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Former OC Fair Board Member David Ellis writes that his former colleague, David Padilla, is factually wrong in his claims that Congressional Candidate Scott Baugh was involved in Governor Schwarzenegger’s decision to sell the Orange County fairgrounds. Ellis argues Baugh didn’t work for any of the firms retained by the fair board during the failed privatization effort.
As the summer fair begins to gear up, a battle over horse stables is prompting activists to question just how the 150-acre property in Costa Mesa is governed and how the future of the fairgrounds, in terms of public uses other than the annual summer fair, will be decided.
Neal Kelley has effectively administered more than 70 countywide elections since coming on the job more than a decade ago.
As Orange County Fair Board members consider a Performance Auditor to look under the hood, Voice of OC Publisher Norberto Santana, Jr. offers a review of how the revolutionary – now virtually extinct – auditing approach worked at the County of Orange and it’s potential use on a state property.
A brewing controversy over removing horses and community equestrian stables from the state fairgrounds in Costa Mesa has awoken a decades-old argument over just who the fairgrounds serves; the community or the fair industry?
Exposure of a quiet lobby effort by OC Fairgrounds executives to downsize community horse stables at the 150-acre state fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, prompts community questioning about whether the OC Fairgrounds needs a performance auditor in place before the July fair.
Feet to the Fire Panelists – Daily Pilot Columnist Barbara Venezia and LA Times Executive Editor for Community News John Canalis – join Voice of OC Publisher Norberto Santana Jr. for this week’s On OC.
A $20 million consultant cost estimate to rebuild an equestrian center at the OC Fair and Event Center is drawing controversy and questions about a master plan for the future of the 150-acre property in the midst of Costa Mesa.
Cesar Covarrubias, from Orange County’s Kennedy Commission, talks about the challenges of building affordable housing in Orange County.
With the OC Board of Supervisors incapable of leading a regional affordable housing solution, business and civic leaders are asking whether it’s time for a regional housing agency — to manage expected state, county and private resources and actually build needed affordable and permanent-supportive housing across Orange County?