On September 18, I broke the story that Hari Lal, running for Anaheim City Council from District 6, hadn’t paid his property taxes the beginning of
Garden Grove Councilwoman Kim Nguyen’s campaign for the 2nd District seat on the OC Board of Supervisors received a major boost, picking up the endorsement
In a September 8 post on his campaign Facebook page, District 6 candidate Hari Lal opined “We pay the highest amount of property and city taxes
A militant hotel workers union hopes to place on the November 2024 ballot an initiative to impose a $25 an hour minimum wage on Anaheim hotels
A 23-year old progressive activist running on a platform of representing LGBTQ+ and “queer youth,” will represent represent Area 5 on the Santa Ana Unified
The Orange County Board of Education appointed Tustin resident Jorge Valdes to fill a vacant board seat, after a long and awkward series of deadlocked
The Santa Ana City Council is looking at putting several charter amendments on the November 2022 ballot – one of which will likely be a
At the behest of Mayor Vince Sarmiento, Santa Ana city staff is reviewing an ordinance providing tax credits to qualifying licensed cannabis businesses in the
In May of this year, Santa Ana Mayor Vince Sarmiento asked city planning staff to look at cannabis ordinance language drafted by the United Food
In her unsuccessful campaign to unseat Tim Shaw from the Orange County Board of Education, one of Paulette Chaffee’s central messages was Shaw and the
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