Questions are swirling around a hinky land deal in La Habra in which the city council swooped in under questionable circumstances to purchase a redevelopment
There is nepotism in the to ranks of the militant hotel workers union UNITE-HERE Local 11 – with family members of Local 11 leaders benefitting
On December 5, the Santa Ana City Council voted unanimously to accept the results of the failed recall election targeting Councilmember Jessie Lopez. Lopez herself
Santa Ana Councilmembers Johnathan Hernandez and Ben Vasquez asking their council colleagues to support their resolution calling on Israel to declare a permanent ceasefire in
Controversial Santa Ana Councilmember Jessie Lopez, a 34-year old member of the city council’s ruling progressive bloc, has defeated what she terms the “illegitimate” attempt
Basic economics says that as costs go up, prices go up. If I own a bakery and sugar prices spike, the final cake product is
In their fight against the recall, one of the “narratives” being pushed by Santa Ana Councilmember Jessie Lopez and her political allies is that she
OC Supervisor Vince Sarmiento has spent tens of thousands of taxpayers dollars in a highly-unusual attempt to goose voter turnout for the November 14 recall
The four-member progressive majority on the Santa Ana City Council continued its hasty drive to allow noncitizens to vote in city elections, despite warnings from
Voters in Santa Ana’s Ward 3 will still have the opportunity to decide whether or not to recall Councilmember Jessie Lopez, after a judge rejected
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