Curt Pringle

Tom Fuentes Is Burning in Hell

And other recent revelations from the world of pedophile-priest protectors in the Diocese of Orange

Congressman Darrell Issa Launches Probe Into the California High Speed Rail Authority

San Diego County Congressman Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of a powerful congressional committee, yesterday told California High Speed Rail Authority officials to preserve records in anticipation of an investigation into potential corruption.Among Issa's concerns about the Authority include ... More >>

Is Julio Perez, 69th Assembly District Candidate, the Most Dangerous Democrat in Orange County?

​Over the weekend, there was some sort of vote about endorsements or some shit involving Democrats in Orange County, a possible party endorsement, and the 69th Assembly District Democratic primary in June. All you need to know is that Julio Perez--formerly of the Orange County Labor Federation--ha ... More >>

OC Young Democrats Reject Tom Daly's State Assembly Candidacy

​At one point in modern Orange County history Anaheim's Tom Daly was considered the biggest rising star in the local Democratic Party.That sentiment ended in 1996 with the stunning emergence of Loretta Sanchez, then an unknown character who toppled legendary, Republican Congressman Robert K. Dorna ... More >>

William Denis Fitzgerald, Gadfly Suing Board of Supervisors for Limiting Speech, and His Weekly Past

​The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California has filed a federal lawsuit in Santa Ana against the Orange County Board of Supervisors on behalf of an Anaheim gadfly who periodically turns up in OC Weekly.Based on the struggles of William Denis Fitzgerald to speak at public me ... More >>

Trust In Dustin?

[Mental Notes] Dusty Rhodes and the River Band front man Apodaca takes his campaign seriously. Will voters?

Will Anaheim Voters Put Their 'Trust in Dustin?'

​With less than two weeks away until election time, more than a dozen candidates are vying for two open seats on the Anaheim City Council. Dustin Apodaca, frontman of Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, is the only one listed as "musician" under official ballot designations. The charismatic ... More >>

Dustin Apodaca, Indie Band Frontman, Seeks to Strike a Chord With Anaheim Council Voters

​The upcoming Anaheim City Council race, which has already seen the entry of a write-in candidate who impersonates Mickey Mouse, has on the official ballot an office-seeker who lists his occupation as "musician."He's Dustin Apodaca, frontman of the soon-to-be defunct, indie-folk-rock Dusty Rhodes ... More >>

Sarah Palin Excites Orange County Republicans For Van Tran

Palin visited OC on Saturday​Orange County has an endless supply of ironies.Friday, ex-President Bill Clinton held a pep rally for Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez in Santa Ana.Yesterday, Sarah Palin--a Fox News contributor and likely 2012 Republican presidential candidate--participated in ... More >>

Anaheim Mayoral Candidates Tom Tait and Denis Fitzgerald Square Off in Court Today

​Termed-out Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle has hand picked his successor: engineering company president and former city councilman Tom Tait.But three months before Election Day, Tait is battling one of his two challengers not in the voting booth but the courthouse.

Anaheim International Film Festival Previews With Temecula Wines, Short Films on a Loop and Super Sexy Manny Medrano

​A "historic moment" happened last night on the third level of the GardenWalk outdoor shopping mall (just follow the Disney Tower of Terror shadow)--historic not just for Anaheim but California and the whole world as we know it, according to Sinan Kanatsiz.www.facebook.com/anaheimfilmAIFF co-found ... More >>

Al Amir Bakery Rises Again

[Hole in the Wall] The return of an institution to Anaheim's Little Arabia

Night-Owl Bus Riders Face the End of the Line

[Hole in the Wall] The return of an institution to Anaheim's Little Arabia

Anaheim Monorail Push Has a Familiar Ring to It

​NEWS ITEM: Anaheim is considering a monorail that runs not just through Disneyland but through Anaheim to the theme park.INSTA-PUNDITRY FROM LYLE LANLEY: Well, sir, the Happiest Place on Earth . . .

Anaheim "High Speed" Mayor Pringle vs. Cerritos "Maglev" Mayor Barrows

Bruce BarrowsThis post about Curt Pringle being elected chairman of the California High Speed Rail Authority board mentions how a commenter on the California High Speed Rail Blog suggested Anaheim's mayor will now be in a position to formally kill the competing magnetic-levitation (Maglev) line that ... More >>

No Ace with Taxes: Santa Ana Mayor Don Papi Pulido and His Family Muffler Shop

Not scheduled for gentrificationThere is perhaps no business more fundamental to an Orange County politico's creation myth than Ace Muffler Shop, on First Street in downtown SanTana and belonging to the family of SanTana Mayor Don Papi "Miguel" Pulido. It was the city's planned demolishing of Ace Mu ... More >>

OC's Dark Political Lord Wants to Expand Influence Where?

Michael J. Schroeder, one of California's most effectiveRepublican Party operatives, has been telling me for months that he's finally tiring of politics and is eager for a new challenge--something more enjoyable. What's been catching Schroeder's interest? Go ahead and guess.No. Killing liberals ... More >>

Art Leahy Leaves OCTA for LA Metro: Good Riddance

News item: Art Leahy, who has led the Orange County Transportation Authority for eight years, accepted an offer to head Los Angeles County's Metro - a transit agency with a $3.4 billion budget. (Courtesy of the Orange County Register) Be careful what you wish for, LA ... *The NOAA, which has ju ... More >>

When Anaheim Mayors First Hung with the Mexicans

I had the pleasure of meeting former Anaheim mayor Bill Thom a couple of times at meetings of Los Amigos, the longtime Latino civil rights group he helped found in 1978. He always occupied a table near the front, a seat of honor unconsciously granted by other Los Amigos members for the gabacho polit ... More >>

SanTana is Finally Mexico Gracias to Don Papi Pulido

I had the pleasure of meeting former Anaheim mayor Bill Thom a couple of times at meetings of Los Amigos, the longtime Latino civil rights group he helped found in 1978. He always occupied a table near the front, a seat of honor unconsciously granted by other Los Amigos members for the gabacho polit ... More >>

Race-Baiting Gigante Supermarket Now Closed

One of the first investigative series I wrote was on Gigante Supermarkets, a multibillion-dollar Mexican chain that wanted to open a store in Anaheim in order to conquer local Latino households. Its efforts made national headlines because this multinational cried the race card after Anaheim planning ... More >>

Cracking Open a Miller

Congressman Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar) has jack-assed his way back into the news. Seems he owns $20,000 in toll road bonds. What's the big deal? Miller is a big-time toll-road supporter, putting his signature on letters of support to the project as well as garnering earmark after earmark of pork-ba ... More >>

"We Do Gentrification Right!"

The Measure D gap has shrunk--a tiny amount, but shrunk. The No on Measure D crowd are getting more optimistic. They have no other choice. "We already saw the bulldozers driving up Flower Street," Orange Juice blogger Thomas Anthony Gordon cracks. I tell them to pray hard, or to at least move to Ana ... More >>

Rewriting Anaheim History

Earlier this morning, Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle dedicated a star on the city's Walk of Stars to the Yorba family, descendants of José Antonio Yorba, one of Orange County's earliest non-Catholic Church landowners. Who cares? you say? Anaheim's Walk of Stars is just a shameless effort to piggyback o ... More >>

Recall Madness!

The nuts and bolts (with extra nuts) of direct democracy gone wild

Harald Martin: Mexican Lover?

Turns out everybody's favorite Mexican-suing, rape-victim-blaming, Zapatistas-supporting school trustee is actually Anaheim's only defender of poor, hopeless Mexicans--and he's getting hell for it. At least that's how Harald Martin describes himself. In a long, rambling letter sent last Friday to an ... More >>

Public Enemy American Idol No. 1

Over at her Deadline Hollywood Daily column, Nikki Finke charts all the controversies swirling around American Idol contestant Tom Lowe. Her piece begins: American Idol 6 would be nothing without its controversy. The latest: 28-year-old ex-British boy-band'er Tom Lowe is the target of not just one ... More >>

The Year in Letters

Keep It Up. You Rock. Dont Ever Change. All That Crap.

Open, Sesame

10. Strange nights and days of the Ali Baba Motel

Letters

'When faced with shit they know and strangers, people usually dont mind the stink of familiarity'

Making Anaheim Even More Glamorous

Amazingly, there are those who think Anaheim isn't glamorous enough already. Unwilling to let the city only bask in the reflected glory of the largest concentration of sweaty, underpaid wannabee actors dressed like popular cartoon characters this side of any place named Six Flags, the city is ready ... More >>

Season's Greetings!

Our Annual Guide to the Angels

Toll Road Rage: Ken Ryan and Friends

Green-Collar Criminals:

Ken Ryan will save us from the environmentalists

Arte and Anaheim: A Valentine's Day Post

It's almost Valentine's Day, so it's only natural that dysfunctional relationships, crushed hopes, and the reek of squandered affection are in the air. What's a little less natural is that they are also in the sports pages. But when it comes Angel's owner Arte Moreno and Anaheim, you'd expect nothin ... More >>

Lou Sheldon's Movin' On Up

OC reverend played the gay card to aid FBI corruption target

Brown, Out!

Historic OC barrios awaiting extinction by gentrification

Capitol Punishment

How Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped worrying and learned to love selling out to special interests

Tom Fuentes,

An open letter to the former GOP chairman, current college trustee, forever self-destroyer

The Envelopes, Please

For your drooling pleasure, OCs sexiest people!

Diary of A Mad Year

2004 regurgitated

The Wars Most Unusual Casualty

Registers relationship with Fox News anchor dead in fight over Iraqi war coverage

Sublime! Ridiculous!

Registers relationship with Fox News anchor dead in fight over Iraqi war coverage

With Friends Like These

GOP official and Edison spokesperson Jo Ellen Allen drew friends, patriots and Republican allies into her husbands multimillion-dollar investment scam

Back to Business

OCs Tom Umberg leaves the White House for the Big Bucks

Compromising Positions

Is the DAs office too partisan to be trusted to investigate HB Republicans?

Hustled

Hustler publisher may out Southern California congressman

Don't Ask Why. . .

Garden Grove council poises to dump the only man who says no to developers

Give It the Old College Guide*

The finer (and lesser) points of local institutions

'BLOOD MONEY' ANTI-ABORTION ACTIVISTS ATTACK COZY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COUNTY REPUBLICANS AND ABORTION DOCTOR

The finer (and lesser) points of local institutions

The Voice of Unreason

GOP mouthpiece Hugh Hewitt approves Register opinions