Miguel A. Pulido

Newport Beach and Huntington Beach React Differently to Fire Pit Pollution Findings

Call it "A Tale of Two City Takeaways:" Newport Beach and Huntington Beach's mayors, at opposite ends on whether to remove fire rings along their beaches, heard--and reacted differently to--state data indicating what's emitted from a pit over one evening equals the pollution spewed by a heavy duty d ... More >>

The Orange County Beer Trail

A map to all of our fine craft breweries, liquor stores and pubs pouring the good stuff!

Art Pedroza Launches New Orange County Politics Blog; "Faggots" Scandal Emerges

​[UPDATED 1-7-2012 with notes at the end.] For seven years up to 2010, Libertarian-leaning Art Pedroza often dominated Orange County's political blogosphere by breaking news and offering biting commentary on area politicians, journalists and activists.Along the way, Pedroza picked up plenty of rea ... More >>

2011 Bob Dornan Scary OC Hall of Fame Inductee: Barbara Coe!

​No one except Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Friend of the Taliban) in Orange County history has consistently proven to be scarier over a longer period of time than California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe--and even Dana has had flashes of sanity in his Bedlam brain. Shit, ev ... More >>

[UPDATED with TV Star's Plea to End Santa Ana Zoo Rides:] OC Fair Begins and So Does Elephant Protest

​UPDATE, JULY 19, 7:29 A.M.: Constance Marie played Angie Lopez on ABC's George Lopez sitcom, and she's now Regina Vasquez on ABC Family's Switched at Birth.She's using her celebrity to issue this plea to Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido: Fire Have Trunk Will Travel as the elephant ride contractor at ... More >>

Downtown Santa Ana Is Happening--No Way!

​I'm a bit late on my reading, and I just encountered Adam Elmahrek's 10-years-too-late story on downtown Santa Ana's happening scene for the Voice of OC. I like Elmahrek a lot--his coverage of Mayor-for-Life Don Papi Miguel Pulido is nearly as brutal as ours--but this reads like one of those stor ... More >>

Santa Ana Zoo Urged to Cut Ties with Elephant Ride Contractor in Wake of Abuse Alleged in Video

Jay Brockman/OC Weekly​An animal rights group is urging the city of Santa Ana to break ties with the supplier of elephants for a Santa Ana Zoo ride after allegations the same company abused a mammal that appears in the recent film Water for Elephants starring Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson ... More >>

Is Mike Harrah Cheating at One Broadway Plaza in Santa Ana?

Michael F. Harrah's towering project swallows a Viagra.​You may recall the last time I addressed the issue of real-estate developer Mike Harrah's contentious efforts to build Orange County's largest commercial building, the proposed 37-story One Broadway Plaza in Santa Ana.Here was my July 22, 201 ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Woman Got Welfare Illegally for 9 Kids Comment by REALIST58: I wonder how many Aurelia Ramirez's there are per square mile in California, a million anchor babies brings is killing this great nation. :(After the anchor baby rip off is finally taken away we need to go after the Asian comm ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Two Teens Shot in Legs in Santa Ana Drive-By Comment by ASHTONSMOM2009: Santa Ana? doesnt surprise me . . . they just need to blow up this city and get rid of the trash!!Comment by FIGHTFORFREEDOM: Dance Dance Dance!Comment by REDDYNEDDY: FELIZ ANO NUEVO . . . yeaeeeehaaaaaa!Comment by ... More >>

Federal Judge Grants Partial Victory for Liberal OC in its Pissing Match Against Orange Juice! But Calls Boths Sides "Childish"

​In perhaps the greatest waste of a courtroom in this county since the Rocco trial, a federal judge has sided with the Liberal OC in its lawsuit against the Orange Juice! blog. But U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter was hardly sympathetic to the Liberal OC."This case tells the story of an o ... More >>

Charo to Papi Pulido: Stop Santa Ana Zoo Elephant Rides

Charo--you know, of "coochie-coochie" fame--has sent a letter to Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido urging him to stop elephant rides at the city-operated Santa Ana Zoo."Ay-yi-yi yeem whiting tu jew tu bane ..."Okay, that thick Spanish accent ain't working for me either. Let's drop it, shall we?

Sunday News Notes

Happy 10-10-10 to you.​Weekend news highlights from various media sources include:Fred Phelps thinks he knows whyYou can thank UC Irvine researchers for this good news: The future "Big One" earthquake along the San Andreas fault will be much worse and much sooner than previously expected, accordin ... More >>

Inaugural CleanTech OC Conference Should Have Been Better Attended

​If attendees took anything other than swag away from the inaugural CleanTech OC Conference & Expo in Irvine Monday, it was this: the green revolution is back, baby. After a red hot 2008, the clean technology industry was battered for a spell by the recession, but banks are back to lending, ve ... More >>

Sunday News Notes

​News highlights include:They've fallen and we can't get upGet paid about three times the normal rate for a city government job. Move into a taxpayer subsidized apartment. The catch? Well, you've got to vote to keep the city's incumbent politicians in power, reports the Los Angeles Times on the la ... More >>

Sunday News Notes

News highlights include:Relax, sir. It's only .000034 percent of your wealth.​Is OC's Biggest Billionaire Stingy?Two of Donald L. Bren's children are expected to take their father to court this week in Los Angeles in hopes of winning $800,000 in retroactive monthly child support payments because, ... More >>

Boss Mike Harrah

[Moxley Confidential] Santa Ana sends a message to One Broadway Plaza's developer: Anything you say, sir

Will "Rule of Law" City Costa Mesa Soon Border "Sanctuary City" Santa Ana?

Facebook.com/Make-city-of-Santa-Ana-a-sanctuary-city​Pretty soon, you may be able to stand on the Santa Ana-Costa Mesa border and place one foot in a so-called "sanctuary city" and the other in a so-called "rule of law city."A new Facebook group has formed in support of making Santa Ana a sanctuar ... More >>

Taco Truck Commissary Connected to Santa Ana Mayor Robbed!

Pulido, at rest in his hacienda...​Over the weekend, two men walked into Able Food Services in SanTana, took out guns from a briefcase, and made off with $8,000 in cold, hard, taco-scented cash. See, what the Orange County Register didn't report was that Able Food is a commissary for some of SanTa ... More >>

Santa Ana Mayor-for-Life Miguel Pulido Now an Aztlanista?

Pulido: The New Emiliano Zapata?​Is the world coming to an end? Oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, volcanic ashes creating havoc--and now, SanTana Mayor Don Papi Pulido joining wabs in not only condemning Arizona's anti-illegals SB1070, but bringing forth a resolution to oppose it AND vote for its ... More >>

Reader Comments Funnier Than Register Stories on Slimy Santa Ana Mayor Pulido, Great Park Balloon Parachute Jumper

On loan from the Gustavo Arellano Collection Horse trader​Funny:Doug Irving of the Orange County Register on Monday reports that Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido voted on a project involving his former business clients. It's a solid report, although it read much better the first time it ran, as the J ... More >>

Letter Response: Food Trucks Still Aren't Evil

Wendy Bryan of Santa Ana, thank you for writing ("All In La Familia", Letters, Oct. 12). At least someone cared enough to write in about the article alleging impropriety on Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido's part; that said, I have some problems with your statements about food trucks in general.​

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido Voted To Aid a Vending-truck Business In Which His Father Was Involved

Imaginary U.S. Map Leaves OC Intact

​Democrats around the nation are feeling a lot of ire at America's electoral system lately. Even though Dems have still got a 59-41 majority in the U.S. Senate, the election of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown means they won't be able to get health-care reform--which was crazy-close to being p ... More >>

OC, Regional and State Officials Descend on Washington D.C.

​Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens will be at the National Sheriff's Association winter conference in Washington, D.C., this week--just one of several local, regional and state officials heading to the nation's capital."Sheriff Hutchens will have her notepad out; she'll host the Sheriff's Asso ... More >>

No Ace with Taxes: Santa Ana Mayor Don Papi Pulido and His Family Muffler Shop

Not scheduled for gentrificationThere is perhaps no business more fundamental to an Orange County politico's creation myth than Ace Muffler Shop, on First Street in downtown SanTana and belonging to the family of SanTana Mayor Don Papi "Miguel" Pulido. It was the city's planned demolishing of Ace Mu ... More >>

Where Were Santa Ana Officials at Ceremony for Fallen Hero of Iraq War?

You may have missed it in the comments to this post, but someone going by the handle "cook", who apparently attended the plaque unveiling ceremony for fallen hero Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor at the Walk of Honor Plaza in Santa Ana Thursday morning, poses an interesting que ... More >>

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 >>

Three Local Elections Worth Watching. Call It Morbid Fascination

And the Winner is...Papi Pulido!

Last week, we asked ustedes to pick a nickname for SanTana Mayor Miguel Pulido, who's increasingly taking on the airs of a Latin American dictator. And the winner is...Papi Pulido! Personally, we liked El Caudillo Pulido better 'cause that would've allowed us to commission a portrait of Papi Pulid ... More >>

The Renaissance Blob in Santa Ana's Redevelopment Plan

Today, a chingo of SanTana residents met at State Senator Lou Correa's office to discuss the Renaissance Specific Plan, which seeks to transform the city's downtown in a good (according to proponents) or gentrifying-Mexicans-outta-there (says opponents) way. I'm sure the other SanTana blogs--specif ... More >>

Renaissance Blob Didn't Always Exist

Earlier today, we wrote about the Renaissance Blob, the strange drawing of boundaries in SanTana's Renaissance redevelopment plan that weaved around properties operated by the families of Mayor Miguel Pulido and councilmember Vince Sarmiento. In a comment, Liberal OC blogger/SanTana planning commiss ... More >>

Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Carona Camp Says FBI Case "Trash"

Hookers take cash too, Mikey: Dana Parsons writes today that “the good news for [indicted OC Sheriff Mike] Carona is that the government doesn’t always win.” But Parsons says the “bad news” for Calamity Mike is that the feds take their “sweet time putting public corruption cases togethe ... More >>

Orange Juice Makes Weekly Look Smart

A couple of weeks ago, this paper named the SanTana-leaning Orange Juice the county's best blog because it represents the best qualities of the blogosphere: scoops, jocularity, personality, with a bit of libel and bad graphics thrown in. And some paranoid arrogance, we thought, after bloggers Sean M ... More >>

Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Register Slams Sheriff

A broken clock is right more often than Rohrabacher: Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher recently uttered that President George W. Bush deserves another six months to turn things around in Iraq. But the Huntington Beach/Long Beach representative has a shameful history on the subject. More t ... More >>

Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: An OC Blog Coward

What did the OC billionaire do when the wife was away? Computer-chip magnate Henry T. Nicholas III won big in a 1998 public stock offering for his Broadcom Corp., and to celebrate, he built an extravagant $30 million underground “personal brothel” at his Laguna Hills estate. That's according t ... More >>

Bizarro World (Immigrant Beatdown Edition)

Last year, I wrote a piece comparing the different responses that OC and LA law enforcement officials took with the pro-amnesty marches. My, how the times have changed. Now it's the LAPD putting the beatdown on activists, just like their OC counterparts last year, while OC's finest just looked on. N ... More >>

Having a Latino Mayor of Santa Ana

Seemed like a good idea at the time . . .

Fat in SanTana and Loving It!

As everyone knows, many Mexicans are fat and nowhere is this more evident than SanTana, which according to the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, has some of the most obese people in the state. Fighting the good fight against fat is the bad-ass non-profit, Latino Health Access, but they'v ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!

Next Stop: Immobility

An A to Z Guide to Surviving the Death/Pause/Sunshine of the CenterLine

You Have To Be Afraid

Orange Trustee Rocco Unveils The Partnership

Letters

The Lunch From Hill

That stench coming from Irvine City Hall? Its convicted felonand energy lobbyistFrank Hill

German Healthcare, Santa Ana Politics

German Healthcare, Santa Ana Politics

The Plight of Dwight

Pete Wilson on Steroids

Cruz Bustamante on Arnold Schwarzenegger, the GOP and John and Ben

Orange Countys Least Powerful People The First-Ever Weaklies!