By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune The fissure lines between the majority and the minority on the Huntington Beach City Council continued to be evident at Tuesday’s meeting. On 4-3 vote, the council […]
City Council splits continuing
Budget spares library cutbacks
Huntington Beach is one of the few cities in Orange County with its own public library system featuring a landmark main building in the scenic Central Park and four branches. Faced with […]
Library, anti-hate issues made for a long night for city council
A marathon meeting of the Huntington Beach City Council lasted nearly seven and one-half hours from Tuesday evening to early Wednesday morning. The session attracted 117 speakers, many of them making comments […]
Should the city council control the library systems’ content?
Should the Huntington Beach City Council tell the city’s libraries how to handle materials on sexuality? The council will take up that potentially controversial action when it meets on Tuesday at 6 […]
Charter panel approved, 4-3
A divided Huntington Beach City Council voted Tuesday night to form an ad hoc council committee to recommend proposed changes to the city charter. The vote was split along familiar lines, with […]
Are city charter revisions due?
Does Huntington Beach’s charter need a facelift? At Tuesday’s meeting of the city council, one of the items on the agenda will be a request from Councilmember Pat Burns to form a […]
Senior housing project proposed
The upwards journey of Huntington Beach’s skyline could continue as the city and community consider a huge senior housing project proposed to be built at the southwest corner of Bolsa Chica street […]
Silence hasn’t got a prayer
Traditions sometimes have a powerful momentum. The practice of giving a religious invocation before meetings of the Huntington Beach City Council rolled right over the idea of substituting a moment of silence […]
Pulling the plug on OC Power
Huntington Beach will be the latest government agency to leave the troubled Orange County Power Authority. At Tuesday night’s meeting of the City Council a motion to direct the city manager to […]
How much exposure is OK?
When it came right down to it, support for the proposed new nudity ordinance was as thin as a wet T-shirt. On Tuesday night, the Huntington Beach City Council decided 7-0 to […]
