Economic Issues

William Pilgrim and the All Grows Up Find New Hope and a New Home

The band's creator, Ishmael Herring, goes from life on the streets to life in the studio

Hunger Games: Food Insecurity Spikes in County, State

If noodles, beanie-weenies and powdered milk have been the staples of your diet the last few years, you're not alone.Roughly 379,000 adults in Orange County struggled to put adequate food on the table during the Great Recession, according to a study released Monday by the UCLA Center for Health ... More >>

(Government) Cheesey Orange County: OC Second in State With Number of Adults Who Are "Food Insecure"

​According to the latest California Health Interview Survey, Orange County has the second-most number of low-income adults in the state who are food insecure - defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as "limited or uncertain availability of traditionally adequate and safe foods".  Presu ... More >>

President Barack Obama's Official Remarks in CdM--with Applause and Laughter Breaks

​The White House has released an official transcript of President Barack Obama's remarks at a breakfast fundraiser in Corona del Mar this morning--complete with laugh and applause breaks.Admission to the event started at $2,500 and rose to $35,800 depending on what kind of access one wanted to The ... More >>

OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Arnold F. Peek, Santa Ana Butcher

​When the Brave New Urbanists talk about the good old days of SanTana, the days before Mexicans destroyed the Golden City, they inevitably point to people like Arnold F. Peek. Like the Brave New Urbanists, he wasn't originally from the area, hailing instead from Kansas. Like the Brave New Urbanist ... More >>

Irvine Forces City Contractors to Pay their Workers a Living Wage--Unless They're Mexican Crop Pickers

Agran (at right): Can he finally do something progressive after years of being a tool?​This summer, the city of Irvine and its apologists made much about its decision to force any contractors doing work for the city to pay its workers a living wage, that progressive wet dream in effect wherever fo ... More >>

Poor Muppet to Debut on Sesame Street

​Sesame Street announced that a new, "poverty-stricken Muppet" will talk about hunger struggles on Sesame Street. Named Muppet Lily, her family deals with "food insecurity,"  and will part of a prime-time special with country singer Brad Paisley and his wife Kimberly Williams Paisle ... More >>

[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 >>

Downgraded S&P Rating, China, Cuba, Obama, The Illuminati and Their Scary Ties to Newport Beach

​As Republicans in Congress and Democrats in the White House argue over whose role in the debt-ceiling crisis led Standard & Poor's for the first time ever to downgrade U.S debt from an AAA to AA rating, evidence mounts that the cause for this possible push into a double-dip recession was bor ... More >>

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?

UPDATED: Artists in Santa Ana Artists Village in Revolt over Proposed Valet Service for Area, Cry Gentrification, Laugh at Laguna Beach

​Updated, with new info on the bottom:For years, people have accused the artists in the SanTana Artist Village, that heavily subsidized attempt by Mayor Don Papi Pulido and others to bring "culture" into the city, of gentrifying the downtown. Now, some of those artists are accusing the city of fin ... More >>

Mexican Macroeconomics

Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers?

Explaining the Shitty Economy Through LMFAO's 'Shots'

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​The Great Recession may have been long declared over, but the pain continues for many everyday people. For the curious, the bottoming out of the U.S. economy prompted inquiry into what the hell went down. The subject of economics, however, is all too often unnecessar ... More >>

Oliver Stone's South of the Border Out on DVD

​South of the Border, Oliver Stone's documentary about the leftist revolution in several South American countries, wasn't exactly embraced by critics when it hit theaters in June. Entertainment Weekly summed it up as "rose-colored agitprop."

The New and Improved Huntington Beach! (With Interest)

The new Huntington Beach?​After having received the unanimous approval of the Huntington Beach Planning Commission in January, an ambitious proposal to remake the city's main corridor is scheduled to go before the City Council on March 1. Many suspect the plan will get the council's nod as well. T ... More >>

How Many Anti-Illegals, Anti-Liberal Buzzwords Can Royce Work Into His Anti-Healthcare Rant?

Rantin' Royce!​It's the home game sweeping the Republic: Count how many anti-liberal/anti-illegals/pro-hater buzzwords and references are in the latest email to supporters from Rep. Ed Royce (R-The White Side of Fullerton).The email (Punctuation, capitalizations and boldface intact) follows after ... More >>

Not Another Crappy Orange County Teen Reality Show . . . Oh, Wait, Yes It Is

Poor? What you talking about, Seth?​Can you smell that?No, not the smoke from the inland wildfire of the week. That other, more ghastly odor. Go ahead, take a big whiff.SNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNORT!That, dear friends, is the smell of another lame TV show focusing on Orange County teens."WEALTHY TEEN ... More >>

How to Save Time, Money and Get Wall Street Journal Coverage for Cutting Your Own Hair

How do you get yourself written on Wall Street Journal online? If the nation is gripped by an economic recession whose bad ju-ju has spread even to the usually immune hair salon industry, and you're Dana Point's George Trimm, you start a Facebook group called "I Cut My Own Hair."

Running Dry in the Cove

Crystal Cove

[Summer Guide] What Not to Do When You're Desperate and Hungry for Money

[Summer Guide] Proposed Theme Park Celebrates OC's Part in Bringing the Global Economy to Its Knees

Ya Gotta Hang On

Annie Jr.

Mike Pace

Brea Improv

It's Gonna Get Bad, Then Really Bad, Then Really Really Bad ...

Chapman University's annual economic forecast has been known to be overly sunny, but even this year's had to acknowledge that it'll suck huevos through the end of the next year. However, as they faced a crowd of 1,200 huddled in the Orange County Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, Esmael Adibi and ... More >>

Out-of-County Experience: Dim Sum at New Capital in Rowland Heights

If we're in a recession, someone forgot to tell the Chinese. Yesterday, the dim sum crowd at New Capital in Rowland Heights was as crazy as always.  Judging by the number of people milling about outside waiting for a table, this go-to place for dim sum in the eastern part of San Gabriel Valle ... More >>

OC GOP Goes Back to Its Mexican-Bashing Roots in Fullerton City Council Race

In my latest book, I devote a chapter to the many sins of the Orange County Republican Party but also hinted that they were finally evolving from the slimeball campaigns of the past when it came to scoring easy points off of demonizing Mexicans. Specifically, I pointed to the 2006 Tan Nguyen affair ... More >>

The Bono - Jesse Helms connection

From our good friends at Rock & Rap Confidential: "Jesse Helms died yesterday, the Fourth of July. The LA Times front page described Helms as 'the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who for half a century infuriated liberals with his race-baiting campaign tactics.' President Bush described H ... More >>

Is Irvine Industrial Launderer Prudential Overall Supply Cheating Workers Out of a Living Wage?

Dying Another Day

‘Spy-Fi’

It's Your Money

Decadence

Web Exclusive! The result of an art conference, Catalyst 18s Wonder-Room has a little of everything

You've Been Warned: Pacific Legal Foundation, CATO Institute come to Chapman

Someone from the Chapman U Federalist Society asked that we notify our readers about the event we're going to notify you about in a couple secs. But, as we explained to the chap/chapette, we will not be able to notify readers in the print edition about this event because we got the notice from the F ... More >>

Prop 90: Enriching the Rich, Making Us Their Bitch

Congressman John Campbell (R-Irvine Company) has signed on to support Proposition 90, the Taxpayer Trap Initiative (or Save our Homes, if you're gullible). This is no surprise; back in September 2005, Prop 90's main backers poured $120,000 into Campbell for Congress, the campaign committee formed to ... More >>

Cash for Chaos

Mark Levines spring break in Falluja

Empire Falls

Chalmers Johnson on why things that cant go on forever dont

Burning Bush

German Healthcare, Santa Ana Politics

German Healthcare, Santa Ana Politics

Whered My Beach Go?

Dollars and No Sense

When Prison Guards Attack!

In Anaheim, screws say screw you to prison privatizers

Kooshian Coup?

Controversial AIDS doctor hopes to control countys public HIV programs

Yes, In My Back Yard

California Fair Political Practices Commission investigates Garden Grove mayor

Human Rights and Wrongs

UC Irvine fest exposes worldwide injustice

Space Case

Apparently theres something called Space Command . . . and theyll control the weather

Stealth Wealth

Developer Don Koll is bankrolling a Newport Beach 'environmental' campaign

Out In the Cold

The countys plan to privitize preschools was supposed to cut costs, not teachers

Shut Em Down!

Green Party candidate Medea Benjamin brings trade politics to OC

Highway Robbery - Toll Roads

OCs toll roads were supposed to be the model for our transportation future. Now they look like road kill

Virtual Tax

Cox and Packard find a war they can winagainst a nonexistent tax