Fairgrounds leaders prepare for series of forensic audits on how public funds were spent during the Schwarzenegger administration to privatize the 160-acre property in Costa Mesa.
Yearly Archives: 2013
Posted inCountywide, Top Stories
Voice of Our Commentators
Here is another roundup of some of the most thought-provoking reader comments of the week.
Posted inSanta Ana
Santa Ana Council Will Discuss Whether to Fire City Manager
This week’s closed session agenda is the first public acknowledgment by the council majority that the city manager faces dismissal.
Posted inCountywide, Inside the Newsroom
PBS SoCaL and Voice of OC Expanding News Partnership
Voice of OC is expanding its partnership with PBS SoCaL to bring our cutting edge municipal reporting to viewers across Southern California.
Posted inGovernment, Health & Wellness, Top Stories
Where General Relief Recipients Can Sign Up for Settlement
Settlement comes as a result of case alleging that the county put up inappropriate barriers for people entitled to general relief.
Posted inGovernment, Top Stories
Robert L. Citron, Key Player in County Bankruptcy, Dies
The Orange County treasurer, infamous for bankrupting one of the nation’s most prosperous counties, died Wednesday at age 87.
Posted inCosta Mesa
OC Fair Panel Calls for State Probe of Failed Fairground Sale
A Fair Board committee wants Gov. Jerry Brown to investigate a shadowy statewide organization in connection with the failed effort to privatize the fairgrounds.
Posted inPolitics & Elections
Mike Schroeder Files for Divorce From Susan Kang Schroeder
A longtime Republican power player, Michael Schroeder has been instrumental in campaigns for the DA, who employs Schroeder’s wife.
Posted inAnaheim, Countywide, Top Stories
Anaheim to Develop Proposal for Greater Oversight of Police
The debate about oversight of the police department has become so contentious that Police Chief John Welter publicly accused a blogger and former council candidate of spreading “bullshit lies.”
Posted inFullerton, Government, Health & Wellness, Top Stories
Supervisors Approve Purchase of Site for Homeless Shelter
Supervisors move forward with a plan to buy a furniture store in Fullerton that would become the county’s first all-year emergency shelter.
