Miguel A. Pulido

Jeff LeTourneau's Grassroots Revival

The legendary LGBT activist hopes to become chairman of the Democratic Party of Orange County

'We Will Live to Fight Again'

Election Day dispatches from around the county

Alfonso Calderon Held in Serious Beating at Skyhi Clothing Co. Customer Appreciation Party

Santa Ana Police arrested a 21-year-old at his girlfriend's Huntington Beach residence this morning for allegedly beating another young man into a coma and permanent brain damage during a "streetwear" clothing company party late the night of Sept. 30.Alfonso Calderon was being held in lieu of $25,00 ... More >>

2012 Bob Dornan Scary OC Hall of Fame Inductee: Orange County Register Readers!

To coincide with our annual Scariest People issue, behold the 2012 entry into the Bob Dornan Scary OC Hall of fame...the readers of the Orange County Register!If our archives were better, I'd be linking here to blubs we once did more than a decade ago highlighting all sorts of horrible letters that ... More >>

Did Julian Castro's DNC Convention Speech Signal The Decline of OC's Loretta Sanchez?

Just four years ago, Loretta Sanchez--the veteran, Democrat congresswoman from Anaheim--repeatedly won significant national network TV attention on the arm of Hilary Clinton in the Democratic Party presidential primaries. Part of that focus happened when Sanchez continued to stridently advocate for ... More >>

Carlos Bustamante: The Great Brown Flop

Disgraced Santa Ana councilman is the latest OC GOP Latino golden boy gone pendejo

Ray Estrella Fought the Santa Ana Elks Lodge and the Lodge Won

The onetime exalted ruler tried to the lodge into the 21st Century

OC Young Democrats Reject Tom Daly's State Assembly Candidacy

​At one point in modern Orange County history Anaheim's Tom Daly was considered the biggest rising star in the local Democratic Party.That sentiment ended in 1996 with the stunning emergence of Loretta Sanchez, then an unknown character who toppled legendary, Republican Congressman Robert K. Dorna ... More >>

Will Floral Park NIMBYers Stop the Santiago Creek Bike Trail Extension?

Courtesy of Santiago Creek Greenway AllianceClick for a larger image.​See that map? It represents the new Santiago Creek Trail, which runs from the Orange County Water District Ponds near Cannon St. in Orange, all the way to the Santa Ana River--with one quarter-mile exception through Jack Fisher ... More >>

Beth Krom on . . . Beth Krom!

[Moxley Confidential] Great Park chairwoman explains when she's a corporation and when she's a human being in VIP-party fiasco

[UPDATED with Lawsuit:] Santa Ana Zoo Urged to Cut Ties with Elephant Ride Contractor in Wake of Abuse Alleged in Video

​UPDATE, JUNE 27, 10:40 A.M.: A Los Angeles-based animal rights group today announced the filing of a lawsuit against the contractor who runs the elephant rides at the Santa Ana Zoo.However, the suit does not concern the ride operations that have been blasted by advocates for animals but Perris-ba ... More >>

El Centro Cultural de Mexico Faces Eviction

[Mental Notes] Plus: Introducing the softer side of Rob Zombie, and NYC inmate says he shot Tupac

100 Reasons to Be Ecstatic About Summer In OC!

Summer here is bliss, better than anyplace else in the States

El Centro Cultural de Mexico Faces Eviction

​El Centro Cultural de Mexico, a long standing non-profit in the city of Santa Ana, faces eviction by mid-July. The award-winning organization has been housed for the past five years at the Knights of Pythias building on the corner of West Fifth Street and Broadway. The location had been one o ... More >>

Online Petition Drive Targets Santa Ana Zoo Elephant Rides

Laura Goldman, who lives in Los Angeles, read an LA Times article last November about the Santa Ana Zoo's elephant rides, which have been blasted by animal-rights activists and defended by city officials."I thought it was bizarre that a zoo would offer elephant rides," Goldman tells me of her reacti ... More >>

2010 Census Doesn't Care About OC White People

​The Mexican earlier riffed on the 2010 U.S. Census and African Americans in Orange County. As he mentioned, the number of white people is down here, but the number of people overall is up. The number of brown people is up countywide but down in Santa Ana (which would still have enough Latinos to ... More >>

2010 Bob Dornan Scary OC Hall of Fame Inductee: Orly Taitz!

​After a years-long hiatus, we've decided to bring back Orange County's most prestigious honor: induction into the Bob Dornan Scary OC Hall of Fame! Every year, in conjunction with our annual round-up of the county's scariest people (which you can pick up on newsstands starting today; on-line? Wai ... More >>

Bill Clinton: OC Needs Loretta Sanchez in Congress

Photo by R. Scott MoxleyBill Clinton visited OC today​Accompanied by a decent-sized Secret Service detail, Bill Clinton came to Orange County this afternoon to offer advice.The 42nd president of the United States told several hundred people (and at least 60 reporters) gathered under a cloudy sky a ... More >>

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 vendida​Two 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 >>

Art Pedroza: Santa Ana Looking To Dump Controversial Council Member

Benavides in big trouble?​I didn't attend tonight's Santa Ana city council meeting, but influential political blogger Art Pedroza is reporting that he thinks the council majority "has had it with" member David Benavides and might be recruiting a candidate to replace him.Benavides' apparent sin? At ... More >>

OC's Proposed Tallest Building Gets Energetic Union, City Backing

Build it and they will come?​Thanks in part to enthusiastic labor union support the Santa Ana City Council tonight unanimously approved five development agreement concessions to a wealthy Newport Beach real estate developer who is proposing to build Orange County's tallest building.The smiling, re ... More >>

Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Week: Bullets for Bangers!

Nothing like a good old gang-related murder in Santa Ana to set off all the Register readers who would like nothing more than to see the city cordoned off by immigration cops and the entire non-English speaking population rolled into Tijuana-bound paddy wagons. The latest example? This story from We ... More >>

Mega-Connected Firm Wins Anaheim Design Contract

Whoa! They're moving the Sydney Opera House to Anaheim!Oh wait, no. That's the newly approved design for the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, a.k.a. ARTIC.On Tuesday, the Anaheim City Council awarded architecture firm Parsons Brinckerhoff/HOK with the contract to design and lay the ... More >>

The Bizarre Case of the People vs. ex-Orange School District Trustee Steve Rocco

SanTana Sports and Don Papi Pulido's Preferred Pelotas

Don Papi Pulido in his other preferred sport: maintaining his kingdomArt Pedroza at Orange Juice! had quite the scoop last week in reporting that First District Supervisor Janet Nguyen recently allocated $170,000 to the building of a clay tennis court at Cabrillo Park in SanTana. Pedroza opined out ... More >>

Art Leahy Leaves OCTA for LA Metro: Good Riddance

News item: Art Leahy, who has led the Orange County Transportation Authority for eight years, accepted an offer to head Los Angeles County's Metro - a transit agency with a $3.4 billion budget. (Courtesy of the Orange County Register) Be careful what you wish for, LA ... *The NOAA, which has ju ... More >>

Orange County's Mexican Consul, Carlos Rodriguez y Quezada, Sparks Protests, Burns Bridges

Cirque du Great Park?

The Orange County Great Park Corp. board today unanimously recommended that the Irvine City Council authorize the board's CEO Michael Ellzey to enter formal negotiations with Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil to bring its winter 2010 touring production to the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station ba ... More >>

Controversial Developer Robert Bisno Brings His Grease-a-Palm Politics to Santa Ana

Another Santa Ana Councilmember With Conflict - of - Influenza?

*Updated, with new info on the bottom... Earlier, we discussed the developmental gerrymandering that seemingly allows SanTana mayor Miguel Pulido and councilmember Vince Sarmiento to vote on the city's Renaissance Specific Plan (RSP), the controversial project that seeks to "diversify" and "revital ... More >>

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 >>

Three the Hard Way

Marc Yamaoka, Phil Nisco and Chris Alfaro wanted to open a hot new nightspot—But first, they had to fight Santa Ana City Hall

Letters

'For the record, no one currently in our employ was contacted or quoted. In fact, the surf industry does support Save Trestles and Surfrider Foundation'

Embrace the Mexican

Four ways to make Santa Ana the capital of Latino USA

A Few Words on Why Tom Umberg Doesnt Want Campaign-Finance Reform

Letters

Letters

Loretta-Lite

Claudia Alvarez battles Latino establishment, Umberg for Assembly seat

Homeless For The Holidays

Active Eats

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

Ball Busting

And does anyone pray to the Lord of the Dance?

Orange Countys Least Powerful People The First-Ever Weaklies!

Lock Our Asses Up!

And hey! Why not free Ireland while youre at it?

July-September

October-December

Sanchez vs. Dornan

The Rematch

Letters

What Happened?

Fed Said: Ted Dead

FBI sting pops Santa Ana City Councilman Ted Moreno