Irvine Mayor Steven Choi apparently committed $100,000 of Irvine taxpayers dollars for the $1 million reward at the height of the Christopher Dorner manhunt without the approval of the rest of the City Council. At next week’s council meeting, this…
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An Investment in an Untruth
by Dan Chmielewski • • 7 Comments
Irvine’s new Republican majority has been taking the world’s longest victory lap. The Register’s Frank Mickadeit has written several flattering columns and OC Weekly’s Scott Moxley continues to triple down on the notion he alerted the public to a possible theft of…
Fifty Shades of Beige: Irvine Drops out of the Top 20 Most Romantic Cities in America
by Dan Chmielewski • • 10 Comments
When current Irvine council member Christina Shea was mayor of Irvine in the late 1990s and the battle against the then proposed El Toro Airport was at a fever pitch, Mayor Shea put her heart and soul into a new…
Democrats Seek Rallying Cry in Irvine Tuesday
by Dan Chmielewski • • 6 Comments
There’s a lot of email flying around abut this Tuesday’s Irvine City Council meeting and the major changes the Republican majority is trying to make. Here’s the best email we received: Stop the power grab by the new Irvine Council…
Choi Seeks to Change Great Park Board
by Dan Chmielewski • • 12 Comments
If new Irvine Mayor Steven Choi has his way, the Orange County Great Park would become the Irvine Great Park. Now that Republicans have control of the Irvine City Council, Choi wants to eliminate the at-large members of the Board…
Beaten at State and Federal Elections, OC Republicans Rejoice in Irvine
by Dan Chmielewski • • 9 Comments
As I snapped photos in the Lobby of Irvine City Hall tonight, someone who recognized me said to me, “Must be hard to be here tonight?” I answered, “Not really, because election day was pretty much a slam dunk for…
Shea Threatens City Employee in Advance of her New Term on Irvine City Council
by Dan Chmielewski • • 21 Comments
Christina Shea is about to be sworn in for her third go-round on the Irvine City Council, a new four-year term to go along with 16 previous years of service. We’ve documented here before how in her two previous stints…
