COLUMNISTS COLUMNISTS NORBERTO SANTANA, JR. » Santana: Orange County Supervisors May Ask Voters to Extend Term Limits Santana: Orange County Supervisors Kill Off John Wayne Airport Renaming Discussion Santana: Could Orange County Voters Decide the Fate of John Wayne Name on Airport? Santana: Who Will Stand up for Santa Ana and Anaheim on Coronavirus Impacts? Orange County Public Health Officer Abruptly Resigns Under Pressure Over Mask Order How Do You Best Spend $75 Million in Fed Funds to Help OC Recover from Coronavirus? Santana: CA Gov. Newsom Forced Beach Closures in OC Stir Local Partisanship Santana: Newly Appointed Orange County Public Health Official Hired to Tackle Coronavirus Once Was Fined By State For Failing to Report Pharmaceutical Payments Top Orange County Public Health Official in Charge of Covid-19 Testing Effort Abruptly Resigns and Retires Santana: What Does Orange County Look Like When It’s Back in Business? Santana: County of Orange Auctioned Off 100,000 Expired N95 Protective Masks Santana: Failing to Communicate Santana: Coronavirus Requires Bold Civic Leadership in Orange County Santana: Politicking The Coronavirus Santana: Top DA Spitzer Aide Gets $75K Settlement To Drop Corruption Allegations Santana: MLK Holiday A Call To Confront Hate Together Santana: Most Popular News Columns on Orange County Santana: High Ranking Aide to DA Todd Spitzer Disappears from Agency and State Assembly Campaign After Filing Explosive Claim Against County Santana: DA Todd Spitzer and Sheriff Don Barnes Clash Over Secret Booking Audits Santana: Can DA Todd Spitzer and Sheriff Don Barnes Survive The Evidence Booking Scandal? Santana: Columbus, Indigenous Peoples’ Day Engages Around Equity Santana: Orange County’s Key Organizing Group Gets Disorganized Santana: Chapman Student Newspaper Triggers Sparks Santana: Commie Hunting in Westminster Santana: Death of OC Auditor Controller Underscores Why Public Access to Elected Officials’ Calendars Matters Santana: Angels-Anaheim Negotiations Enter Final Stretch Santana: Brea’s Private Water Woes Santana: Fishing Comes Back to Irvine Lake Santana: When Sheriff’s Deputies Take the Fifth Santana: The Pesky Public Santana: We Are Not Ready Santana: State Assemblyman Bill Brough Under Fire For Alleged Harassment of Women Santana: OC Deputy Union Pays Out $50K in Failed Bid to Seal Misconduct Records Santana: Voice of OC is Ten Years Old Today Santana: OC Sheriff Under Fire For Illegal Takeover of Public Docks in Newport Harbor Santana: OC Sheriff Don Barnes Moves at Sloth Pace to Release Deputy Misconduct Records Santana: Conservative Latino Elected Leaders in Santa Ana Earn a Recall They Can Be Proud Of Santana: Newport Residents Lead Organizing Efforts Against JWA Private Jet Expansion Santana: Stage Set For ACLU Vs. County of Orange Fight Over Public Comment Rules Santana: Given Campaign Cash for OC Supervisors, Newport Beach Residents Right to Worry About JWA Expansion Plans Santana: Angels Stadium Negotiations Trash Public’s Right to Know Santana: OC Supervisors Attack on Free Speech, Comes Under Attack Santana: Quick Housing Options Needed to Spur OC Homelessness Efforts Santana: Has Orange County’s Blue Wave Crashed? Santana: California News Media Partnership Forms to Publish Police Misconduct Records Santana: Who will become Orange County’s Next County Supervisor on March 12? Santana: OC Deputies Union Withdraws Lawsuit to Block Public Release of Deputy Misconduct Records Santana: Judge Orders Release of Deputies Misconduct Records Santana: Let Them Play Santana: New OC DA Wants To Make a Deal with Feds Ending DOJ Jailhouse Snitch Probe Santana: LA Judge Likely to Rule Against Deputy Union Bid to Keep Misconduct Records Secret Santana: OC Judge To Rule Soon on Releasing Deputy Misconduct Records Santana: Media Coalition Wins Right to Intervene Against Deputy Union Bid to Quash Release of Misconduct Records Santana: California Publishers Gear Up for Battle Over Public Records Access Santana: County Supervisors Order Stand Down on Public Right to Know Santana: Orange County Touts New Community Model for Treating Mental Illness Santana: The Battle for OC in 2020 Shifts Early Into High Gear Santana: Sheriff Union Wins in Bid to Shield Deputy Misconduct Records Santana: Sheriff’s Union Seeks to Block Public Access to Misconduct Records Santana: Angels Get to 2020 in Anaheim Santana: Anaheim Stadium Deal Goes Easy on Angels, Hard on Taxpayers Santana: Santa Ana City Manager In Play Again Santana: We Made It! Top Issues to Watch in 2019 Santana: The Best of 2018 Santana: Voice of OC Donors Help Young Journalists Fuel Change Santana: OC Democrats Could Face Toughest Election on Their Own Turf Santana: Anaheim Skirts Police Accountability Santana: Welcome to Purple County Santana: Veterans Make Elections Possible Santana: Could Rivalry Among Vietnamese American, Republican Elected Officials Throw Central OC to Dems? Santana: Fight Fake News, Fund Local News Santana: Confronting Corporate Cronyism in Anaheim Santana: Orange County, Democracy Now Santana: Democratic Defections Raise Questions For OC Supervisors Race, 39th Congressional District Santana: Protecting Public Safety Santana: News Transparency Matters Santana: Columbus Day or Indigenous People’s Day? Santana: Could Vietnamese American Political Rift Affect the 34th State Senate and 48th Congressional District Races? Santana: Training Young Reporters at SAUSD Summer Enrichment Program Santana: OC Lack of Progress on Homelessness is Tragic. Could it Soon be Illegal? Santana: Disney Fireworks Impact on Neighborhood Health Needs Study Santana: Time for Common Sense Santana: Anaheim PD Fails Transparency Test Santana: Safe to Head to the OC Fairgrounds This Summer? Santana: Public Use Battles Loom Over OC Fair Santana: Performance Auditing Offers a Real Look Under The Public Sector Hood Santana: OC Fairgrounds Needs Strong Auditing After Horse Fiasco Santana: Who Really Runs the OC Fairgrounds? Santana: Could OC Use a Regional Housing Agency? Santana: OC Faces Stark Accountability Crisis Santana: Homelessness Showcases County Supervisors’ Weakness Santana: Part-Time County Supervisors Santana: The New OC Santana: The Day of Reckoning Santana: It Takes a Federal Judge Santana: United to End Homelessness Santana: Riverbed Evictions Revealed Failed Homelessness Policies Santana: Lessons in Leadership over President’s Holiday Santana: OC Supervisors Hate Listening to Real Live Taxpayers Santana: Lincoln’s Birthday Offers A Challenge to Add Your Voice Santana: OC Democrats Ponder Fighting it Out Vs. Narrowing The Field For Congress Santana: Does Irvine Need to Slow Down Development? Santana: We Did It! Santana: Voice of OC Was There For You in 2017 Santana: Meet Your Involvement Editor Santana: Meet The Voice of OC Santana: Meet Your Civic Editor Tracy Wood Santana: A Voice to Rely on Santana: Looking For The Best And Brightest Santana: Something Smells at The Mesa Water District Santana: Dana Point Harbor Revitalization Could Seek as Much as $45 Million in Public Subsidies Santana: Could OC College Republicans Save the GOP? Santana: OC Vets Cemetery in Irvine Stuck? Santana: Inaction Can Kill Santana: OC Contract Cities Rebuke County Supervisors Over Spiraling Sheriff Costs Santana: Orange County Faces a Public Safety Leadership Crisis Santana: Workers Get A Front Row Seat at the OC Fairgrounds Santana: The Lack of Ethics Commission Santana: Public Wins, Politicians Lose on Secrecy in OC Santana: Controversial Grand Jury Jailhouse Snitch Report Puts Focus on DA Race Santana: Will Orange County’s Law Enforcement Complex Survive The Stand? Santana: Focus on the Fundamentals Santana: State’s Public Records Act Needs Teeth Santana: Could a Housing Bond End Homelessness in Orange County? Santana: We Won! Santana: Who Questions Sheriff Sandra Hutchens? Santana: Public Spaces Should Reflect The Public That Pays For Them Santana: Spitzer’s You Tube Debut Becomes Must See – or Unsee – Court TV Santana: Phantom Government Santana: OC Auditor Controller Leads CA Public Accountants Uprising Santana: Is This The Year OC Vets Finally Get Their Own Cemetery? Santana: Voice of OC Gets a New Look Santana: Justice Often Depends on The Bare Essentials Santana: Can Local Government Operate in Total Secrecy? Santana: Respect For Human Rights is a Local Story Santana: Will Anaheim Invest in Youth & Police Oversight Before It’s Too Late? Santana: People Are The Future of Civics & News Santana: Is the Fix in at John Wayne Airport? Santana: Is Throwing Rocks the New Homeless Response in OC? Santana: Anatomy of a Police State Santana: County Government’s Full Employment Act for Local Politicos Santana: Orange County’s Criminal Justice Complex in Crisis Santana: Searching for Watchdogs in Orange County Santana: Local Officials Have the Power to Alleviate Housing Crisis Santana: Focusing Homelessness Policy is Biggest Challenge of 2017 Santana: OC Superior Court Judge Cools County Attack on First Amendment Santana: Confronting the Little Fidels That Surround Us All Santana: What Happens After Elections Also Matters Santana: Plugging Into the New Reality Issa Takes Lead in 49th Congressional District Santana: The Real Winners From Election 2016 Santana: Handcuffing Journalists Santana: New Trails Blazed in OC for Veterans, Homeless and Politicking Santana: Calling Out the Obvious Santana: Doing the Right Thing Santana: Wandering Through Crisis Santana: Welcome to Orange County’s ‘Courtyard Transitional Center’ Santana: Failing to Show Up for Work Santana: End Political Hackery, Focus Local Government Santana: Labor Day Reminds Us Government Is Fueled by People Not Politicians Santana: Lack of Warning on Civic Center Gun Threat Is Symptom of a Larger Problem Santana: OC Government Goes Corporate Santana: Who’s Driving the Bus at the County of Orange? Santana: OC Supervisors Wage War on First Amendment Santana: OC Animal Shelter Born From Engagement Santana: The Tricky Debate Surrounding Supervisor Term Limits Santana: Has Orange County Created America’s Most Vulnerable Cops? Santana: It’s Time to Talk Change for OC Government Santana: Marian Bergeson Left OC a Better Place Santana: OC Supervisors Slam Human Relations But Like Secret Diplomacy Santana: Re-Read the Declaration of Independence This July 4 Santana: County IT Collapse Should Prompt a Reboot, Not Just a New Chief Santana: Training Civic Accountants Santana: Trump Fuels Historic Democratic Turnout in OC Santana: Is it Time for Ethics in Orange County? Santana: OC Homelessness Czar Gets to Work; So Should County Supervisors Santana: Homeless Camp Now Keeping People From Jury Duty Santana: Orange County Has a New Homeless Czar Santana: Follow-Up Is a Job for All of Us Santana: Avoid Politics With Public Defender Pick Santana: Legacy Matters Santana: Old Friends Now Foes in 48th District, While Debate in 46th a Dud Santana: Can the Red Cross Handle Disaster Response in OC? Santana: Could Adding More Green Lower Santa Ana’s Crime Rate? Santana: Supervisors Making Progress on Homelessness Santana: Heroes Hall Is a Monument to Freedom, Activism Santana: News Is What They Don’t Want You to Know Santana: Unionization of Pot Workers a Game Changer in OC Santana: The Price of Ethics in OC Santana: Focus for Santa Ana Civic Center Should be People not Buildings Santana: The Demise of OIR Should Trigger Calls to Feds Santana: Where Will Bartlett’s Power Play Lead the County? Santana: Presidents Day a Time to Reflect on Civic Action of Lorenzo Ramirez Santana: Will Bartlett Step Up to Lead on Homelessness? Santana: County Supervisors Need to Start Supervising Santana: Do Jail Escapes Reveal Funding Gap? Santana: County Officials Moving Slowly to Help Civic Center Homeless Santana: Bartlett Meets the OC Old Boy Network Santana: 2016 Promises to be a Year of Fresh Starts for County Government Santana: 2015 Showed How The People Can Impact Public Policy in OC Santana: OC Supervisors Offer Hope for Homeless This Holiday Season PBS So Cal Broadcasts Reiff Interview on Voice of OC Santana: The Catch-22 of County Politics Santana: Fast Times Require Fast Action Santana: OC Offers Paris Climate Talks a View Toward the Past Santana: Time Is Now to Move Homeless Into Santa Ana Bus Terminal Santana: A Shelter Isn’t a Strategy Santana: OC Supervisors Continue to Face an Accountability Crisis Santana: Inaction on Bus Shelter for Homeless Could Trigger Civic Protest Santana: Playing with Pensions Santana: Will OC Supes Expand Office of Independent Review? Santana: Is it Criminal to be Homeless in Anaheim? Santana: OC Supervisors Get Ethics Santana: Is Civic Activism Turning the Tide in OC? Santana: Will Gov. Brown Go Up on CRONEY? Santana: OC Fairgrounds Offers Chance for Frank Table Talk on Labor Day Santana: No Civilian Oversight Over Police Is Better Than Faux Oversight Santana: OC Supervisors Trash Auditors, Accountability Santana: Supervisors Wake Up to Civic Center Homeless Explosion Santana: OC Supervisors Should Meet Homeless Santana: Don’t Question Do Santana: Civic Center Shows What Politicization of County Board Brings Santana: Xerox Collapse Should Fuel Calls for Outside Oversight Santana: Tired of OIR, OC Supes Refocus on Appointing a Party Planner-in-Chief Santana: Political Appointees Are Behind OC’s Rotting Animal Shelter Santana: What’s Next After Demise of Independent Police Review in OC? Santana: Meet OC’s Biggest NIMBY on Homelessness; County Supervisors Santana: Meet the County Cleaner Santana: Animals Remain Low on OC Supervisors’ Priority Lists Santana: Gaffe or Not, Sanchez’s Train Has Left the Station in Senate Race Santana: Frank Kim Must Sell OC on County Government Santana: OC Gets a Chance to Stomp Out Cronyism in Government Santana: Can We Really Trust OC Leaders to Police Themselves? Santana: The Most Expensive Mug Shots in History Keeping Watch: County Government’s Most Thankless Job Moorlach Hinting at the Winding Down of His Public Life ‘No Red Flags’ in Anaheim Chamber Audit, but Questions Remain OCTA Targets Its Lobbying Firm Anaheim Hotelier’s Contribution to Sidhu Was Illegal, DA Says County COO Draws Fire for Past Election Fraud Conviction Nelson Will Remain Chairman The Story Behind OC’s Hard-Line Negotiations With Deputy Sheriffs CalOptima Slammed By U.S. Audit County to Sheriff’s Deputies Union: Pay Full Share of Your Pensions Righeimer and Mensinger Get Top Spots on City Council Facing Public Outcry, Newport Beach Holds Back on Dock Fee State Supreme Court Backs Injunction Against Outsourcing Kang Steps Down as Mayor Sheriff Sandra Hutchens Discloses She Has Breast Cancer Costa Mesa City Council Cancels Last Layoff Notices Taxpayer Advocate: Santa Ana Illegally Transferring Funds San Onofre Officials Investigate Potential Case of Sabotage John Wayne Airport Might Accept Bids for Private Firefighting County: Engineers Should Pay for Extra Airport Construction Work Supervisors Approve Updates to County Harassment Policy Battle Over County’s Labor Contracts Is Heating Up Board of Supervisors Delays Approval of Computer Contract Police Review Reported Rape at Mayor’s Home in Santa Ana Board of Supervisors Set for ‘Big Vote’ on Huge Computer Contract A Politico’s Quest to Change Campaign Finance Law DA Granted More Money to Investigate Public Corruption Third Officer in Kelly Thomas Beating Might Be Indicted Fullerton Police to Clear Kelly Thomas of Any Wrongdoing Bustamante Returns to City Council City Council Members Allege Police Union Bullying ‘Culture of Complacency’ Led to Fullerton Police Beating Death Another Sex Crime Allegation on County Supervisors’ Docket Disney’s Actual Position Regarding Council Districts Audit Report Details Culture of Fear at County Public Works Mayoral Term Limit Will Go Before Santa Ana Voters in November County Releases Redacted Version of Controversial Drakodaidis Claim Drakodaidis Attorney Levels More Charges Against Supervisors Voice of OC Files Suit to Reveal Letter Kept Secret by County Alvarez Alleges Conspiracy to Deny Her a Fourth Term OC Officials Offer Up Another Reason for Keeping Letter Secret HB City Manager Headed Bankrupt San Bernardino Board of Supervisors Postpones Action on County CEO’s Fate How Did Anaheim City Employees Negotiate Such a Good Deal? OC Leaders React to Supreme Court Health Care Ruling Supervisors Cut Human Relations Commission Funding Costa Mesa Takes Stand Against 405 Toll Lane Plans Voice of OC Heads to Texas for Conference on New Journalism Councilwoman’s Votes Involve Donors to Her Charity More Details Emerge on Coaches’ Alleged Kickback Scheme Supervisors Send CalOptima Charges to Grand Jury A Dust-Up on the Costa Mesa Sanitation District Board Anaheim Councilwoman Schedules Review of City Manager What’s the Story Behind CalOptima’s Brain Drain? The Battle Behind the Battle for the 69th Assembly District Government Insider Will Help With OC’s Business Development Activist Wants Police to Investigate Councilwoman’s Actions Shredding Raises Alarm Among Anaheim City Employees Santa Ana City Council Might Be Able to Release Measure D Report Councilwoman May Have Violated Clause in Anaheim City Charter Executive Pay Remains a Vexing Issue for Board of Supervisors Louis Cella, Former Orange County Power Broker, Dies at 87 Subsidiary of Councilwoman’s Firm Holds City Contract Signs Pointed to Council’s Dissatisfaction With City Manager Fair Board Might Be Close to Deal With OC Marketplace Can Alvarez Find a Loophole and Run for a Fourth Council Term? Anaheim Council Slashes City Manager’s Contract Authority Councilman Alleges Cover-Up in Kelly Thomas Police Beating On The Agenda Plan to Put Nguyen on CalOptima Board Runs into Opposition ‘Let the Lawsuits Begin’ in Fairgrounds Swap Meet Dispute San Juan Councilman Says He Named His Dog ‘Muhammad’ OC Sheriff-Coroner: Thomas Autopsy Results Coming ‘Soon’ Supervisors Approve GOP-Friendly Political Boundaries A City Vents Its Anger Two Downtown Inc. Board Members Resign Over Gentrification Issue Chases Respond to Alvarez Supervisors Want a Second Look at 1st District Borders Trying to Fix a $48-Million Oops Appellate Court Denies Rehearing of OC Fairgrounds Case Managers’ Labor Contract Delayed Again Supervisor Shawn Nelson Will Launch Bid for Congress Rumors of Chivas USA Soccer Team Moving to Santa Ana Worries Residents County Auditor Squares Off With CEO Over Executive Raises Debating How to Slice Up Orange County Who Got the Big Raises? County Executive Ranks, Labor Groups Benefit From Lax HR Department Latest from PBS SoCal on Coaches’ Slush Fund Fair Drama Back on the Docket OCEA Planning Celebration of Osama Bin Laden’s Death Costa Mesa Councilman Gets in Altercation with Local Teacher Holding Their ‘Feet to the Fire’ in Costa Mesa OC Business Council Exempt From Lobbying Ordinance Union Attack Campaign Against Costa Mesa Council Goes National School District and Developers at Odds in Irvine ‘We’ve Never Been Found to Have Done Anything Wrong’ Celebrate National Sunshine Week Spitzer Announces Bid for Supervisor Seat Costa Mesa Officials Contemplate Life Without a Fire Department How Much Could the Williams’ Fiasco Cost Taxpayers? Costa Mesa Becomes Ground Zero in Ideological Budget Battle Supervisor Nelson Chooses Wife for Tourism Council Fair Board Legal Bills Skyrocket Supervisors Growing Tired of IT Cost Overruns, Excuses Larry Agran to Relinquish Great Park Chairmanship Gearing Up for Pension Battle Royal Grindle to County: Don’t Pay John Williams for Doing Nothing Supervisors Considering Ouster of Another High-Level County Official So How Much is the OC Fairgrounds Really Worth? Lobby Reform Passes Appellate Court Rejects Orange County’s Retroactive Pension Case Memo: Stark Realities for Great Park Without Redevelopment Each Side of Fairgrounds Case Says Brown Delay Works for Them Schwarzenegger Retreats From Controversial Fairgrounds Meeting Santa Ana Investigating Harrah’s Santora Signs Superior Court Judge Denies Request to Halt Fairgrounds Sale More Bad Budget Medicine for County Moorlach’s Controversial Ex-Chief of Staff Is Back as Consultant Santa Ana, Where Public Meetings Include Private Chats Odd Man Out Restraining Order Doesn’t Stop OC Fair Layoffs Attorney General: Pringle’s Offices Are Incompatible IT Contractor Scheduled for Bonus Despite Performance Questions Voice of OC Receives California Endowment Grant A Bad Deal at Vector Control Fired Fair Board Member Has Many Questions Email Proves an Elusive Public Record Supervisors Will Study Giving Up Pensions Anaheim Bounced to Back of High-Speed Rail Line Son of Lobby Reform on Supervisors’ Agenda Could Pulido Be Moving On? Mansoor Beats Nguyen for 68th District Assembly Seat Bankhead, Whitaker Capture Fullerton Council Seats Shari Friedenrich: Orange County’s Next Treasurer Trish Kelley, Dave Leckness Win Mission Viejo Council Seats Measure O Fails in Huntington Beach Cavecche Wins Re-election as Orange Mayor Kramer, Reeve and Taylor Capture Seats on San Juan Capistrano Council Hill, Daigle Win Newport Beach Council Races State Inspector General Audit Lambastes High Speed Rail Authority Anaheim to Move Ahead With Platinum Triangle Rackauckas Admits Loaning Out ‘Prosecutor’ Title to Political Friend Debating the Dueling Press Conferences State Senate Committee Gets an Earful on Transparency The Good Times of Official Business Schwarzenegger Vetoes High-Speed Rail Oversight County to Scale Back Outreach to Indigent Patients Approaching a Climax in Fairgrounds Saga Santa Ana Has 524,544 Reasons Not to Fire Its City Manager ‘Feet to the Fire’ Forum Tonight Focus on Contract Between Auction House and Public Administrator Calls for Pringle’s Ouster from Rail Board Getting Louder Fullerton Police Investigating Incident at Assemblyman Chris Norby’s Home County to Launch Audit of Public Administrator Anaheim Complies With New Ticket Reporting Regs, Sort Of Officials Scrambling to Figure Out Ruling on Civilian Jailers La Palma Council Debates How Far to Go With Tobacco Ban Irvine City Attorney Gave Inaccurate Legal Advice During Council Meeting Huntington Beach Council Changes Tune on Accident Fees Huntington Beach Makes Budget Documents Hard to Find Attorney General to Probe Highly Paid Public Officials Public Administrator’s Approach Draws More Scrutiny Three County Electeds Take Their Pay Cuts Back Solorio Pounds Final Nail Into Coffin of Costa Mesa’s Fair Deal Police Group Wants Probe of Public Guardian Role in Spitzer Firing Rackauckas Will Seek Re-election in 2014 Sheriff’s Department Mistakenly Donates Armored Van Sheriff’s Deputies Union Seeks to Halt County Use of Civilian Jailers New Supervisor Finds a Government Agency to Eliminate County Engineers Can’t Estimate Their Way Out of a Paper Bag Schwarzenegger’s Campaign Finance Chair Also Consults for OC Fair Suitor Bill That Was Supposed to Save Fair Now Might Take It Away Voice of OC Editor-in-Chief Norberto Santana on Real Orange OC Fair Board Wants Back In The Art of Redistricting The Prelude to the Redistricting Battle It Will Certainly Be More Than Go-Carts and a Driving Range Contemplating Fate of the OC Fairgrounds John Moorlach and His Long Shots More From Mauk on Pension Changes County Seeking State Law That Allows It to Impose Pension Cuts Ratcheting Up the Pension Debate OCERS Releases List of County’s Top Pensioners OC Register’s County Reporter Moves On Supervisors Set to Pass a Budget and Get Some Land The Fifth Floor’s Recycling Bin City of Orange Isn’t Keen on ‘Beds for Feds’ Santa Ana Again Drains CDBG Funds to Balance Budget Rep. John Campbell’s Books Are Checked by House Ethics Panel Pensions, art, parody, and Nazis Former Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose, Who Resigned Amid Controversy, Is Back Is the Anti-Immigrant Bus Running Out of Gas? Insiders Predict Sidhu Victory in County Supervisor Race Who Brought Public Employee Unions To California? Gary Miller’s Military Service Draws Questions and Corrections The Latest on Absentee Voters Latino Caucus to Costa Mesa: Don’t Poke Us in the Face Then Put Your Hand Out Voice of OC on KOCE Supervisors Set to Take Stand on Outing Highly Compensated Pensioners Hunt Could End Up in More Trouble with Police Unions It’s Finals Week for Bureaucrats California House Speaker to Be Honored at Labor Awards Another Chief of Staff Opening on the Fifth Floor No Call for Apology from County CEO Supervisors Call on Congress for Pension Help County Officials Head to Capital Hill for Pension Rules Change Orange County District Attorney and Political Corruption Cases County CEO Says Union Chief Owes Assessor Apology District Attorney Clears Assessor Immigration Back as an Election Issue — LA Edition New Poll Offers Glimpse into Sheriff’s Race Issues Moorlach’s Lightning Rod Moves On Supes Debate How Concessions Are Granted Santa Ana Vote Shows Immigration Back as Election Issue in OC DA Interviews Employees in Assessor Case Trying to Crack the Lewis Poll Mystery New Poll Shows Sheriff’s Race in Dead Heat Questions on Sick Time Payouts and Other Pension Issues Fair Board Proposal Runs Aground Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Walters Endorses Sheriff Hutchens District Attorney’s Office Details Probe into Assessor DA Investigating Fourth District Supervisors Race District Attorney Investigating Assessor GOP Bounty Hunters Are at it Again Digging Deep into Sheriff’s Race Poll Righeimer Is in the Clear, at Least Legally Sheriff’s LA Story Might be Working Against Her Righeimer Accidentally Informed Reporter of Mystery Advisor Voice of OC on KOCE Moorlach Says Ellis Mischaracterized Meeting Who Are the Advisors to the Advisors? The Mellowing Effect of Elections in Santa Ana Would This Guy Help or Hurt Fairgrounds Negotiations? Ratcheted Up Rhetoric Over Business Tax Collections A New Polling Partnership in Town Voice of OC to County: We Are Not a Gambling or Porn Site Uncollected Tax Has Been an Issue for Years Big Questions About a Little Known Tax Supervisor: ‘Humans Dehumanized’ by Social Media Like Giving an Alcoholic Some Booze to Pass On Hey Brother, Can You Spare a Tax Break? Doing the Math on Beds for Feds Do As I Say, Not As I Do Free Golf Anyone? PAUL HODGINS » Hodgins: Ticket Givebacks are a Vital Lifeline for Arts Groups During the Coronavirus Pandemic Local Arts Groups Get Creative, Look for Funding as They Chart a Difficult Path Forward Hodgins: Theaters Determined to Recreate Magic Online, Is It Worth the Effort? Hodgins: Orange County Arts in Limbo as Groups Big and Small Ponder the Future Hodgins: What’s in Store for Theater on O.C.’s Biggest Stages? Hodgins: ‘She Loves Me’ Serves as a Fine Directorial Debut Hodgins: South Coast Rep Partners with Playwrights Horizons in New Commissioning Project Hodgins: SCR’s New Leader Tears Down Walls, Builds Bridges, Directs a Musical Hodgins: A Busy and Rewarding Inaugural Year for VOC’s Arts & Culture Section Hodgins: After 40 Years of Humbugging, O.C.’s Scrooge is Hanging Up His Top Hat Hodgins: Segerstrom Center’s New Leader is a Risky but Intriguing Choice Hodgins: South Coast Repertory’s New Leader Aims to Balance Its Past and Future Hodgins: One Year On, VOC’s Arts & Culture Looks Back and Ahead Hodgins: For Pacific Symphony, Carl St.Clair was the Right Man at the Right Moment Hodgins: Can an Orange County Piano Competition Thaw U.S.-China Tensions? Hodgins: Is Government Spending for the Arts the Whole Story? Hodgins: Pacific Symphony Wraps Up Its 40th Season with “Mediocre” Mahler’s ‘Titan’ Hodgins: ‘M. Butterfly’ Flies a Little Differently 30 Years After Its Creation Hodgins: ‘90s Classic ‘Skylight’ Finds New Relevance at Chance Theater Hodgins: Will Segerstrom Center Follow the National Diversity Trend When It Chooses a New Leader? Hodgins: Imagination Celebration Reminds Us the Arts are Important. Are Schools Listening? Hodgins: Laguna Dance Festival Leaves Laguna Beach; Is That a Good or a Bad Thing? Hodgins: Segerstrom Center Faces a Momentous Decision Hodgins: Dwyer Leaves a Strong Legacy at Segerstrom Despite His Mysterious Departure Hodgins: Something’s Missing from O.C.’s Major Stages: Hispanics Hodgins: The Top 10 Arts Events For The New Year Hodgins: Should Imagination Celebration be Scrapped or Revived? Hodgins: Sara Bareilles’ Songs and Some Solid Performances Save ‘Waitress’ Hodgins: OCMA Moves a Step Closer to Its Goal With OCMAExpand Hodgins: What Goes With Classical Music? Checkers, Cornhole and Cake Pops! Hodgins: One Year After Opening, is Argyros Plaza Really Working? Hodgins: Solid Performances and Classic Pop Songs Overcome Predictability in the Carole King Musical “Beautiful” Hodgins: Marsalis and His Orchestra Dazzle with Duke in Irvine Hodgins: ‘The Other Place’ Analyzes Mental Problems With Wit and Grace Hodgins: Pacific Symphony Turns 40 With a Bang and a Big Party Hodgins: Placido Domingo Brings LA Opera to O.C. Again, Reminding Us of What We’re Missing ANNE MARIE PANORINGAN » Panoringan: 10 Great Spots for Dining Al Fresco in Orange County Panoringan: Vagabond Food Truck and Uprising O.C. Launch During Lockdown Panoringan: How Does A Restaurant Like Bosscat Keep Going During a Pandemic and Protests? Panoringan: The Brave New World of Restaurant Dining. How Was the First Week of Service? Panoringan: When Is It Time to Move On in the Restaurant Industry? Panoringan: Quarantine Kitchen – Chefs Teach Via Social Media Panoringan: How Are OC Restaurants Adapting To Their New COVID-19 Reality? Panoringan: Quarantine Grocery Guide, Farmer’s Markets and Grocery Updates Panoringan: The Foodservice Industry Trend We Didn’t See Coming: Hand Sanitizer Manufacturing Panoringan: What Resources are Available for Restaurant Owners and Employees? Plus, the Latest Grocery Store Safety Strategies Panoringan: What Orange County Restaurants are Saying About How COVID-19 is Affecting Their Business Panoringan: Favorite Spots to Hit During Orange County Restaurant Week Panoringan: Post-Valentine Love, Shiny and New Ways to Treat Your Significant Other Panoringan: Orange County Does Food Halls Like It’s Nobody’s Business Panoringan: Spirit Backward, Orange County’s Dry Drinking Movement Takes Root at Temperance JULIE LEOPO » Leopo: Remembering the Fallen on Memorial Day Amid Coronavirus Leopo: Crowds Swarm OC Beaches to Protest Stay at Home Order Leopo: Grocery Truck Markets Connect Santa Ana Neighborhoods During Coronavirus Leopo: Going Outdoors During Coronavirus Leopo: Looking at Orange County’s Beaches Through a COVID-19 Lens Leopo: Life in Orange County During Coronavirus Leopo: Republicans Take on Election Night Leopo: Democrats Take on Election Night Leopo: Orange County’s Women’s March Focuses on Voting, Social Issues Leopo: Mock Election Shows New Orange County 2020 Voting Process Leopo: Voice of OC’s Best Photos of 2019 Leopo: Voters Head to the Polls for Last Election Before 2020 Move to Vote Centers Leopo: Vietnam-era Skyhawk Plane Moved to Heroes Hall from the Santa Ana Civic Center Leopo: Remembering America’s Veterans, Today and Everyday Leopo: Two Sides of a Mirror: Santa Ana and Michoacán Leopo: Summer in the City: Innocence Lost and Found Leopo: The Voices of Fourth Street