At meeting of November 2, 2023, the Irvine Planning Commission approved FivePoint’s plan to build 82 large, single-family homes in a Great Park area near Irvine Boulevard. When an appeal to this Planning Commission approval was heard at the December 12 City Council meeting, the Council denied the appeal and, thereby, affirmed the Planning Commission […]
Read MoreAfter announcing her campaign for Irvine City Mayor, Branda Lin has resigned from Irvine Watchdog. On behalf of our many volunteers, readers, and contributors, the Irvine Watchdog Board of Directors wants to express our many thanks to Branda for her years of leadership and service to the organization. Branda is a founder of Irvine Watchdog. […]
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This morning, Irvine Watchdog Co-Chairs Richard Green and Branda Lin, will join KUCI’s Ask A Leader, hosted by Claudia Shambaugh, for a live discussion at 9:00AM. This show will hone in on some persistent erosions in transparency and accountability in how the City Council conducts business and the controversial policy change restricting public comments (agenda […]
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Since its inception, the Orange County Power Authority has been riddled with transparency issues. Brown Act violations, public records requests being ignored, refusing to make all meeting videos public, questions about appointment of troubled CEO Brian Probolsky, and most recently, possible workplace harrassment by Probolsky. Concurrently, the members of the public have been under attack by suspicious […]
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On April 6th and 13th, 2021, Claudia Shambaugh, host of KUCI 88.9FM’s Ask A Leader podcast, aired a two-part series with Branda Lin, co-founder of Irvine Watchdog. KUCI is a volunteer, non-profit radio station broadcasting free from the University of California Irvine. Part 1 discusses the formation of Irvine Watchdog, the organization, and following campaign […]
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