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Cleaning up Beach Boulevard is going to get harder, thanks to legislation signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom this week, making it legal to loiter in order to solicit or engage in prostitution. Actually soliciting or engaging in prostitution remains illegal for now, but law enforcement is being deprived of a valuable tool in combating the street prostitution that ...

COVID-19 was a devastating blow to Anaheim’s convention industry –  a huge economic driver for the city. But as the pandemic transitions to being endemic and the major shows return to the Anaheim Convention Center, the renewed economic impact of those shows is making itself felt. The marquee convention for Anaheim is the National Association of Music Merchants or NAMM, ...

246 years ago today, our Founding Fathers put their lives on the line and embarked on the greatest experiment in liberty and self-government in human history. We are still here pursuing life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness because of the eternal, transcendent nature of the principles embodied in Declaration of Independence, and our willingness to defend those principles. The ...

To say woke progressive activists view society through a racial lens would be an understatement. To paraphrase Vince Lombardi, when it comes to how the woke Left approaches policy and politics, race “isn’t everything – it’s the only thing.” Who one is as an individual is subordinate to one’s racial/ethnic/gender identity. Case in point: a July 15, 2021 tweet from ...

The primary election results in the 4th Supervisor District were certified over the weekend, formalizing what had been apparent for several days: incumbent Supervisor Doug Chaffee had narrowly scooted into a November run-off against Buena Park Mayor Sunny Park. The result sets up the first Democrat-v-Democrat supervisor contest since then-Assemblyman Lou Correa defeated Garden Grove Mayor Bruce Broadwater for the ...

This evening, Councilman Jose F. Moreno will renew his push for re-writing the city’s campaign finance rules and for a wide-ranging internal investigation in the wake of the ongoing FBI corruption probe into former Mayor Harry Sidhu. Moreno’s rhetoric aside, his push is not about truth or justice or “getting money out of politics.” It is about power. It is ...

OC Supervisor Doug Chaffee, who represents the 4th District, is in danger of not making the November run-off and becoming a one-term supervisor. Chaffee is currently in second place behind Buena Park Mayor Sunny Park, and barely ahead of Brea Councilman Steve Vargas, who has been gaining ground on Chaffee as more ballots are counted. Chaffee and Park are Democrats, ...

Does Councilman Jose F. Moreno really want to get “money out of politics”? Or is his goal to use campaign finance law and moral bluster to paralyze the business community and leave his union and progressive allies as the dominant voices in city elections? Judging from Moreno’s own rhetoric, it’s the latter. He has been demanding that Disney specifically and ...

This evening, the Anaheim City Council will consider Councilman Jose F. Moreno’s idea of campaign finance “reform.” This is virtually the same proposal that the city council rejected in November 2019. The FBI corruption probe into Harry Sidhu that led to his resignation as mayor has sewn confusion and chaos, which Moreno is now exploiting by resurrecting this so-called reform ...

On Tuesday, the Anaheim City Council voted unanimously to void the agreement to sell the Angel Stadium site to team owner Arte Moreno, a deal that would also keep the team in Anaheim until at least 2050 and place the financial responsibility for renovating or building a new stadium solely on Moreno. The vote took place a week after bombshell ...