OC Voice

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.

Poseidon Resources Inc. told elected officials and taxpayers that if its energy intensive and costly desalination projects were approved in Carlsbad and Huntington Beach, California that there would be no cost or risk to taxpayers. But they will directly benefit from a $350 million subsidy with much more likely to come. Support the OC VOICE [...]

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.

Minuteman and neo-fascist groups often blend, physically as well as ideologically. Local and national groups supposedly opposed to “illegal” immigration illustrate the point in this video.

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.

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.

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

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 [...]