OC Fair Board Member Nick Berardino invites Orange County to turn out to thank veterans at the third annual Veterans + Labor: Partners in Service event on Veterans Day, November 11 at the Orange County Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, featuring a special commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Viet Nam War.
Tag: Orange County Fairgrounds
Posted inCosta Mesa, Countywide, Government, Mission Viejo, Top Stories, Transportation, Yorba Linda
This Week’s Civic Agenda
This Week’s Civic Agenda includes a public hearing in Santa Ana on water and sewer rate hikes, while in Yorba Linda, city officials will discuss an ordinance that would make more information public during the labor negotiations process.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Countywide, Housing & Homelessness, Top Stories
Friday on PBS: Costa Mesa Moves Forward With Housing for Homeless
Tune in to PBS SoCaL at 5 p.m. when we’ll delve into the hot topics in Orange County politics and government.
Posted inCountywide, Top Stories
Orange County Fairground Officials Gear Up for Annual Summer Fair
With no sale of the fairground in the background for the first time in three years, officials are preparing for the month-long event, which is estimated to generate nearly $25 million.
Posted inCosta Mesa
Fair Board Legal Bills Tripled Since Hiring Private Lawyers
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.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Norberto Santana Jr.
‘Let the Lawsuits Begin’ in Fairgrounds Swap Meet Dispute
In what some see as an act of political retribution, the Orange
County Fair Board Thursday terminated the lease of swap meet
operator Jeff Teller.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Countywide, Investigative, Top Stories
OC Fairground Sale Officially Dead
State Department of General Services announces that Gov. Jerry
Brown does not want to sell the fairgrounds to Facilities
Management West, thus ending a years-long saga.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Norberto Santana Jr.
Appellate Court Denies Rehearing of OC Fairgrounds Case
Decision means that Facilities Management West’s last play in
its bid to purchase the Fairgrounds is to petition the Supreme
Court.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Countywide, Top Stories
Deal to Sell the Fairgrounds Is Dead. Now What?
Public lawsuits end jockeying for ownership, but many players
are still lining up to influence the fate of the iconic 150-acre
property in Costa Mesa.
Posted inCosta Mesa
State Appellate Court Kills OC Fairgrounds Sale
Court says process to sell fairgrounds was fatally flawed and
“cannot go forward.”
