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UCI Freshman Noah Domingo Died from Too Much Alcohol: Coroner

An 18-year-old UC Irvine freshman, whose death in January led to an interim suspension for a campus fraternity, died of alcohol intoxication, the county coroner announced today. “He just drank too much,” said a caller to 9-1-1 dispatch to report that Noah Domingo was not breathing Jan. 12 at an off-campus residence on Sycamore Drive …

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Did Santa Ana Violate Surplus Land Act by Putting Bristol Parcels Up for Bid?

Along a four-mile corridor of Bristol Street in Santa Ana, fenced in vacant lots are a common sight. There’s enough dormant dirt to total more than 400,000 square feet of land combined. For the past two years, activists have campaigned to keep “community lands in community hands,” seeing potential in transforming the 88 city-owned parcels …

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Dan Savage’s Hump! Film Festival Returns

Dan Savage, the Savage Love columnist and editorial director of the Seattle alternative newsweekly The Stranger, invariably singles out the same film when asked what’s new at his 14th annual Hump! Film Festival. It’s a five-minute musical comedy set in the bathroom of a gay leather bar. “I promise you, you’ve never seen anything like …

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OC Board of Supervisors Give Yet Another Honor to Rich, White Republican Dude

When a person returns to a place after being gone for 15 years, it’s natural for that person to assume that a great deal will have changed in that period. I certainly did after returning to Orange County in the summer of 2018, but to my amazement I still find myself recognizing far too many …

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Professor Kathleen Treseder Settles With UCI Over Alleged Sexual Harassment

Even Dr. Kathleen Treseder’s good days are bad. This might seem to be a non-sequitur, but it’s her life right now. You might think her life was great, considering that she just agreed to a fairly large settlement with the University of California over their handling of myriad complaints of sexual harassment–from Treseder and others–against …

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The OC Women’s March Organizers Reflect on the Past Two Years’ Events—and How This Saturday’s Will Be the Best Yet

On a cold, early Saturday morning in January 2017, an estimated 20,000 people gathered by the French Street plaza in Downtown Santa Ana for the first OC Women’s March. The local contingent of the nationwide Women’s March that was sparked by the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States united an unprecedented …

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How Does Your City Rate at Altering Lifestyles to Combat Climate Change?

Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach residents are among the most prepared Californians to make significant lifestyle changes to help combat climate change, while people in Orange are among the least interested in doing so, according to a new survey. Sandbar Solar, a Santa Cruz-based solar installation company, polled 3,500 people nationwide to gauge if they would …

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Kaiser Mental Health Workers Launch Statewide Strike

Workers at Kaiser Permanente recently staged what is the largest mental health strike in history over the course of five days. Thousands of workers, at nearly 100 facilities across the state in protest of the healthcare giant’s continued refusal to provide what the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) considers to be adequate care. This …

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