The recent death of former Garden Grove mayor Walt Donovan – who passed away at the age of 93 on Saturday – has helped put more attention on the office of the […]
16 mayors, a runner and no Amazons
We are what you eat, it appears
Here’s one of the guilty secrets of journalism. The greatest demand for “news” isn’t about earth-shaking political events or scientific breakthroughs. It’s food. In fact, in the 2.5 years since The Tribune […]
A different kind of triple feature
One of the items mentioned but sort of lost in the many details of Garden Grove Mayor Steve Jones’ recent “State of the City” address was that the Starlight 4 Star […]
Mike Pompeo: Lobo to Secretary of State
With all the competition for students these days as public school enrollment declines, educators have launched programs to promote the virtues of their districts. One of the ways this is done […]
Source: Here’s a good place for a fence
The nation’s attention has been focused on a wall or fence on the U.S.-Mexico border, but there are other barrier issues that might have a more local application. Garden Grove and Westminster […]
Sources: Another home for Shakespeare
The new year is still more than a month away, but events move so fast these days we have to look into the future to try to shape it. Here are two […]
Sources: “Rusty skeleton,” Willowick, etc.
Editor’s note: What could more of a Usually Reliable Source than the expert? There’s a lot of interest in projects in our cities and the status of each. In this installment of […]
Having it your way on the right-of-way
Transportation news in Orange County used to revolve mostly around what kind of car you were going to buy, and what could be done about the nightmare at The Orange Crush (now […]
Best school district in the OC? Could be …
Which is the best public school district in Orange County? If you ask the folks at the Garden Grove Unified School District the answer is easy: the Garden Grove Unified School District. […]
Festival, fire service and SteelCraft
The 60th annual Garden Grove Strawberry Festival saluted the event’s history, but made some history of its own. According to Scott Weimer, president of the Strawberry Festival Association, the four-day event had […]
