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Union-Tribune Publishing Co.

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    [UPDATED with Texas Sales:] Freedom Communications Sells MORE Papers That Are Not the Register

    UPDATE, MAY 18, 12:32 P.M.: The Freedom Communications' fire sale continues.A day after announcing the sale of four Midwest newspapers, the Irvine-based parent company of the Orange County Register disclosed it is also dumping all its Texas papers.

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Register Either Close or Extremely Close to Being Bought by Union-Tribune Publisher

    The Orange County Register is either extremely close or not-yet extremely close to being acquired by the publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune, according to published reports.The Santa Ana daily has been on the block for years, even before its owner, Freedom Communications of Irvine, declared ban ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Orange County Register Eyed by Publisher South of the Border

    ​Someone south of the border may buy the Orange County Register.Clean up in whichever aisles old coot heads just exploded in.That's south of the Orange County border, not the Mexican one.

  • News

    January 5, 2012

    The LA Times Crosses Over

    How the newspaper's cozy relationship with Camp Pendleton hampers its coverage of religious controversies on the base

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    [UPDATED with Tribune Talks Back On:] Sale Could Lead to One Company Owning All SoCal Dailies

    ​UPDATE, JUNE 16, 9:22 A.M.: Now that merger talks with MediaNews have broken down, Irvine-based owner of the Orange County Register Freedom Communications has revived negotiations with that other Southern California newspaper  publisher.No, not the Los Angeles investment company that bought ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Register Sale Could Lead to One Company Owning All SoCal Dailies: Media Expert

    ​A newspaper journalist-turned-Silicon Valley media mogul sets up the dominoes which, once tipped over, could lead "a single entity" to "publish all the dailies from the Tehachapi Mountains at the north end of metro L.A. to the Mexican border."At the middle of it all is the pending sale of the Ora ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Remembering a Buddy at Buddy Blue Festival V

    Photo by Tim Ames/BuddyBlue.netBuddy Blue strikes a chord at Pete's Place.​My, how time flies when you're missing your buddy. Bernard "Buddy" Seigal was a former OC Weekly music editor, a connoisseur of subversive comics, disturbing porn and bottomless whiskey shots, and, under the stage name "Bud ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Owners of Los Angeles Times and Other SoCal Papers Expected to Bid on The Orange County Register

    ​Like vultures hovering over roadkill, media companies and private-equity firms are expected to pick at what remains of Irvine's Freedom Communications--parent company of The Orange County Register of Santa Ana--at auction Thursday.Among those likely placing bids will be Chicago-based Tribune, whi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    Ismael Calixto Ortiz, Wanted in '05 Santa Ana Rape, Apprehended After Hopping Border

    ​In a brushy area of Imperial Beach in San Diego County early Monday, a Border Patrol agent confronted two Mexican nationals who illegally entered the United States. The agent managed to detain one man but the second resisted. Just as a second agent arrived, the combative man tried to yank the fir ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Ex-Reg Guy Slashes San Diego Paper's Staff, Replaces with Reporter Drones

    Flickr user pixelfehlerIt's all just cage lining.​How'd you like a job that requires writing with a "low level of complexity, analysis and narrative?" No, Navel Gazing isn't hiring. The San Diego Union-Tribune, now helmed by former OC Register Vice President of Interactive Jeff Light, is.Light joi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Remembering Buddy Blue . . . With a Gig

    BuddyBlue.netBuddy Blue tears it up in 2004.​If Bernard "Buddy" Seigal (stage name, "Buddy Blue") were alive today, and he hadn't left his post as OC Weekly music editor years earlier, he'd be in charge of the blog you are reading right now.

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    Register Web Guru Heads to Top Spot at San Diego Union-Tribune

    ​Jeff Light, the Orange County Register's vice president of interactive, will become vice president and editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune, according to the UT.While researching last November's story about the Voice of OC, a few former Register staffers told me Light was an important man at th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    One Paper Questions Poizner's Fitness to Govern, Another Makes Same Case Against Whitman

    Steve Poizner photo by Jack GouldWhitman for sale; heil, Poizner!​From Los Angeles Times Capitol Journal columnist George Skelton: Steve Poizner's Wild-Eyed Accusations Against Meg Whitman Don't Bode Well: The GOP gubernatorial candidate alleges his opponent used attempted bribery and extortion to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    Friends, Foes Respond to Report Dinging California High Speed Rail

    ​A state Legislative Analyst's Office report critical of California's planned high-speed rail network, which includes a leg that extends into Orange County, is being used as ammunition by critics who want to junk the $42.6-billion project.

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    State Crushing Beverage Recycling Program?

    ​You know things are bad in Sacramento when the programs making California money are on the verge of collapse.Take the state's state-of-the-art beverage container recycling program, which could be getting crushed like a used soda can.

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2009

    Why Do More Latinos Settle in OC Than Closer to the Border?

    You'd think San Diego County's closeness to the Mexican border would make it a natural place for Latinos to call home, but according to the U.S. Census Bureau, San Diego County continues to have the lowest concentration of Latinos among Southern California counties. That's because, immigration tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    Times and Register Anti-Trust or Bust Lust in the Dust

    As merger mania sweeps through the ownership suites of the L.A. Times and Orange County Register, some may find it odd that the fierce competitors: 1) are even considering joining forces, and B) would even be allowed to merge After all, it was not that long ago that those U.S. Department of Just ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2008

    Thanks For Nothing

    The Transportation Corridor Agencies, whose Foothill-South (241) toll road extension was recently vetoed by the California Coastal Commission, sent out the following letter to its supporters. My edits are in italicized bold. Dear Supporter: Thank you for your ongoing support for the completion of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2007

    E&P thinks we're popular

    Village Voice Media (of which OC Weekly is a part) placed 15 in Editor & Publisher's list of top 30 top newspaper sites for October, beating out the San Diego Union-Tribune, Arizona Republic, San Jose Mercury News and more. Read it here.

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2007

    Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Safer Teen Sex in OC?

    Lots of Unprotected Fornications in SD: The San Diego Union-Tribune reports this morning that youths ages 15 to 24 in our southern neighbor county had a whopping 85,000 cases of chlaymdia, gonorrhea and AIDS in 2005. How’s that rank? Well, according to the newspaper, researchers at the Cali ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2007

    Friday's Headlines & Surprises: Stale Marijuana?

    Doesn't marijuana go stale? I dunno, but Jim Spray, 51, and Felix Cha (the person, not the tea), 22, want the government to return the pot police officers confiscated two years ago, according to Christine Hanley at the Times. Lawyers for both men told the Santa Ana-based Court of Appeal yesterday t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2007

    OC Lawyer Tossed From CA Republican Bribery Case

    A federal judge in San Diego removed Mark Geragos from a sensational bribery case yesterday because the (in)famous Orange County-based defense lawyer refused to agree to a federal background check before receiving classified national-security-related data. Geragos—who worked for convicted wife-a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2006

    San Diego: Screw Trestles

    San Diego has no business in San Diego County. At least, that's what their City Council seems to think. In our Best "Best of OC" Issue yet, Dave Wielenga eloquently described one of the major problems with the Save Trestles campaign: apathy. Surfers and the surf industry pay lip service to their be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2006

    The Game Goes On

    You may remember this Arnold Schwarzenegger commercial from the recall election, which described how Sacramento works: "Here's how it works. Money goes in. Favors go out. The people lose. We need to send a message. Game over." Well, if you thought you were sending a message by voting for Schwarze ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2006

    Smart Kids, Not So Smart Adults, and DNA for Dinner

    The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, "School-age children from Spanish-speaking households in San Diego County and throughout California are gaining English fluency at record rates". While this is excellent news, the news for adults is a little ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2006

    Ed Royce Makes a Run for the Border

    The San Diego Union-Tribune, whose editorials typically lean solidly to the right, has come out firmly against mixing illegal immigration with the war on terror--and with "The Wrong Mix," they more specifically chide OC's own Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) for chairing an Imperial Beach congressional h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2006

    Corruption breeds bargains

    Tired of the way your home looks? Think a 32 ft. long Oriental rug would spruce the place up? Then tomorrow is your lucky day, because tomorrow at 9 a.m., some of felonious ex-San Diego Congressman Duke Cunningham's ill-gotten gains will be auctioned off. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune: T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2006

    The Foothills in your Headlights: The Extension approved

    Yesterday, the board members of the Foothills/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency voted 12-3 to approve the $875 million Foothills South (241) extension, which will cut through both San Onofre State Beach and the Donna O'Neill Land Conservancy. But that ominous rumbling you hear in the distance i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2006

    Toll Road Decision Delayed; Newport Beach Freezes Over

    Okay, Newport's fine, but there must be Satanic snowballs somewhere. Today, the Transportation Corridor Agencies announced a 30-day delay on their choice of alignments for the Foothill-South toll road extension. The TCA board voted 12-3 for the delay mere hours after its staff received a letter from ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 20, 2005

    This Week in the Worst Thing the World Has Ever Seen

    Dona Sangre

  • Music

    September 25, 2003

    KaZaA Kiddie Porn?

    Dona Sangre

  • Columns

    June 19, 2003

    Letters

    Dona Sangre

  • Columns

    May 1, 2003

    Diary of a Mad County

    Dona Sangre

  • Columns

    March 27, 2003

    Driving Through the Valley of Malls

    Dona Sangre

  • Music

    December 26, 2002

    Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet

    The Dailies bite the hype

  • Columns

    November 28, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    The Dailies bite the hype

  • Columns

    May 2, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    The Dailies bite the hype

  • Columns

    April 4, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    The Dailies bite the hype

  • Columns

    January 31, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    The Dailies bite the hype

  • Columns

    January 17, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    The Dailies bite the hype

  • News

    July 12, 2001

    Free at Last! Free at Look a Leaf!

    California ferrets on the verge of amnesty

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    Electric Light Orchestra

    The states biggest newspapers continue to defend the power companies

  • Columns

    December 7, 2000

    Full Metal House

    The states biggest newspapers continue to defend the power companies

  • Culture

    October 19, 2000

    Neal Before Him

    Pollack is pretty great, and he deserves your rapt attention

  • Columns

    December 9, 1999

    This weeks featured NFL game: San Diego Chargers (4-7) vs. Minnesota Vikings (7-4)

    Pollack is pretty great, and he deserves your rapt attention

  • Columns

    December 2, 1999

    San Diego Chargers (4-6) vs. Minnesota Vikings (6-4)

    Pollack is pretty great, and he deserves your rapt attention

  • Columns

    October 7, 1999

    Sleeping Disorder in the Court

    Pollack is pretty great, and he deserves your rapt attention

  • Columns

    September 16, 1999

    Managed Scare

    Pollack is pretty great, and he deserves your rapt attention

  • News

    March 25, 1999

    Ode to Sneaky Pete

    Nuclear industry exposes ex-governor's Ward Valley lie

  • Columns

    December 10, 1998

    Tourists Trapped

    Nuclear industry exposes ex-governor's Ward Valley lie

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