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[Summer Guide] Guerrilla Gardeners Strike an Earthy Tone as They Beautify Medians and Empty Lots
June 4, 2009Toll Road Opposition for the Lazy
Just when you think the government's a complete and total failure, something happens to restore your faith. Why, just this afternoon I was perusing the Governor's website, filling out a webmail information request on Chuck DeVore's industrial hemp bill and bemoaning my lack of decent contacts up in Sac-Town, when something caught my eye. A quick visit to www.govmail.ca.gov brings up a helpful, simple page where you can list your contact details, your email, the issue with which you're concerne
August 21, 2006Bates: Fishy
If only it were a smile contest... I thought the Transportation Corridor Agencies were getting desperate when I saw their ads on cable. But now it looks like they're going so far as to cobble together campaign mailers for supporters. I say this because Pat Bate's latest mailer, which uses TCA endorsements, graphics and basic formatting, looks like it could have come straight from the toll road agencies. It lists her supporters from the Senate and Assembly Transportation Committees, OCTA, and bo
October 10, 2006Thursday's Headlines & Surprises
Speed Eating: Would you eat 42 peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches in 10 minutes for $1,500? Patrick “P-Rock” Beroletti, a twentysomething-year-old Chicago cook, won the Drum Corps International World Peanut Butter and Jelly Eating Championship this week at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park. (Earlier this year, Beroletti devoured 47 donuts in five minutes.) Tim “Eater X” Janus dunked his treats in a milk-water mixture and nabbed second place with 37.5 sandwiches. Rich “The Locust” LeF
August 9, 2007Thirteen OC Bridges Deemed Structurally Deficient
According to the California State Bridge Inventory released by Caltrans last week, 13 bridges in Orange County have been classified as "structurally deficient." But, according to Caltrans, this doesn't mean that bridges are going to start collapsing all over the place. On the inventory, Caltrans specifies (repeatedly) that "structurally deficient" means that bridges need repairs to prevent minor problems from becoming more serious and doesn't mean the bridge is in danger of collapsing. Some of
August 13, 2007Janet Nguyen Begins Campaigning Early, Litters the 22 Freeway
In a couple of months, Orange County Supervisor Janet Nguyen will seek reelection in the First Supervisorial District. The race will be brutal, as Nguyen will have to fend off Trung "Don't Call me Tan" Nguyen (whom she beat earlier this year in a special election by a scant three votes) and whomever the Democrats trot out to the abattoir. OC Blog reports Janet will kick off her fundraising efforts on Nov. 5, but she's already scored one of the most prestigious endorsements in Orange County--the
October 24, 2007What you missed over the weekend: Part V
OC's lamesauce Saturday night lineup forced music editor Dave Segal and photographer/Le Receptionist Leslie Agan to fly to The Prospector in Long Beach to catch The Vandelles, LSD and the Search for God and the Stevenson Ranch Davidians. The Vandelles were pretty awesome, the other acts. . .not so much. Read Dave-o's report here and flip through some of Leslie's pictures. Also jaded by the OC music scene on Saturday, Weekly contributor Waleed Rashidi drove up to The Press in Claremont to see S
January 14, 2008Cheap Date
UPDATE: Photos are up. By Amanda Parsons and Erin DeWitt When the press release for a Newport Beach bachelor auction came across our desks, we were all over that shit. And when we heard there was going to be an open bar? The deal got even sweeter. You would think that a room full of eligible men, free flowing alcohol and some B-list reality TV stars would make for a fun evening. It didn’t.
January 25, 2008Thanks For Nothing
The Transportation Corridor Agencies, whose Foothill-South (241) toll road extension was recently vetoed by the California Coastal Commission, sent out the following letter to its supporters. My edits are in italicized bold. Dear Supporter: Thank you for your ongoing support for the completion of the 241 Toll Road. Such willful ignorance is to be commended. Special appreciation goes to all those who attended the February 6 Coastal Commission hearing in Del Mar. Sorry we only paid you for half
February 21, 2008Minutemen-Mexican Fundraiser!
June 24, 2008A Blast from SanTana's Gentrification Past
An antiquarian source recently rewarded us with a 1995 Orange County Register clip that is instrumental in understanding SanTana's current gentrification wars. Seems city planners wanted to build a pedestrian bridge over Interstate 5 connecting 20th Street in the mid-1990s so that kiddies could have an easier time attending Hoover Elementary School. Problem was that the 20th Street neighborhood west of the 5 is mostly apartment complexes filled with wabs, while the neighborhood east of the 5 is
July 8, 2008San Diego Minutemen Get Back Their San Clemente Adopt-a-Highway Sign
Mere hours after the Weekly's story regarding the tale of two Minuteman Project Adopt-a-Highway signs hit the streets, a federal judge ordered Caltrans to restore the one on Interstate 5 near the San Onofre immigration checkpoint sponsored by the San Diego Minutemen. In a misleading email sent out last night ("misleading" only because the subject line read " My heartfelt thanks go out to you!" and I thought it was about me, but in reality it was a mass e-mail), San Diego Minutemen founder Jeff S
July 25, 2008This Week in the OC Weekly
July 25, 2008Toll Road Warriors
September 25, 2008A River Runs Beneath It
January 20, 2000Toll Road "Bailout" Request Blasted
Groups that have banded together to fight the 241 toll road extension through San Onofre State Park today accused the private agencies that operate Orange County's financially troubled network of toll roads of seeking a $1.1 billion federal bailout. The Transportation Corridor Systems (TCS) -- a joint powers agency created in 2003 by the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor Agency, which operates State Route 73, and the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency, which runs State Rout
October 16, 2008Return of the Native?
December 5, 2002This Is How They Do It About the O.C.
May 5, 2005Say You Will Build It, and They Will Come . . . If the 'It' Is a Toll Road Over Trestles Parkland
September 25, 2008Do the Differing Fates of Two Minutemen Freeway Signs Show a Double Standard at Caltrans?
July 24, 2008News
August 31, 2006Construction Cuisine
January 9, 2003Hell on Wheels
August 3, 2000Frat Brat Going to Jail for Hate Crimes
WEB EXCLUSIVE! Gaston Gastelum avoids prison with plea and apology
June 7, 2007Road to Nowhere Fast
Foothill-South delayed until 2011, possibly forever
March 15, 2007Diary of a Mad County
November 3, 2005A Map of Misreading
August 25, 2005Caravana Chicken
March 10, 2005Next Stop: Immobility
An A to Z Guide to Surviving the Death/Pause/Sunshine of the CenterLine
February 17, 2005Go Time
January 13, 2005George Bushs Joint
October 2, 2003Diary of a Mad County
July 24, 2003A Road Runs Through It
July 3, 2003T
October 24, 2002Diary of a Mad County
May 9, 2002Diary of a mad county
April 25, 2002Diary of a Mad County
March 21, 2002Im a Puss
February 28, 2002Diary of a mad county
January 3, 2002Brea
September 27, 2001IMAXed Out
August 16, 2001Tim the Soldier and Nixons Coming
May 24, 2001Golden Smog
May 17, 2001Excerpts: Part 3
September 14, 2000Man Merges Successfully
April 6, 2000Highway Robbery - Toll Roads
January 20, 2000Nice Wheels!
November 18, 1999Detour of the Damned
June 10, 1999Ass Fault
May 27, 1999Is OCTA Sacrificing Transit Service for Executive Pay?
Courtesy of OCTAWill Kempton moves to OCTA from Caltrans, where he has served for five years.The hiring of Caltrans director Will Kempton for the Orange County Transportation Authority's vacant executive director position would seem like a step down. After all, the Schwarzenegger appointee oversees 50,000 lane miles of state highways, an annual budget of $14 billion and $10 billion in current transportation projects under way. He is expected to begin Aug. 3 at a regional agency with a $1.2 annua
June 22, 2009
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