Tom Kisken
Health Care Reporter at Ventura County Star
Health care reporter, Packers fan, fantasy sports geek and golfer.
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6 days ago |
golfweek.usatoday.com | Tom Kisken
• The course will initially operate as a 14-hole layout. • Some golfers worry funding for the full course will not materialize. A landmark municipal golf course in California, shut down after being devastated by floods in early 2023, will reopen May 2, city officials said. The reopened Buenaventura Golf Course in Ventura will operate as a 14-hole layout while the city continues to pursue plans to make changes at the site to reduce future flood risks and bring back the full 18-hole course.
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6 days ago |
vcstar.com | Tom Kisken
The course will initially operate as a 14-hole layout. Efforts to reduce flood risks will continue. Some golfers worry funding for the full course will not materialize. A landmark Ventura municipal golf course shut down after being devastated by floods in early 2023 will reopen May 2, city officials said.
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3 weeks ago |
vcstar.com | Tom Kisken
Oxnard immigration rallies brought arrests, citations. Flood of protests started after the inauguration. Protesters point to rallies coming April 5. Picket signs are being waved everywhere – in front of a Tesla dealership in Camarillo, at a Ventura post office, outside a national park visitor center and on the corner of Tapo Canyon and Alamo Street in Simi Valley. “Bad DOGE,” they say.
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4 weeks ago |
vcstar.com | Tom Kisken
An attorney argues green card deportations may be unconstitutional. Naturalized citizens worry about relatives with green cards. No local green card deportations reported. It’s not outright fear they feel. It’s trepidation. On a Friday near the end of Ramadan, hundreds of Muslims gathered for afternoon prayers at a Simi Valley mosque. Many of them immigrated to the country decades ago from Jordan, Egypt and elsewhere. Most are naturalized U.S. citizens — Americans.
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4 weeks ago |
vcstar.com | Tom Kisken
Tom KiskenPeople of all ages fill a Ramadan prayer service at the Islamic Society of Simi Valley on Friday, March 21, 2025. Some of the people here worry about recent enforcement action taken against immigrants in the country legally. TOM KISKEN/THE STARMohamed Elbeih, an imam from Riverside, speaks at a Ramadan prayer services at the Islamic Society of Simi Valley on Friday, March 21, 2025.
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