Civic Affairs

Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez and the City of Santa Ana are hosting a "Community Forum on Cultural Diversity and Conflict Resolution."  The forum will "focus on the…

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WELCOME! Welcome to the first City of Santa Ana E-News Update, an electronic newsletter established to connect, inform, and engage the Santa Ana community. Through this newsletter, we will provide…

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Is it Sandy Nalle time in Santa Ana's Ward 3? Santa Ana Councilman Carlos Bustamante is now facing the threat of a recall, according to a source who is tight…

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The Liberal OC blog's Chris Prevatt feels that it is an FPPC violation for Council Members to vote to appoint themselves to municipal commissions and boards that pay a stipend.…

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2010 – 2011 Comlink Board Unless you’ve been in a coma or under a rock somewhere you are well aware of the fiscal crisis facing our community.  Municipalities are being…

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The City of Santa Ana has entered into negotiations with the Chivas USA soccer team, with a goal of relocating them to the Willowick Golf Course - with perhaps a temporary…

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According to a new anonymous letter that was sent to the County of Orange and to the Orange County Register, Bustamante and one of the four women named in the…

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[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…

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The Santa Ana City Council voted unanimously tonight to support a potential move of the Chivas USA soccer team to the Willowick Golf Course (that's right - Usual Suspects fave…

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UPDATE FROM CITY MANAGER September, 2011 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY Business Attraction - Potential Aerospace Manufacturing Company - Economic Development and Planning staff will be meeting with a potential new business looking to…

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Does Santa Ana Council Member Carlos Bustamante realize he is up for reelection next year?  He sure isn't acting like it.  He went off on the Latino residents and businessmen…

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The Santa Ana City Council just voted on the 85 A item that was put on the agenda tonight, by Council Members Carlos Bustamante and David Benavides.  They said they…

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I am covering tonight's Santa Ana City Council meeting - which figures to be an epic confrontation between Republican Council Member Carlos Bustamante and his sidekick, David Benavides vs. Mayor…

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The Park Santiago Neighborhood Association is hosting their Second Annual Summer Concert tonight, August 27, from 5 to 10 pm. at Santiago Park, at the Baseball Field. The event will…

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Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez apologized today, in a phone call to the L.A. Times,  for making statements that could be construed to be anti-Semitic. “What I said was inappropriate,…

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