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OCMVCD: ‘High Levels’ of West Nile Virus Activity in North OC

The Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District (OCMVCD) is still seeing “high levels” of West Nile Virus activity in North Orange County, the agency said Monday. “OCMVCD routine tests of mosquito samples indicated additional WNV positive mosquito samples found in a 4 square mile area that includes portions of the cities of Anaheim (1 …

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Cure, Pixies and Rest of Daydream Fest Bill Connect with Hardcore Fans

Labor Day weekend 2019 turned out to be very memorable thanks to the Daydream Festival rolling into the Brookside at the Rose Bowl. The event, which was different in that it was promoted as an all-day spectacle curated by The Cure’s frontman Robert Smith,  featured as headliners that UK band as well as the pride …

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A Woman Inspiring Women Leads to County’s First All-Female Playwrighting Festival

Once that big light goes off and we move on to wherever, or don’t, the best most of us can hope for is a kindly remembrance or two. Rare are those who inspire others after they’re gone. Count Peggy Hesketh among the latter. A writer, journalist, educator and all-round funny, fierce and fearless person (she …

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OCDA Charges Chuyen Van Vo With Murder for CSUF Killing

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer charged Chuyen Van Vo, 51, of Huntington Beach with murder for the Aug. 19 stabbing of Steven Shek Keung Chan in a Cal State Fullerton parking lot, the DA’s office announced on Friday. “The Orange County District Attorney’s Office extends its deepest sympathies to the loved ones of Steven …

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Los Alamitos’ Brenna Malloy Joins NBC’s Female Forward Program

A big part of why there’s so much misogyny in society is because we keep teaching people misogyny. It permeates our culture, literature, movies, television–everything. For much of American history, the leading voices in the creation of all that have belonged to men (specifically, white men). Trying to change that–to bring more women of all …

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Little Arabia Set to Get Freeway Signs If Anaheim Officially Designates District

If Anaheim or the County of Orange ever gets around to officially designating a strip of Arab American businesses along Brookhurst Street in West Anaheim as “Little Arabia,” signs noting the cultural landmark on the 5 freeway could follow. Republican State Senator Ling Ling Chang (SD-29) introduced Senate Concurrent Resolution 71 last week which tasks …

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DUI Checkpoints in South County, Garden Grove starting TONIGHT

Okay folks, you know the drill: there will be a few DUI/Driver’s License checkpoints this weekend. The first will be an Orange County Sheriff’s Department tonight (Aug. 16) at “an undisclosed location on the border of the cities of Lake Forest and Mission Viejo,” according to the OCSD’s Aug. 14 news release. That checkpoint will …

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West Nile Virus Detected in Orange County

Bad news, everyone: looks like West Nile Virus has, once again, been detected in  Orange County. Vector Control officials announced today that infected mosquitoes and birds have been found in Buena Park, Cypress, Huntington Beach, Orange, and Tustin. “The Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District (OCMVCD) has confirmed the first mosquito sample to test …

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Democrats Rewrite Rep. Lowenthal’s 2-State Solution Resolution

Even a largely symbolic resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives put forward by Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) has become a casualty of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Back in late April, Lowenthal introduced House Resolution 326–“Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding United States efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a negotiated …

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Amy Phan West to Challenge Rep. Alan Lowenthal in 2020

Orange County has long provided a cushy home for Republican wingnuts. Bob Dornan was the most famous, but there was also Dana Rohrabacher, Wally George, John Schmitz, and many other names that it’s probably best we try to forget. For many years, the Republican Party kind of shunted these people aside–never sanctioning them, but also …

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Rep. Harley Rouda Talks About his First 6 Months in Congress

Democrat Harley Rouda has represented the 48th District in Congress for a little over six months now. But when the vanquisher of 15-term Republican/Friend of Putin Dana Rohrabacher asked to chat about what he’s learned in that time, I couldn’t pass up the chance. Elected on a platform of addressing climate change, healthcare, gun reform, …

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Law Professor Explores Secret OCDA DNA Database

Orange County’s District Attorney controls the largest database of DNA profiles not created by legislative act in the nation. The database, created in April 2007, is largely shrouded in secrecy. But a new paper by UC Berkeley Law Professor Andrea Roth sheds considerable light on the database. “[W]hile debate continues over statutorily authorized DNA collection, …

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