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March 9, 2007
Rich, Richer, Richest
According to the newly released Forbes annual list of the world's richest people, there are 946 people in the world worth $1 billion or better. That's 178 more billionaires than Forbes counted last year. And yet somehow, even despite that remarkable growth in the membership of the International Bi ... More >>
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April 28, 2007
Toll Road to Ruin, Chapter 11
This month Orange County's bumbling Transportation Corridors Agency (TCA) devised yet another new plan to solve its continual financial disaster woes: The government agency wants to change its name to the Transportation Corridor System (TCS). Oh, and one other minor detail: They also want to spend ... More >>
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January 13, 2006
Orange County developers snared in hot lesbo love in!
Don't know if you caught this buried in the LA "By God" Times' Jan. 12 front-pager on Governor Big Lippy sending his chief-of-staff out to court his big-money Republican donors: their first get together will be this coming Wednesday, Jan. 18, at the Irvine Co.'s "Fantasy" Island Hotel (formerly the ... More >>
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September 13, 2007
Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Hiii Chemerinsky!
The Government has gone Plasma TV crazy: Even though they have an entire cable television channel to carry their lame communications, Santa Ana city officials are spending at least $242,000 more to install 10, 42-inch flat screen TVs at 10 public locations. These TVs will have no sound, and will br ... More >>
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September 15, 2007
Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: Calling Nurse Ratched
UCI Cluster Fuck: News emerged today that Michael J. Schroeder, OC GOP heavyweight, participated with a group of 20 fellow Republicans to pressure the UCI Chancellor from hiring liberal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky as dean of the university's first law school. Michael V. Drake offered the job to Cheme ... More >>
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May 6, 2008
Irvine Company Janitors Prepare to Strike--Good Luck With That
A couple of days ago, members of the Service Employees International Union (SEUI) Local 1877 who clean offices at Fashion Island and the Irvine Spectrum Center voted overwhelmingly to strike against the two facilities' owner, the mighty Irvine Company. The Orange County Labor Federation is on board ... More >>
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June 7, 2008
What's The Deal With OC Billionaires?
We've got the George Argyros-owned apartment empire "systematically ripping off" its largely poor or lower middle class tenants by fabricating excuses for not refunding deposits to literally thousands of people. We've got Donald L. Bren--owner of the Irvine Co. using strong arm tactics on small l ... More >>
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April 6, 2000
Hinns Hair Habulous!
We've got the George Argyros-owned apartment empire "systematically ripping off" its largely poor or lower middle class tenants by fabricating excuses for not refunding deposits to literally thousands of people. We've got Donald L. Bren--owner of the Irvine Co. using strong arm tactics on small l ... More >>
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December 22, 2008
UC Irvine Eggheads on the March
Twenty UC Irvine science and engineering researchers were named last week as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, representing the largest class this year of any American university or institution. Eighty-five current and former UCI faculty members have previously earn ... More >>
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February 24, 2009
Why Women Can't Read Maps: a Theory of Evolution
Research headed by UC Irvine science superstar Francisco Ayala that found the brains of the two sexes react differently to beauty also may help explain why women can't read maps and men can't see what's right under their noses.Ayala -- the Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, Ecology & ... More >>
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March 3, 2009
It's a Quick Read 5
Orange County Register: Four earthquakes have shook North Orange County in a week. Jeez, gay people, what have you done to piss off God now? . . . OC banruptcies jumped 57 percent in January. So you've got to love Southern California Edison's timing in these fucked-up financial times: included ... More >>
Columns
June 12, 2008
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Orange County Register: Four earthquakes have shook North Orange County in a week. Jeez, gay people, what have you done to piss off God now? . . . OC banruptcies jumped 57 percent in January. So you've got to love Southern California Edison's timing in these fucked-up financial times: included ... More >>
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June 5, 2008
[Moxley Confidential] Don Bren Plays Rough With Businesswoman, His Kids-But Courts Play Rough, Too
Orange County Register: Four earthquakes have shook North Orange County in a week. Jeez, gay people, what have you done to piss off God now? . . . OC banruptcies jumped 57 percent in January. So you've got to love Southern California Edison's timing in these fucked-up financial times: included ... More >>
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November 4, 1999
Orange Countys 31 Scariest People
Orange County Register: Four earthquakes have shook North Orange County in a week. Jeez, gay people, what have you done to piss off God now? . . . OC banruptcies jumped 57 percent in January. So you've got to love Southern California Edison's timing in these fucked-up financial times: included ... More >>
Features
September 20, 2007
County Life
People, places, politicos, lawmen, muckrakers, card sharps, & other assorted scalawags & neer-do-wells, plus tall tales & ghost stories.
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August 31, 2006
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People, places, politicos, lawmen, muckrakers, card sharps, & other assorted scalawags & neer-do-wells, plus tall tales & ghost stories.
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May 3, 2007
Toll Road to Ruin
OC agency wants to borrow $4.7 billion more
Columns
February 1, 2007
Diary of a Mad County
Jan. 24-Jan. 30
Columns
August 17, 2006
Diary of a Mad County
Aug. 9 - Aug. 15
News
July 13, 2006
Not Paving Paradise
Second Annual Tree Hugger's Ball
Columns
December 15, 2005
'In My Book, Rod Stewart . . . Kicked the Bucket in 1977'
Second Annual Tree Hugger's Ball
News
November 17, 2005
I Killed It, and Id Kill It Again
How a story about Don Bren, wasnt and does anybody really care (they dont)
Features
December 30, 2004
Diary of A Mad Year
2004 regurgitated
Columns
August 19, 2004
Diary of a Mad County
2004 regurgitated
Columns
June 10, 2004
Diary of a Mad County
2004 regurgitated
News
April 15, 2004
Irvine Co. Confidential
Don Bren wins case against former lover, loses some privacy
Columns
September 18, 2003
On the Outside Looking In
Don Bren wins case against former lover, loses some privacy
Culture
September 18, 2003
Episode 6
Don Bren wins case against former lover, loses some privacy
Columns
June 26, 2003
Diary of a Mad County
Don Bren wins case against former lover, loses some privacy
News
June 19, 2003
Pardon My Hard-on
OCs richest recluse emerges briefly to swing at the Weekly
Features
June 5, 2003
Don Brens Phallus Complex
Billionaire Builders Disregard for Family Planning Evident in His Bedroom and Developments
Features
November 7, 2002
Son of Scary
Evil spawn of OCs Scariest People
News
June 13, 2002
Journalists Who Kiss Ass
The gift that keeps on giving
News
May 4, 2000
Mr. Ingratitude
Note to Don Bren: Take this bailout and shove it
Features
January 7, 1999
April-June
Note to Don Bren: Take this bailout and shove it
News
March 5, 1998
Life of Riley
Questioning the canonization of former supervisor Tom Riley
Blogs
April 28, 2009
To Do Tonight - 4/28
27th Annual Donald Bren Honor's Concert, 7 p.m.This Irvine Co. owner uses strong arm tactics on small local businesses and, in a messy child support case in Los Angeles, declared himself exempt from law because he's so rich, is rockin' the house with an honors concert at OCPAC!Orange County Perform ... More >>
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September 30, 2009
UPDATED: The Irvine Co. Gift That Keeps on Giving
UPDATED WITH PHOTOS FROM THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING . . . Photo by Keith MayCounty Supervisor Bill Campbell, whose district includes the Irvine Co. land in question, is amused by a speaker at Tuesday's board meeting in Santa Ana.He's got a gift. Donald Bren, the secretive, aging multi-billi ... More >>
News
November 5, 2009
Don Bren's Gift That Keeps On Taking Public Money (or Trying to, Anyway)
UPDATED WITH PHOTOS FROM THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING . . . Photo by Keith MayCounty Supervisor Bill Campbell, whose district includes the Irvine Co. land in question, is amused by a speaker at Tuesday's board meeting in Santa Ana.He's got a gift. Donald Bren, the secretive, aging multi-billi ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2009
Are You Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Into Computer Game Platforms?
"Think Inside the Box: Platform Studies" is the topic of the next Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds Speakers Series presentation Friday at UC Irvine.Panelists are: Ian Bogost, associate professor of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology; Nick Mon ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2010
UC Irvine Celebrates 40 Years Computing
UCI.eduComputing at UC Irvine is bearing down on middle age!Friday's "Celebrating 40 Years of Computing @ UCIrvine: Innovating for a Better World: yesterday's vision... today's research... tomorrow's technology" features events and panel discussions about the digital revolution's reach to the Irv ... More >>
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June 29, 2010
Conservationists Now Take Positive View of County Accepting Irvine Co. Land Gift
Janet Wilson blogged here in September and did whatever it is they call it when something that had been blogged later appears in print here in November about Irvine Co. Chairman Donald Bren's "gift" to Orange County of 20,000 acres of rugged wild lands at the county's eastern edge.At first leery ... More >>
Blogs
August 3, 2010
FBI Seeks Man Who Allegedly Stole Billionaire's Tax Refund
Donny's Dough is missingDonald Bren, Orange County's richest man with at least $12 billion, doesn't part easily with money. Just ask some of the teenage children he's had out of wedlock. They've been forced to go to court to collect what amounts to a buck fifty in Bren's imperial world.So Bren mu ... More >>
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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 >>
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August 26, 2010
LA Jury: OC's Richest Man Keeps All of His Fortune
Bren: Happy Father's Day!The Los Angeles Times reported this afternoon that an LA civil jury has voted to support OC billionaire Donald L. Bren's contention that he doesn't need to pay back child support to two of his adult offspring.Bren's out-of-wedlock children had claimed they were each legal ... More >>
News
February 24, 2011
Donald Bren: The Real Legacy
The bulldozers, the concrete, the machinations: What the Los Angeles Times didn't tell you about OC's richest man
Blogs
February 24, 2011
Web Extra: The REAL Donald Bren, With Commentary
The hard copy of this week's cover story--a media criticism on a recent Los Angeles Times profile of Southern California's richest man, Donald Bren--contains a two-page spread that dissects the puff piece.Bren and his Irvine Co. minions are elated with reporter Scott Kraft's story, which presente ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2011
As Ducks Die in OC, Are Gnatcatchers Next?
Small but deadly to land developers.Readers of the Weekly before there was a Weekly may recall the California gnatcatcher, a cute little bird who managed to stop development in its tracks in Orange County in the early 1990s, cause Donald Bren to forever be saddled with a menacing Mr. Burns squint ... More >>
News
October 20, 2011
Occupy OC Plays the Percentages
[Moxley Confidential] Even Orange County has far more 99 percenters than 1 percenters. Can Occupy OC be part of effecting real change?
News
December 1, 2011
Donald Bren's Highway Robbery
[Moxley Confidential] The developer's role in creating the San Joaquin Hills Toll Road is the county's most embarrassing un-prosecuted crime.
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