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November 1, 2006
Chairman Jao
It looks like Irvine Republicans may have finally developed their own alternative to the Hometown Voter Guide. The Irvine City, School and Neighborhood Leaders Committee (ICSNLC) has paid for $28,011 worth of independent expenditures opposing Beth Krom, $7,612 to oppose Mary-Anne Gaido, another $7, ... More >>
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September 13, 2007
Agran's Irvine Machine Gets Challenger
A majority of Irvine voters are Republicans and yet for years Larry Agran's progressive political machine has controlled the mayor's office. It's a reality Republican city councilwoman Christina Shea hopes to shatter next year. This morning Shea announced that she will run for the job herself. She ... More >>
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June 19, 2008
OC Fundie Funder Gives Money to Wacky Reeps, Homo-Haters--And Lou Correa?!
The most influential Orange County man you've never heard of is undoubtedly Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr., heir to the Home Savings (remember that bank?) fortune. He rarely makes public appearances due to suffering from Tourette's Syndrome, but that hasn't stopped him from giving millions of dollars away ... More >>
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August 3, 2008
Muffle Scuffle
*Moved up, 'cause the conversation's fun! Irvine's reigning feet-to-the-fire holder Stephen C. Smith has a very interesting post on his IrvineTattler.com site. Here is an excerpt from “Sukhee Kang Knows Your Birth Date”: Councilman and mayoral candidate Sukhee Kang used a California Public Re ... More >>
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September 19, 2008
If You Don't Support the Great Park Iconics, the Terrorists Win!
Clockwork's Pete Townshendesque ears heard Irvine City Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Christina Shea ask the following at Thursday's Great Park Corporation board of directors meeting at City Hall: “If you could put up on the screen the terrorist area.” Now, it is no state secret that Irvin ... More >>
Columns
February 25, 1999
Sex and the City
Clockwork's Pete Townshendesque ears heard Irvine City Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Christina Shea ask the following at Thursday's Great Park Corporation board of directors meeting at City Hall: “If you could put up on the screen the terrorist area.” Now, it is no state secret that Irvin ... More >>
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March 25, 1999
Letters
Clockwork's Pete Townshendesque ears heard Irvine City Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Christina Shea ask the following at Thursday's Great Park Corporation board of directors meeting at City Hall: “If you could put up on the screen the terrorist area.” Now, it is no state secret that Irvin ... More >>
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November 9, 2000
Letters
Clockwork's Pete Townshendesque ears heard Irvine City Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Christina Shea ask the following at Thursday's Great Park Corporation board of directors meeting at City Hall: “If you could put up on the screen the terrorist area.” Now, it is no state secret that Irvin ... More >>
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October 21, 2008
Irvine Candidate Forum: Mostly Civil, Some Fireworks
Irvine is either a city where the sun does nothing but shine, the streets are lined with gold and bad stuff never ever ever ever ever ever ever happens, or it's a swirling cesspool of cronyism, backroom deals and looming Muslim threats. That was the message voters were given as a busload of people r ... More >>
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October 31, 2008
Who is Down on Measure R (and How Much Are They Down For)?
Shea and Choi: big anti-R funders Measure R on the Irvine ballot asks residents to approve what a great job the Irvine City Council is doing on planning the Great Park on the old El Toro Marine Corps base (or if the measure loses, one supposes, what a piss-poor job they are doing). The conflict-of- ... More >>
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November 3, 2008
More Blast From the Past Fraud Allegations in Irvine Election
This examines a fraud case from the past involving a big donor to, ironically enough, Irvine Citizens for Ethics in Government, the independent committee against Irvine's Measure R, which asks residents to give a vote of approval to the Irvine City Council's planning of the Great Park on the old El ... More >>
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November 5, 2008
You Read the Irvine Election Results Here First
Kang, Krom and Agran: staying put. Allow me to take you way, way, way back in time to last Thursday, Oct. 30, when the following was posted here (and it was in the print edition that hit the streets that day, too): [Irvine mayoral candidate Christina] Shea and fellow incumbent Sukhee Kang are the ... More >>
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November 11, 2008
Irvine City Councilwoman Beth Krom: Liar?
Krom: DON'T read my lips At the Oct. 21 Irvine City Council candidates forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters, Councilwoman Christina Shea, in the middle of an unsuccessful campaign for mayor, said that Lennar Corp., which is building homes ringing the future Great Park, would be allowed to ... More >>
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November 20, 2008
I'm Not Dead Yet
Christina Shea had one of those gut-check moments when Orange County Great Park Corp. board clerk Steve Larsen read the roll at this morning's regular meeting at Irvine City Hall. "How come you didn't call my name?" Shea asked defensively. Last month's defeat in the mayoral race against Sukhee Kang ... More >>
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November 20, 2008
Cirque du Great Park?
The Orange County Great Park Corp. board today unanimously recommended that the Irvine City Council authorize the board's CEO Michael Ellzey to enter formal negotiations with Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil to bring its winter 2010 touring production to the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station ba ... More >>
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November 20, 2008
Great Park's Hired Design Reviewers Get Another $2 Mil to Add to Their Previous $2 Mil
"Um, yeah, that's not gonna work for me." The city of Irvine is paying a private company at least $400 million to design the Great Park. It has set aside $9 million for city staff and an independent company to check the Great Park Design Studio's plans to make sure they more quickly clear future ci ... More >>
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December 22, 2008
Great Park to World: Crisis? What Global Economic Crisis?
You'd think the dotcom crisis was just a bad dream, the housing bubble never burst and we'd mysteriously been time traveled back to the halcyon days of the Clinton economy considering the bullish way the Orange County Great Park Corporation is pushing the financial envelope. &nb ... More >>
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December 31, 2008
Attorney Who Misspent Clients' $2.7 Million Was at Center of Irvine Election Controversies
The Register's Greg Hardesty has the scoop on 38-year-old Irvine attorney Sandeep Baweja admitting to burning through nearly all of a $2.7-million settlement that was supposed to be shared by about 1,000 plaintiffs he represented in a class-action labor lawsuit.According to the story, Baweja played ... More >>
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January 23, 2009
Councilwoman Blames Own Panel for Irvine Sister City's Demise
The Irvine Sister City Foundation--which has helped make Irvine a truly international city thanks to successful partnerships with with Tsukuba, Japan, Hermosillo, Mexico, and Taoyuan, Taiwan--voted to dissolve last night. Despite the denials of Irvine Mayor Suhkee Kang, an Irvine City Coun ... More >>
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February 19, 2009
Will Obama's Stimulus Plan Help Make the OC Great Park a Reality?
Calling the action "momentous," the Great Park Corp. Board of Directors voted unanimously today to recommend the Irvine City Council adopt the Great Park Design Studio's Comprehensive Park Plan, the final planning piece required before the building phase can begin--as soon as March 20--on the ambiti ... More >>
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March 19, 2009
Lennar Corp. Flies Missing Man Formation Over Great Park
The hot question raised at this afternoon's Orange County Great Park study session was whatever became of Lennar Corp.? You know, big Miami-based developer? It's Chinese-made drywall stinks? Victimized by copper thieves in Anaheim's Platinum Triangle? Recently faced financial woes and serious allega ... More >>
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October 30, 2008
Three Local Elections Worth Watching. Call It Morbid Fascination
The hot question raised at this afternoon's Orange County Great Park study session was whatever became of Lennar Corp.? You know, big Miami-based developer? It's Chinese-made drywall stinks? Victimized by copper thieves in Anaheim's Platinum Triangle? Recently faced financial woes and serious allega ... More >>
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December 15, 2005
Agranistas Fire Ordinance
Proposed law takes aim at political consultants, advisers and the media
News
October 13, 2005
Agran on the Warpath
Indians are the new bogeyman in the war against an already defeated airport
News
September 22, 2005
Criticize Larry Agran, Go to Jail
Irvine's Rules of Ethical and Open Governance would restrict criticism of politicians, passing of "GO", collection of $200
News
July 21, 2005
During Brain Surgery, Keep Your Eye on the Ball, You Cockroach
The Agran team responds to evidence of ethics problems with analogy, metaphor, psychoanalysis
News
July 7, 2005
Agran Dispenses Great Pork
Massive PR spending will aid park chairmans allies in upcoming election
News
June 23, 2005
Great Park With All the Fixins
Agran doling out pork at $441 per hour
Columns
September 2, 2004
Letters
Agran doling out pork at $441 per hour
News
August 26, 2004
Agrans Filibuster
Marathon council meeting could mark the end of the Irvine mayor
News
August 12, 2004
The Lunch From Hill
That stench coming from Irvine City Hall? Its convicted felonand energy lobbyistFrank Hill
News
August 5, 2004
Larry Agrans Power Trip
Irvine mayors planned public utility could enrich a political pal
News
October 3, 2002
Press Clips
Why did the Metro kill Hugh Hewitt's piece on Larry Agran?
News
April 11, 2002
Mayor Moonbeam, Meet Donald Bren
The Irvine Co. backs its old nemesis: Larry Agran
Columns
March 28, 2002
Letters
The Irvine Co. backs its old nemesis: Larry Agran
Film
March 29, 2001
Sex, Drugs and Narcissism
The fifth annual Calleys
News
December 7, 2000
The Great Park Is Coming Back
El Toro Airport Watch No. 149
News
September 30, 1999
Schlessinger, Shea, Sheesh!
Learning from the master baiter
News
September 9, 1999
Orange Countys Least Powerful People The First-Ever Weaklies!
Learning from the master baiter
Features
February 18, 1999
OC's Sexiest People
Learning from the master baiter
Blogs
May 12, 2009
As Stephen Smith Leaves Town, Irvine's "Tattler" Calls on Others to Step Up
Stephen C. Smith calls on others to keep tabs on Irvine City Hall.CORRECTED!Lost in Santa Ana a few months ago, half paying attention to the street signs and half to Larry Mantle's KPCC interview show blaring out of the car speakers, I heard the host steer his Orange County "roundtable" guests--Oran ... More >>
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August 10, 2009
"Press Conference" Against Iran Government Produces No News, Much Political Support in Irvine
Rep. Laura Richardson (inset), Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Rep. Ed Royce, together at last.If the goal of a press conference is to produce a "big announcement" that makes news and warrants coverage--the usual reason one calls a press conference in the first place--then the Iran Sup ... More >>
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August 12, 2009
Park Place Owners Have a Rocky History in Irvine
Maguire had this office tower built at Park Place in 2006.Maguire Properties' announcement today that it has sold its Park Place I office property in Irvine is just the latest twist for a massive campus that seems to have been dogged by controversy since the Los Angeles-based developer acqu ... More >>
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October 2, 2009
Agran Crony and Gore Campaigner Agrees to Guilty Pleas in Federal Wire Fraud Case
Irvine attorney Sandeep Baweja, the 39-year-old money man for that town's "progressive" political boss Larry Agran and a former official with Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, agreed in court papers to plead guilty to two felony charges related to a scheme where he ripped off nearly all of the $ ... More >>
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July 26, 2010
Coming Up Next From the Christina Shea Echo Chamber: Contamination Under the Great Park
Christina Shea is not termed out as an Irvine City Council member until November, but she has given her first exit interview.If you expected the longtime City Hall fixture--who served as mayor from 1996 to 2000--to leave quietly, you obviously haven't been paying attention. Indeed, Shea lets slip ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2010
[UPDATED:] Irvine Does Shuffleboard Shuffle in Response to Grand Jury Report Blasting Great Park Funding
UPDATE: As expected, the Irvine City Council approved its fuck-off response to an Orange County Grand Jury report critical of Great Park financing (see end of post) . . .The Orange County Register's Sean Emery gets great quote from Irvine City Councilwoman Christina Shea, who was reacting to the ... More >>
News
August 19, 2010
The Great Park: Hot Air?
Thanks to Larry Agran, a few people have gotten very rich from the county's proposed $1.2 billion, still-not-built park
Columns
August 26, 2010
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Thanks to Larry Agran, a few people have gotten very rich from the county's proposed $1.2 billion, still-not-built park
Blogs
October 25, 2010
Irvine Candidate Jeff Lalloway Fired By Fellow Republican
lallowayforirvine2010.comLalloway: Give me some Excedrin!There are many things a rookie Republican candidate doesn't want to happen two weeks before an election.Yes, one might be to get caught pants-less with a naked minor on a roof at daybreak.Another, though less dramatic, might be to get fired ... More >>
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October 25, 2010
Jeff Lalloway: I Was Attacked For Questioning City of Irvine Spending
Lalloway: I'm being sabotaged.Jeff Lalloway feels sucker punched tonight and his attacker wasn't the media or liberal Democrats who run Irvine, one of Orange County's two Democratic controlled cities.Lalloway, a Republican candidate for the Irvine City Council, says a fellow Republican, retiring ... More >>
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