They disagree over the very nature of the grand jury’s report on the Great Park’s financing.
Category: SOUTH COUNTY
South Orange County takes in Irvine, Mission Viejo, Lake Forest, Aliso Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita and the master-planned cities around them, where growth and open space keep meeting at the council dais. Every story we have published about south county, newest first.
Posted inSan Juan Capistrano
Controversies Over City Manager Money Not New in San Juan Capistrano
City Manager Joe Tait is collecting two salaries totaling $324,000 annually. Two decades ago, the city gave its then manager $400,000 in loans.
Posted inAliso Viejo, Investigative, Politics & Elections
IRS Agents Get Tax Break in Aliso Viejo
The city granted its lone hotel, the Renaissance ClubSport, a
hotel bed tax break because it didn’t want to lose the business of
the Internal Revenue Service.
Posted inLaguna Hills
Is the Laguna Hills Mall Getting a Facelift or Not?
A Laguna Hills city official says the mall’s owner has plans to renovate, but the owner denies that’s the case.
Posted inLake Forest, Yorba Linda
Why the Whistle Didn’t Blow
Yorba Linda is in the midst of deciding whether keep the same
law firm that represented the city of Bell. One thing to consider
is that legal ethics may have kept the city attorney from sounding
the alarms on Bell’s excesses.
Posted inCountywide, Investigative, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Mission Viejo, Top Stories
The Rights and Wrongs of Redevelopment
The Shops at Mission Viejo is a redevelopment success story,
while adjacent Kaleidoscope Courtyards is a redevelopment failure.
The Laguna Hills mall (pictured) never even had the chance. What do
these projects and others say about redevelopment as public
policy?
Posted inIrvine
Irvine Council Approves Children’s Insurance Program Contract
Testimony of mother of two uninsured children helps council members decide on $40,000 extension.
Posted inIrvine
Irvine Council to Decide on Children’s Health Program
The Irvine Children’s Health Initiative has helped 472 of 1,760 children in Irvine identified as lacking health insurance.
Posted inInvestigative, Irvine, Politics & Elections
Another Twist in ‘Irvine 11’ Fight
A coalition of civil rights groups and bar associations have come out against the school’s decision to suspend the Muslim Student Union from operating on the UC Irvine campus.
Posted inIrvine, Newport Beach
Irvine Developers May Break Silence on Business Complex Fees
Irvine Business Complex developers have so far been quiet about possibly footing the bill for $75 million in infrastructure improvements and mitigation measures.
