Subject: Steven Greenhut

• Irvine Wants Communist $$$ for the Great Park?

  The controversy surrounding Irvine's new "Sister City" relationship with Communist officials in Shanghai and the bizarre snub of democratic Taiwan began with numerous "irregularies," including breaches of protocol, "odd" outside influences and possible "deliberate deception," according to a June 21 memo obtained by the Weekly. Written by Sister Cities Foundation president James E. Dunning, the three-page document outlines how Henry King, the Shanghai-native husband of Councilman Larry Agran'

  June 25, 2006

• Cop Land

  Longtime courthouse observers can't remember the last time an Orange County jury convicted a police officer of abusing his power. It's not that abuse doesn't periodically occur. Several months ago, I watched the trial of an Irvine cop who got an erection and ejaculated on a female motorist in Laguna Beach. He escaped criminal liability. In recent years, the Weeky's Nick Schou and the Register's Steven Greenhut have shown that independent oversight of the county's police officers is zero. In Su

  April 16, 2007

• Key OC Republicans Back Civilian Oversight of Sheriff

  Steven Greenhut over at The Orange County Register's Orange Punch blog recently reported more bad news for Sheriff Mike Carona. Key members of the powerful Republican Lincoln Club announced last week they believe it's time to form a civilian review panel over the sheriff's department, says Greenhut. This follows the gruesome October 2006 killing of an inmate in front of a deputy who claims he was busy watching television during his shift and didn't notice the violent gang attack. At least one

  May 20, 2007

• Civilian Review of Sheriff Passes 5-0

  Steven Greenhut at the Register's Orange Punch Liberty Blog attended today's Board of Supervisors meeting and reports that Sheriff Mike Carona lost his bid to kill the concept of a civilian review panel. Thanks to a surprising last-minute switch by Supervisor Bill Campbell, the vote was 5-0, according to Greenhut. In 60 days, a detailed proposal will come back to the all-Republican board for consideration. Led by Supervisors John Moorlach and Chris Norby, the board has worked to increase scr

  May 22, 2007

• What is Really Happening in the Bus Strike?

  Chris Prevatt at theliberaloc.com has an interesting post today on the bus-driver strike. Prevatt slams Matt Cunningham at the conservative OCblog and the Register's Steven Greenhut for allegedly misrepresenting the facts of the strike. Writes Prevatt, "At a minimum, [Greenhut's] claims are framed outside the context of the conversation specifically to support the OCTA position and distort reality to make the union position appear unreasonable." Prevatt says, "Greenhut and Cunningham are usin

  July 11, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises

  'Biggest racist ever' back on Anaheim school board: Last week, the Anaheim Union School District appointed Harald Martin to an open board seat created by the death of Denise Mansfield-Reinking. I managed to obtain the board's top-secret qualifications checklist for Martin: Racist, check. Uneducated cop mentality, check. Nincompoop, check. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! Of course, I'm kidding. Nothing was top secret. We all know about Martin's history during his previous board service.

  July 22, 2007

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Bootlicker is back!

  Tinker Bell Plot: Reporter Dave McKibben visits the turf war in Anaheim and discovers “The Disney-supported initiative, which supporters say has gathered enough signatures for the ballot, seeks to bar new housing in the resort district unless voters approve it. [But the] measure wouldn't require voter approval for Disney's commercial ventures.” That's evenhanded in a Tinker Bell sort of way. Disney folks want to block SunCal's 1,500-residential-unit plans across the street from their third

  August 15, 2007

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Laguna prefers goats on grass

  Mexicans are safe on this one: A report issued recently to the Laguna Beach City Council found that goats will clear vegetation from fire-sensitive slopes for a cost of $198,000 per year, while juveniles working off a crime in the county’s Probation Department would require $385,000. A consultant to the city noted that goats are “advantageous in their ability to work in all types of weather and terrain conditions.” So the goats win again. But tell me recidivism rates for probation punks w

  September 10, 2007

• Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: Calling Nurse Ratched

  UCI Cluster Fuck: News emerged today that Michael J. Schroeder, OC GOP heavyweight, participated with a group of 20 fellow Republicans to pressure the UCI Chancellor from hiring liberal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky as dean of the university's first law school. Michael V. Drake offered the job to Chemerinksy last month and this week withdrew the offer under murky circumstances. Now, Garrett Therolf and Maura Dolan at the LA Times write this morning that UCI is working on a plan to rehire Chemerinsk

  September 15, 2007

• Friday's Headlines & Surprises: The Drake Two-Step

  Dancing With the Fibber: UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake has inspired a new dance. We’re calling it the Drake Two-Step, and it goes like this: hire, lie, fire, lie, rehire, wiggle. For a story in today’s Times, Drake admits that he “bungled” the firing last week of Erwin Chemerinsky as dean of the university’s future law school, but he refused to answer a single question on the record about his blatantly inconsistent versions of events. Most noticeably, Drake still won’t expla

  September 21, 2007

• Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: No Sex in Uniform

  Democratic Money Man Sued in OC: Norman Hsu's legal woes continued to mount with a new civil lawsuit filed by Orange County investors who claim the Hillary Clinton fund raiser operated a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme with political overtones. A story in the Times by Robin Fields, Dan Morain and Chuck Neubauer outlines the new claims including that Hsu "dictated" that his potential business partners "make contributions to Democratic candidates as a condition of doing business with him." Good

  September 22, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: OC Inspired Space Travel?

  California's Police State: Imagine you are a suspect and the police take your entire statement out of context by secretly recording only snippets that seem to incriminate you in a crime. Can’t happen? Think again. California police officers have won the right to selectively tape you. It’s the Rush Limbaugh method of police work and by any fair measure it’s disgraceful. Today, Register opinion writer Steven Greenhut slams Orange County state representative Todd Spitzer (R-Brea) for his att

  September 30, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: Target Practice on the 55?

  Dana’s Idea of Sacrifice: Ex-Dana Rohrabacher aide Erik Prince and other Blackwater USA corporate officials have been dodging congressional questions about their private army’s alleged corruption, including killing innocent, unarmed Iraqi citizens. Mainstream news accounts thoroughly detail the stories. But an excellent update this morning in the Detroit Free Press quotes Rohrabacher (R-Skipped Vietnam Combat Duty) claiming that Prince has sacrificed himself financially for the nation by ow

  October 7, 2007

• Bishop Brown Still Doesn't Get It

  Pick up this newspaper this Thursday, when this reporter will have a more in-depth take on the Orange diocese's settling four more sex-abuse cases for about $7 million. In the meanwhile, allow your humble servant to rail about the latest foot-in-mouth case of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown. Today, Associated Press reporter Gillian Flaccus filed a report from Newport Beach, where three of the four victims came forth to face the cameras. She also interviewed Brown, who's scheduled to appear in Orange

  October 8, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: Pipe Bomb Rocks Long Beach

  Bud Light No More, You Pick Again: My-Thuan Tran reports this morning that the “Starbucks generation” of Vietnamese Americans “couldn’t stand dingy” Little Saigon restaurants and is building “stylish and spotless . . . swank” restaurants in response. Bao Tran, 34, quit a job in insurance several years ago and opened two places I recommend to non-Vietnamese: Quan Hy and Quan Hop. Ton told the Times reporter, “We wanted a place that was clean and nice, not a place where they throw

  October 21, 2007

• Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: KFI Nailing Carona?

  Chivalry at its Finest! Federal prosecutors gave Michael S. Carona, 52, multiple chances to save his wife and one of his mistresses from aggressive federal prosecution if he agreed to plead guilty on corruption and obstruction of justice charges. But the self-styled Christian conservative sheriff resisted. Carona wanted to save his own ass, a source told Gil Reza and Christine Hanley for a story today in the LA Times. The sheriff offered to resign if the feds would let him escape all charges. P

  November 6, 2007

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Horny Priests and Eskimo kids

  $50 million Eskimo Pie: Because its priests and missionaries sexually abused 110 Eskimo children from 1961 to 1987, the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church has almost finalized a deal to pay $50 million to the victims, William Lobdell and Stuart Silverstein report in today’s LA Times. But “the settlement does not require the order to admit fault” and “more than a dozen” priests escaped criminal charges, according to the article. “Many plaintiffs said their once devoutly Cathol

  November 19, 2007

• 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. Proponents say the Renaissance Plan will transform the city's downtown; opponents say the same, except use the word "gentrification." Greenhut, in one of his increasing moves to the Left, sides with the o

  December 24, 2007

• The Reg-O-Meter©: Interpreting Terry Horne's Tuesday reader letter

  Interpreting Register publisher Terry Horne’s Page 2 Tuesday letter to Reg readers, the same day the paper introduced a new slimmed-down format—all pages reduced by a one-inch width to save on the cost of newsprint. (You can just call it shrinkage.) Warning: Horne uses the word “exciting” twice in his letter—in our book, a coded phrase that means more layoffs and buyouts are a-comin’ . . . A MESSAGE FROM THE REGISTER’S PUBLISHER "The Register is making a notable change starting

  June 21, 2008

• William Lobdell--Gone :-(

  As noted below by Scott, William Lobdell has left the Los Angeles Times. And, as Scott noted, Lobdell was no ordinary reporter--the man was a multiple-award-winning titan, one of the best religion reporters ever to grace American newspapers, and definitely the best in covering the Gospel Swamp that is Orange County. He left the religion beat last year, sickened by the county's many Pharisees. Now, Orange County has no full-time reporter covering religion at the Times or the Orange County Registe

  July 15, 2008

• The Wars Most Unusual Casualty

  April 17, 2003

• The Junk in Our Trunk

  April 15, 2004

• Jessica's Law Was Unraveling Before Santa Ana Court Ruling

  A ruling by the state Fourth District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana on Wednesday may represent the largest crack to date in Jessica's Law, the voter initiative Prop. 83 of 2006 that forbade sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or a park. Stress fractures had been evident several months before justices even heard the case, however. The court determined that residency restrictions imposed by Prop. 83 amount to additional punishment for sex offenders’ original crimes, overturni

  November 21, 2008

• Justice Takes a Pool Cue

  Assistant sheriff, OC dailies miss the irony as Haidl 3 elude conviction

  July 1, 2004

• Letters

  March 6, 2003

• Cop Land

  Pressure mounts for civilian oversight
  

  April 19, 2007

• [Moxley Confidential] Sandra Hutchens' Party Poop

  April 23, 2009

• A Measure of Titanic Proportions

  Green groups weigh Measure M support

  November 2, 2006

• Facts and Feces

  May 26, 2005

• Chuck Not Amuck

  April 7, 2005

• Northern Exposure

  March 3, 2005

• Sexual Reeling

  How the Register blew the Orange Diocese sex-abuse story

  December 9, 2004

• Eight Days

  September 23, 2004

• Justice Takes a Pool Cue

  UPDATED: Assistant sheriff, OC dailies miss the irony as Haidl Three elude conviction

  July 8, 2004

• Podex Maximus

  June 24, 2004

• Letters

  May 6, 2004

• Stonewall Rackauckas

  September 4, 2003

• Segregations Last Best Defender

  February 27, 2003

• Pop Your Go Pills, Then Read

  January 30, 2003

• Bill Simon's Queer Principles

  August 22, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 15, 2002

• Primary Madness

  March 14, 2002

• Super Suckers

  June 14, 2001

• Sympathy for the Devil

  May 20, 1999

• OC Author Celebrated By NY TImes!

  Wonders Her Hair's Role In Losing BIllWilliam Lobdell, the voice you regularly hear discussing Orange County issues with Steven Greenhut of the Register and our very own Gustavo Arellano on KPCC-FM, won a positive review of his book in today's New York Times. "There are many great books about finding God," according to reviewer Mark Oppenheimer. "But there are far fewer books, great or otherwise, about finding and then losing God. So "Losing My Religion," by William Lobdell, a former religion w

  April 26, 2009

• Greenhut Praises Moxley, Blasts Carona's Disappeared Defenders

  While wondering where all the defenders of convicted and soon-to-be imprisoned ex-sheriff Mike Carona are now, Register editorial writer Steven Greenhut drops a couple shout outs to the coverage by the Weekly's R. Scott Moxley, the lone reporter uncovering the former top Orange County lawman's misdeeds from the beginning. Greenhut begins his post on his Orange Punch "liberty blog" (all the emphasises are his): I was reading theLiberalOC and found this interesting post in which the writer points

  May 1, 2009

• Greenhut Blasts Sheriff, Union Boss Over Alleged Deputy Lies Under Oath

  Steven GreenhutIn tomorrow's edition of LewRockwell.com, Steven Greenhut writes a column, "Breaking the Code of Silence," that ridicules what the senior Orange County Register editorial writer sees as a continued lack of ethics and decency at the sheriff's department. At issue, according to Greenhut, is that Sheriff Sandra Hutchens and deputy union boss Wayne Quint were peeved that prosecutors told the public of documented evidence that deputies lied under oath to protect another deputy who'd t

  May 18, 2009

• 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 groundwork for ARTIC, a regional transportation hub that's been more than 15 years in the making. The dollar total for the job could reach $24.3 million. According to the Register, Parsons Brinckerho

  May 27, 2009

• OC Register's Steven Greenhut To Take On Sacramento

  A headache for liberals soon arrives in Sacramento ​Earlier today, Art Pedroza at OrangeJuiceBlog reported that Steven Greenhut, the longtime senior editorial writer and columnist at The Orange County Register, has accepted a job in Sacramento. Though he didn't have the details, Pedroza was right. Greenhut told me tonight that he is opening a news bureau and investigative journalism program in the state capital for the Pacific Research Institute, the free-market, individual liberty organizatio

  September 16, 2009

• AD 72 Race Get Racier over Weekend

  Mikey​Rounding up the recent developments in the race to replace Mike "The Dripper" Duvall:-- Linda Ackerman's campaign has dropped a press release announcing that the OC GOP is reprimanding Chris Norby for campaign ethics violations. Norby himself filed his own ethics complaint against Ackerman, but his complaint, according to Ackerman's campaign, was found to be without merit. We don't yet know what the GOP considers to be Norby's specific violation. But previously, Ackerman was carping abou

  October 26, 2009