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This evening marks the 50th anniversary of Timothy Leary’s famous marijuana arrest in Laguna Beach. Leary, who died in Beverly Hills in 1996, is today immortalized as a torchbearer for psychedelic drugs. Looking back a half century after his Southern California bust, he casts a duller shadow, however. Instead of boosting one of the era’s …
There was really no way to judge impact a show like TNN Radio was going to have on local music when host Jimmy Alvarez first sat in front of the mic in 2004. He had no idea if anyone would listen or care about what he was doing and despite his history on air with 106.7 …
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Conservative and self-proclaimed “patriot” websites are spreading reports that in one Orange County voter precinct, more ballots were counted than there were registered voters, resulting in a whopping 120.6 percent turnout in the Nov. 6 midterm election. You know, the election that resulted in all those red Republican-held congressional districts flipping so all of Orange …
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 …
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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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