Usually, Santa Ana Planning Commission meetings are boring events. Permits are debated and approved, commissioners wrap the meetings with non controversial commentary and the meeting is adjourned. Except for last week’s meeting when acting chair Sean H. Mill used his time for commissioner communications to launch a series of comments that included bouts of…
At last week’s meeting, the Anaheim City Council spent a considerable amount of time and effort arguing over a $40,000 item — what Mayor Tom Tait wanted was the restoration of his staff budget to $100,000 from $60,000 presumably to pay his aid Mishal Montgomery more money for part-time work. Tait held up slides of…
There’s a special meeting of the Irvine City Council today to discuss a possible lawsuit of former council member Larry Agran to compel testimony in the investigation of the Great Park Forensic Audit? Agran apparently missed a scheduled meeting and requested information about lines of questioning in advance. And thanks so much for holding a…
TheLiberalOC contacted Louise Stewardson, a Democratic write-in candidate for State Senate in SD-37, to find out more about her. Louise conducted an email interview with us about her candidacy and to clear up some misperceptions that are out there in the blogsphere. Who is Louise Stewardson? I’m a registered nurse and small business owner. I…
In last November’s campaign for Mayor, surrogates for Miguel Pulido made a major campaign issue of a 30 second Facebook photo that his challenger, council member Roman Reyna, posed for photos with two old friends — one of whom allegedly had ties to a Latino gang. The Santa Ana Police Officer’s Association suggested in mail…
I meant to post this much earlier, but Sunday’s Los Angeles Times carried one of the most powerful Op-Eds you’ll ever read. Former Times staffer Laurie Becklund’s final piece about her breast cancer diagnosis that claimed her life on February 8. Becklund built her reputation at the Times for her coverage of exposing Salvadoran death squads…
The Angels and the city of Anaheim aren’t talking. The Memorandums of Understanding on a proposed parking lot development deal that could finance major renovations or a new stadium is long dead. All along, our friends at CATER, many of whom haven’t been to a game at the Big A in years, have a mantra:…
The 2015 State of the City Address in Irvine is all about Choi’s proposed $200 million plus massive library at the Great Park. It’s a virtual rewrite of his 2013 State of the City address and for two years, not a lot of progress on it. Choi’s Sunday guest column in the OC Register declares…
The first item on today’s Santa Ana Planning Commission is the appointment of a new chair for the committee as current Chairman Eric Alderete’s new job is making it hard for him to lead this body; the betting money of who will replace Alderete is on the Commission’s vice chair Sean H. Mill, which is…
Longshot State Senate candidate Naz Namazi issued perhaps the worst press release I’ve ever seen over the weekend, but we’re writing about it because it calls attention to State Rep. Don Wagner. Namazi’s release has no real headline and isn’t written in standard news release style, but sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.…
