Anaheim Elementary School District Trustee J. Paolo Magcalas is running for a second term. And for the first time, he has an actual opponent: Anaheim Councilwoman Lucille Kring. Magcalas is having conniption that Kring is on a number of slate mailers: the campaign mailers sent to voters urging them to vote for certain candidates for Congress, legislature, city council, school ...
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Paolo Magcalas Urges Passage Of $12 Billion Property Tax Increase
Proposition 15 will partially repeal the property tax limits of landmark Proposition 13 and impose a massive increase in commercial property taxation – a tax hike that will trickle down to small business owners in the form of higher rents, to consumers in the form of higher prices, and everyone in the form of few jobs and higher cost of ...
Read More »Magcalas And The COVID Exemption For Protests And Politics
J. Paolo Magcalas is running for a second term on the Anaheim Elementary School District Board of Education from Trustee Area 3. Readers may be familiar with Magcalas as a radical exponent of Ethnic Studies who thinks Thanksgiving is racist, supports gutting Proposition 13 and defunding the police (including school safety officers) and voted to spend nearly $1 million in ...
Read More »Council Approves Stadium Sale for $325 Million; Angels To Stay Through 2050
At an 8-plus hour long special council meeting yesterday, the Anaheim City Council voted 4-2 to approve a purchase and sale agreement (PSA) under which SRB Management, a development partnership controlled by Angels owner Arte Moreno, would buy Angel Stadium and the surrounding property for $325 million. As part of the sale, the Angels committed to splaying in Anaheim for ...
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Council To Consider Returning To Anaheim’s Traditional City Flag
At the request of Mayor Pro Tem Lucille Kring, the city council will consider ditching the re-designed city flag adopted a year ago and returning to the traditional city flag that had symbolized the city for more than half a century. During council comments at the close of the July 30 council meeting, Kring requested agendizing “removal of the new ...
Read More »District 4 Update From Councilwoman Lucille Kring
From District 4 Councilwoman Lucille Kring: STC Management New Owners at Gardenwalk Last Tuesday April 30th, I was glad to take part in the press conference at Gardenwalk where STC Management formally announced their new ownership. John Hsu and his team presented their exciting new vision for the design of the project, including a variety of new tenants who will ...
Read More »Mayor Sidhu Pledges $250 Million In Resident-Driven Neighborhood Investment That Puts “Anaheim First”
In his inaugural State of the City address yesterday, Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu laid out an ambitious, upbeat vision of resident-driven investment in neighborhoods and economic development with a purpose – the underpinnings of what he termed a “new Golden Age for Anaheim.” [Click here to read the speech.] $250 Million In Resident-Driven Neighborhood Investment Over 10 Years “Over ...
Read More »Ad Hoc Council Committee To Explore Revamping City Boards and Commissions
After a long and jumbled discussion of city boards and commissions primarily focused on the Youth Commission, the Anaheim City Council last week formed an ad hoc committee to address attendance problems that prevent some commissions from functioning. The ad hoc committee of Mayor Pro Tem Lucille Kring and Councilmembers Jose Moreno and Jordan Brandman will report back in 60 ...
Read More »Anaheim Councilwoman Lucille Kring To Run for 4th Supervisor District
The ripple effects from Rep. Ed Royce’s decision to no seek re-election continue spreading. Royce’s retirement announcement spurred former Assemblywoman Young Kim to end her 4th District Supervisor campaign and run instead for Royce’s seat – with Royce’s support. Kim was a front-runner for that seat, so her departure left a vacuum. Yesterday, Anaheim Councilwoman Lucille Kring announced she jumping ...
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