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California is gearing up for legalized recreational marijuana come New Year’s Day 2018, but for most Orange County municipalities, that deadline is hardly being celebrated. Instead, many cities have either already banned cannabis dispensaries or are in the process of doing so. As of now, Santa Ana and Long Beach are the only local places …
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Tonight, the SanTana City Council begins hearing on a proposed ordinance that would effectively choke to death the city’s famed taco truck scene. Oh, there’s nothing in the current language that flat-out says the city wants to deport loncheras. But as I reported last month, proposed new regulations—like banning trucks from parking within 500 feet …
Fresh off of helping to kill Mexican beer bars in downtown once and for all, the SanTana City Council has a new target in its endless campaign against paisa anything: taco trucks. Oh, every council member will deny that they want to ban loncheras in the most-Mexican big city in America, with councilmember Sal Tinajero describing them at yesterday’s …
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The California Coastal Commission met last Friday in San Louis Obispo to discuss a handful of topics, but the only one we cared about is the proposed Huntington Beach desalination plant. Poseidon Water, the company hoping to build the desal facility, requested that the Coastal Commission waive a coastal development permit application fee that would …
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The dark conspiracy to create a one-world government has come at last to sunny Southern California, appearing in Huntington Beach last year with the opening of Elan, a 247-unit, luxury apartment complex on Beach Boulevard. Elan is part of the Beach and Edinger Corridors Specific Plan (BECSP), a plan to revitalize a 459-acre stretch along …
Ginger Roberts sits on a loveseat against the window at the clubhouse of Costa Mesa's Rolling Homes Mobile Park. The 81-year-old's neighbors are poolside, sipping beers and cocktails while playing a particularly testy card game. “Where's your cocktail?” one player cracks as someone joins in. “You should always have a cocktail in hand.” Though it's …
For Poseidon, the May amendment to California's ocean plan, which clarified desalination rules, is a double-edged sword. Yesterday morning, when an independent panel of scientists and economists picked by both the Coastal Commission and Poseidon hosted a public meeting in Huntington Beach to present the findings of the second phase of a possible three-phase study …
Bipartisan support was shown this week for legislation by two Orange County lawmakers who are trying to save beach bonfires threatened by clean-air regulations. Assembly Bill 1102 by Assembly members Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) and Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-Fullerton) passed out of the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources, Allen's office announced. ] Proposed State Law to …
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Michelle and her girls should be shivering. It just rained, and the temperature is still snugly below 60 degrees even though it's 3 in the afternoon. She, Yari, Diamy and their half-dozen or so co-workers are half-naked, wearing dark lace teddies, brightly colored lingerie with bottoms two sizes too small or flesh-colored swimsuits as they …
One of the City of Irvine's attempts to block expansion of the Irvine-adjacent James A. Musick Jail Facility has been rejected by the state's Fourth District Court of Appeal. Justices found the County of Orange's decision to apply for state funding for the expansion is not the kind of action that should trigger a review …
*See end of post for an update on the state of Ammiano's proposed legislation. Original Post, Sept. 12, 11:29 a.m.: Last week, the Obama Administration announced it had no right to interfere in states with well-regulated medical or recreational pot industries, leaving the door open for Colorado and Washington States to proceed with plans to …
When it comes to mainstream American politics, usually it's the Libertarian Party that one would associate with a pro-marijuana (medical or otherwise) agenda, but now you can add the Democratic Party to that very brief list. To wit: in Riverside, the very town whose fight over a local ban on marijuana dispensaries produced last week's …
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