After Shea’s latest scheme with FivePoint was caught on video — with the Mayor telling a group of homeowners about her plans to put forward a completely different site as a “diversion tactic” and offer an unprecedented “99-year lease” of the City-owned ARDA site to a commercial developer” — we asked our readers this question: “Do you approve or disapprove of Mayor Shea’s handling of the Veterans Cemetery issue?
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Irvine Community News & Views (ICNV) strongly endorses the “Build the Great Park Veterans Cemetery” Initiative — now being circulated by volunteers throughout the City. We urge all Irvine voters to sign the Initiative Petition and help get it on the ballot!
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Under the guise of “adjusting” park and recreational fees charged to Irvine residents, Mayor Christina Shea included a provision in the City’s $200 million budget threatening to ground the popular, iconic Great Park Balloon — unless someone comes up with “private dollars” to pay for its operation and maintenance.
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In a time when simplistic soundbites and tweets pass for news stories, I am proud of the fact that Irvine Community & Views invests the necessary time and resources required to provide our readers with in-depth coverage of important and complex issues facing our City.
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Like many thousands of our loyal readers, I still prefer Irvine Community News & Views (ICNV) in its traditional print format. You know what I mean — ink on paper, and page-after-page of what I call an “old-fashioned, hold-it-in-your-hands” community newspaper.
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Irvine Community News & Views has been reporting on Irvine Mayor Christina Shea’s 5-year crusade to defeat the Veterans Cemetery and hand over the ARDA site in the Great Park to developer FivePoint. Thanks to citizen activism, the community was able to stop her latest attempt to block the Veterans Cemetery.
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With the images from the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day — June 6th — still fresh in our minds, we at Irvine Community News & Views want to take this opportunity to call upon Mayor Christina Shea and the entire Irvine City Council to finally show some real leadership and do the right thing, right now!
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As publisher of Irvine Community News & Views (ICNV), I’m proud to remind people that ICNV has been a major supporter of the effort to establish a beautiful Southern California Veterans Cemetery — to be located on the 125-acre “ARDA Site” in the Great Park.
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On March 12th, Irvine Mayor Donald Wagner (who had just been re-elected to a second term as Mayor...
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The State of California is seeking to revoke accountants’ licenses at HSNO, the firm handpicked by Councilwoman (now Mayor) Christina Shea to “audit” Irvine’s Great Park project.
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