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Some Orange County homeless get extended motel stays, pot may get a tax reduction, the ups and downs of private space exploration
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Mar 19, 2018
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Some Orange County homeless get extended motel stays, pot may get a tax reduction, the ups and downs of private space exploration

An agreement has been reached to extend some OC homeless motel stays, recreational pot and the effort to make legal sales more competitive, "Space Barons" and cosmos colonization.

A homeless encampment located around the Santa Ana Civic Center in Orange County.
A homeless encampment located around the Santa Ana Civic Center in Orange County.
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An agreement has been reached to extend some OC homeless motel stays, recreational pot and the effort to make legal sales more competitive, "Space Barons" and cosmos colonization.

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County officials agreed Saturday to consider extending motel stays for some homeless people who were evicted from an encampment along the Santa Ana river last month.
The sale of recreational marijuana has been legal in California since the turn of the new year. But almost three months in, legal pot is still struggling to establish itself.
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The tragic death of a family of four in their van sheds light on the hidden world of homeless families and the obstacles they face in finding available resources.
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Elon Musk's venture and other privately operated space companies, including Blue Origin run by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, have had plenty of ups and downs.
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Snapchat is a social media behemoth in Venice, where it grew so much that it frustrated some locals. Now the company is moving part of its staff to Santa Monica.
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"Black Panther" continues to rule the box office, five weekends straight. That hasn't happened since "Avatar" back in 2009. Here's why that's significant.