The city selected the most expensive executive search firm that responded to a request for proposal to find its new city manager, but one council member said the others “weren’t even close.”
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Posted inCountywide, Government, Investigative, Politics & Elections, Top Stories
The Backstory on the Race for Treasurer
County Supervisor John Moorlach and Treasurer/Tax Collector Chriss Street, former friends who are now adversaries, are facing off in the primary through their protégés.
Posted inInvestigative, Irvine
OC Grand Jury Finds Significant Problems with Great Park
Grand jury report released today finds conflict of interest issues and financing problems with the massive project.
Posted inInvestigative, Politics & Elections
Labor Spending Heavily on Sidhu and Hunt
All told, deputies union and OCEA have spent more than $1.2 million on sheriff and supervisor races.
Posted inCountywide, Inside the Newsroom
Voice of OC on KOCE
Talking election night and analyzing races and immigration.
Posted inSan Juan Capistrano
More Tales of Official Overstepping in San Juan Capistrano
Mayor Londres Uso says city staff bluffed when it took the fall for making improvements to a trail-head access site without council member direction.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Yorba Linda
Immigration Vote Reveals Divisions on Yorba Linda Council
The 3-0 vote to be the first Orange County city to officially support Arizona’s controversial new immigration law belies the bad feelings among council members.
Posted inInvestigative, Norberto Santana Jr., Politics & Elections
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.
Posted inInvestigative, Norberto Santana Jr., Politics & Elections
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.
Posted inLaguna Niguel
Laguna Niguel Might Extend Temporary Ban on Pot Shops
City Council is scheduled to vote tonight on extending a temporary moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries. The city says it needs more time to study possible prohibition or regulation of the stores.
