, 1-2 Pac-12) at Stanford (2-4, 1-3)

When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday

Where: Stanford Stadium

TV/radio: ESPN/570 AM

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