BUENA PARK, CA – Fundraising reports show Connor Traut has outraised his opponent, Tim Shaw, by a 4-to-1 margin. Traut’s campaign reports $116,687 total raised this period, while Shaw reports $29,469 ...

Organizational endorsements are expressions of confidence that can shift when serious questions arise. Whether or how groups ...

In a media landscape that thrives on outrage and forced choices, a relatively new Orange County-connected podcast is trying ...

Ranked Choice Voting replaces them with a new set of problems—voter confusion, administrative complexity, higher costs, and delayed transparency—while delivering benefits that are narrower and less ...

The Orange County Power Authority is holding a meeting today at 2PM to act on a recommendation from Director Fred Jung that ...

Measure D would replace Irvine’s “choose-one” ballot with ranked choice voting, where candidates must get a majority of the vote to win IRVINE, CA — This November, Irvine voters will have the ...

The inaugural Daisy Chain Fields Festival was a huge success. The photos from the event were amazing, the shows were amazing, and the parking/exits to leave could use some work. But host Olivia ...

OC GOP Chair Will O’Neill is in a state of denial. When the most Republican of OC Cities needs a rallying social media post from the MAGA Party chair, it’s trouble. Trouble like 2006 and 2008 and 2018 ...

Councilmember William Go recently brought forth an idea for increasing compensation for members of the Irvine City Council while also cutting council members staffing budgets and it had four options ...

Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) has long been sold as the enlightened alternative to those supposedly benighted, partisan Republicans who just can’t handle voters having more choices. So imagine the ...

Readers here know I am not a fan of Ranked Choice Voting in Irvine. I’m still not, but I see the headline drew you in. We see a lot of stats from studies about RCV that just doesn’t ring true. OC ROV ...

It’s Election day; go Vote! I’ve been watching polls with an eye towards the independent polls. I have this odd feeling Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer emerge at the top two, and Republican Steve Hilton ...