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Last week, the Coalition of Resort Labor Unions (CRLU) sent a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom opposing the phased re-opening of the Disneyland Resort beginning on July 9 with the re-opening of Downtown Disney. The CRLU is comprised of a dozen unions with a combined membership of 17,000 Resort workers, who have been unemployed since mid-March when the Disneyland Resort ...

Earlier this month, Jose Lara, the assistant principal at Dale Junior High School, was recalled from the El Rancho Unified School District Board of Education by a whopping 91% of the vote. Lara is a political lightning rod and strident advocate of radical politics, including making Ethnic Studies a high school graduation requirement. The Los Cerritos News has been reporting ...

State public health officials today issued updated guidelines requiring the public to wear face masks or coverings in most instances when they leave their homes. In a statement issued by the California Department of Health, Governor Gavin Newsom explained why he is issuing this order: “Science shows that face coverings and masks work,” said Governor Gavin Newsom. “They are critical ...

In what is welcome news for Anaheim’s stricken tourism and convention sector, the Disneyland Resort will begin a phased re-opening in July.  The Resort has been closed since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Downtown Disney shopping district will open first, on July 9. The Disneyland and Disney California Adventure theme parks will open approximately a week later, on July ...

Anti-police activists from all over have been flooding the Anaheim City Council with e-mails attacking the Anaheim Police Department and demanding its abolition. Two weeks ago, we reported on a group of activist Anaheim Union High School District educators who put social distancing aside and organized hundreds of students at La Palma Park to protest the murder of George Floyd, ...

The Anaheim Union High School District, like school districts across the state, canceled in-class instruction this spring in order to protect students from the COVID-19 pandemic – shifting to distance learning for the remainder of the school year. AUSHD students weren’t allowed to gather for traditional graduations ceremonies at the end of May, because it would violate COVID-19 social distancing ...

Would you rather live near this?: Or this?: It should be an easy answer.  Common sense dictates the second. And when the Anaheim City Council considers this in-fill housing development on Tuesday, June 9, we’ll see which councilmembers common sense which lean on ideology and politics. The development in question is called “Lincoln At Loara.” According to the staff report, ...

  Thankfully, there was an absence of serious damage by violent protesters in the wake of the largely non-violent George Floyd/police brutality protests on Monday evening in downtown Anaheim.  As we’re all aware, in city after city around the country, initially non-violent protests about the horrific murder of Mr. Floyd have degenerated into rioting and looting. This didn’t happen by ...

Several hundred people, mainly youth, protested in Anaheim yesterday against the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and against what they view as systemic police violence against African-Americans. While there were incidents of vandalism, hurling illegal fireworks at the police, and other instances of disorder, the protests were mostly non-violent. The Anaheim Chamber of Commerce rallied a small army ...

Citing an abundance of caution in the face of three planned protests this afternoon and evening, the City of Anaheim has declared a curfew tonight from 6:00 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. A group of progressive political activists from the Anaheim Union High School District are organizing a “rally and protest” at La Palma Park at 4:00 p.m.: Commenters on Jabbar’s ...