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After two public hearings and a couple of town halls, the Costa Mesa City Council has thus far failed to yield to overwhelming public comment opposing the rush to place an initiative to make Costa Mesa a charter city on the June ballot. The final vote to place Righeimer’s Charter Folly before the voters happens tonight.

Mayor Pro Tem Lori Galloway has, along with Mayor Tom Tait, placed the matter of allowing a public vote to consider overturning the decision of the Council to give $158 million to spur hotel development in the Garden Walk project area on tonight’s meeting agenda.

Shortly after the signatures for the Fullerton Recall of Dick Jones, Don Bankhead and Pat McKinley was approved, we contacted Supervisor Shawn Nelson’s office (on […]

In large part due to the outsourcing of the Santa Ana Fire Department services to the Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA), and amendments to employee contracts, Santa Ana’s financial picture is looking brighter than it was several months ago.

Back in the early days of political blogging, 2004 to be exact, a sex scandal in Washington DC over a blog called the “Washingtonienne,” a […]

Yesterday, Congresswomen Loretta and Linda Sanchez, and State Senator Lou Correa filed suit against their former campaign treasurer Kindee Durkee alleging she stole $1.4 million in campaign funds and that the bank they used aided and abetted the scheme.