Subject: George Argyros

• 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 Four Seasons; don't worry: you still can't afford it) at Newport Center. Co-hosting this little confab will be the comedy tag-team stylings of George Argyros and General William Lyon (no doubt still i

  January 13, 2006

• Like Argyros President, Like Argyros Son

  Hats off to the Times' Christine Hanley for scooping the world on the latest controversy involving (pick one):a) Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona giving deputy badges to someone with no police experience who goes on to make an ass of himself; b) Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona and a campaign donor who goes on to make an ass of himself; c) Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona . . . ass. The quick rundown on the latest dart, which comes courtesy of the Times' inside Sheriff's sources who request

  May 10, 2006

• Screw the Mariners: We Love 'Em!

  The premise was as simple as it's hackneyed: in anticipation of a mega-baseball series, writers from each city would trash the other team. At least that's what I proposed to Mike Seely, managing editor for our brother paper to the north, Seattle Weekly, because your Anaheim Angels and his Seattle Mariners start a three-game series tonight in the Emerald City. But Seely couldn't do it: see, he *hearts* the Angels. And my journalistic knives weren't exactly sharp for slicing, either, as Mariners

  August 27, 2007

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Laguna prefers goats on grass

  Mexicans are safe on this one: A report issued recently to the Laguna Beach City Council found that goats will clear vegetation from fire-sensitive slopes for a cost of $198,000 per year, while juveniles working off a crime in the county’s Probation Department would require $385,000. A consultant to the city noted that goats are “advantageous in their ability to work in all types of weather and terrain conditions.” So the goats win again. But tell me recidivism rates for probation punks w

  September 10, 2007

• 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 local businesses and, in a messy child support case in Los Angeles, declaring himself exempt from law because he's so rich. And, perhaps most colorful of all, we've got Henry T. Nicholas III--a founde

  June 7, 2008

• Why Selling the Orange County Register to George Argyros is Censorious

  The Orange County Business Journal is reporting that local mega-slumlord George Argyros is interested in buying the Orange County Register (we'd link to the OCBJ, but you have to pay to read the article--get with the 21st century, Rick Reiff!). This is a horrible idea, and not just because Argyros knows nothing about journalism and is notorious for buying properties and putting no money in them (best examples: Seattle Mariners during the 1980s, his apartments). It boils down to this: George Argy

  September 15, 2008

• Up Against the Wal-Mart

  February 24, 2000

• Argyros Gas Mask

  July 12, 2001

• Richer Than Rockefeller

  August 30, 2001

• Orange Countys Real Bad Boy

  September 6, 2001

• SCRs Deal With the Devil

  November 7, 2002

• Argyros, Arnel Management and Those Infernal Signs

  Over the years, John Jaeger has kept an eye on the signs posted around central Orange County for units available at Arnel Management Co. properties as well as OC Weekly's voluminous coverage of Arnel's owner, Newport Beach self-made businessman, developer, GOP power broker and former ambassador to Spain George Argyros (right), who is currently ranked at No. 559 on Forbes' list of the world's billionaires with $1.3 billion. To refresh our memory, Jaeger just email over a copy of this September 20

  June 2, 2009

• Moneyopoly

  Who are the OC players who contributed to the 2008 presidential candidates?

  January 24, 2008

• George Argyros Sighting!

  Talk about a guy who fell off the Weekly's radar: George Argyros, the slumlord ex-ambassador to Spain who set relations with that country back a few centuries. Video below from a January bash at Dickland...

  April 6, 2009

• A Silva Foot in His Mouth

  June 21, 2001

• Jury Rigged?

  March 9, 2000

• Ragged Dick

  April 8, 2004

• Letters

  July 8, 1999

• The Year in Politesse

  January 5, 2006

• The Year In Diplomatic Buffoonery, Argyros-Style

  December 30, 2004

• The Madness of King George

  December 14, 2000

• Letters

  April 1, 2004

• Lost in Translation

  March 18, 2004

• C

  October 24, 2002

• Air Argyros

  March 28, 2002

• Remembering the Future of Orange Countys Great Park

  February 28, 2002

• The George

  January 17, 2002

• Diary of a mad county

  January 3, 2002

• University of Diversity

  December 20, 2001

• Lo Siento

  December 13, 2001

• It's Good to Be King George

  October 11, 2001

• Milk-Carton Millionaires

  August 2, 2001

• Argyros Scrambling

  July 19, 2001

• Shrubs Man In Madrid

  July 12, 2001

• Control Freak

  June 28, 2001

• Mickey Mite Club

  June 21, 2001

• Thoroughness or Foot-Dragging

  June 14, 2001

• The Just Us System

  May 24, 2001

• Night Drop

  May 10, 2001

• Send George Packing!

  April 12, 2001

• 31 Scariest People in OC

  November 2, 2000

• Uncle Sham

  July 6, 2000

• Waynes World

  February 3, 2000

• Che Argyros

  January 13, 2000

• "How the System Works"

  December 9, 1999

• Gang Bank

  December 2, 1999

• Losers

  December 2, 1999

• Knock 'Em Down

  October 1, 1998

• Hart Attack

  May 22, 1997

• Even Chapman U Feeling the Publishing Blues?

  I have no love lost for Chapman University, the private school from which I graduated in 2001 but for which I have no respect since President Jim Doti doesn't give a shit about letting a free press do its job. But their head PR person, Mary Platt, is a nice woman (unlike their previous PR lady, Ruth Wardwell), and so it was with sadness that I received the latest issue of the alumni magazine. It comes out every quarter, and is usually fat with alumni updates, short features about Chapman teacher

  February 6, 2009