The Fullerton City Council’s Tuesday decision will come after a year of advocacy by inter-faith community activists and a longtime homeless services provider.
Category: Fullerton
Fullerton, home to Cal State Fullerton and a busy downtown, has about 140,000 residents. We cover the City Council’s votes, its budget, city services and downtown.
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Panoringan: Spirit Backward, Orange County’s Dry Drinking Movement Takes Root at Temperance
We are expanding our Arts & Culture coverage coverage to include food. Our new food writer, Anne Marie Panoringan, starts of the new year by looking at the new trend of the non-alcoholic bar and cocktail scene.
Posted inFullerton, REGIONS, Top Stories
Controversy Erupts Around Fullerton Restaurant Permit Request
A conditional use permit for Florentine’s Grill seemed to be on track for approval Wednesday night, until questions arose over City Attorney Dick Jones’ owning a nearby property as well as the property owner’s opposition to the application.
Posted inARTS & CULTURE, Fullerton, Top Stories, Visual Arts
Art Collection in the Spotlight at Cal State Fullerton
Jennifer Frias, the new director of the Begovich Gallery, says the collection’s 600 artworks will be more accessible to students and the community going forward.
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Fullerton Attorneys Improperly Spiked Number of Secret City Hall Records Allegedly Downloaded by Local Blogger
In updated filings, Fullerton City attorneys have now significantly reduced the list of alleged secret city hall documents the city accused resident and blogger Joshua Ferguson of illegally downloading in a lawsuit filed against him and the blog earlier this year.
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Fullerton City Councilman Questions How City Leaders Decided to Target Resident Blogger
Fullerton City Councilman Bruce Whitaker is disputing that the City Council took a formal vote in September to sue local blogger Joshua Ferguson, and the blog he contributes to, for publishing secret city hall documents and seeking a publication gag against him and the blog.
Posted inARTS & CULTURE, Fullerton, Music, Top Stories
No Ivory Tower for This Composer
Cal State Fullerton professor Pamela Madsen writes music that addresses the concerns of the contemporary world.
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Appeals Court Temporarily Blocks Order Barring Fullerton Blog From Publishing Secret City Hall Documents
The Fourth District Court of Appeals has temporarily suspended an OC Superior Court judge’s order barring resident Joshua Ferguson, and the blog he writes for, from publishing secret Fullerton city hall documents. The blog has already published documents shedding light on how former City Manager Joe Felz dodged a potential DUI after drinking and crashing his car in 2016.
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Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of the Press Supports Local Blogger’s Lawsuit Against Fullerton Over Secret City Hall Documents
Fullerton Resident and blogger Joshua Ferguson gained a national ally in his appeal against an OC Judge’s order barring him and the blog from publishing secret city hall documents after the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press filed a support document on Ferguon’s appeal, calling the publication gag a Constitutional violation and the city accusations a “brazen misuse” of federal or state hacking laws by the City of Fullerton to target routine newsgathering activities.
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Fullerton Resident Challenges Judge’s Decision to Block Publishing of Secret City Hall Documents
Joshua Ferguson, is fighting a judge’s decision to bar him and the blog, Friends for Fullerton’s Future, from publishing secret city hall documents.
