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Photo by Gustavo ArellanoIt's $2 per hour to use the computers at the Vietnam Internet Center, and the 30 machines get a lot of use. Kids tend to play video games, the elderly smile into webcams to keep in touch with loved ones in Vietnam, and software programs translate everything from immigration documents to tax …
Back in June, Jordan Brandman joined a majority of his Anaheim City Council colleagues in voting against a proposed Arco station and convenience store in Anaheim Hills. By doing so, the council overturned the Planning Commission’s recommendation to approve the project–a rare, if not eyebrow-raising move. Indeed, Navaz Malik, a Shell station owner who appealed …
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Just what we need: more rules. The Orange County Board of Supervisors will vote on new rules and regulations for library users at its upcoming Aug. 13 meeting. “OC Public Libraries is supported by the taxes of the people of the County of Orange,” states the proposed 2019 library rules. “People expect their library facilities …
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Last Tuesday, Anaheim public television aired a program that was over 6 hours long and as dramatic in the Days of Our Lives sense as in the professional wrestling sense. It was like one of those dystopian movies that starts off intriguing, gets really frustrating, and eventually ends up getting so dark that it puts …
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The aroma of bacon-wrapped hot dogs greeted concert goers leaving the Art Laboe Chicano Soul Legends concert at the Honda Center in Anaheim last December. After an evening of Oldies But Goodies, people ordered from vendors huddled off to the side of a parking lot entrance, bothering nobody. The scene is a familiar one in …
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A coalition of activist groups gathered on the steps of Santa Ana city hall to kick off a campaign to bring rent control to the city. Frustrated by a lack of support from council members, Tenants United Santa Ana (Tú Santa Ana) filed an ordinance with the city clerk yesterday afternoon following a rally. If …
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Republican congressman Ed Royce may be planning on retiring at the end of his term this year, but that’s not stopping Brea’s efforts to regulate protests in the city that, more often than not, end up outside his downtown office. City council appeared poised to pass an ordinance right before Christmas with sweeping provisions that …
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Halloween is a time for carving pumpkins, gagging on the nauseating fumes of harvest-themed potpourri pumping through the A/C system at your local grocery stores, watching scary-movie marathons with your terrified kiddies and, most important, getting blotto on foamy jugs of Oktoberfest ale. It’s also a time for pure, unfiltered loathing, which is where we, …
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On Oct. 17 the Santa Ana City Council gave the first reading of Ordinance Amendment No. 2017-03 to create chapter 40 in the city’s municipal code to regulate commercial, i.e. recreational cannabis. The proposed canna-regulations would allow 23 adult use dispensaries on top on the 20 already existing medical cannabis stores, 20 indoor cultivation businesses, …
Ever since the approval of Proposition 215—the Compassionate Use Act, which permits the use of medical cannabis in California—activists, advocates and users have collectively fantasized about a day when procuring herbal refreshments was as easy as picking up produce from the market or allergy meds from CVS. But cannabis is far more perplexing than that. …
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Last night, Santa Ana city officials held a council committee meeting regarding a new cannabis ordinance that would operate alongside Measure BB, the city’s medical marijuana measure. The proposed canna-regulations would allow 23 adult use dispensaries, 20 medical cannabis dispensaries, 20 indoor cultivation businesses, 20 non-volatile manufacturing businesses, five distribution businesses and an unlimited number …
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Under the new proposed cannabis regulations edibles are likely going to be capped at 100mg of THC per package. That means we need to take advantage of the high dose products available to us now! One of the best higher dose products available in dispensaries is CannaOil Co’s 400mg Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Although …
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