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Blogs
February 10, 2012
[UPDATED with Fairview Checkpoint:] Beach Blvd. & Stanton Ave. DUI Stop Tonight
UPDATE, FEB. 10, 2:10 P.M.: The Santa Ana Police Department is also holding a DUI/unlicensed driver checkpoint near the 400 block of North Fairview Street from 7:30 p.m. Saturday through 1:30 a.m. Sunday.ORIGINAL POST, FEB. 10, 7:09 A.M.: Citing research that shows sobriety checkpoints are effect ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2011
Drunken Driving Deaths Way Down in California
It will either bolster the argument that sobriety checkpoints are working or prop up the side that claims such enforcement operations are unnecessary, but in either event drunken-driving fatalities are down dramatically in California, according to state data. A record low 791 people were killed i ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2011
American Airlines' Parent Company Files For Bankruptcy, No Immediate Implications For John Wayne Airport
This morning, American Airlines' parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but, for now at least, it won't impact passengers.AMR Corpororation, the company over American Airlines and American Eagle, voluntarily filed for Chapter 11, saying it was the next logical step in ensuring ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2011
Keith Edward Froman and Martin Esquibel Aguilar Busted Separately for Bothering Teens on OCTA Buses
Two men have been arrested for separate incidents where teens were preyed upon on Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) buses, according to authorities.The Orange County Sheriff's Department and Transit Police Services participated in the investigations that led to the busts.
Blogs
November 4, 2011
If You Get Lost and Land in Rancho Santa Margarita Tonight, Look Out for the Sobriety Checkpoint
Legend has it that at the end of a toll road that stretches far off over the horizon, there is a magical land the pixies who live there refer to as "Rancho Santa Margarita." And somewhere in this Smurfy berg there is a busy street, inhabited by pixies in pixie-mobiles. At times they get whiffs of ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2011
You May Not Know Your Future, But Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) Does
Roy Reynolds is a Fountain Valley-based pollster with a bug up his ass about the Southern California Association of Governments.Thank God.For those who have never heard of SCAG, it is, as Reynolds puts it, "an unelected, unrepresentative pseudo-government-like group" that "we must tolerate in our ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2011
Musician and 'The L Word' Actress Kicked Off a Southwest Airlines Flight for Kissing Her Girlfriend Issues Statement
The L Word actress and member of electro pop band Uh Huh Her Leisha Hailey says she was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for kissing her girlfriend. She announced the incident in a series of tweets yesterday, which sparked an Internet outcry. Hailey wrote that she and her longtime girlfrien ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2011
[UPDATED with Conviction:] John Hines, Long Beach Fire Captain, Guilty of DUI Hit and Run of Cyclist
UPDATE, SEPT. 6, 2:59 P.M.: Long Beach Fire Department Capt. John Hines pleaded guilty today to severely injuring a cyclist in a mid-day hit-and-run crash while driving with a blood alcohol level of .24 percent, three times the legal limit. The 38-year-old Huntington Beach resident accepted a co ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2011
[UPDATED with Orange Ordinance Set To Pass] Orange, Westminster Consider Ban on Red Light Cameras
UPDATED, JULY 27, 11:59 A.M.: The ordinance that would ban red-light cameras in Orange passed yesterday with a preliminary 5-0 vote. A second reading will take place at the Aug. 9 City Council meeting.ORIGINAL POST, JULY 26, 8:00 A.M.: Those paranoia-inducing red light cameras may be sh ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2011
[UPDATED with Memorial Service Details:] Brian Hayes, Veteran Anaheim Police Officer, Dies in Plane Crash
UPDATE, JULY 20, 5:25 P.M.: A memorial service for veteran Anaheim Police Officer Brian Hayes, who died in a plane crash with his girlfriend Sunday in Arizona, will be noon Saturday at Calvary Church East Anaheim, 5605 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim.Hayes is survived by his father, Judge W. Michael Ha ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2011
[UPDATED with Final Tallies:] Fourth of July Surprise! Stepped Up DUI Checkpoints and Patrols
UPDATE, JULY 6, 10:38 A.M.: The Avoid the 38 DUI Task Force just released the final numbers from the holiday weekend past's three sobriety checkpoints and multiple DUI saturation patrols countywide.From 12:01 a.m. Friday through midnight Monday, officers representing 38 county law enforcement age ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2011
[UPDATED with Arraignment:] John Hines, Long Beach Fire Captain, Arrested for Felony Hit and Run
UPDATE, MAY 3, 9:36 A.M.: Long Beach Fire Department Capt. John Hines turned himself in to an Orange County court this morning on a $250,000 arrest warrant and was to be arraigned immediately on felony drunken driving and hit-and-run charges that could keep him in state prison for nearly seven ye ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2011
5 Ways the Airline Industry Has Given Up on Us
It's no secret airline travel has gotten worse in recent years, even before the 9/11 gut check. Normally, businesses facing that perception from customers would change their ways.Recent developments suggest the airline industry is doing just that: by totally giving up on the flying public. Five w ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2011
Pilot of Airbus That Nearly Collided with Plane Sees Dark Days Ahead in Skies Above John Wayne Airport
A cockpit alarm prevented a collision between a small aircraft and an Airbus 319 jetliner in the skies above John Wayne Airport (JWA) this past September.Later, on the FAA's Aviation Safety Reporting System log, the Airbus 319 pilot predicted that the mix of large jets and light aircraft at JWA " ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2010
The Funniest Food-Related Traffic Accident Report Of The Week
http://www.sxc.huTraffic accidents are rarely funny. But if no one is hurt and it involves 39,000 pounds of cheese and a truck fire, you bet it is. Add to that mix a newspaper reporter with a penchant for puns and what results is comedy gold! In his report, Sean Dugas, writer for News Herald ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2010
High Speed Train May Demolish Buena Park Homes Designed to Be Near Trains
California High Speed Rail AuthorityIf only the new train had only to contend with windmills...Sunday's Los Angeles Times carried a piece that largely rehashed a few low-boiling controversies about the planned high speed train line that, when eventually completed, will connect Anaheim and San Die ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2010
Bike Boxes Open in Long Beach
Courtesy of City of Long BeachBicyclists feel boxed in--and safer--at this Long Beach intersection.Long Beach is inviting two-wheelers to check the city's first bike boxes along Second Street at Bayshore and Marina Drive.
Blogs
December 17, 2009
Finally! 5 Freeway From Beach to LA County Line Called Out for Being Shitty
OCTA.netThe 5 freeway from Beach Boulevard in Garden Grove to the Los Angeles County line in Buena Park is one of the roughest roads in the nation, states a report released today by two highway advocacy groups. "Future Mobility in California: The Condition, Use and Funding of California's Roads, ... More >>
Blogs
November 20, 2009
Drivers Ridicule Toll Road Photo Contest
Photo by Steve OngAliso Viejo resident Steve Ong's winning shot.An amateur photo contest aimed at promoting Orange County's quasi-private toll roads gave new meaning to drive-by shooting.Folks who left comments on the Transportation Corridor Agencies--or The Toll Roads--Facebook page had other de ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2009
Settlement Would Have Toll Roads Forgiving $40 Million in Fines, Doling Out $1.4 Million to Drivers
Facebook.com/TheTollRoads"Thank you, please come again."Were it not for being stuck in traffic, this Time Winder would have had this yesterday like the Los Angeles Times did, but Orange County's toll road agencies would forgive $40 million in fines and pay $1.4 million to drivers who claim they w ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2009
Proposed LA to San Diego High Speed Train Would Avoid OC
A Los Angeles to San Diego high-speed train proposal that's picking up steam (sorry) would bypass the traditional Amtrak Surfliner route down the coast through Orange County and instead head eastward from LA through the Inland Empire.The state plans new tracks for 220 mile-per-hour trains from Lo ... More >>
Blogs
September 25, 2008
Toll Road Warriors
A Los Angeles to San Diego high-speed train proposal that's picking up steam (sorry) would bypass the traditional Amtrak Surfliner route down the coast through Orange County and instead head eastward from LA through the Inland Empire.The state plans new tracks for 220 mile-per-hour trains from Lo ... More >>
Blogs
August 26, 2008
Saving Trestles: Game On!
The on-again, off-again hearing on the 241 Foothill South toll road extension by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce is back on, from 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 22, and in an old/new home, O'Brien Hall at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, or the same place the California Coastal Commission met, took testimony ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2008
The Fix is In (Santa Ana Edition)
Remember my post yesterday, where I theorized out loud about how SanTana councilmember Carlos Bustamante could greatly benefit if Cordoba Corporation (headed by major contributor and fellow Santa Ana Business Bank director George Pla) ever got a contract with the city to develop a mass transit syste ... More >>
News
July 12, 2007
Moonnites
The 28th Annual Mooning of Amtrak
News
May 3, 2007
Toll Road to Ruin
OC agency wants to borrow $4.7 billion more
News
March 15, 2007
Road to Nowhere Fast
Foothill-South delayed until 2011, possibly forever
Blogs
March 1, 2007
On a Road to Nowhere
For those who have followed the twisting path of the proposed Foothills South toll road-- ably plotted on this blog and in the pages of the Weekly by Alex Brant-Zawadzki and others-- the latest report in the Times will come as no surprise. For more than a year, transportation planners have said that ... More >>
Blogs
November 22, 2006
That Good-For-Nothing Toll Road
Last week the LA Times wrote a piece about OCTA's South Orange County Major Investment Study. Its results directly contradict the Transportation Corridor Agencies' claims that its planned Foothill South (241) Toll Road extension would relieve traffic in south Orange County. Steve Lowery cites the ne ... More >>
News
September 14, 2006
Cocaine Airways
A former CIA pilot says secret flights to El Toro could explain a Marine officers suicide
News
August 17, 2006
Toll Road Rage
Hey, Porter! New firm cashes in on bad toll-road PR
Blogs
May 16, 2006
Can't Have Your Speed And Eat It Too
Okay Register; I know we've had our differences. You write editorials suggesting people who oppose the toll roads are NIMBYs and BANANAs; I criticize you for poorly informing people on the toll road. Your acronym-happy propaganda-fests were goofy if a bit irresponsible. But now...now you're being si ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2006
Alternative Answers
Please forgive the over-generalization, but to over-generalize the Democrats are the party of expensive mass transit boondoggles, the Republicans are the party of lung cancer, freeways to nowhere and terror-enabling dependence on foreign oil, and in Orange County members of both parties are against ... More >>
Music
June 24, 2004
The Car Crash Set
Five more musicians who put the pedal through the metal
News
July 31, 2003
Lite Rail
Five more musicians who put the pedal through the metal
Columns
October 17, 2002
Testeskick Airlines
Five more musicians who put the pedal through the metal
Columns
February 7, 2002
Plough Boy Bunnies
Five more musicians who put the pedal through the metal
Columns
September 6, 2001
Hitting the Wall
Five more musicians who put the pedal through the metal
News
February 1, 2001
Flack Attack
El Toro Airport Watch No. 151
News
December 21, 2000
If You Build It, 24 Million Will Come
El Toro Airport Watch No. 150
Features
September 14, 2000
Spooks
El Toro Airport Watch No. 150
News
August 24, 2000
Airport? Terminal!
El Toro Airport Watch No. 144
News
April 6, 2000
Strippers and Children
18 reasons why the countys proposed El Toro International Airport is cool
News
October 7, 1999
A Too-Modest Proposal
El Toro Airport Watch No. 118
News
July 22, 1999
Off Again
El Toro Airport Watch No. 112
News
July 1, 1999
The Demand Game
El Toro Airport Watch No. 110
News
May 27, 1999
Ass Fault
County officials pave over the true source of toll-road funding: You
News
March 11, 1999
Singing to the Chorus
El Toro Airport Watch No. 96
News
February 11, 1999
Mythic Propaganda
El Toro Watch No. 92
News
December 24, 1998
Toll Road Warrior
William Woollett Jr.'s long reign of shame
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