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  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    William Denis Fitzgerald, Gadfly Suing Board of Supervisors for Limiting Speech, and His Weekly Past

    ​The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California has filed a federal lawsuit in Santa Ana against the Orange County Board of Supervisors on behalf of an Anaheim gadfly who periodically turns up in OC Weekly.Based on the struggles of William Denis Fitzgerald to speak at public me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Is Your Car a Piece of Crap? Fight Back with a Poop-Powered Ride

    ​Put the key in the ignition, press it forward, hear that click, then the bronchial "ruhr-ruhr-ruhr," then the mechanical whimper and finally this lament screamed into the overhead lamp: "This car is a piece of crap."Been there.Ironically, a piece of crap may soon power your car.

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Bloody Streets, Neo-Con Jobs and Smog-Eating Tiles Make the Orange County Interwebs Horror Show

    Courtesy of Newport Beach Police DepartmentDanae Marie Miller is accused of killing bicyclist.​It's our weekly look at things said about or from Orange County on the Interwebs:Pedal Power Outage in Newport Beach An urban bicycling enthusiast sees a disconnect between Newport Beach shutting down th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    At Last, Relief From a Stinky Lake

    ​Finky the Blogger told us how for months and months, something smelled really bad in Mission Viejo, and the same source of the funk--think rotten eggs, high school locker rooms, Taco Bell kitchens--has been blamed for stinking up Rancho Santa Margarita.No, that's not a reference to the RSM City C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Newport Beach and South Coast Plaza Go Green With Natural Gas and Electric Charging Stations

    ​Newport Beach got a little greener this week with the opening of its first natural gas fueling station and word that plans are set for a luxury electric automaker's takeover next month of a former Rolls Royce dealer's lot on Pacific Coast Highway.A $1-million compressed natural gas (CNG) facility ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    "Green" Company to Pay $15 Million for Polluting

    ​Safety-Kleen System Inc. is a national distributor of cleaning solvents. Their products have names like Ecopower motor oil, Icebreaker windshield washer fluid, Khameleon antifreeze and KleenMist II wastewater treatment. They say they are green, well, they better be made of it, because they owe $1 ... More >>

  • Music

    August 28, 2008

    [Aural Reports] Nightlife Maven Sean Francis' Need for Speed Led Him to Create Spare the Air Fest

    ​Safety-Kleen System Inc. is a national distributor of cleaning solvents. Their products have names like Ecopower motor oil, Icebreaker windshield washer fluid, Khameleon antifreeze and KleenMist II wastewater treatment. They say they are green, well, they better be made of it, because they owe $1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2006

    Good Timing, Bad Air

    The Orange County Register reports this morning that the Irvine-based Beckman Foundation has donated $20 million to the City of Hope in Duarte, to help finance cancer research. The Foundation has an excellent sense of timing– because, as every other newspaper in the state is reporting this mor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2005

    From the He's-Obviously- Not-a-Friend-of- Cheney File

    Courtesy of the state Dept. of Toxic Substances Control... Orange County Polluter Sentenced to 16 Months in State Prison Westminster - The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) announced today that an Orange County Superior Court sentenced Steven Craig Booth, of Anaheim, to 16 m ... More >>

  • News

    September 1, 2005

    Oil for Prophets

    Lost in the controversy over Pat Robertsons call to assassinate a foreign leader is the reverends role in the local oil business

  • Columns

    August 18, 2005

    A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

    Lost in the controversy over Pat Robertsons call to assassinate a foreign leader is the reverends role in the local oil business

  • News

    September 30, 2004

    Poop Pole

    Costa Mesa unwilling to deal with stinky sewage station

  • News

    January 29, 2004

    Crude Attitude

    Residents pressure city to test for contamination at former Chevron site

  • News

    September 25, 2003

    Tinker Hell

    Disneyland neighbors await official word on whether delightful fireworks shows are killing them

  • Features

    January 2, 2003

    2002: Diary of a Mad Year

    Disneyland neighbors await official word on whether delightful fireworks shows are killing them

  • Columns

    October 31, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    Disneyland neighbors await official word on whether delightful fireworks shows are killing them

  • Features

    September 20, 2001

    Bleccccccccccch!

    A peoples environmental impact report on El Toro International Airport

  • Features

    August 3, 2000

    Hell on Wheels

    Driving in OC, in your own words

  • News

    April 15, 1999

    Bring on da Noise

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 101

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