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Irvine City Council

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Things are Tough All Over for San Onofre Nuclear Plant

    ​Perhaps you've heard the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ordered the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) to remain shut down until plant operator Southern California Edison (SCE) can satisfy the feds that it knows why tubes wore out in two steam generators recently and that it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Original Russo's Pet Experience Now Targeted by Puppy Mill Foes

    ​Animal rights groups claiming Russo's Pet Experience sells puppies raised in mills managed to pressure the Irvine Co. to end the pet store's lease at one Irvine shopping center and the Irvine City Council to ban such retailers outright.Now, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Irvine Parents Who Let Minors Get Boozed Up at Parties Could Face $3K Fines

    Best Week Ever​Remember in high school how there'd always be that one mom or dad who was so cool because she/he would let kids drink wine coolers while playing Spin The Bottle in the basement?    Now, if officials discover you are that parent, be prepared to pay up to $3,000 in fines.&nb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2011

    Al Jazeera Plugs Occupy Orange County

    ​OC neocons might want to start stockpiling food and ammunition: the respected-everywhere-in-the-world-except-the-US Al Jazeera has weighed in on Occupy Orange County--and it says the movement's alright! The opinion piece appeared on their website, though we should mention it was written by UCI pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Irvine City Council to Allow Occupy Orange County to Camp

    Brandon Ferguson​"I don't understand a lot of what your message is," said Councilman Jeffery Lalloway at tonight's meeting of the Irvine City Council. "But by all means, if you want to sleep on our lawn. Sleep on our lawn." It was a surprising turn of events coming from a planned city known m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Irvine Bans Retail Dog and Cat Sales, Rodeos and Circuses with Exotic Animals

    ​To the delight of animal rights activists and chagrin of the town's lone pet store owner and the lobby that represents such businesses, the Irvine City Council Tuesday night banned the retail sale of cats and dogs. The council further earned gold stars from the likes of Orange County People for A ... 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

    July 21, 2011

    Nurses Rally Against Government Healthcare and Social Security Cuts

    ​Just to be clear, the more than 100 registered nurses huddled around Irvine's Civic Center Plaza at high noon today are not there to implant a conscious into Larry Agran. The RNs are joining community activists to rally against any cuts to Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.

  • 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 11, 2011

    [UPDATED with Split Response:] Rackauckas and Hutchens Support Ban on Sex Offenders in Irvine City Parks

    Irvine council members Sukhee Kang, Beth Krom and Larry Agran​UPDATE, MAY 11, 9:54 A.M.: The proposal to ban sex offenders from Irvine city parks did not wow all council members Tuesday night. Mayor Sukhee Kang, Councilman Steven Choi and the councilman who brought the matter before the panel, Jef ... More >>

  • News

    March 31, 2011

    Welcome to the Ronald Reagan Great Park

    EXCLUSIVE! Super-secret plans are afoot to name Orange County's largest public-works project after the Great Communicator

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Ronald Reagan Day in Larry Agran Land?

    ​It's unclear why this wasn't proposed a few weeks ago, but the Irvine City Council tonight will consider proclaiming Feb. 6 "Ronald Reagan Day," in honor of 40th president's birthday.The proclamation is not being foisted on the panel that leans Democratic because Reagan was once a member of the p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Election 2010: Who's In and Who's Out in Irvine?

    ​Updated throughout the night, with the freshest post on topLate: Oy. Squeezed my way through the madness (good-looking madness) that was the OC Republican election night party in search of some Irvine players to chat with. No luck. Instead, I got to wander through a sea of boos when Presiden ... More >>

  • Food

    September 23, 2010

    Albatros Is the Best Mexican Restaurant In South County

    [Hole In the Wall] This Lake Forest Cal-Mex eatery is worth waiting in line for

  • News

    August 19, 2010

    The Great Park: Hot Air?

    Thanks to Larry Agran, a few people have gotten very rich from the county's proposed $1.2 billion, still-not-built park

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Irvine Does Shuffleboard Shuffle in Response to Grand Jury Report Blasting Great Park Funding

    ​UPDATE: As expected, the Irvine City Council approved its fuck-off response to an Orange County Grand Jury report critical of Great Park financing (see end of post) . . .The Orange County Register's Sean Emery gets great quote from Irvine City Councilwoman Christina Shea, who was reacting to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Grand Jury Report Blasts Great Park Financing, Accuses Irvine City Council of Lying, Conflicts

    Hot air keeps it afloat.​A new grand jury report: questions whether the Irvine Redevelopment Agency created to usher in development of the Orange County Great Park can fully repay its initial $134 million loan from the city; faults the city of ignoring the poor business climate while churning ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes Down in California, Report Finds

    Yesterday, the California Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released its annual hate crime report, "The Status of Muslim Civil Rights, California 2009." Despite the name, the report actually deals with incidents from the previous year, which are as follows:​*A total of 48 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2009

    Live Nation and Great Park May Team Up on Amphitheater

    ​When the Orange County Great Park Corporation Board meets Thursday morning at Irvine City Hall, directors will consider a $93,000 "feasibility study funding agreement" with mega concert promoter Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. for an amphitheater at the former El Toro Marines Corps Air Station.Los An ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Tale of 2 Police Forces: While Irvine's Fumes, La Habra's Bites the Bullet

    To protect and serve . . . for less.​While their counterparts in "Safest City in America" Irvine fume over an employer-proposed wage freeze, officers who belong to the La Habra Police Association seem to have gladly accepted a deal that imposes what is essentially a 5 percent pay cut. "Although di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    Park Place Owners Have a Rocky History in Irvine

    Maguire had this office tower built at Park Place in 2006.​Maguire Properties' announcement today that it has sold its Park Place I office property in Irvine is just the latest twist for a massive campus that seems to have been dogged by controversy since the Los Angeles-based developer acqu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Did the Other Cleat Just Drop on Odd Man Out?

    Friday, I posted my thoughts on a damn fine read, Odd Man Out, which is about lefty washout pitcher Matt McCarthy's experiences as a farmhand in the Angels organization. The post led to a lively debate in the comments section about the accuracy of McCarthy's reporting. Among those who ques ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    Agran Reelected Great Park Corp. Board Chairman

    The Great Park Corp. Board of Directors this morning unanimously reelected director Michael Pinto to another four-year term and then reelected the Laguna Canyon Foundation founder their vice chairman. It was initially announced to be a straight flush, with the unanimous reelection of Irvine City Cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    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 ambiti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    Great Park Board Set to Approve Comprehensive Design Plan

    The Great Park Corporation Board of Directors is set Thursday to recommend the Irvine City Council accept the Comprehensive Park Design for the Orange County Great Park submitted by its Design Studio and authorize the corp.'s CEO to negotiate a one-year contract amendment with the studio to initiate ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    Councilwoman Blames Own Panel for Irvine Sister City's Demise

    The Irvine Sister City Foundation--which has helped make Irvine a truly international city thanks to successful partnerships with with Tsukuba, Japan, Hermosillo, Mexico, and Taoyuan, Taiwan--voted to dissolve last night. Despite the denials of Irvine Mayor Suhkee Kang, an Irvine City Coun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Great Park to World: Crisis? What Global Economic Crisis?

    You'd think the dotcom crisis was just a bad dream, the housing bubble never burst and we'd mysteriously been time traveled back to the halcyon days of the Clinton economy considering the bullish way the Orange County Great Park Corporation is pushing the financial envelope. &nb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    Auto Industry's Demise is Orange County Great Park's Gain

    No one is buying cars in this country. That means new cars aren't leaving dealer lots. That means U.S. ports are getting backed up with cars that, at least temporarily, have no place to go. And that means ships bringing these cars into those ports are getting backed up as well.Gee, if only there was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Christmas Comes Early Thanks to Orange County Great Park

    If your name is not on the Orange County Great Park's Christmas list this year, that makes two of us. Only two of us judging by the number of folks and companies lined up to have the OCGP Corporation Board of Directors begin the process Thursday of stuffing their financial stockings.(The Great Park ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2008

    Navy, Water District Officials Swear Irvine's Drinking Water Now Safe

    Irvine City Council members say they hear from residents convinced that unsafe levels of trichloroethelyne (TCE)--a volatile organic compound linked to cancer, other nasty illnesses and death--is in their drinking water. Those fears lead to media-fueled alarm, public confrontations and snarky blog p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    I'm Not Dead Yet

    Christina Shea had one of those gut-check moments when Orange County Great Park Corp. board clerk Steve Larsen read the roll at this morning's regular meeting at Irvine City Hall. "How come you didn't call my name?" Shea asked defensively. Last month's defeat in the mayoral race against Sukhee Kang ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2008

    Irvine City Councilwoman Beth Krom: Liar?

    Krom: DON'T read my lips At the Oct. 21 Irvine City Council candidates forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters, Councilwoman Christina Shea, in the middle of an unsuccessful campaign for mayor, said that Lennar Corp., which is building homes ringing the future Great Park, would be allowed to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2008

    Who is Down on Measure R (and How Much Are They Down For)?

    Shea and Choi: big anti-R funders Measure R on the Irvine ballot asks residents to approve what a great job the Irvine City Council is doing on planning the Great Park on the old El Toro Marine Corps base (or if the measure loses, one supposes, what a piss-poor job they are doing). The conflict-of- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2008

    What's Bad for Obama is Good for Todd Gallinger?

    Irvine City Council races have a long, rich history of generating critical looks from the county grand jury, tireless political reformer Shirley Grindle, state Assemblyman Chuck Devore (R-Irvine), solidly Democrat UC Irvine political science professor Mark Petracca and, of course, our own R. Scott M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2008

    If You Don't Support the Great Park Iconics, the Terrorists Win!

    Clockwork's Pete Townshendesque ears heard Irvine City Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Christina Shea ask the following at Thursday's Great Park Corporation board of directors meeting at City Hall: “If you could put up on the screen the terrorist area.” Now, it is no state secret that Irvin ... More >>

  • News

    September 11, 2008

    [Moxley Confidential] The Strange Case of the Deputy-Confiscated Videotape

    Clockwork's Pete Townshendesque ears heard Irvine City Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Christina Shea ask the following at Thursday's Great Park Corporation board of directors meeting at City Hall: “If you could put up on the screen the terrorist area.” Now, it is no state secret that Irvin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2006

    Irvine Offends Thousands of Its Citizens

    An Orange County Grand Jury recently decided that the Irvine City Council is trying to hijack the Great Park, and that the OC Board of Supervisors (who initially approved of Irvine's actions) might look into litigation in order to return control of this huge local resource to the county itself. Irvi ... More >>

  • News

    December 15, 2005

    Agranistas Fire Ordinance

    Proposed law takes aim at political consultants, advisers and the media

  • Columns

    February 17, 2005

    Letters

    Proposed law takes aim at political consultants, advisers and the media

  • News

    September 16, 2004

    Three Major Irvine Democrats Question Agran, Krom Ethics; Endorse Republicans

    Mears, Petracca and Goldstone abandon Agran, Krom in favor of the Dark Side

  • News

    February 26, 2004

    Deja You

    Agran and Kucinich could be twins . . . very wee twins

  • News

    August 8, 2002

    The Incredible Shrinking Park

    {Irvine plans a PR offensive to defend not-so-Great Park

  • News

    May 24, 2001

    Bunny Business

    {Irvine plans a PR offensive to defend not-so-Great Park

  • News

    February 22, 2001

    Late Bloomer

    {Irvine plans a PR offensive to defend not-so-Great Park

  • News

    December 7, 2000

    The Great Park Is Coming Back

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 149

  • News

    November 16, 2000

    The Great Farce

    El Toro Airport Watch No.148

  • Unknown

    November 2, 2000

    South County: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

    Times gives developers a chance to pound Agran over Great Park proposal

  • Columns

    September 10, 1998

    Smile, You're on Candid Camera

    Times gives developers a chance to pound Agran over Great Park proposal

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