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​As is fashionable nowadays, last night's city council meeting in San Juan Capistrano saw members of the public comparing elected officials to mid-century fascist monsters. The tyrant of choice? Benito Mussolini. ] Roy L. Byrnes was mayor of the city during the 1970s. Now, he's a tortoise-shell-glasses-wearing 85-year-old who thinks he smells something fishy on the city council.  …

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Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine), who's in the middle of a longshot bid to become your U.S. senator, is cooing about his impending endorsement Sunday from the Tea Party Express, the national conservative movement that helped sweep Scott Brown to Ted Kennedy's former Senate seat in Massachusetts. ] Guess ol' Chuckie's not put off by the …

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In a remarkable display of openness, the Orange County Sheriff's Department opened its doors to a group of jail reform activists, lawyers and reporters on Wednesday, March 17. Accompanied by deputies, the group, including this reporter, toured the Orange County Men's Jail and Intake Release Center for three hours that morning, getting a rare up-close …

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It's interesting to see how the campaigns of the leading contenders for the U.S. Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer are reacting to a new Field Poll. For the sake of argument (and parochialism), we're including Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) among the leading contenders. The poll certainly isn't. It found that DeVore had support from …

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Surfrider Foundation has for years been trying to “sink the Breakwater,” that World War II-era, jetty-like, 2.5-mile-long contraption that was installed off the Long Beach shore to calm harbor waters but in the process kill ride-able waves. Shame, meetings, protests, education and cool t-shirts and posters have been employed in the past. The latest weapon: …

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