OC Voice

If you love dogs and cats, you are out of luck getting attention or protection for them from Orange County elected officials.

Joe Shaw announced his candidacy for the Huntington Beach City Council on Oct. 24, 2009 at the home of former mayor and city council member Debbie Cook. The OC Voice was there to record the event.

Neo-Nazis pretending they never heard of the Jewish Holocaust try to exploit anti-immigrant sentiment to recruit new members to their tiny “Freedom 14″ group in an ongoing effort (started last summer) at the Huntington Beach pier.

Riding a bicycle can be fantastic in Huntington Beach. The city has all the right ingredients for a pleasant ride….lovely weather, wide roads, and almost exclusively flat terrain. Plus the recent economic downturn has illustrated the advantages of changing to a means of local transportation that is convenient, healthy, and low-cost, in other words, cycling.

Before signing the contract get references. An experienced solar contractor should have no problem producing references of at least five satisfied solar customers. Actually visit a few of these locations to make a visual inspection of the work and ask whatever questions will make you feel comfortable before signing a contract.

Hearthside Homes CEO Edward Mountford angrily denied reports that the company had uncovered 87 ancient Native American burial remains since breaking ground in June of 2006 on its planned 356 unit Brightwater housing project or had failed to report them the Orange County Coroner’s office in a manner required by California law.

City council and company claims to the contrary, Poseidon Resources Inc.’s desalination projects have little to do with free-market karma and the entire desalination industry was built on over $1 billion in tax subsidies–and more is on the way.

By Vern Nelson OC Voice Columnist “We think our healthcare system is actually pretty good right now.”-State Senator Tom Harman, Sept. 2006. At the time the senator uttered this astonishing remark to Laguna Beach’s Coastline Pilot, the U.S. was spending nearly twice as much per capita on health care as other developed countries, while rating [...]

By John Earl and Scott Sink OC Voice Increased deportation raids conducted at gun point by “La Mirgra” in work places and homes across America are terrorizing documented and undocumented immigrants alike. Multinational corporations operating under the banner of “free trade,” and xenophobic hate groups like the Minuteman Project, are the main beneficiaries of what [...]

By Chris Caesar OC Voice Staff Writer While Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher made repeated assurances that he takes the problem of detainee abuse “very seriously” during an interview with the OC Voice recently, he apparently lacked familiarity with a number of issues associated with the system – including the applicability of the Geneva Conventions to [...]

By Serge Dedina Special to the OC Voice “Abuelita,” the eager grom asked his gray-haired grandmother as they saw around the campfire at San Mateo Campground after a long day surfing a late-season southern hemi at Uppers. “Tell me again about how you saved Trestles. Tell me about Big Wednesday.” The abuelita smiled. She could [...]

By Dr. Amer El-Ahraf Special to the OC Voice Amid the controversial problem of global warming and its potential impact on human health, there is a rush to fix the blame-either on human activities or natural weather cycles. But the issue is too important for that. We must develop rational strategies to fix the problem [...]