Irvine City Council Selects Six “Focus Maps” as the City Moves Forward with Proposed District Elections
Some three dozen maps of proposed Irvine City Council districts submitted by the public were...
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Author: Roger Bloom
Irvine City Council Votes to Help Fund School Bus Transportation for Quail Hill & Los Olivos Students
Transportation of Irvine Unified School District (IUSD) students may have blossomed into a citywide issue, as the Irvine City Council agreed to help fund district bus service for Quail Hill and Los Olivos students of University High School.
The action came at the urging of parents in the Quail Hill area, which is remote from the high school, and requires driving a circuitous route in morning or afternoon traffic — roughly 25 to 30 minutes each way.
Several parents testified that the need to drive their kids to and from school was holding them back from getting full-time employment.
Others pointed out that bus service would help the environment by eliminating scores of car trips each day.
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Live Nation Won’t Be Operating Amphitheater in the Great Park
On Tuesday (July 25th), the Irvine City Council decided that Live Nation will not be operating a 14,000-seat amphitheater in the Great Park.
On a 3-2 vote on a motion by Councilmember Larry Agran, the City Council declared the long-running and controversial negotiation with Live Nation terminated. Agran was joined by Councilmembers Kathleen Treseder and Tammy Kim in voting for the motion while Mayor Farrah Khan and Councilmember Mike Carroll voted against it.
The successful motion directed City staff to return to the Council with a “process and timeline” for reviewing and approving an amphitheater of 8,000-10,000 seats, with a house sound system under City control.
The facility is to be managed by a third-party operator that is not a promoter so that the new facility will be available to all promoters and presenters.
The 1931 Meeting Between Einstein & Michelson in Irvine
One evening in March 1931, a lone car made its way along an unlighted road in “the wilds of Santa Ana,” as one passenger later described it, toward the vast open space of the Irvine Ranch.
When it arrived at the Ranch, the car pulled up to an odd two-story wooden building from which a 3-foot-wide metal pipe extended as far as the eye could see into the darkness.
The car door opened and Albert Einstein stepped out into the dim lamplight from the scientific station, to be greeted by another giant of 20th century physics, Dr. Albert Michelson. (Michelson Drive in Irvine is named after Dr. Albert Michelson.)
Michelson came to the Irvine Ranch in 1929 after doing a series of experiments at the Mt. Wilson Observatory to measure the speed of light. Not satisfied with those results, Michelson proposed — and was awarded funding for — a mile-long vacuum tube with mirrors at each end to bounce a light beam back and forth many times to get a more accurate measurement of its speed.
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Irvine City Council Passes Three “Green” Items
The greening of Irvine is under way and got another boost from the City Council at its July 25th...
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