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The Anaheim City Council is ground zero in a remarkable campaign by a city contractor to cow the elected councilmembers into submitting to its demands for a 100% increase in its project budget – in defiance of the explicit direction of the council. In the wake of public revelations of an FBI probe into the Angel Stadium deal that sparked ...

Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Day proclamation, 1863: By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been ...

Chapman University announced last week its acquisition of the Anavia Apartments in Anaheim, with the intention of converting the apartment building in to student housing that can accommodate about 800 students. Anavia is located near the intersection of State College Boulevard and Orangehtorpe Avenue, and across the street from Angel Stadium. It will be re-christened as “Chapman Court.” This is ...

Be warned, (conservative) churches of Orange County: not only is Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva watching you, but she’s also egging on her followers to report you to the Internal Revenue Service. Last week, Quirk-Silva tweeted her intention to take some kind of action against churches engaged in political campaigns: The state legislator urged her supporters to surveil churches and repot them ...

The Voice of OC’s narrative-based reporting on Anaheim elections continues with today’s article on campaign finance reports for the mayoral and council elections. “In the wake of an explosive FBI affidavit alleging deep corruption at city hall, the same interests called out by federal agents for influencing policy making are spending huge sums for the November election, heavily backing their ...

The 2022 Anaheim Prayer Breakfast is only three days away – on Thursday, October 6, 2022. The featured keynote speaker of this annual community event is former Navy SEAL Chad Williams, a combat veteran who served our nation from 2004 to 2010. Now engaged in full-time ministry work, Chad is charismatic and insightful and uses the training and experience he ...

Next month, it’s time to get your ghost on as Anaheim welcome’s its first paranormal convention: OC Paracon.  OC Paracon will “highlight the paranormal perceptions of its organizers, Paranormal Perception and Unearthing The Supernatural. Topics ranging from ancient entities, astrology, palmistry, Tarot, witchcraft, neurodivergent mediumship and more will be discussed on the main stage.” The convention take place at the ...

This weekend is the public’s last chance to drink pilsners from a stein, stomp out a polka, consume bratwursts and generally celebrate Oktoberfest at the Phoenix Club in Anaheim before it moves to a new location in Brea. The Phoenix Club was founded in 1960 in Anaheim to preserve the German culture, customs and language. It was displaced from its ...

From the City of Anaheim: The building of Anaheim’s newest park will get underway on Sept. 16 as the Anaheim Ducks, the city of Anaheim, KABOOM! and other volunteers come together to assemble a playground designed by neighborhood kids and families. The 4,300-square-foot playground will include a climbing wall, a bridge, monkey bars, a circular spider web climber, spinners, bucket ...

The Anaheim mayoral race is more open – and Mayor Pro Tem Trevor O’Neil more strongly positioned – than prior convention wisdom assumed, according to polling results released by the O’Neil campaign. The poll was conducted on July 8-12 by Public Opinion Strategies, with a margin of error of +/- 4.9%. O’Neil’s opponents in the mayoral contest are OC Fair ...