Pretend City Children’s Museum Coming to the Great Park
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Irvine Pediatrician & ICNV Health Contributor Named Orange County “Physician of the Year”
Each year, the Orange County Medical Association (OCMA) presents its Physician of the Year award...
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Publisher’s Perspective: Tammy Kim’s “Dark Money” PAC
I am an experienced elections attorney. Years ago, I was General Counsel for the Illinois Elections Law Commission. I also served as Chair of the Illinois State Board of Elections — an independent state agency responsible for administering and enforcing campaign finance and election laws.
Through my work in Illinois and here in California, I have seen the way in which politicians get around campaign finance laws through the establishment of political action committees (PACs) funded with “dark money” to prop up their campaigns and attack their political opponents. I have also witnessed the damage these PACs can do to our local democracy.
That’s one of the reasons why I started this publication … because I believe in the importance of an informed electorate and the need to call out these dangerous dark money committees.
Recently, one of these PACs was established to support Tammy Kim’s mayoral campaign.
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Out of Town Committee Established to Support Tammy Kim’s Mayoral Campaign
A new committee to support Tammy Kim for mayor in the November election has filed with the state to begin accepting contributions.
The paperwork includes an address, phone number and treasurer from Imperial Beach in San Diego County.
Calling itself “Friends of Tammy Kim — a committee in support of Tammy Kim for Mayor 2024,” the committee’s paperwork lists Briana Bilbray as treasurer. Bilbray, the daughter of former Representative Brian Bilbray (R-Imperial Beach), is also known as Briana Baleskie. She has been treasurer for many campaigns and organizations, including Paul Gosar for Congress in Arizona, and a committee called “Build the Wall.”
The “principal” for the committee is listed as Jorge Oliveras, also with Baleskie’s office address.
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City Manager Proposes Plan to Keep Trash Trucks Off North Irvine Streets
Irvine officials believe they’ve come up with a way to get an increasing number of trash trucks off City streets in North Irvine: build a new street for the trucks to use instead.
Having closed the All American Asphalt plant last year, Irvine is now moving to head off what City Manager Oliver Chi called “one of the last quality-of-life issue in North Irvine”: increasing truck traffic to and from the Bowerman Landfill about a mile east of the 241 toll road along Bee Canyon Road.
The County is planning to phase out the Olinda Alpha Landfill in Brea starting next year, and the hundreds of trash trucks now topping off that facility will be diverted to the two remaining landfills in OC, the Prima Deshecha Landfill in San Juan Capistrano and Bowerman.
“Currently these trucks exit from the 405, 5, and 241 Freeways onto city streets to access the landfill,” Chi wrote in a report to the City Council.
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