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Todd Spitzer

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2013

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2013

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2013

    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.

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2013

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2012

    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 >>

  • News

    August 2, 2012

    Dispatches From Anaheimistan

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

  • News

    June 28, 2012

    The Norbertine Code

    Monks and canyon dwellers go mano a mano in Silverado Canyon

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    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 >>

  • News

    February 10, 2012

    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

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    [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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    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 >>

  • News

    September 9, 2010

    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

  • News

    February 11, 2010

    Sheriff's Deputies Wreck Another Case

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

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2007

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2007

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2007

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2007

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2007

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2007

    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 >>

  • News

    July 29, 2004

    Pussies Galore!

    What local candidates dont want voters to know

  • News

    October 2, 2003

    Queer Eye for the GOP Guy

    Gay activist sets the record straight about Log Cabin Republicans

  • Columns

    May 1, 2003
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    April 3, 2003
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    March 27, 2003
  • News

    January 30, 2003

    Earth Mover

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

  • News

    November 28, 2002

    Bada Bing!

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

  • Features

    October 31, 2002

    Scam Adams

    John Adams wants to be judge in a bad way

  • Columns

    August 22, 2002
  • News

    October 4, 2001

    Not Just a Moron

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

  • News

    February 8, 2001

    The Honeymoon Continues

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

  • Features

    November 9, 2000

    Behind the Smoke

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

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    The Irvine Co.s Manchurian Supervisor

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

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    Mitterfired?

    Controversial county CEO down to just one defender: The Times

  • News

    March 9, 2000

    Time to Chuck Smith

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

  • News

    December 23, 1999

    Happy Anniversary!

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

  • News

    December 9, 1999

    Bankruptcy? What Bankruptcy?!

    OCs financial meltdown, five years later

  • News

    August 12, 1999

    Pets Held Hostage!

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

  • News

    June 24, 1999

    Muzzle Puzzle

    Why is Animal Control displaying a bunker mentality?

  • Columns

    June 17, 1999
  • News

    June 10, 1999

    Bargain Base Mint

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 108

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    Lights! Camera! Reaction!

    Supes give Springer a run for his money

  • Features

    February 18, 1999
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    January 7, 1999
  • News

    April 9, 1998

    County To Voters: "Thanks for Sharing"

    'Supes' Soviet-style budget includes millions for millionaires

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