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Claudia Alvarez

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Santa Ana Water Rates Among World's Best

    ​Santa Ana, an Orange County city whose murders, graduation rates and housing values make it constantly in need of a hug, at least has bragging rights when it comes to one thing.Tap water.For the second straight year, the county seat's Water Resources Division has been recognized for producing amo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Stop Stealing Our Cars, New Documentary, Shows Santa Ana's Fight Against Unjust Impound Policies

    ​Working-class immigrant residents of SanTana have been beneficiaries of new, fairer vehicle impound policies since October 1, 2011, when activists scored a solid grassroots victory. Stop Stealing Our Cars, set to premiere this Saturday at El Centro Cultural de Mexico in the city's downtown, is an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Santa Ana Councilwoman Gets Caught Talking About Political Dirty Tricks on Public Train, Cries Invasion of Privacy

    ​SanTana City Council member and current 69th Assembly District candidate Michele Martinez has never been the smartest taco in the combo plate, especially since she's decided to align herself with SanTana Mayor-for-Life Don Papi Pulido and the Wicked Witch of Washington Square, Claudia Alvarez. Bu ... More >>

  • News

    December 29, 2011

    What We Learned

    The Year on Navel Gazing and Beyond!

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Will One Broadway Plaza, Santa Ana Freudian Project for City Council, Finally Get Built?

    ​Wow, I gotta hop on the wayback machine to remember what was the first time I wrote about One Broadway Plaza, the proposed 37-story office tower in a residential SanTana neighborhood that would be the tallest building in Orange County history AND the biggest Freudian monument yet erected for the ... More >>

  • News

    October 27, 2011

    OC's Scariest People 2011

    Celebrating the Day of the Dead with some of the county's worst offenders

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2011

    [UPDATE: Notes from the Protest] Anti-Gentrification Protest to Hit Downtown Santa Ana TOMORROW, During Art Walk

    Photo by Carlos CorderoThe Don Papi in his latest conquered territory...​UPDATE: For a group that's about to get booted from its space due to gentrifiers, members and friends of the Centro Cultural de México had a gay old time yesterday at their anti-gentrification protest during the SanTana Arti ... More >>

  • Music

    July 28, 2011

    The Yost Theater Is Ready for Its Closeup

    The renovated, revamped venue is ready for its grand reopening. So why aren't all of its downtown Santa Ana neighbors celebrating?

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Who's Behind the Call for Artists and Musicians to Boycott the Yost?

    ​The SanTana chattering classes are, well, chattering over news that an anonymous letter is calling on artists and musicians to not play at the Yost, the historic theater that's proving to be the Chavez Ravine of the city with its epic tales of poor-man's paradise, city-father usurping, and pathet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Notes, Quotes, and Observations from Last Night's AirTalk with Larry Mantle Town Hall on Santa Ana Gentrification

    More than 100 people in attendance last night...​With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from last night's epic town hall on SanTana gentrification wars held by KPCC-FM 89.3's AirTalk with Larry Mantle. *More than 100 people attended la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    [UPDATED AGAIN: Event TONIGHT, Now SRO and with New Guests] KPCC's AirTalk With Larry Mantle to Host Special on Santa Ana's Gentrification Wars March 28

    ​UPDATE: All seating for tonight's event is GONE; there is a waiting list, but the better bet is to show up and stand in the aisles to listen. Show up early--doors open at 6 p.m.Also, there are one-and-a-half replacements. Taking the place of Downtown Inc. is SanTana councilmember Busty Bustamante ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Santa Ana Councilmembers Michelle Martinez and Claudia Alvarez: Frenemies for Life?

    Martinez​I must admit, it was an absolutely jarring St. Patrick's Day for me, and not because of the special Jameson I imbibed at Memphis at the Santora in SanTana. Just before that, I went to the opening of Chapter One: the modern local, the pretentiously named new restaurant in downtown SanTana ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2010

    Sunday News Notes

    News highlights include:Relax, sir. It's only .000034 percent of your wealth.​Is OC's Biggest Billionaire Stingy?Two of Donald L. Bren's children are expected to take their father to court this week in Los Angeles in hopes of winning $800,000 in retroactive monthly child support payments because, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Art Pedroza: Santa Ana Looking To Dump Controversial Council Member

    Benavides in big trouble?​I didn't attend tonight's Santa Ana city council meeting, but influential political blogger Art Pedroza is reporting that he thinks the council majority "has had it with" member David Benavides and might be recruiting a candidate to replace him.Benavides' apparent sin? At ... More >>

  • News

    July 22, 2010

    Boss Mike Harrah

    [Moxley Confidential] Santa Ana sends a message to One Broadway Plaza's developer: Anything you say, sir

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    OC's Proposed Tallest Building Gets Energetic Union, City Backing

    Build it and they will come?​Thanks in part to enthusiastic labor union support the Santa Ana City Council tonight unanimously approved five development agreement concessions to a wealthy Newport Beach real estate developer who is proposing to build Orange County's tallest building.The smiling, re ... More >>

  • News

    January 28, 2010

    Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido Voted To Aid a Vending-truck Business In Which His Father Was Involved

    Build it and they will come?​Thanks in part to enthusiastic labor union support the Santa Ana City Council tonight unanimously approved five development agreement concessions to a wealthy Newport Beach real estate developer who is proposing to build Orange County's tallest building.The smiling, re ... More >>

  • News

    January 7, 2010

    [Moxley Confidential] Accused Drug Dealer Walks After Deputy's Threats to Him Revealed

    Build it and they will come?​Thanks in part to enthusiastic labor union support the Santa Ana City Council tonight unanimously approved five development agreement concessions to a wealthy Newport Beach real estate developer who is proposing to build Orange County's tallest building.The smiling, re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2009

    From the Mixed-Up Bankrupcty Filing of Mr. Robert Bisno

    Bisno: Doesn't pay bills​A source sent us the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of Robert Bisno, the man who essentially bought an election for SanTana Mayor Don Papi Pulido's regime by pouring tens of thousands of dollars into a campaign that extended term limits for the SanTana city council. Maybe th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Week: Bullets for Bangers!

    Nothing like a good old gang-related murder in Santa Ana to set off all the Register readers who would like nothing more than to see the city cordoned off by immigration cops and the entire non-English speaking population rolled into Tijuana-bound paddy wagons. The latest example? This story from We ... More >>

  • News

    January 1, 2009

    The Best Posts of 2008, Direct From the Weekly's Parallel Universe

    Nothing like a good old gang-related murder in Santa Ana to set off all the Register readers who would like nothing more than to see the city cordoned off by immigration cops and the entire non-English speaking population rolled into Tijuana-bound paddy wagons. The latest example? This story from We ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Live from the Banana Republic...

    Nothing like a good old gang-related murder in Santa Ana to set off all the Register readers who would like nothing more than to see the city cordoned off by immigration cops and the entire non-English speaking population rolled into Tijuana-bound paddy wagons. The latest example? This story from We ... More >>

  • News

    October 30, 2008

    Three Local Elections Worth Watching. Call It Morbid Fascination

    Nothing like a good old gang-related murder in Santa Ana to set off all the Register readers who would like nothing more than to see the city cordoned off by immigration cops and the entire non-English speaking population rolled into Tijuana-bound paddy wagons. The latest example? This story from We ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2008

    Busty Bustamante Losing Sense of Reality

    *Updated, with new info on the bottom... I will always be a fan of Art Pedroza, the county's original political blogger and the man behind Orange Juice!, because he's living proof that people's political philosophies can change—in Art's case, he went from a homo-hating, MEChA-bashing Republican t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2008

    First OC Book Signing for Orange County: A Personal History Mucho Success

    With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from my Sept. 18 book signing at the Yost Theater for my new book, Orange County: A Personal History: *About 500 people showed up to hear my lecture! About 500! I add the qualifier because the Yost ... More >>

  • News

    September 11, 2008

    This Is Your Life: A Companion Guide/Shameless Propaganda for 'Orange County: A Personal History'

    With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from my Sept. 18 book signing at the Yost Theater for my new book, Orange County: A Personal History: *About 500 people showed up to hear my lecture! About 500! I add the qualifier because the Yost ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2008

    Santa Ana Now Officially Run by Lazy Mexicans

    *Updated, with new information on the bottom... As the largest city in Orange County, SanTana needs a more-committed city council than, say, Laguna Niguel. Unfortunately, the county seat is cursed with buffoons, a veritable clowncil, to use the term of Orange Juice! bomb-thrower Art Pedroza. We've ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2008

    Some Words of Advice for Mike Harrah

    Was walking up Main Street in SanTana the other day, and who was driving a massive Cadillac Escalade without a care to gas prices? None other than Mike Harrah, the Weekly's former landlord, one of many sugar papis to councilmember Claudia Alvarez, and the man who wants to build a 37-story building n ... More >>

  • News

    March 6, 2008

    Controversial Developer Robert Bisno Brings His Grease-a-Palm Politics to Santa Ana

    Was walking up Main Street in SanTana the other day, and who was driving a massive Cadillac Escalade without a care to gas prices? None other than Mike Harrah, the Weekly's former landlord, one of many sugar papis to councilmember Claudia Alvarez, and the man who wants to build a 37-story building n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2008

    Hispanic Bar Association Hijinks!

    With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from yesterday's Orange County Hispanic Bar Association annual fundraising dinner: *Greeting the well-dressed, well-coiffed crowd as they drove toward the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel were about ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2008

    Obama's OC Man is My Boy

    Ben Escobedo is my college pal from Chapman University and a Morrissey freak. He's also the point man for Barack Obama's campaign in Orange County and the Inland Empire and just called me on his cell phone to rave about Obama's grassroots effort in OC. "There are 18-year-olds who just had their bir ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2008

    Somebody is Reading Jennifer Delson

    We've always been big fans of Los Angeles Times SanTana reporter Jennifer Delson because her stories are how journalism should be: hard-hitting, about unserved communities, and making a difference. And her skills have never been more evident than this past weekend, when Delson wrote a piece about th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2008

    I Remember Claudia Alvarez

    I remember SanTana councilmember Claudia Alvarez. I remember back in early 2000, when a friend of mine asked if I could help stuff envelopes for a campaign he was working on for a deputy district attorney. I remember meeting her--young, energetic, sincere--and thinking I wanted more politicians like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2008

    Correction Regarding Robert Bisno's Influence on Santa Ana Politics

    We must apologize for two huge errors we made in our recent post regarding developer Robert Bisno's campaign contribution love affair with SanTana councilmember Claudia Alvarez. We had reported that Bisno and his friends contributed $36,300 to her failed 2006 Assembly race, but we were grossly off. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    None of His Bisno-iss

    Only in SanTana can an effort to impose term limits on Papi Pulido transform into a ballot measure to extend term limits for councilmembers. But that's exactly what happened with Measure D, which SanTana voters will decide on February 5 and is one of the most laughable pieces of crap to grace Orange ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2008

    Time to Give Santa Ana's Mayor a Nickname!

    Today, bad-ass Los Angeles Times reporter Jennifer Delson writes about the idiotic Measure D, the SanTana ballot measure that would extend city council term limits from eight years to 12 years. She reveals that Measure D originally started as an attempt by residents and councilmembers to install ter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2008

    Have Money, Will Vote: How Carlos Bustamante Pays Back Donors

    Part dos of 3... Every day, we drive by City Place, the unfinished development across the street from MainPlace Mall with cool live/work lofts and horrid restaurants (seriously: McCormick & Schmidt's and Corner Bakery as the anchor tenants??? Can't wait 'til Mother's Market opens to save us from t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2007

    Register, Times Slam Santa Ana Good--And a Challenge

    If there's one thing that Orange County Register editorial writer Steven Greenhut hates more than Sheriff Mike Carona, it's city-controlled urban planning, and he ripped SanTana officials a new one and then some yesterday in a piece blasting the city's much-ballyhooed Renaissance Specific Plan. Prop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2007

    Fight! Fight! Fight!

    While Latinas have earned a reputation for having “spicy” personalities (just ask the governor!), it was something else to watch Santa Ana council member Michele Martinez and Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez exchanging insults and dirty looks during tonight’s city council meeting. Things starte ... More >>

  • News

    February 8, 2007

    Puta Politics

    Its about time someone called Loretta Sancheza whore

  • News

    June 15, 2006

    The Lovable Loser

    Ryan Gene Williams has no chance this Novemberand thats why we like him

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2006

    Dem Bones

    First there was yesterday's Election Day lunch--the GOP-heavy shindig where Weekly editor Will Swaim only got halfway through the hilarious speech I wrote for him because he was shuffling back and forth between pages and so lost my text and thus never got to the payoff, "Thank you, ladies and gentle ... More >>

  • News

    February 24, 2005

    Slapp-Happy

    Anti-tower activists claim developer and friends are suing them into silence

  • Columns

    July 29, 2004

    Letters

    Anti-tower activists claim developer and friends are suing them into silence

  • Columns

    March 18, 2004

    Letters

    Anti-tower activists claim developer and friends are suing them into silence

  • Columns

    March 4, 2004

    The Times They Are A-Changin . . . Back!

    The GOP gets funky, by which of course we mean they smell

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