The Politics of a Botanical Garden at the Great Park
For those longtime Irvine residents who were around in 2002, there was an issue that did unite Democrats and Republicans – no Airport at El […]
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Irvine Vice Mayor Tammy Kim Pulls Papers for AD-68
Irvine Vice Mayor Tammy Kim has pulled papers to run for AD-68 to challenge incumbent Steven Choi which would pit two Korean-American candidates against each […]
Irvine City Council set to Abandon Vet’s Cemetery at Great Park and Abolish Sunshine Ordinance
Tuesday’s Irvine City Council has two significant items on the agenda pushed forward by Vice Mayor Tammy Kim and Council member Mike Carroll — a […]
Editing Textbooks with a Conservative Bias
In case you missed this story over the weekend, the Texas Legislature has approved sweeping new changes to the content of textbooks used by schoolchildren […]
First Lunar Landing: 40 Years Ago Today
“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” — Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969 Fourty years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first […]
Why People Are Leaving the GOP in Droves
Arlen Specter left for strategic political reasons. Some folks have left to jump on the Obama bandwagon. Some are leaving because of the Rush Limbaugh […]
John Hope Franklin (1915-2009): Historian and Fighter for Justice
Academics and intellectuals – and college professors in particular – are often thought of as living in an Ivory Tower – dispassionate, disconnected, and aloof […]
Well Dad, what are you waiting for?
I voted yesterday with my son, Ethan, sitting beside me at the kitchen table. My wife Suzie, who is a naturalized Vietnamese-American, insists on the […]
34 Years Ago…
August 8 & 9, 1974; I remember those days so well. Â President Nixon resigned in disgrace amid the Watergate scandal. At ComicCon two weeks ago, […]