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September 13, 2007
Agran's Irvine Machine Gets Challenger
A majority of Irvine voters are Republicans and yet for years Larry Agran's progressive political machine has controlled the mayor's office. It's a reality Republican city councilwoman Christina Shea hopes to shatter next year. This morning Shea announced that she will run for the job herself. She ... More >>
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December 24, 2007
Register, Times Slam Santa Ana Good--And a Challenge
If there's one thing that Orange County Register editorial writer Steven Greenhut hates more than Sheriff Mike Carona, it's city-controlled urban planning, and he ripped SanTana officials a new one and then some yesterday in a piece blasting the city's much-ballyhooed Renaissance Specific Plan. Prop ... More >>
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January 9, 2008
Time to Give Santa Ana's Mayor a Nickname!
Today, bad-ass Los Angeles Times reporter Jennifer Delson writes about the idiotic Measure D, the SanTana ballot measure that would extend city council term limits from eight years to 12 years. She reveals that Measure D originally started as an attempt by residents and councilmembers to install ter ... More >>
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January 20, 2008
Santa Ana Officials Redraw Renaissance Plan Boundaries Again
Today, Los Angeles Times SanTana reporter Jennifer Delson delivers a bombshell of a story on the city's Renaissance Plan: not only did city officials redraw the Renaissance Plan boundaries to omit the family businesses of councilmember Vince Sarmiento and Mayor Papi Pulido (as we reported last month ... More >>
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February 13, 2008
Cypress Goes Cultist
Cypress has followed Westminster's lead in officially embracing the occult. The Cypress City Council voted in a perplexing 2-1 majority to display "In God We Trust" in council chambers. Aww, poor Cypress - only three council members? Iddle biddle widdle council, so cute! Actually two council member ... More >>
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August 3, 2008
Muffle Scuffle
*Moved up, 'cause the conversation's fun! Irvine's reigning feet-to-the-fire holder Stephen C. Smith has a very interesting post on his IrvineTattler.com site. Here is an excerpt from “Sukhee Kang Knows Your Birth Date”: Councilman and mayoral candidate Sukhee Kang used a California Public Re ... More >>
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August 2, 2008
Santa Ana Now Officially Run by Lazy Mexicans
*Updated, with new information on the bottom... As the largest city in Orange County, SanTana needs a more-committed city council than, say, Laguna Niguel. Unfortunately, the county seat is cursed with buffoons, a veritable clowncil, to use the term of Orange Juice! bomb-thrower Art Pedroza. We've ... More >>
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January 16, 2003
Beer Hall Politics
Is Costa Mesa being putsched to the right?
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October 21, 2008
Irvine Candidate Forum: Mostly Civil, Some Fireworks
Irvine is either a city where the sun does nothing but shine, the streets are lined with gold and bad stuff never ever ever ever ever ever ever happens, or it's a swirling cesspool of cronyism, backroom deals and looming Muslim threats. That was the message voters were given as a busload of people r ... More >>
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August 19, 2004
Mayor Obfuscate
Will Irvines Larry Agran honestly answer questions in his mounting ethics scandal?
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December 31, 2008
Attorney Who Misspent Clients' $2.7 Million Was at Center of Irvine Election Controversies
The Register's Greg Hardesty has the scoop on 38-year-old Irvine attorney Sandeep Baweja admitting to burning through nearly all of a $2.7-million settlement that was supposed to be shared by about 1,000 plaintiffs he represented in a class-action labor lawsuit.According to the story, Baweja played ... More >>
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January 31, 2008
Jerry, Be Wary
AG Brown: Investigate Santa Ana Renaissance Plan's conflict-of-influenza, por favor
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March 5, 2009
Lance MacLean Has Learned That Mission Viejo's Political Players Always Go for the Throat
AG Brown: Investigate Santa Ana Renaissance Plan's conflict-of-influenza, por favor
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January 29, 2009
Mission Viejo Councilwoman Cathy Schlicht Tries to Deliver, But Is Running Into an Opposing Majority
AG Brown: Investigate Santa Ana Renaissance Plan's conflict-of-influenza, por favor
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September 18, 2008
Surf City Mayor Debbie Cook Takes on Dana Rohrabacher, OC's Weirdest Republican Congressman
AG Brown: Investigate Santa Ana Renaissance Plan's conflict-of-influenza, por favor
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May 8, 2008
Humberto Caspa's New Book Chronicles the Fear and Loathing of Mexicans in Costa Mesa
AG Brown: Investigate Santa Ana Renaissance Plan's conflict-of-influenza, por favor
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March 6, 2008
Controversial Developer Robert Bisno Brings His Grease-a-Palm Politics to Santa Ana
AG Brown: Investigate Santa Ana Renaissance Plan's conflict-of-influenza, por favor
News
October 11, 2007
Smiley Coyotl
When is a prosecutor not a prosecutor? The answer spared a Santa Ana activist/punk rocker from criminal charges
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June 1, 2006
Remote Hog
Tom Goes to the Mayor
News
May 11, 2006
A Life Wasted
Dave Christensen went from Irvine politician to undercover agent in an FBI stingand then died in a mysterious hiking accident
News
December 15, 2005
Agranistas Fire Ordinance
Proposed law takes aim at political consultants, advisers and the media
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September 22, 2005
Criticize Larry Agran, Go to Jail
Irvine's Rules of Ethical and Open Governance would restrict criticism of politicians, passing of "GO", collection of $200
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October 21, 2004
A Boy Named Sue
Irvine Mayor Agran attempts to muzzle his critics with legal threats
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September 2, 2004
Agrans Tree People
Somebodys going to get very rich on the Great Park
News
August 5, 2004
Larry Agrans Power Trip
Irvine mayors planned public utility could enrich a political pal
News
February 26, 2004
Deja You
Agran and Kucinich could be twins . . . very wee twins
News
February 26, 2004
Power Politics
AES and Scott Baugh want to make HB a company town
News
October 16, 2003
Million-Dollar Munchikins
How a councilwomans taxpayer-funded multiple childbirth complicated HBs budget crisis
Columns
January 9, 2003
Pick the Next State Coastal Commissioner
How a councilwomans taxpayer-funded multiple childbirth complicated HBs budget crisis
News
March 15, 2001
Show Us Your Scars!
Anaheim cops discover long-ignored law, enforce it
Blogs
May 12, 2009
As Stephen Smith Leaves Town, Irvine's "Tattler" Calls on Others to Step Up
Stephen C. Smith calls on others to keep tabs on Irvine City Hall.CORRECTED!Lost in Santa Ana a few months ago, half paying attention to the street signs and half to Larry Mantle's KPCC interview show blaring out of the car speakers, I heard the host steer his Orange County "roundtable" guests--Oran ... More >>
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July 27, 2009
Irvine Police Association Blasts Mayor Sukhee Kang, City Council Members Beth Krom and Larry Agran
Irvine Police Association has criticized Mayor Sukhee Kang (left) and City Council members Beth Krom and Larry Agran over stalled contract talks.Anyone who has attended a city-run meeting in Irvine has heard elected officials, especially City Councilman and Orange County Great Park Corporation ch ... More >>
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October 2, 2009
Agran Crony and Gore Campaigner Agrees to Guilty Pleas in Federal Wire Fraud Case
Irvine attorney Sandeep Baweja, the 39-year-old money man for that town's "progressive" political boss Larry Agran and a former official with Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, agreed in court papers to plead guilty to two felony charges related to a scheme where he ripped off nearly all of the $ ... More >>
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December 10, 2009
Tustin Councilwoman Deborah Gavello and Her Colleagues are Driving One Another Barking Mad
Irvine attorney Sandeep Baweja, the 39-year-old money man for that town's "progressive" political boss Larry Agran and a former official with Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, agreed in court papers to plead guilty to two felony charges related to a scheme where he ripped off nearly all of the $ ... More >>
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January 28, 2010
Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido Voted To Aid a Vending-truck Business In Which His Father Was Involved
Irvine attorney Sandeep Baweja, the 39-year-old money man for that town's "progressive" political boss Larry Agran and a former official with Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, agreed in court papers to plead guilty to two felony charges related to a scheme where he ripped off nearly all of the $ ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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September 9, 2010
South County Cities Go to Pot
Pot filled two South County city council chambers Tuesday night.That is, separate issues from modern life in the cannabis age were taken up by the city leaders in Laguna Niguel and Mission Viejo.
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September 13, 2010
Santa Ana Councilmembers Sal Tinajero and Michelle Martinez Admit to Thinking They Broke the Law, Use Same PR People?
Martinez: Once an outsider, now proudly a vendidaTwo bizarre press releases sent late Friday to every reporter in Orange County that covers SanTana (except Moxley--interesting...) told the same story: that councilmembers Sal Tinajero and Michelle Martinez were taking action to retake a City Counc ... More >>
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September 21, 2010
Ho-Hum, a City Official Busted in Surf City
A corruption probe resulted in the arrest of a city official in Huntington Beach this morning. Hell, that's not news, that's just another day in Surf City, you're probably saying to yourself. (Ah, ex-mayors Garofalo and Houchen, how we miss you so!) However, this time the busted city official ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 AgranUPDATE, 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 >>
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May 27, 2011
[UPDATED with Enactment Cheered:] Westminster Jumps Aboard Bandwagon Banning Pervs in Parks
Erin RunnionUPDATE, 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 >>
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May 17, 2011
Costa Mesa Fires City Workers While City Leaders Get Free Lunch
Yesterday, lawyers for the Orange County Employees Association (OCEA) filed a complaint in Orange County Superior Court, asking a judge to stop Costa Mesa's city council from firing 100 city employees. The complaint, which names Thomas Hatch, the city's chief executive officer, as a defendant, al ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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August 2, 2011
Complaint or No, Expect a Prayer to Begin Tonight's Yorba Linda City Council Meeting
The Yorba Linda City Council, which in the recent past was blasted for allowing an Islamic charity to rent community center space for a gala that teabaggy types likened to an al Qaeda monster truck jam, is now getting criticized for its own religulousness."Local governments should not be in the b ... More >>
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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 >>
News
September 1, 2011
It's Gotten Costa Messy In Costa Mesa
Scenes from the civic dissolution of America's latest public-employee battleground
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