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Santa Ana Councilwoman Michele Martinez, who is running against Andrew Do for the 1st District seat, is drawing flak for numerous meeting absences, lucrative public stipends, and luxury travel on the taxpayers’ dime.
Do we have too much water or not enough? Conservation seems to be paying off but should those conserving water subsidize the water wasters?
A controversial firm could get a welfare contract, and officials discuss a possible threat to the county’s headquarters.
Activist alleges that John Foley, chairman of the Metropolitan Water District of California, did not report some of his and his wife’s income.
A San Diego County Water Authority lawsuit accuses water officials in Orange and Los Angeles counties of operating a shadow government. Does it have a case?
John Foley, a longtime board member at the Metropolitan Water District, cast votes on contracts for engineering firms that paid his wife as a consultant.
The
water quality board allows the plant to draw up to 126.7 million
gallons of ocean water per day.
Officials say Linda Ackerman disqualified herself from a hearing
on a proposed desalinization plant because of her involvement with
two other water agencies that support the project.
Poseidon Resources, the company proposing a $350 million
desalination plant in Huntington Beach, says the plant will come at
“no financial risk to taxpayers.” But what does that really
mean?