The Santa Ana City Council Monday night set a public hearing for July 1 to hear protests from business owners regarding a newly proposed tax to replace the property taxes…

SARMIENTO WANTS TO CREATE A COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS DISSOLVING OTHER COMMITTEES "The City Council has taken another step toward reducing the mayor's authority by voting to give the council, rather…

"Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido said Monday he opposed allowing a controversial downtown property tax to continue, the mayor’s first declaration on the issue since he was given the OK…

The new Santa Ana City Council Members - Angelica Amezcua and Roman Reyna, won't be sworn in yet for a few weeks.  Once they are sworn in they are facing…

[caption id="attachment_30095" align="aligncenter" width="376"] Cleaning up caribou roadkill?[/caption] The loudest, crudest supporter of the Little Sparrow, at the Santa Ana Planning Commission meeting earlier this week, was a guy named…

[caption id="attachment_28824" align="aligncenter" width="312"] Benavides tried to evade the PBID issue, but failed[/caption] A clearly chastened Santa Ana Council Member Carlos Bustamante returned to work tonight, showing up to the…

In the end the Santa Ana PBID tax may finally die - but it won't be because our City Council had the guts to get rid of it.  Instead it…

July 4 falls on a Wednesday this year but there will be fireworks early this week, at Monday night's Santa Ana City Council meeting, on July 2, at 5 pm,…

The city of Santa Ana “appears to be in violation of state law” in the way it formed its downtown business improvement district, says a report released Thursday by the Orange County Grand…

Downtown Inc Annual Meeting July 26th Thursday at 6:00 PM Downtown Inc., 305 East 4th Street, Suite 200, Santa Ana The Community Management District, Downtown Inc, has vacancies on the board.…

Santa Ana Council Member Sal Tinajero may put an item on an upcoming City Council meeting agenda to get rid of the Downtown Santa Ana Pbid, a property assessment that…

Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez tried her best to stop the PBID (a property tax in Downtown Santa Ana that is used largely to promote bars and restaurants…

Not the Quinciniera store... Tim O'Connor, one of the owners of Downtown Santa Ana's Chapter One: the Modern Local restaurant, recently opined at a Santa Ana City Council meeting that…

[caption id="attachment_20384" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Twin devils of deception"][/caption] Embattled Ward 3 City Councilman Carlos Bustamante likes to portray himself as an anti-tax crusading small government Republican, but is he? At…

Have you been wondering what all the fuss is about the Santa Ana PBID?  Well, wonder no more.  I got a hold of all the city documents related to the…