City officials say they are ready to go to court if Orange County’s deal with the federal government to house immigrant detainees triggers any expansion of Theo Lacy jail.
Category: Norberto Santana, Jr.
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Santa Ana Again Drains CDBG Funds to Balance Budget
Officials have moved the entire $7 million allocation to general fund in the face of a projected 8.5 percent drop in revenues.
Posted inInvestigative, Newport Beach, Norberto Santana, Jr., Politics & Elections
Rep. John Campbell’s Books Are Checked by House Ethics Panel
The Orange County congressman is one among eight who are part of an inquiry into campaign contributions. Campbell says he’s done nothing wrong.
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Pensions, art, parody, and Nazis
YouTube parody mocking public employee pensions hits a wall of outrage in Orange County.
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Former Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose, Who Resigned Amid Controversy, Is Back
Grose, who resigned in 2009 after sending out a racist email about President Obama, was elected in last week’s primary election to Orange County’s Republican Central Committee.
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Is the Anti-Immigrant Bus Running Out of Gas?
Although “rule of law” and other such resolutions seem to be in vogue in Orange County, Tuesdays vote wasn’t too kind to anti-illegal immigration candidates like Steve Poizner and Bill Hunt.
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Insiders Predict Sidhu Victory in County Supervisor Race
Prediction comes during annual ‘political junkies luncheon’ of campaign combatants.
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Who Brought Public Employee Unions To California?
The local GOP says it’s Jerry Brown, but history says otherwise…try Ronald Reagan.
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Gary Miller’s Military Service Draws Questions and Corrections
Congressman’s staff asks one congressional publication to correct his biography after a magazine calls him out. But even the new biography fails to provide his precise service time, which was about seven weeks in 1967.
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The Latest on Absentee Voters
About 20 percent (or 126,000) of the absentee ballots sent out in Orange County for next week’s primary are back in. The return rate is normal and should mean about a 25 percent total turnout, registrar says.
