At Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Entrepreneurship, experienced business owners have been giving advice to students for years. Now they have put that advice into a book. The center has published “Creating New Ventures: How To Shape Concepts Into Achievement.” The softcover book is a compilation of letters from 156 company founders, executives, advisers and…
Q. I was traveling on the 91 freeway toward Newport Beach last week, and I saw a pickup truck hauling a camper trailer in the 91 Express Lanes. Is this legal, to be towing a camper trailer in those lanes? – Elizabeth M. Roberts, Garden Grove A. Hope that driver was off to have some fun,…
Homeownership in Los Angeles and Orange counties fell back from a post-recession high to the nation’s worst in the second quarter. One bad quarter is not a significantly ominous signal, but the falling ownership levels along with a rising number of empty homes suggests local house hunters are not jumping on 2018’s noteworthy surge in…
When a wildfire erupts, one of the first questions asked of fire officials is the containment percentage. What does that mean exactly? Containment is when a fire break is created around the perimeter of a blaze and firefighters have “mopped up” into the burn area, explained Marc Peebles, public information officer for the Cranston fire…
After 33 years investigating wildfire arson, one thing has become crystal clear to Los Angeles County sheriff’s Detective Ed Nordskog: “Wildfire arsonists are not like your average thug.” “They are cowards, sneaking away after doing something while no one is looking,” said Nordskog, a nationally known expert who has handled more than 2,100 arson cases. Nordskog hasn’t…
Congressional representatives this week delivered harsh words to Northrop Grumman CEO Wesley Bush over problems and cost overruns on the James Webb Space Telescope being assembled in Redondo Beach. On Wednesday it was announced the telescope would exceed the $8.8 million price ceiling set by Congress in 2011 and take an additional two years, bringing…
Disabled Marine Juan Gonzalez carries US flag to new headquarters with USO president Bob Kurkjian. The Bob Hope USO moved their headquarters at LAX to the historic Theme Building Friday July 27, 2018. The USO offers military members and their families a place to relax,eat, and use online services while passing thru LAX. (Photo by…
Cal State Fullerton alum Rob Fulton, who spent the past 32 years working at the California State University Desert Studies Center in the Mojave Desert, has died at 63. (Photo courtesy of Cal State Fullerton) Rob Fulton, 63, was identified June 28 as the motorist whose body was found outside a vehicle that plunged off…
Unless otherwise noted, all events are on the Cal State Fullerton main campus, 800 N. State College Blvd., and are free and open to the public. Grand Central Art Center Exhibitions The CSUF center is at 125 N. Broadway, Santa Ana. Exhibits are free. Information: 714-567-7233, grandcentralartcenter.com “None of This is Real”: Through performance, installation, photographic…
Despite recent polling showing the state’s voters strongly opposed to new offshore oil drilling, few Southern California’s GOP Congress members are speaking out against it. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in January announced plans to offer 47 new drilling leases offshore of the West, East, Gulf and Alaska coasts. After immediate and prompt opposition from Florida’s…
