Todd Spitzer

Nicolas Cendoya, Kyndall Jack Again Off the Hook for $160k Trabuco Canyon Rescue Tab

See Update No. 2 on page 2 about the Orange County Board of Supervisors deciding behind closed doors not to charge the rescued hikers for the $160,000 in various government costs.See Update No. 1 on the next page with the county considering sticking the teens with the tab if a sheriff's department i ... More >>

Kyndall Jack and Nicholas Cendoya Will Not Be Billed for Trabuco Canyon Search and Rescue

Kyndall Jack and Nicholas Cendoya, the teens who went missing in Trabuco Canyon on Easter Sunday before being found in different spots in the middle of the week, will not be billed for the massive search, which utilized various nonprofit, private and governmental resources (as well as scores of volu ... More >>

No-Host Bar Unlikely at All-Day DUI Summit

County Supervisor Todd Spitzer has brought together a variety of experts and advocates for an "Orange County DUI Summit" from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at Concordia University in Irvine.Ah, for the Don Draper days when they'd serve cocktails at these deals.

Irvine Makes Sweeping Changes To Clean Up Struggling Great Park Operations

Irvine's first majority Republican city council meeting in more than a decade kicked off last night and the winds of change raged like a hurricane. With the five-member body focused on the Orange County Great Park, the new council voted for sweeping changes including a restructuring of the ... More >>

Canyonites Gear Up for Legal Fight Over Board of Supervisors' Approval of 65 New Homes

Stymied in their efforts to get the Orange County Board of Supervisors to reject a 65-home project into the rural canyons just northwest of Cook's Corner, canyonites are turning to the last place they can think of to stop what they believe to be a forever quality-of-life-changing development:The cou ... More >>

Dispatches From Anaheimistan

A week after shootings that roiled the city, Anaheim still looks like a warzone

The Norbertine Code

Monks and canyon dwellers go mano a mano in Silverado Canyon

Orange County Election Results Trickle In But Todd Spitzer is Back on His Path to the White House

As we approach midnight, our Orange County Registrar of Voters claimed that in four hours he was only able to tabulate 2.7 percent of today's election votes and, because of that incompetence, I'm slightly pissed that I missed most of NBC's "Love in the Wild."Yet, I will go to sleep with a satisfied ... More >>

Why the Orange County Republican Central Committee Chose Now to Dump Deborah Pauly

How ucked fup is the Orange County Republican Central Committee? The committee did nothing when its vice chairwoman and Villa Park City Councilwoman Deborah Pauly called for the death of Islamic men, women and children walking into a February 2011 Yorba Linda charity event. The committee also did no ... More >>

The Real Todd Spitzer Stands Up

[Moxley Confidential] Orange County's potential next district attorney makes a surprising confession in his eternal war against DA Tony Rackauckas and GOP power couple Susan and Mike Schroeder

8 Reasons October Was 2011's Worst Month

​There was a lot to hate about 2011 as a whole.And, there are still nine days left for December to make a case for changing my mind about which was the worst month in Orange County this year.But, from my perch on this ivory tower I call "couch," I'm ready to proclaim October 2011 as the nastiest m ... More >>

Irvine Parents Who Let Minors Get Boozed Up at Parties Could Face $3K Fines

Best Week Ever​Remember in high school how there'd always be that one mom or dad who was so cool because she/he would let kids drink wine coolers while playing Spin The Bottle in the basement?    Now, if officials discover you are that parent, be prepared to pay up to $3,000 in fines.&nb ... More >>

Mark Bucher to Replace Chuck DeVore in Todd Spitzer Race

Mark Bucher ​In addition to Chuck DeVore dropping out of the race for Orange County supervisor, the Weekly has learned conservative activist Mark Bucher will challenge fellow Republican Todd Spitzer for the 2012 open seat.Bucher is a successful businessman, a prominent--even outspoken--Christian c ... More >>

[UPDATED with Split Response:] Rackauckas and Hutchens Support Ban on Sex Offenders in Irvine City Parks

Irvine council members Sukhee Kang, Beth Krom and Larry Agran​UPDATE, MAY 11, 9:54 A.M.: The proposal to ban sex offenders from Irvine city parks did not wow all council members Tuesday night. Mayor Sukhee Kang, Councilman Steven Choi and the councilman who brought the matter before the panel, Jef ... More >>

Top 15 Notable OC Quotes of 2010

Rev. Schuller: Give me mo' money!​15. "I want to tongue every inch of you because I love you."--A text message Oxford Academy high-school history teacher Christopher John Ontiveros allegedly sent to a 17-year-old female student before his arrest for sex crimes.14. "[Barney Frank] will be shot dead ... More >>

Will the Real Todd Spitzer Please Stand Up?

[Moxley Confidential] The ex-prosecutor assumed he'd take over the DA's office but gets booted first

Sheriff's Deputies Wreck Another Case

[Moxley Confidential] OCSD's omission of key facts about a stalled car crashes a burglary prosecution

The Reconquista Reaches Sacramento

With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from yesterday’s sojourn to Sacramento, where I received a Latino Spirit Award (honoring Latinos who have made a positive contribution to California) from the California Latino Legislative Caucus: ... More >>

Wake Up And Suck The Orange 1.24.08

Good morning children. On this day in history in 1848, James Sutter first found gold at Sutter's Mill, starting the California Gold Rush. In 1935, the first cans of beer were sold in the US. And in 2003 the Department of Homeland Security began operation. Hooray beer, boo Homeland Security. Read th ... More >>

Sheriff Carona Takes Two-Month Vacation

Halfway through today's intensely dull OC Board of Supervisors meeting, during which the supes hemmed and hawed about whether to allow county voters to demand elected officials under indictment take a paid leave of absence, board chairman Chris Norby paused to read a letter from Sheriff Mike Carona, ... More >>

Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: Poor Mike Carona

OC's Embarrassing Buford T. Justice: Law-enforcement helicopters and ground crews normally — blatantly — tail me. You should have seen them after I revealed that local cops had planted a handgun on a DUI suspect, after I wrote about a cop who ejaculated on a female motorist in Laguna Beach, and ... More >>

Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises

Build It & Hope They Come: The Register reports that Irvine has approved a 5-mile, $280 million street car/bus plan that will link the future Great Park to the Irvine Spectrum and a train station by 2012. City officials, untrustworthy in the past, claim that each day 5,000 people will abandon their ... More >>

CA soon to spend more on prisons than education!

According to an article today by James Sterngold in the San Francisco Chronicle, California will soon have the dubious honor of being the first state to spend more on prisons than higher education. Sterngold says that beginning in fiscal 2012-2013 the state will spend $15.4 billion annually on inca ... More >>

Over Spitzer's Objection, Gov Delays New Death Chamber

You've got to wonder how state assemblyman Todd Spitzer--a former Orange County supervisor, prosecutor and LAPD reserve officer--tolerates continual Sacramento BS even within his own Republican Party. McClatchy news reported today that GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger--who oddly still enjoys The Ter ... More >>

Parsing Sentences (Penal edition)

In a nice bit of timing, on Friday the Times featured Todd Spitzer's rejection of an attempt to rationalize California's criminal sentencing process and take politics out of it, and today the U.S. Supreme Court declared the state's Determinate Sentencing Law unconstitutional. The Associated Press r ... More >>

Pussies Galore!

What local candidates dont want voters to know

Queer Eye for the GOP Guy

Gay activist sets the record straight about Log Cabin Republicans

Diary of a Mad County

You Paid for Tony Rackauckas Mexican Vacation

Diary of a Mad County

Earth Mover

Supervisor candidate Jim Potts wants to shake up county, dig tunnel under mountain

Bada Bing!

Attorney General auditing Orange County DAs questionable use of witness-protection funds

Scam Adams

John Adams wants to be judge in a bad way

Diary of a Mad County

Not Just a Moron

Silva may be stupid, but his airport flip-flop shows hes smart enough to take orders

The Honeymoon Continues

The press and politicians protect John Moorlach from tough questions about Edison investments

Behind the Smoke

Measure G to the countys poor: Go to the end of the line, and wait there for 20 yearsagain

The Irvine Co.s Manchurian Supervisor

Wilsons flip-flop on CEO proves the specter of outside interests controls Orange County government

Mitterfired?

Controversial county CEO down to just one defender: The Times

Time to Chuck Smith

Underfunded Elizondo ought to make the 1st District developers shill really nervous

Happy Anniversary!

The Times celebrates the rise of Jan Mittermeiers Soviet-style politics

Bankruptcy? What Bankruptcy?!

OCs financial meltdown, five years later

Pets Held Hostage!

Week No. 9 at the countys screwed-up Animal Control agency

Muzzle Puzzle

Why is Animal Control displaying a bunker mentality?

Letters

Bargain Base Mint

El Toro Airport Watch No. 108

Lights! Camera! Reaction!

Supes give Springer a run for his money

OC's Sexiest People

January-March

County To Voters: "Thanks for Sharing"

'Supes' Soviet-style budget includes millions for millionaires