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Huntington Beach City Council

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    Huntington Beach Targets Ruff Trade

    The Huntington Beach City Council is poised tonight to pass an ordinance that would outlaw pet stores that get dogs and cats from commercial breeders.The so-called "puppy mill" ban, which was approved on first reading two weeks ago, is scheduled to go before the council meeting at 6 tonight.

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Jason Redmer Dies at Problem-Plagued West Coast Detox Center in Surf City Neighborhood

    "West Coast Detox and Treatment was created to provide a safe place in which recovery from alcohol and drug addiction could take place," reads the Huntington Beach rehab's home page.Tell that to Jason Redmer.The San Juan Capistrano 28-year-old was found dead Monday morning at the facility housed in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    [UPDATED with Ban Approved:] Laguna Hills is Latest City to Prohibit Pervs from Parks

    ​UPDATE, NOV. 23, 8:28 A.M.: The Laguna Hills City Council on Tuesday night approved on first reading an ordinance banning registered sex offenders from city parks and, if homeowner associations request to join in, their private parks as well.The city will join La Habra, Westminster, Yorba Linda, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Woman Tossed by Cop and Boy Who Fell Into Beach Fire Pit File Claims Against Huntington Beach

    ​Huntington Beach City Council members had a couple interesting claims against the city worth discussing in closed session this week.One involves a woman who alleges a city police officer threw her to the ground while breaking up a fight. Her paperwork only indicates she is seeking more than $10,0 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    [UPDATED with SJC Spooked:] Banning Pervs in Parks Sweeps OC

    ​UPDATE, AUG. 17, 11:17 A.M.: It's become so routine it's lost its news value: The District Attorney's office announces it's sending a rep before the latest of the 7,000 city councils in Orange County considering a ban on sex offenders in local parks modeled after the county law co-written by DA T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    [UPDATED with Early RSM Nod:] Banning Pervs in Parks Sweeps OC

    ​UPDATE, JULY 29, 9:41 A.M.: The Rancho Santa Margarita City Council voted Wednesday night to move ahead with a ban on registered sex offenders in city parks that is similar to the county law enacted in April.The council agreed that banning only those who have preyed on children would leave kids v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    [UPDATED with SJC Law on Agenda:] Banning Pervs in Parks Sweeps OC

    ​UPDATE, JUNE 22, 10:09 A.M.: While expressing some concern the county pervs-in-parks ban is too broad, the San Juan Capistrano City Council did decide Tuesday night to bring a local ordinance back for a vote July 5.Among the options the city with huge swaths of open space will explore are applyin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    [UPDATED with Enactment Cheered:] Westminster Jumps Aboard Bandwagon Banning Pervs in Parks

    Erin Runnion​UPDATE, MAY 27, 3:40 P.M.: An Orange County supervisor, the district attorney and perhaps the most famous mother of a local crime victim today applauded Westminster officially enacting a ban on registered sex offenders from city parks.Cheers from Supervisor Shawn Nelson and District A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    [UPDATED with Janet Nguyen M.I.A.:] Harvey Milk Day Idea Draws Crickets from OC Board of Supervisors

    ​UPDATE, MAY 10, 7:11 P.M.: Activists seeking an Orange County Board of Supervisors proclamation recognizing slain gay icon and San Francisco County Supervisor Harvey Milk's May 22 birthday received slightly more than the sound of crickets we predicted earlier today."It was great!" Linda May of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Speaking of Drunken Driving, How About Some Facebook Time With That Fifth Round of Shots?

    ​Time was, daily newspapers (ask your grammies what those were, kiddies) printed the names of people arrested of driving under the influence. However, with printing costs having skyrocketed as quickly as print readership has dwindled, such space-intensive roundups have gone the way of TV listings, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Will OC's Pot City Roll Into Surf City?

    ​UPDATE: As expected, the Huntington Beach City Council voted Monday night to annex Sunset Beach (updates throughout) . . . What's apparently Orange County's marijuana capital is one step closer to being part of Huntington Beach, which takes a dim view of the devil's weed. (At least officially ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Surf City? Yes. Beer Pong City? NO!!!

    The Best Beer Pong Video Ever !The Huntington Beach City Council this week banned beer pong and other drinking games at Surf City watering holes.

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Passings: Shirley Muckenthaler, Harriet Wieder

    TheMuck.orgShirley Zoeter Muckenthaler​Two women strongly tied to Orange County history have passed away.Shirley Zoeter Muckenthaler, whose husband's family built the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton and who was involved in charitable work in her own right, died at her home Jan. 3 after a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    [UPDATED] Huntington Beach to Annex Sacred Indian Site

    Photo by Russ Roca Chief Anthony Morales came up empty at November 2008 California Coastal Commission hearing.​ UPDATE: Jaimee Lynn Fletcher reports in Orange County Register: HUNTINGTON BEACH--The city will absorb an unincorporated county island that some environmentalists believe is an A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    What You Missed: Haute Dog Howl'oween, Senior Surf Comp, Halos 'n Horns, Rob Zombie, Tiger Army

    Keith MayRuh roh.​And just like that, the greatest holiday of the year is alllll over. So what'd you do? We had another action-packed weekend, of course, with our first stop at Long Beach's adorable annual tradition, the Haute Dog Howl'oween Parade and Pet Adoption Fair. Dogs? Way cuter than babie ... More >>

  • News

    May 7, 2009

    Cell Phone Towers Make Waves, Angry OC Residents Cry Cancer

    Keith MayRuh roh.​And just like that, the greatest holiday of the year is alllll over. So what'd you do? We had another action-packed weekend, of course, with our first stop at Long Beach's adorable annual tradition, the Haute Dog Howl'oween Parade and Pet Adoption Fair. Dogs? Way cuter than babie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2008

    Looking Back at 2008: The Ecstasy and the Irony

    This is not a look back at disgraced Sheriff Mike Carona, the Little Sheriff, the Debs, the Little Debbie Snack, the Freeway Complex Fire, Rick Warren, Wiley Drake, any lantern-jawed preacher with the last name of Schuller, pedo-priests, the 241 toll road extension, Proposition 8, fluctuating gasol ... More >>

  • News

    September 18, 2008

    Surf City Mayor Debbie Cook Takes on Dana Rohrabacher, OC's Weirdest Republican Congressman

    This is not a look back at disgraced Sheriff Mike Carona, the Little Sheriff, the Debs, the Little Debbie Snack, the Freeway Complex Fire, Rick Warren, Wiley Drake, any lantern-jawed preacher with the last name of Schuller, pedo-priests, the 241 toll road extension, Proposition 8, fluctuating gasol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2008

    Candid Cameras

    The Huntington Beach City Council voted unanimously last night to add seven cameras on the pier so Hollister clothing can beam “surf culture” images into their stores across the nation. The Abercrombie & Fitch Co. brand already has two cameras under the pier, and under a new 25-year contract Sur ... More >>

  • News

    July 31, 2008

    Do San Onofre Nudists Stand a Stitch of a Chance Against the State's Efforts to Cover Them Up?

    The Huntington Beach City Council voted unanimously last night to add seven cameras on the pier so Hollister clothing can beam “surf culture” images into their stores across the nation. The Abercrombie & Fitch Co. brand already has two cameras under the pier, and under a new 25-year contract Sur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2008

    Sinners and Saint Onuphrius

    The Huntington Beach City Council voted unanimously last night to add seven cameras on the pier so Hollister clothing can beam “surf culture” images into their stores across the nation. The Abercrombie & Fitch Co. brand already has two cameras under the pier, and under a new 25-year contract Sur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2008

    Huntington Beach City Council Allows Prostitution!

    A couple of days ago, the Huntington Beach City Council voted to ban campaign donation limits. It would be a noteworthy story in any city, considering most have some type of cap, but it's of primary significance in HB, where streetwalkers in the form of developers have plagued the place for decades. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 29, 2007

    Monday - 12/3

    Open Mic Night at the Gypsy Den, Huntington Beach Impeachment Action meeting

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2007

    Tuesday's Headlines

    Big Google's watching you, OC: Adios, privacy. Google's added a "street view" function to Google Maps that has LA covered, as well as bits of the following parts of OC: Anaheim, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and Laguna Niguel. Long Beach is on it, too. No deal, Disney: Talks have reportedly ended ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2007

    Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: Poor Mike Carona

    OC's Embarrassing Buford T. Justice: Law-enforcement helicopters and ground crews normally — blatantly — tail me. You should have seen them after I revealed that local cops had planted a handgun on a DUI suspect, after I wrote about a cop who ejaculated on a female motorist in Laguna Beach, and ... More >>

  • News

    January 11, 2007

    Man Most Likely to Succeed

    How Joe Carchios inexperience, shaky business sense, tax trouble and connection with a political criminal made him the Republican Partys choice for the Huntington Beach City Council

  • Features

    December 28, 2006

    Coots!

    Thats whos fighting to save our last wetlands for you whippersnappers

  • News

    November 9, 2006

    Hey, Chief!

    Another open letter to Huntington Beach Police Chief Kenneth Small

  • News

    November 2, 2006

    Garofollower?

    Joe Carchio tight with felonious ex-mayor

  • Columns

    August 18, 2005

    A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

    Joe Carchio tight with felonious ex-mayor

  • News

    October 28, 2004

    You Didnt Read It Here First

    Register naps on Houchen story, then takes credit for her resignation

  • News

    September 9, 2004

    Slime Away

    Houchen is latest shady figure to exit Huntington Beach City Council

  • Columns

    August 5, 2004

    Letters

    Houchen is latest shady figure to exit Huntington Beach City Council

  • News

    July 29, 2004

    Slammer Time!

    Huntington Beach councilwoman faces federal case

  • News

    July 15, 2004

    Arrest Houchen Now, Ask Questions Later

    An open letter to Huntington Beach Police Chief Kenneth Small

  • News

    May 6, 2004

    Putting the Con in Condo

    Councilwoman may have illegally converted apartments

  • News

    December 11, 2003

    The Poseidon Misadventure

    10 arguments against turning Surf Citys water into brine

  • Columns

    December 5, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    10 arguments against turning Surf Citys water into brine

  • Columns

    December 5, 2002

    Lunching With Losers

    Why are these men smiling?

  • Columns

    October 17, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    Why are these men smiling?

  • News

    September 26, 2002

    How OC remembered Sept. 11

    Why are these men smiling?

  • Features

    August 9, 2001

    Active Eats

    And its one, two, threewhat are we dining for?

  • Features

    May 17, 2001

    Nobody Doesnt Know Tyler Stallings

    But nobody really knows him, either

  • News

    February 22, 2001

    You Dont Wanna Be Dave

    Former HB mayors case goes to the DAs office

  • Features

    November 2, 2000

    31 Scariest People in OC

    Former HB mayors case goes to the DAs office

  • News

    August 31, 2000

    The New-And-Improved HB City Council

    Now with an abundance of caution!

  • Columns

    August 31, 2000

    Wiggedy-Wiggedy

    The very fonky Democratic convention won us back!

  • News

    August 17, 2000

    File M for Moron

    Documents show the states political watchdog botched its first Garofalo investigation

  • News

    April 27, 2000

    Green With Anger

    One mans campaign to save a wetland

  • Columns

    October 7, 1999

    Sleeping Disorder in the Court

    One mans campaign to save a wetland

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