Fair Board OKs Farm Worker Monument
Costa Mesa
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Board authorizes a $100,000 life-sized sculpture, but split evident between Brown and Schwarzenegger appointees.
Old Battles Revive on Fair Board
Costa Mesa
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Monthly meeting features skirmishes on citizens oversight committee, California attorney general representation and fairground’s equestrian center.
Fair Board Bans Elephant Rides
Costa Mesa
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The decision was based largely on evidence that the rides are cruel to elephants. The board also established a citizens committee to examine the past effort to sell the fairground.
Reconstituted OC Fair Board Wants Attorney General Back
Costa Mesa
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The state attorney general’s office dropped the Fair Board as a client in 2009 during the ultimately unsuccessful attempt to sell the fairground.
Fair Board Legal Bills Tripled Since Hiring Private Lawyers
Costa Mesa
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Taxpayers have spent more than $600,000 since the state attorney
general stopped acting as Fair Board’s legal counsel during the
attempt to privatize the fairgrounds.
Recent Events Could Signal Beginning of Fair Board’s End
Costa Mesa
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Governor sends a no-confidence vote by pulling the plug on competing proposal from fair board to purchase the fairgrounds.