The OC Weekly ran this picture of Sheriff Mike Carona standing next to mob associate Rick Rizzolo. The two men drank and laughed at the Ritz restaurant sometime between 2000 and 2004. Investigators have tied Rizzolo to Chicago and New…

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The Associated Press published a poll they did the shows that the number of Americans who disapprove of the performance of President Bush and Congress is increasing. Generally speaking, would you say things in this country are heading in the…

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8:00 a.m. Childs-pace Foundation, Inc., Wildswing Golf Tournament and Fundraiser in a Basket, Newport Beach Golf Course 3600 Irvine Avenue. Contact: Susan Kopicki, sckopicki@yahoo.com; 949-872-0966. http://www.childs-pace.org 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. SoCal Grassroots Coordinating Committee Meeting. 2221 Rosecrans Ave. Suite…

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This morning’s OC Register has a letter to the editor printed in it from Anaheim resident Robert R. Daoust. Daoust says that Measure M was a great idea that got lost in the bueracracy. My favorite line is “Has anyone…

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Earlier this week Jim Washburn from the OC Weekly posted a web article titled Dem Bones. We need to pay attention, speak up and make sure our representatives represent us. And I apologize to my Green pals, but that means…

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State Senator Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, wrote a bill that passed the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday that would require California schools to purchase textbooks that reflect the historical and sociological contributions of gay people. This bill, which is strongly…

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Many Santa Ana residents were asking “Where’s the Mayor?” on Monday during the demonstrations that were happening in downtown. Mayor Miguel Pulido, an immigrant from Mexico, refused to be interviewed, but he released a press statement: “Throughout the day, I…

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Grant at OCMetroBlog wrote a post yesterday about Tan Nguyen’s signs causing traffic on the 55 freeway. However, once I got to the overpass just before Katella I found out why the traffic was so slow, it was because of…

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Mike Seate at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review just posted a great story. [Pitts Trib]

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They are racists. I’m angry that nobody in the media is talking about the racist undertone that clearly accompanies the anti-immigration argument. They talk about building walls, deportation, taking the law into their own hands. And in their argument they…

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Tan Nguyen, a Republican candidate for the 47th Congressional District, has been flooding Garden Grove and Santa Ana with his hideous street signs that with his racist tag line. Yesterday, Republicans in the district received a mailer with this picture…

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Depending on which newspaper you read, there were anywhere from 15,000 to 25,000 people at the rallies and marches in downtown Santa Ana yesterday. The papers are flooded with stories critiquing the success, measuring the accomplishment, and evaluating the marchers.…

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