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Novartis invites Carlsbad to $23 billion investment push

Carlsbad just joined the very small club of places where science quietly does something important while everyone else is arguing on cable news. The Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has opened a new 10,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Carlsbad, built not for vitamin gummies or mood-enhancing seltzer but for cancer drugs that come with an expiration date measured in hours. Not days. Not weeks. Hours. Like milk,…

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Think The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry died in the 19th Century? Don’t tell Ramona.

For many a year, Karen Carlson, a steadfast farmer and rancher in the rolling hills of Ramona, has tilled the soil and tended her groves with an unyielding spirit. Now, she’s setting her sights on something larger than her own five-acre spread. With a heart as big as the valley itself, she’s rallying to breathe new life into the California State Grange and rekindle the…