Get ready to bike, Irvine! On Saturday, May 2, 2026, Irvine Boulevard will be closing its street to cars for CicloIrvine, and Irvine Watchdog is thrilled to be part of the excitement. As our city turns Irvine Blvd. into a vibrant, car-free space for biking, walking, and rolling, we invite you to make a stop […]
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Just as the City Council began to publicly grapple with a budget shortfall, the Irvine Public Library was wrapping up a Community Planning Meeting series for the proposed Irvine Main Library in the Great Park. Much to my surprise, California Gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter was in attendance at two of the three Community Planning Meetings, […]
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On Earth Day 2026, I submitted a report to the Mayor, the City Council, and my colleagues on the Sustainability Commission titled Climate Crisis Action Report: A Report in Observance of Earth Day 2026. It is the 2026 update to the report I wrote in April 2021 for the Green Ribbon Environmental Committee on the […]
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In a tense Tuesday evening session on April 14, 2026, the Irvine City Council grappled with a looming fiscal crisis, the first of this magnitude in the city’s 54-year history. Tuesday’s meeting took place against a sobering backdrop, as recent city staff briefings revealed: $6 million overspend in the past fiscal year. $9 million shortfall […]
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Like many young people, I was captivated by human space flight growing up. To a small extent, it was part of my heritage. I’m a second-generation McDonnell-Douglas brat. My grandma worked as a secretary to engineers and would proudly recount how she once sewed something that was part of a mockup of Spacelab. My dad […]
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Many Irvine residents may not realize that the Oak Creek Golf Course land is not simply ordinary private property. While the land is privately owned, it is subject to long-standing legal protections created through Initiative Resolution 88-1, which Irvine voters approved in 1988 to protect open space throughout the city. Those protections were implemented through […]
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