While Orange County Republicans fight to hold their four congressional seats in today’s election, they’re up against a Democratic wave that’s been building for 28 years. In 1990, the county GOP’s 22-percentage point voter-registration advantage over Democrats marked an apex in one of the party’s most famous strongholds. That edge has been shrinking ever since…
It’s the second most expensive House race in the nation and perhaps the most interesting. The contest for Orange County’s coastal 48th Congressional District has put 30-year Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in the toughest fight of his political career. He’s challenged by Democrat Harley Rouda, a Laguna Beach real estate executive who, polls suggest, has…
Upsets happen, but In a congressional district that straddles Los Angeles and Orange counties, Democrat Alan Lowenthal is favored to beat Republican John Briscoe on Tuesday, Nov. 6 in the race to represent California’s 47th District. Lowenthal – a key voice in the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” – was first elected in 2012 to…
If recent voter registration patterns continue, Orange County will turn blue — with more registered Democrats than registered Republicans — within a few months, if not weeks. But the blue tide has been on the rise for years among voters who live in what is now known as California’s 46th Congressional District. The district, which…
By any measure, what happened outside Reed Middle School one day last month was scary: A man with an arsenal of weapons was found hanging out on the edge of campus — the same man who just the week before had tried to lure schoolgirls to his truck. School police thwarted any possible bad outcome,…
Tensions are high ahead of Tuesday’s election in San Francisco, where a ballot measure would tax corporate businesses to fund services for the homeless. Proposition C, a tax on gross annual receipts of the city’s largest companies, would nearly double San Francisco’s budget dedicated to the curbing…
Nuns from the Little Sisters of the Poor vote early in the morning at an East 1st Street polling place.
If life were fair, Mike Kreza’s wife and three daughters, in two weeks, would watch their favorite firefighter get ready for one of the toughest events of his life, Ironman Arizona. But during a morning of cycling, when Kreza was tapering so he would be in peak shape for the grueling race, a car crushed…
Aaron McCall was sure Hillary Clinton was going to win the Presidency in 2016. When it turned out he was wrong — and Clinton lost to President Donald Trump — McCall decided it was time to get involved. For John Berry, who has pushed for conservative ideals since 2012, Trump’s election meant there was something worth…
Eight-time serial killer Andrew Urdiales, who last month was sentenced to death for murdering women in Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties, was pronounced dead over the weekend in what prison officials said Monday may have been a suicide. Urdiales, who arrived on San Quentin’s death row on Oct. 12, was found unresponsive late Friday…
