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Defending champion Bell has been inconsistent but still is favored to win the Eastern League.

The Trump administration has generally favored development of fossil fuels over clean energy.

President Obama continued somewhat in that vein by dangling huge grants — as schools were trying to recover from recession funding cuts — to adopt favored policies, including using test scores to evaluate teachers.

Once dominated by Reagan-era Republicans who favored traditional conservative policies including opposing the Russia-led Soviet Union and favoring free trade, the California GOP is being reshaped by Trump’s populism.

There is a trope, favored by the politically facile, that government should operate more like a business.