A formal state audit will now examine waste, fraud, and abuse at the OCBE. I intend to discuss what this…
Content being a Pink Toad? I guess it depends on an amphibian's level of sef-awareness. The lower, the happier. In…
If we're talking about Dan C, he has never seemed "happy."
Yes, I know that's the impulse but you gotta know what the Guatemalan hill folk know: you get poisoned and…
If it touches me first, all bets are off.
You're absolutely right that California should adopt it statewide -- and should already have done so. And you're absolutely right…
If I were Fiona ma or Rob Bonta I’d be scared.
RCV should be adopted statewide so cities and counties don’t have to do it piecemeal. It saves money, discourages negative…
My advice to Mr. Moore, who seems like an eminently reasonable man is the same as I always give Vern.…
great park Archive
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Great Park Audit Update
Posted on October 14, 2014 | 1 CommentLive blogging from the Irvine City Council chambers about the update on the Great Park Audit. -
Irvine Does It Better: Sign Stealing Edition
Posted on October 14, 2014 | 8 CommentsIrvine is better at sign stealing than your town. -
Great Park Audit Fireworks this Tuesday
Posted on October 10, 2014 | 2 CommentsA major update form the Great Park Audit happens next Tuesday, even though the final report is still at least a month away. -
Larry Agran’s Looming Legal Life
Posted on October 9, 2014 | No CommentsHere's why Larry Agran is gong to face legal scrutiny for his actions at the Great Park -
Of Witches, Fordes, and Sculptures
Posted on October 7, 2014 | No CommentsDid Yehudi Gaffen give Arnod Forde a weird Wicked Witch of the West sculpture? Who else in OC politics needs a large, sculpted object delivered to their house? -
Great Park Auditors Completely Wrong About Talking Point
Posted on October 3, 2014 | 1 CommentA major talking point from the preliminary Great Park Audit was wrong. Just, wrong. -
A Great Park Success Story: Stu Mollrich’s House
Posted on October 2, 2014 | 6 CommentsYehudi Gaffen of Gafcon and Stu Mollrich of Forde & Mollrich had the most interesting financial arrangements. -
Great Park Winners and Losers
Posted on September 30, 2014 | 3 CommentsThe Great Park Audit is weeks away, but winners and losers have already emerged from the depositions. -
“If You’re explaining, You’re Losing” – a Great Park PR ‘Own Goal’
Posted on September 17, 2014 | 10 CommentsVoice of OC reports that Gafcon, the Great Park Design Studio operator, has responded to charges of incompetence with an hour-and-half long video attacking Chrsitina Shea -- who isn't running for re-election. -
Arnold Forde Deposition: “Larry would do what he wanted to do”
Posted on September 9, 2014 | 2 CommentsArnold Fordes Great Park Deposition has no smoking gun, but does have extensive testimony from one of Larry Agran's closest allies about why you don't want Larry Agran running things. -
Breaking: Irvine City Council issues Contempt Request
Posted on August 20, 2014 | 2 CommentsThe Irvine City Council is meeting today at 2:30 to ask the Superior Court to compel Forde & Mollrich to hand over Great Park billing records. -
Stu Mollrich’s Great Park Deposition: Bad Planning, Possible Contempt Hearing
Posted on August 16, 2014 | 10 CommentsStu Mollrich agrees: The Great Park management went to hell when Agran took over in 2006, Forde & Mollrich will work for anyone who pays them, and Larry Agran is "Passionate about Public Restrooms." - plus the best oral history of the Great Park you'll find anywhere. -
Larry Agran on Great Park Management: “But it was not illegal”
Posted on August 1, 2014 | 11 CommentsVeteran developer 's deposition show that eight years ago Larry Agran was told that the Great Park Management structure was likely to lead to a problems. -
Why Redact Photocopying Charges?
Posted on July 30, 2014 | 3 CommentsWhy, amongst 159 pages or boring billing records, are three pages for document copying and delivery redacted?
So you're gonna write a piece about this audit? Good, folks have been asking us to cover that on this…