Supervisors Chairman Todd Spitzer is expressing cautious optimism about a site in the northern part of the city as a location for the county’s first year-round shelter.
Yearly Archives: 2015
Posted inGovernment, News Briefs, Top Stories
Longtime Orange County Employees Association Chief To Retire
OCEA General Manager Nick Berardino will retire in July after more than four decades with the county’s largest union.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Countywide, Garden Grove, Investigative, News Briefs, Top Stories
Developers of The LAB in Costa Mesa Eye Downtown Garden Grove
Shaheen and Linda Sadeghi are eyeing a number of downtown properties in Garden Grove for a new development project.
Posted inCountywide, Investigative, Irvine, Top Stories
Irvine Will Consider Suing to Recoup Great Park Funds
Attorneys hired to help conduct an investigation of spending at the Great Park indicate the city could recover millions of dollars stemming from various contract violations, including numerous potential conflicts of interest.
Posted inGarden Grove
Garden Grove Eyesore Could Get New Developer
Three developers have submitted letters of intent to take over the failed Garden Grove Galleria project.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Top Stories
Sparks Fly as Supervisors Debate Adding Political Aides
County supervisors postponed a proposed expansion of the aides’ ranks, following an intense exchange in which Supervisor Andrew Do directly confronted the county’s human resources director.
Posted inAnaheim, Countywide, Health & Wellness, News Briefs, Top Stories
More Questions Dog Anaheim’s Use of Cell Phone Spying Devices
A community letter from Anaheim Police Chief Raul Quezada explaining the police department’s use of the devices, known as StingRays, appears to have borrowed content from a canned comment issued by the FBI.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, News Briefs, Top Stories
Charges Against Former County Assessor Reduced to Misdemeanors
Webster Guillory was accused of signing nomination papers that were in fact circulated by another individual. A Superior Court judge determined the alleged actions did not rise to the level of felonies.
Posted inGovernment, Top Stories
County Supervisors Debate $1 Million Contract for Water Pollution Outreach
County supervisors are slated Tuesday to extend a storm water pollution outreach contract to communications firm with campaign connections to Supervisors’ Chairman Todd Spitzer and whose rates have been questioned by Supervisor Shawn Nelson.
Posted inCountywide, Investigative, Irvine, Top Stories
Irvine Releases Investigative Reports on Great Park
Two long-awaited investigative reports on Irvine’s Great Park were released Monday, with each attempting to explain different aspects of why the county’s largest-ever public works project went awry.
