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Paying Tribute Dept.: Garden Grove began as a small village centered on what is now Euclid Street and Garden Grove Boulevard.

Another 30 people “without fixed abode” died in OC in September 2026.  Their names are:

Here’s How Dept.: Michael Gates, once the controversial city attorney for Huntington Beach, is running for the state Attorney General in the Nov. 3 election, and – frankly – he doesn’t stand a chance.

In the November 2024 election, California voters approved more than 200 public school and college construction bonds totaling nearly $50 billion.

To borrow a line from Game of Thrones, as regards the City of Irvine’s current financial problems, “winter is coming.”

Don’t Snicker at This Dept. This being October, I spend a lot of my time thinking about Halloween. Being an Angels fan – what with the paucity of playoff action for the Anaheimers – I have lots of mental space to think about the most exciting thing that happens in the 10th month.

It was photographs of collapsing glaciers, stranded polar bears and graphs describing what might happen in some sufficiently distant year that we could be appropriately alarmed about and still make our dinner reservation.

Housing First emerged in New York City during the early 1990s as a groundbreaking approach to ending chronic homelessness. By 2003, it had gained national recognition as an evidence-based strategy, and between 2010 and 2016 it became the cornerstone of the federal government’s response to homelessness because decades of research consistently demonstrated that providing permanent…

Park It Here Dept. Kudos to the City of Garden Grove – and especially to John Montanchez and Janet Pelayo of the Community Services Department – for the recent opening of the great re-fresh of the Woodbury Park.