As much as any other place, Irvine is a project. Conceived by the Irvine Company, planned by an architect, and charted according to its much-vaunted master plan, this city has always been the product of deliberate, top-down intention rather than organic, bottom-up coincidence. But intention is always a complicated beast. It carries with it assumptions, […]
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Another Commissioner removed on a whim. This time, due to an article he published on Irvine Watchdog. Service on a commission or committee is a way for residents to serve their city. However, it is a position received through political appointment, which reveals a need for reform. The Problem: Appointments “At the Pleasure” Currently, Irvine […]
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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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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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