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  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Starbucks Supports Gay Marriage

    ​Even if their coffee's not really your thing, this might warm you up to the StarCorp. The company has come out in support of Washington State legislation that recognizes marriage equality for same-sex couples.Here's the letter sent out to nearly 150,000 employees: 

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Rep. John Campbell's Newport Beach Office Site of "Occupy Congress" Lunch Vigil Today

    ​The Progressive Democrats of America, who consider themselves comrades with the Occupy Wall Street movement, is now linking their "Brown Bag Vigils" of local congressional offices with the phenomenon.In fact, they have one scheduled at noon today in front of the Newport Beach district office of R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Byung Ho Pak, 71-year-old Garden Grove Doctor, Arrested For Medicare Fraud During Nationwide Crackdown

    ​The feds arrested a 71-year-old doctor, who practiced in Garden Grove, as part of a nationwide Medicare fraud sting this week. Byung Ho Pak and Mary Lim, manager of Pak's Seoul East West Medical Center, allegedly billed Medicare for about $2 million worth of pyhsical therapy services that w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Drop By Rep. Loretta Sanchez's Office At Noon To Tell Her How You Feel About The Debt-Ceiling Debate

    ​As the debt-ceiling debate trudges on in Washington, a liberal political action committee is taking to every nook and cranny of the country--including Garden Grove. In emails sent to their members, Moveon.org urges "every patriotic American" to show up outside Democratic congressional ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Glen Justice, Local Oncologist, Sentenced to 18 Months For Health Care Fraud

    ​An Orange County oncologist, whose fraudulent health care schemes caused losses of up to $1 million, was sentenced to a year-and-a-half in federal prison yesterday.In a precious paradigm of irony, the 66-year-old doctor who pleaded guilty to five counts of health care fraud is named Glen Justice. ... 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

    February 22, 2011

    Investment Guru Sees Corinthian Colleges at Risk

    ​The chairman of a Boston-based investment-management firm predicts dark days ahead for Corinthian Colleges Inc. of Santa Ana.

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Eleanor Santiago, Irvine Doctor Charged in LA with Using Homeless to Bilk Medicare for Millions, Was Already Under Investigation for Giving Out Free Electric Wheelchairs

    ​Back in late October, headlines were made when Los Angeles authorities arrested a group of doctors for using homeless and mentally ill patients to fraudulently bilk Medicare and Medi-Cal for millions. Little noted locally, though, was that one of the doctors, Eleanor Melo Santiago Arthur, was an ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

    Unauthorized immigrants make up just more than 3 percent of the U.S. population. But they're accused of sucking up public benefits and dodging taxes

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Are You With Me, Dr. Fu? Not So Much

    ​Xinming Fu, a 48-year-old Irvine physician, has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for his role in a $15 million health care fraud scheme that plied the elderly and mentally ill with candy, doughnuts and cigarettes to get them to undergo unnecessary respiratory treatments that were b ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 15, 2010

    The Medical Marijuana Telethon

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  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    Duane Roberts, Anaheim Activist, Announces U.S. Sentate Run

    Roberts​If a former community organizer can become president of the United States, why can't a community organizer become a U.S. senator?Longtime Anaheim activist Duane Roberts announced that he will file papers with the Orange County Registrar of Voters today to put his name on the June primary b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Rep. John Campbell to Get Christmas Visit From the Ghost of Pharmaceutical Plunder Present

    Rep. John Campbell to host carolers.​Like Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future, Rep. John Campbell (R-Newport Beach) is about to host some seasonal visitors.Singing traditional Christmas carols set to new lyrics, members of UC Irvine's chapter of Universities Allied for E ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Santa Ana-Based Street Gang Implicated in $25 Million Medicare Fraud Cases

    ​A Long Beach man and a Santa Ana street gang have been implicated in an alleged Medicare fraud schemes that resulted in approximately $25 million in fraudulent bills to the Medicare program, various federal authorities announced this morning. In all, 18 defendants, most of whom reside ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    UC Irvine Seeks to Cut Through Healthcare Reform Bullshit

    The AFL-CIO convention in Pittrburgh voted last night to endorse single-payer, universal healthcare for all Americans, and rU.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) just trotted out to reporters his bill to provide non-single-payer, non-universal healthcare for not-quite-all Americans. Coincidence? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    State Taxman Pops Buena Park Doctor and Wife for Alleged Fraud

     The state Franchise Tax Board (FTB) reports today that physician John S. Han, 61, and his wife Sonya Han, 55, were arrested on felony counts of Medicare fraud and filing fraudulent state income tax returns after a search of their Buena Park home. According to FTB special agents, Mr. Han ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2008

    To Do Tonight 6/4

    Club Abstract, 9 p.m. house, trance and electro. Hogue Barmichael's 3950 Campus Dr. Newport Beach CA 92660 949-261-6270 DJ Josh, 9 p.m. Chill Kitsch Bar 891 Baker St., Ste. A10 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 714-546-8580 The Ethnic and Artistic Sources that Inspired the Spanish Colonial Architecture of So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2007

    Healthcare and that Jolly Ol' Elf

    There's been a lot of talk about the governor's universal healthcare plan, but once you get past all the talk you discover… well, that plan may be too strong of a word. The governor's universal healthcare good intention may be more accurate. Anthony York explains in the Capitol Weekly. (emp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2007

    Everything Old is New Again

    See if by reading its opening paragraph you can guess what sets this story by the San Francisco Chronicle's Greg Lucas apart from the raft of other stories about universal health care that have been appearing in the papers. Trying to forge a consensus among dozens of powerful special interests, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2006

    Speaking of congressional races ...

    Check out this little ray of sunshine from Bloomberg (the news service, not the mayor): Candidates Ignore $1.35 Trillion Minimum Tax `Bomb' By Ryan J. Donmoyer Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Congressional candidates this fall are furiously debating Iraq, Medicare and extending tax cuts. Most are staying qu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2006

    MoveOn vs. Rohrabacher

    This just in, from MoveOn.org: Rep. Rohrabacher Accepts $40,785.00 From Drug Companies; Puts Drug Company Profits Ahead of Seniors Huntington Beach MoveOn Members Urge Rep. Dana Rohrabacher to Cancel May 15th Medicare Sign-Up Deadline Constituents will hold "Caught Red-Handed Check Deliveries" out ... More >>

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    July 1, 2004

    Burning Bush

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  • Columns

    December 18, 2003

    We Respond To Register Letters

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  • News

    October 16, 2003

    Million-Dollar Munchikins

    How a councilwomans taxpayer-funded multiple childbirth complicated HBs budget crisis

  • Columns

    September 25, 2003

    Ring of Ire

    How a councilwomans taxpayer-funded multiple childbirth complicated HBs budget crisis

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