Subject: Economic Stimulus

• 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 ambitious, mixed-use park on 1,350 acres of the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station.Now all the directors have to do is figure out how to pay for it.To that end, director Miguel Pulido, who is Santa Ana

  February 19, 2009

• Read Curt Pringle's Lips: He'll Take New Taxpayer Dollars

  Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle has long been the golden boy among Orange County Republicans. He got elected to the party's Central Committee in 1986, and two years later became the GOP nominee for the Garden Grove area state Assembly seat. The party, under the leadership of then-Chairman Tom Fuentes, hired uniformed security goons to stand outside Latino-heavy polling places in Santa Ana and demand identification from the mostly Democratic voters while carrying signs in English and Spanish that

  March 3, 2009

• John Campbell Targeted By Withering Democrat Copy-Pasting

  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent out a press release yesterday pointing out that South County U.S. representative John Campbell, by opposing the federal stimulus bill, opposed funding for local transportation projects:Representative Campbell Votes Against Major Road Improvements in Orange County In a remarkable move, Representative John Campbell voted against major improvements that will put Southern Californians to work and upgrade Routes 1 and 73 in Orange County. "Twi

  March 24, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 34

  Orange County Register: A hushed county awaits the jury verdict in Steve Rocco's trial for alleged ketchup theft. . . . County officials are talking settlement with ex-Sheriff, current-felon Mike Carona's former right-hand man George Jaramillo. . . . Orange County may be among the first in the state to require ignition locks to stem drunken driving. . . . Try the cockroach floating in the dishwater, it's excellent: Restaurants you can't afford--Charlie Palmer at South Coast Plaza

  April 16, 2009

• 2 Things to Keep in Mind as Earth Day Approaches

  Earth Day is Wednesday, and besides spending part of that day in Irvine with Magic Johnson, here are some things to keep in mind as that day nears:*The California League of Conservation Voters warns that the state's Republican leadership is trying to exploit the budget crisis to roll back key environmental laws. This may be fool-hardy as the league points to a new statewide survey that shows two-thirds of voters believe solving the state's money problems should not come at the expense of environ

  April 17, 2009

• Someone Stop Don Papi Pulido From Lubing Up Santa Ana For Mike Harrah--Again

  Pulido: Pay your taxes!I'm supposed to be relaxing at the Parker Resort in Palm Springs, a beautiful lil' oasis where UC Riverside MFA program in creative writing is holding a writer's retreat (I'm an invited lecturer), but news that SanTana mayor Don Papi Pulido is busy lubing Orange County's seat for the Freudian 37-story symbol that is a proposed skyscraper has me too pissed off to swim in the night heat. The building, of course, is the notorious One Broadway Plaza, proposed by megadeveloper

  June 11, 2009

• More Federal Brownfields Cleanup Funds Coming Long Beach's Way

  EPA.govMiller's Childrens Hospital in Long Beach previously received federal brownfields cleanup funds.​A proposed Long Beach job training resource has been awarded a chunk of nearly $2 billion in federal grant money aimed at cleaning up contaminated sites in California known as "brownfields," the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced.Brownfields are sites where expansion, redevelopment, or reuse may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollu

  August 6, 2009

• Agran Wants Your Federal Dollars for Great Park

  During his fourth annual State of the Great Park address today at Irvine City Hall, Orange County Great Park Corp. board chairman Larry Agran said federal stimulus funds from the Obama administration are being sought to help pay for $61 million worth of construction beginning there this year.Near the end of his remarks, the Irvine city councilman also mentioned he would like to register the names of everyone who has and will have worked on the 1,347-acre park for future generations.You can downl

  July 9, 2009

• We've Got Your Stimulus Package

  September 3, 2009

• iPhone App Shows Recovery Money Spent Before Your Eyes

  ​If we were the iPhone app-acquiring sort -- actually, just if we had a coveted iPhone 3G -- we'd snap up this thingy from public-disclosure advocacy org Sunlight Labs. It's one of baced on Layar's "augmented reality" doohickeys, whereby you point your phone a certain direction and see, on the display, everything your eyes see -- but marked up with extra data. It's like Pop-Up Video for real life. It also works with the Android operating system.The extra data in this case? The places where gov

  October 27, 2009