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In a largely ceremonial city council meeting, Tom Tait took his place as Anaheim’s mayor in the middle on Tuesday afternoon for the last time. The only official business of the day stood in certifying the results of the November election before incoming council members took an oath of office across the way at the …
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Of Orange County’s four new members of Congress, only Representative Gil Cisneros (D-Yorba Linda) says he will oppose Nancy Pelosi’s bid for speaker of the House on Wednesday. Cisneros, a former Navy officer who won a $266 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot shortly after being laid off as a Frito-Lay plant manager in 2010, is …
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Chicago update: The Bears go into Detroit for this traditional Thanksgiving game, Thanksgiving being that time when we count our blessings, one of them being that, except for Turkey Day, we don’t have to regularly interact with Uncle Sal who really wants to tell us that all those Mexican kids separated from their immigrant parents …
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Two weeks ago on election night, congressional candidate Giil Cisneros gave a quick stump speech at a big union hall in Buena Park. “We’re going to restore sanity back to government,” he told supporters before heading off to his next event. “The wave that’s coming to California wouldn’t have happened without your hard work.” But …
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Political earthquakes rarely shake Orange County. Twenty-two years ago, Democrat Loretta Sanchez toppled legendary conservative icon Bob Dornan, who’d trounced a series of challengers since the 1970s. Iron-fisted Irvine political boss Larry Agran, once the progressive darling who ran against Bill Clinton in 1992’s primaries, lost his decade-old control of City Hall four years ago, …
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After Harley Rouda declared himself the winner of the 48th Congressional District race on Nov. 10, followed soon after by the Associated Press confirming the Laguna Beach Democratic businessman’s assessment, incumbent Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher did what close followers of the Republican’s 30-year career in the House of Representatives should have expected: He refused to …
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After historic recusal over ethical lapses in a case that garnered embarrassing national attention in 2015, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas stood in front of me wearing an outwardly emotionless face. I’d written a series of news articles over the previous year that chronicled rampant corruption in People v. Scott Dekraai. Judges, court observers, journalists, virtuous …
Continue reading “Tired of His Cheating, Voters Finally Booted Orange County DA Tony Rackauckas”
Last night the impossible happened: Democrat Katie Porter took the lead in the 45th Congressional District race against incumbent Republican Mimi Walters. It’s hard to put into words how remarkable this is: Porter, a UC Irvine law professor who’s never previously held elected office, is now ahead (though only by a paltry 261 votes) of …
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UC Irvine law school professor and Democrat Katie Porter has overtaken two-term incumbent Representative Mimi Walters (R-Irvine) in the 45th Congressional District race, according to the latest numbers from the Orange County Registrar of Voters. It’s a razor-thin margin. Porter has 116,732 votes, or 50.1 percent, to Walters’ 116,471 votes (49.9 percent), a gap of …
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A week after Election Day, opponents of Anaheim’s living wage ballot initiative sounded like they came back from the saddest place on earth. Vote counts since last Tuesday have turned a slim margin for the measure into a firm three-percent lead. But the “No on Measure L” campaign conceded defeat yesterday morning even before the …
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This past Wednesday, the first ever Unexpected Connections conference took place at the Beverly O’Neill Theater in Long Beach. The event, organized by Imprint Lab and MAEKAN presented thoughtful and inspiring discussions and speakers based in the worlds of tech, fashion, science, storytelling and innovation to discuss the future of creativity and how these worlds intersect. …
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Republican Young Kim maintains a slim 2.6 percent lead over Democratic challenger Gil Cisneros in the race to replace retiring congressman Ed Royce. North Orange County’s share of the 39th congressional district is solidly red where Kim claims the bigger take of the midterm election’s votes. In Los Angeles County, Cisneros rides a smaller blue …
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