Nancy Gardner

Mayor of the City of Newport Beach

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Mayor of the City of Newport Beach, whose city council just voted unanimously to ban firepits on their beaches. She grew up in Newport Beach.

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One of America’s most controversial writers and editors died in New York this morning at the age of 90.  Helen Gurley Brown published “Sex and the Single Girl” in 1962 and was the…

Southern California’s Beach Firepits: Should They Stay or Go?

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