Ex-Huntington Beach Mayor Gets 37-Month Sentence in Real Estate Scam (Times and Register) Pam Julien Houchen will serve federal prison time and must pay $140,000 in restitution.
Santa Ana Police Shoot 2 Suspects (Times and Register) The two men are hospitalized following separate incidents in which authorities say they threatened officers.
Costa Mesa Voters Face a National Issue Turned Local: Immigration (Times) Dana Parsons:
Opposing camps contain members that may surprise some people. The outcome will affect the city’s image for some time.
Voters will decide if visitors pay more (Register) Measure U, on November ballot, would create a 10% bed tax in La Habra.
O.C. Transportation Agency to Spend $7 Million to Study High-Speed-Rail Line (Times and Register) Engineering and environmental work will focus on adding electrified track to existing rail corridor.
Irvine Co. to give school district $2.5M (Daily Pilot) Newport-Mesa elementary school officials had enough money for new science classrooms, thanks to voters who recently approved a bond to pay for them, but they couldn’t afford to put teachers in them.
Orange Unified School District trustees seek censure (Register) Two board members want to publicly rebuke a colleague, Steve Rocco, who they say violated the Brown Act.
Saddleback Valley’s Hispanic past (Register) Ranchos marked pioneer influence in Saddleback Valley.
A middle ground on border battles? (Register) Yvette Cabrera rips the Minutemen
Anaheim may shift billboard sites (Register) Anaheim council plans to consider banning new billboards in the middle of the city, but may allow some along the freeway.
Candidate stirs up pot issue (Daily Pilot0 Newport Beach Assemblyman Chuck DeVore made headlines in August when he championed a bill allowing farmers to grow industrial hemp in California.
Glad the Mayor of Huntington Beach is going to jail. It may teach her a lesson. Jail time sure helped former Santa Ana City Council member Ted Moreno. He and and Tony Espinoza, Hector Olivares, and Roman Palacio were all convicted of a Felony and you don’t hear any of them spouting off any more. Ted is quiet as a church mouse. I guess prison time does that to you.
Ted was always a “church mouse”
Houchen wasn’t the mayor when she committed her crimes, just a council woman.
OCTA to waste 7 million dollars to study high-speed rail?
What is the railway speed limit in OC? Why study a 200 mph train if it will only be allowed to go 70 mph or less? (mostly less).
“Ted was always a “church mouse”
except when he was telling the gas station owner how many gold coins it was going to take to buy political favor with Moreno, Espinoza, Olivares, and Palacio. Then he spoke right up. Loud enough thankfully to be recorded on the FBI video tape. I think they even exchanged a rather gleeful high five! Not to church mousey if you ask me.
What is the point of discussing a current (today) criminal conviction in Huntignton Beach and connecting the discussion to a conviction in Santa Ana 5-6 years ago?Besides that was a case of unsophisticated dishonest guys being set up by sophsticated dishonest guys.
What is the point of discussing a current (today) criminal conviction in Huntignton Beach and connecting the discussion to a conviction in Santa Ana 5-6 years ago?Besides that was a case of unsophisticated dishonest guys being set up by sophsticated dishonest guys.
the point is…history repeats itself and there is always a new generation of crooks to replace the last.
you are naive, the point was to associate criminal activity on a community in a suttle manner.