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Discussing Santa Ana VietBan in Broken English

The Santa Ana City Council voted unanimously Tuesday for a resolution that discourages official visits to Orange County's seat from communist Vietnam. They were supported by residents of Little Saigon and the surrounding Orange County Vietnamese community, but Register commenters greeted the news pr ... More >>

50 Reasons Why Orange County is The Worst Effing Place in America

It was gay rights icon Harvey Milk who described Orange County best, in response to California State Senator John Briggs describing San Francisco as "the moral garbage dump of homosexuality in this country." "Nobody likes garbage 'cause it smells," Milk told reporters. "Yet eight million tourists vi ... More >>

Carlos Bustamante: The Great Brown Flop

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

Will OC Supervisors Find Their Carlos Bustamante Sex Scandal Scapegoat Today?

When Orange County's supervisors huddle this afternoon for a hastily called secret meeting apparently to fire or reprimand County CEO Thomas G. Mauk in the wake of the sensational Carlos Bustamante sex scandal, the supes might want to also boot one of their own.Back in 2007 when then-county Public W ... More >>

Santa Ana Historical Nod for Orange Orchard Emboldens Preservationists

Remember when Orange County referred to the orange groves that thrived in this region? Me neither. I always assumed it referred to the spray tans.But reservationists are applauding a Santa Ana City Council vote Monday night to place a century-old citrus orchard and farmhouse on the city's Register o ... More >>

Are Scientology's Ideal Orgs 'Islands of Sanity'? No, Says Former Scientologist Paulien Lombard

Scientologists in Orange County continue to move forward with the transformation of the former Santa Ana Performing Arts and Event Center at the corner of Sycamore and Fifth streets into an Ideal Org.According to the website OCideal.org, L. Ron Hubbard envisioned Ideal Orgs as "islands of sanity ... More >>

Stop Stealing Our Cars, New Documentary, Shows Santa Ana's Fight Against Unjust Impound Policies

​Working-class immigrant residents of SanTana have been beneficiaries of new, fairer vehicle impound policies since October 1, 2011, when activists scored a solid grassroots victory. Stop Stealing Our Cars, set to premiere this Saturday at El Centro Cultural de Mexico in the city's downtown, is an ... More >>

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 >>

Is Santa Ana Ready for Some Pro Football?

​Are the San Francisco 49ers moving to Santa Ana?An NFL Network reporter says the storied franchise is on the way.Sort of.

Santa Ana City Council Symbolically Supports Occupy

​The Santa Ana City Council officially endorsed Occupy Santa Ana's goals at last night's meeting according to to the Orange County Register. The governing body passed a resolution 6-1, which stated "Members of Occupy movements throughout the nation and Santa Ana community members are frustrat ... More >>

A Tale of Two City Desks: Covering Occupy Campers vs. Black Friday Campers

​My colleague Vickie Chang just posted an item with a photo that reminded me of something I'd meant to mention here earlier. Has anyone else caught the irony in recent TV news reports on Occupy campers vs. Twilight or Black Friday campers?

The Occupy Movement's Urban Struggle

While Irvine's is City Council-approved, Santa Ana's encounters resistance

Santa Ana City Council Denies Occupy Protesters Permission to Camp in City, Laugh at Protesters

Brandon Ferguson22-year-old Crystal Ngo Addresses Santa Ana City Council​Last night, the Santa Ana City Council denied Occupy permission to camp in the Civic Center, or anywhere in the city for that matter. Following a public comment session which saw more than 30 people deliver impassioned speech ... More >>

Occupy Santa Ana Honors Day of the Dead

Brandon Ferguson​Guy Fawkes got the Dia De Los Muertos treatment this evening, Occupy Style. The Santa Ana contingent of Occupy Orange County held a march honoring the November 5th holiday which serves to honor the dead. More than 20 activists lined up at the civic center  to have their faces ... More >>

OC's Scariest People 2011

Celebrating the Day of the Dead with some of the county's worst offenders

[UPDATED: Santa Ana Police Respond to Camping Request] Occupy Orange County in Santa Ana Tomorrow

Update, October 21, 7:50 P.M.:  The Santa Ana Police Department sent out a press release this evening stating that Occupy Orange County protesters won't be able to camp on city property. The release states that though the police will continue to work with protesters to ensure their first amendm ... More >>

Victory Dance for Velvet Lounge is Pole-Free

​News item: The Santa Ana City Council unanimously approved a new operating permit for a gay nightclub and restaurant after Velvet Lounge's owners agreed to forgo boxes and poles for go-go dancers to dance on.Insta reaction: Buying drinks for possessors of boxes and poles will be allowed in the do ... 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

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 >>

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: Police: Teen Confesses to 7-11 ShootingComment by TANDMMONTE: you can bet his parents are illegals the gangbangers in our city are all products of illegals . these people are ruining this city the infestation of illegals who breed and work the system welfare housing medical foodstamps t ... 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 >>

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 >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

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

Workers Rally to Save Jobs of Live Emergency Dispatchers

​Before this evening's Santa Ana City Council meeting, union workers will stage a rally in front of City Hall to draw attention to layoffs they claim will lead to 9-1-1 emergency calls being answered by an electronic menu rather than a live dispatcher.

Three Local Elections Worth Watching. Call It Morbid Fascination

Busty Bustamante Losing Sense of Reality

*Updated, with new info on the bottom... I will always be a fan of Art Pedroza, the county's original political blogger and the man behind Orange Juice!, because he's living proof that people's political philosophies can change—in Art's case, he went from a homo-hating, MEChA-bashing Republican t ... More >>

[Summer Guide] The Simple Pleasures of an OC Summer

[Moxley Confidential] Notes on Lifeguard Sex, Loretta Sanchez, the Rohrabachers and DNA

[This Hole-In-the-Wall Life] Smokin' Hoagies, Hookahs at Janna Cafe in Anaheim

Jerry, Be Wary

AG Brown: Investigate Santa Ana Renaissance Plan's conflict-of-influenza, por favor

The Renaissance Blob

A guide to Santa Ana's ambitious, conflict-of-interest-y downtown-redevelopment plan

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 >>

Wednesday's Headlines. No Surprises: Carona Giuliani?

What do Mike Carona and Rudy Giuliani have in common? Ties to former cocaine smuggler Florida billionaire Hank Asher, reports ABC News: Asher, aka H.A. in the indictment, allegedly gave Carona's wife (and former Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo's wife) a $15,000 diamond-studded gold Cartier watch ... 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 >>

It's Your Money

But the government spends it

Fight Club

Our favorite OC boxer, Ronny Rios, came home this week after a decisive and controversial loss at the Olympic trials in Houston. The potent, artful boxer says he's ready to refocus, turning his sights to his pro career and to finishing out his senior year in high school. "It's time to move on," he s ... More >>

At the DL

Mexicans fight Mexicans over a dirt lot that might one day become a park

!ASK A MEXICAN!

Espresso Your Love

Remembering paninis and the Italian boy who got away at Kaffa

Slapp-Happy

Anti-tower activists claim developer and friends are suing them into silence

Letters

Diary Of A Mad County

Building the Perfect All-Ages Venue

A step-by-step primer

Lou Sheldons Nightmare

If Proposition 22 fails, were all going gay!

Orange Countys Least Powerful People The First-Ever Weaklies!

Knock 'Em Down

Our 15 favorite places OC developers have missed

Fed Said: Ted Dead

FBI sting pops Santa Ana City Councilman Ted Moreno