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Irvine City Council overhauls oversight, spending on Great Park
Capping a raucous eight-hour-plus meeting, the Irvine City Council early Wednesday voted to overhaul the oversight and spending on the beleaguered Orange County Great Park while authorizing an audit of the more than $220 million that so far has been spent...Tags: Politics
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Mailbag: Change is never going to be 'low stress'
In his Dec. 8 letter to the Daily Pilot, Tom Egan wrote, "Do we really want to give [the Jim Righeimer-led council] more power [with a charter] to further tear up our low-stress city?" ("Mailbag: I disagree with commentary on C.M. charter"). "Tear up"?...Tags: Political Corruption, Finance, Bankruptcy, Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare
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Commentary: Controversy of mayor pro tem is 'Orwellian'
Only in an Orwellian world is a vote for the councilman whose majority side won this past election considered controversial. Yet, this is what the losing pro-union side now advocates. They claim that Councilwoman Wendy Leece — who pooh poohs the...Tags: Political Corruption, Finance, Bankruptcy, Interior Policy, Politics
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Irvine's new majority turns to Great Park
Irvine's new City Council majority has positioned itself to clean house on one of the city's signature projects: the Great Park, intended to be the century's landmark municipal park. Since its inception more than a decade ago, 200 of the planned 1,347...Tags: Finance, Politics, U.S. Department of Energy, Local Government, Economy, Business and Finance
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College trustees select new board president
Coast Community College District's board of trustees last week unanimously selected a president for 2013. Huntington Beach resident and former professor Lorraine Prinsky was first elected to the board in 2008 and reelected in November. This is Prinsky's...Tags: Politics, Colleges and Universities
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Council reduces public comment period
Saying the move would make meetings more efficient, the Newport Beach City Council decided Tuesday to shorten time limits for public comment. While community members could previously speak for up to five minutes on agenda items and three minutes on non-...Tags: Politics
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Commentary: The threat to Proposition 13
As Sacramento's new supermajority gears up to tear down California's "third rail of politics," it is vital to explain what makes Proposition 13 so important, and why plans to destroy it could hurt Californians for years to come. Before Proposition 13...Tags: Voting, Politics, Business, Property Tax
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DP 103
1.) Our Olympians: No one made us prouder this year than the capable athletes, coaches and announcers from Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Irvine who represented Team USA in the 2012 Summer Olympics Games in London. They grew up, trained or live here. Costa...
Tags: Allan R. Mansoor, Jeff Powers, Activism, Arts and Culture, John Mann
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Apodaca: The debt worry du jour
A media frenzy has erupted over a controversial type of debt financing often used by California school districts, including Newport-Mesa, to pay for construction projects. So-called capital appreciation bonds, or CABs, have become the debt worry du jour,...Tags: House Building, Mountains, Finance, Bill Lockyer, Politics
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Pro Tem Curry moves up to mayor
A few remaining technical bugs forced the Newport Beach City Council to vote old-school at its first meeting in the new digs Tuesday night, but they got the job done: Former Mayor Pro Tem Keith Curry was chosen mayor for the coming year, with Rush Hill on...
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Newport Beach looks at outsourcing
The Newport Beach City Council voted to outsource its printing services and to inch forward in what could eventually be the privatization of its refuse collection services. The shutting down of the city's in-house print shop in favor of a contract...Tags: Printing Service, Layoffs and Downsizing, URS Corporation, Politics, Office Depot Inc.
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School board preps for cuts, new priorities
Despite stabilizing property taxes and voters approving Proposition 30, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District's 2013-14 budget isn't balanced, an official said. The district will still need to shave about $3.2 million from its more than $220-million...Tags: Mountains, David Brooks, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Landforms
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