A campaign committee for a June 2016 ballot initative will be fined $3,500 for failing to include proper financial disclosures on campaign signs.
Monthly Archives: April 2017
Posted inAnaheim, Transportation
Anaheim’s ARTIC Train Station Loses Its Deficit Funder
Businesses in the Anaheim Resort voted, for the first time in three years, not to pay for ARTIC’s shortfall.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Transportation
Headrick: Without Our Consent, San Onofre has become a Nuclear Waste Dump
Gary Headrick writes that SDGE has turned South Orange County into a default nuclear waste dump, due to a shortsighted solution that leaves OC extremely vulnerable until all the nuclear waste has been removed from the former San Onofre nuclear power generating station.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Eidt: The Big Deal Nuke Canister Sell-Job Open House
Jack Eidt and Jerry Collamer take on SDGE’s plan for burying radioactive waste on the site of the former San Onofre nuclear power generating station based near San Clemente and the world class surfing beach known as Trestles.
Posted inAnaheim, Countywide, Fullerton, Lake Forest, Top Stories
Growing Pains: Urbanization Fuels Orange County Parking Problems
In the county’s urban core where apartments are packed near single-family homes, curbs are often crowded bumper-to-bumper with cars.
Posted inGovernment, Housing & Homelessness, Top Stories
Homeless Advocate Shuts Down OC Supervisors’ Meeting Over Children in Riverbed
Mohammed Aly refused to stop speaking when his three minutes were up. A sheriff’s deputy threatened to arrest a Voice of OC reporter who was filming Aly and sheriff’s officers when everyone was ordered to leave the board room.
Posted inNorberto Santana, Jr.
Santana: OC Auditor Controller Leads CA Public Accountants Uprising
OC Auditor Controller Eric Woolery leads a coalition of 44 auditor controllers from across California, demanding the ability to hire their own lawyers when they detect fraud, waste or abuse from local elected officials. Action comes just as OC Supervisors are poised today to water down 1994 bankruptcy-era reform requiring public review for borrowings.
Posted inEconomy, Housing & Homelessness, Santa Ana, Top Stories
100 New Apartments for the Homeless Approved by Santa Ana
The new developments will include employment help and other services for veterans and chronically homeless people. City leaders say other cities also need to expand their housing supply.
Posted inAnaheim, Buena Park, Countywide, Fullerton, Top Stories, Transportation
A Glimpse at High Speed Rail in OC
The California High Speed Rail Authority hosted open houses in Buena Park and Anaheim to promote the 30-mile project between Los Angeles and Anaheim, which will run at the speed of a normal commuter train.
Posted inCountywide, Irvine, Top Stories
Gov. Brown to Visit Proposed El Toro Marine Base Veterans Cemetery Site
Brown and two top Assembly Democratic leaders will visit the proposed veterans cemetery site at the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Base in Irvine within the next several weeks.
