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Santa Ana City Council

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    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.

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    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?

  • News

    November 10, 2011

    The Occupy Movement's Urban Struggle

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

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    October 27, 2011

    OC's Scariest People 2011

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

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    [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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    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 >>

  • Music

    June 23, 2011

    El Centro Cultural de Mexico Faces Eviction

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

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Mike Schroeder, GOP Dark Lord, Beats Santa Ana on a Parking Ticket!

    ​It's hard to root for someone like Mike Schroeder, the political adviser to OC District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and disgraced, felonious, adulterous ex-sheriff Mike Carona and one of the prime people behind our vile GOP. But when the subject is a wrong parking ticket, we'll root for Vader. And w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    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 >>

  • Columns

    February 4, 2010

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    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 >>

  • News

    January 28, 2010

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    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.

  • News

    October 30, 2008

    Three Local Elections Worth Watching. Call It Morbid Fascination

    ​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.

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2008

    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 >>

  • Features

    June 12, 2008

    [Summer Guide] The Simple Pleasures of an OC Summer

    *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 >>

  • News

    March 20, 2008

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

    *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 >>

  • News

    February 28, 2008

    Some of Alfonso Bustamante’s Tenants Say His Historic Santa Ana Apartments Leave Them Cold

    *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 >>

  • Food

    February 14, 2008

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

    *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 >>

  • News

    January 31, 2008

    Jerry, Be Wary

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

  • News

    January 10, 2008

    The Renaissance Blob

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

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2007

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2007

    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 >>

  • Columns

    November 1, 2007

    It's Your Money

    But the government spends it

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2007

    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 >>

  • Columns

    August 9, 2007

    Letters

    'Homosexuality is unnatural, defined by the Bible as a sin and is unhealty physically, mentally and socially for those who choose to live that lifestyle'

  • Columns

    August 17, 2006

    Commie Girl

    You Know Whos Not a Criminal? Paul Lucas is everywhere but jail

  • News

    February 9, 2006

    At the DL

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

  • Columns

    June 23, 2005

    !ASK A MEXICAN!

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

  • Food

    February 24, 2005

    Espresso Your Love

    Remembering paninis and the Italian boy who got away at Kaffa

  • News

    February 24, 2005

    Slapp-Happy

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

  • Columns

    August 19, 2004

    Letters

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

  • Columns

    July 22, 2004

    Diary Of A Mad County

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

  • News

    May 29, 2003

    Badgering the Witness

    Controversy clouds Santa Ana police shooting

  • News

    September 5, 2002

    One Gigante Mess

    How a multibillion-dollar corporation played the victim and got its liquor license

  • Music

    February 7, 2002

    Building the Perfect All-Ages Venue

    A step-by-step primer

  • News

    March 9, 2000

    Lou Sheldons Nightmare

    If Proposition 22 fails, were all going gay!

  • News

    September 9, 1999

    Orange Countys Least Powerful People The First-Ever Weaklies!

    If Proposition 22 fails, were all going gay!

  • News

    October 1, 1998

    Knock 'Em Down

    Our 15 favorite places OC developers have missed

  • News

    September 3, 1998

    Fed Said: Ted Dead

    FBI sting pops Santa Ana City Councilman Ted Moreno

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