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To Live and Die in the Arizona Desert in a 2018 Chevy Bolt EV Premier
WRITER’S NOTE: This Ride Me vehicle-review column is the first of two parts featuring the 2018 Chevy Bolt EV Premier. So much happened over the week I test drove the electric car that it did not seem fair to pack into a single story my experiences as well as my opinions about the EV. […]
Slumlord’s Buena Park Mansion Protested By Tenants Set to Be Evicted Near USC
A yellow Sureway bus arrived in a quiet, upscale Buena Park neighborhood near Coyote Hills on Sunday afternoon. One by one, dozens of tenants set to be evicted from an apartment complex a block from USC in Los Angeles exited with protest signs in hand. The residents readied to march before the multimillion-dollar, majestic, white […]
Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait Goes to Puerto Rico
Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait spent April 9 touring the Puerto Rican city of Guaynabo, just outside of San Juan. The trip—hosted by the city’s mayor, Angel Pérez Otero—had one goal: to emphasize the recovery process under way after the devastation left by Hurricane Maria in mid-September 2017. The Mayor Exchange program, funded by the New […]
Free Brake Light Repair Clinic Gives OC Police One Less Reason to Pull Us Over
By Sandra De Anda “The reason for the stop is your third brake light is out,” convicted South Carolina killer cop Michael Slager said to Walter Scott in 2015. Moments later, Slager shot Scott to death in the back after he ran away. Last year, another cop stopped Philando Castile in Minnesota for a broken tail […]
List of Active Candidates for Rohrabacher’s House Seat Shrinks But the Ballot Doesn’t
There are now fewer candidates actively seeking the 48th congressional district seat that Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Sleeping Bag) is trying to keep. Not that the June primary election ballot will reflect that. Candidates who exited the race after the March 9 filing deadline remain on the ballot. On Thursday morning, Republican businessman Stelian Onufrei […]
FAIR’s Anti-Immigrant Extremist Behind OC’s Anti-Sanctuary State Revolt Has OC Roots
In a tale of two city councils, Los Alamitos and Yorba Linda traveled down different paths towards the same goal of opposing the California Values Act last month. The roaming pro-Trump circus packed Los Alamitos’ tiny chambers on Mar. 19 in supporting the city’s effort to adopt an ordinance opting out of the “Sanctuary State” […]
Nicholas Rose of Irvine Allegedly Had “Kill List” of Prominent Orange County Jews
A 26-year-old Irvine man, who was ratted out by a family member, was charged Thursday with hate crimes for threatening to kill prominent Jews, possessing anti-semitic literature and being loaded for bear–if those bears were Jewish bears. Nicholas Rose was slapped with three felony counts of attempted criminal threats, three misdemeanor counts of violating civil […]
4/20 DUI Checkpoints Tonight in SJC and Anaheim (and Santa Ana Saturday Night)
Yes, it must be 4/20 somewhere today, but there also must be DUI checkpoints, as drivers will learn tonight in Anaheim and San Juan Capistrano. Meanwhile, there is another in Santa Ana Saturday night. Leading off is the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, whose DUI Enforcement Team holds its checkpoint in an unspecified area of San Juan […]
Dana Watch: Slime Baugh
Scott Baugh, the former California Assembly Republican leader and Orange County GOP chairman, should feel honored. The re-election campaign for Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Cambridge Analytica) put out its first mailer sliming a candidate seeking the incumbent’s coastal Orange County congressional seat. However, the mailer’s target is not one of the six Democrats who have been […]
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A Lotto B.O. [Hey, You!]
You were holding up the line at the liquor store. You had on giant, Coke-bottle-thick glasses and a Marine haircut. You insisted on standing at the counter, scraping Scratcher after Scratcher, determined to win a million dollars before you walked out the door. Meanwhile, the cloud of hot mugginess around you was the opposite of […]
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Down There [Savage Love]
Background: I, a 21-year-old male, enjoy receptive fisting. I’ve also had constipation problems all my life. Question: I saw my doctor recently, and he tried to link my enjoyment of anal sex to my constipation. (Granted, I didn’t tell him EVERYTHING I do down there.) My understanding was that there was no causal relationship, assuming […]
Lawsuit Filed Against Los Alamitos Over Anti-Sanctuary State Ordinance
Two days after Los Alamitos city council adopted an ordinance opting-out of the California Values Act, attorneys filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the move. The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU), the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) and the Latham & Watkins firm joined together in representing Los Alamitos residents […]
Jury Pummels Police Lawsuit Specialist and His Defense Lawyer Client
A criminal defense lawyer, his plaintiff’s counsel, an ex-district attorney’s investigator and his lawyer this month walked into a bar, no, a federal courthouse. James Crawford, the criminal defense lawyer, said something like, “I deserve $2 million because the investigator pulverized my face with his fist in a 2016 Orange County Superior Court brawl.” His […]
Anti-Defamation League Joins Call for HB Finance Commissioner’s Removal
Gracey Van Der Mark somehow remains on the Huntington Beach finance commission even after a controversy erupted around her online bigotry earlier this month. As the Weekly reported, Van Der Mark recently deleted comments on YouTube where she referred to blacks as “colored people” and suggested they dutifully did the bidding of Jews at a […]
Win or Lose in Los Alamitos, Undocumented Immigrants Will Continue to Fight
By Samuel Paramore For a long time, Orange County’s preferred public image proclaimed itself a white suburban wonderland. The hard-working immigrant communities that are its backbone are made to be unseen, save for when they’re bashed for political expediency. Immigrants, undocumented or not, are always exploited for their labor and when it comes to their […]
Los Alamitos Police Silent on City’s Potential “Sanctuary State” Opt-Out
Orange County’s chain migration of anti-Sanctuary State city council revolts returns this evening to where it all began in Los Alamitos. Following a 4-1 vote last month, council members are set for a second reading of an ordinance that will formally exempt Los Alamitos from the California Values Act (also known as SB 54). The […]
Peter Muntean ID’d as Man Critically Wounded in Anaheim Police Shooting
UPDATE, APR. 14, 8:00 A.M.: Police identified the man wounded in yesterday’s officer-involved shooting as 24-year-old Petrica Peter Muntean. He remains in critical condition. The department also released more details into the Thursday night incident that led officers to identify Muntean the following morning at a Carl’s Jr. parking lot. Around 8:30 p.m., police responded to […]
OVSD Trustee Sues HB Blogger for Violent Threats, Gets Temporary Restraining Order
Ocean View School District trustee Gina Clayton-Tarvin is as tough as they come, but even she has legal limits. Attorneys for the school board member filed a lawsuit on Mar. 22 in Orange County Superior Court against Huntington Beach blogger Chuck Johnson for defamation, harassment and making criminal threats against an elected public official. Johnson […]
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Oink! [Hey, You!]
Wearing an Army cap, but long AWOL on diet and fitness, you are the overweight, puffy, out-of-shape heart attack in waiting. I am sitting across the aisle from you with a plateful of morbid fascination as you contentedly shovel sliced franks with mustard over Sloppy Joes, pieces of bacon and corned beef hash into your […]
Despite the Movies, Godfather of Ganja Cheech Marin Defies What It Means to be a Stoner
“Hey, you wanna get high, man?” The camera pulls back to show a 1964 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport driving along the coast. “Does Howdy Doody got wooden balls, man?” “I’ve got a joint here that I’ve been saving for a special occasion.” The next shot shows the infamous godfathers of cannabis: Richard “Cheech” Marin, with […]
Dana Watch: Annotated Blowhard
Below is a March 23 statement titled “Homeless Shelter Nonsense” by Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Hand Puppet) . . . with helpful annotation by yours truly. The chickens are coming home to roost after almost a decade of Liberal/Left control of our state and federal government. Those chickens have ended up in Orange County. [Where […]
