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Santa Ana developer Mike Harrah now has the final green light needed to move forward on the development of his 37-story monolith with the rejection of an appeal of the lawsuit filed by activists to stop the One Broadway Plaza project.

On Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown announced two additional appointments to the Orange County Fair Grounds governing board, Democrat Ashleigh Aitken and Republican Stan Tkaczyk.

Opponents of the $158 million Bed Tax giveaway to Garden Walk hotel developers notified Anaheim officials that the January 24th city council action violated the Ralph M. Brown Act. The February 21st letter demands the city cure the violation withing 30 days of face litigation.

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. At their meeting last night the Santa Ana City Council decided what the city would have to give up for Lent. On a 6-0 vote the City Council turned to ashes the 128-year history of Santa Ana’s independent Fire Department, outsourcing it to the Orange County Fire Authority.

Leprechauns are known to be tricky little fellas, but sometimes just being the Mayor of Costa Mesas makes it easier to get what you want. Claims of finnancial crisis didn’t stop our favorite little Leprechaun Mayor Gary Monahan from getting a little strip of green laid out in front of his pub.

Santa Ana will continue to have fire protection after April 20, 2012, but the 128 years of the Santa Ana Fire Department history will come to an abrupt end. That is if the proposed outsourcing of fire services is approved at Tuesday nights meeting of the City Council.