Last week, Amazon walked away from a nearly $3 billion package in state and local tax incentives to build a sought after HQ2 in New York City – in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City. The agreement, announced last Fall, would have brought 25,000 good paying jobs to the area and generated an estimated $27 billion in tax revenues. ...

This opinion article was originally published in the Orange County Register on January 25, 2019 By Reuben Franco and Kris Murray A small faction of radical left-wing unionists has been working over the past decade to establish their political dominance in Orange County. They refuse to engage in constructive dialog and regularly put their own political interests ahead of others, including ...

UNITE-HERE Local 11 is organizing a protest this evening with the intent of disrupting the opening day of the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Show. This carefully scripted protest will climax with the staged arrest of dozen or so people, including left-wing Councilman Jose F. Moreno. “Staged” does not mean fake: the arrests will be real but they will ...

At the December 6 city council meeting, District 3 Councilman Jose F. Moreno tasked city staff with a research project: survey rents in Anaheim and schedule a council workshop on the results of that study, along with what other cities have done in terms of rent “stabilization” – which is a euphemism for rent control. What this looks like is Moreno ...

Disney has had entitlements to build a 4th hotel in the Disneyland Resort for more than two decades. In 2016, the duly elected members of the Anaheim City Council voted – albeit after heated debate – to approve plans for a 700-room luxury hotel integrating Downtown Disney with the Disneyland Hotel and the Grand Californian. At the same time, the ...

The OC District Attorney has declined to file any charges against the off-duty LAPD officer who fired a warning shot into the ground to disperse a group of 14 teenagers who had surrounded him and began assaulting him. The fracas stemmed from ongoing tension between the off-duty officer, his father and teenagers who were regularly trampling through the father’s yard, ...

Anaheim Insider here. A few days ago, a trove of documents was provided to your insider: e-mails and texts among a variety of City of Anaheim officials and political activists going back as far as early 2016. There are probably 1,000 or more in all, and it will take some time to sift through this thick pile. I will post ...

Media narratives can be powerful things, which is why politicians and interests seeking to influence public debate try to craft clever narratives.  It’s why the winners of elections always try to claim a “mandate,” whether they won by a landslide or squeaked out an electoral college win while losing the popular vote by millions. In Anaheim, it’s why the progressives ...

Mohammed Aly and other zealous homeless activists took the law into their own hands on Saturday, May 13 and installed three portable toilets on public property – specifically on a concrete slab against the wall surrounding the OC Fire Authority’s training center, next to a Santa Ana River Trail rest area being used as communal rummage sale by the homeless. ...

Last week, while Anaheim residents shopped, wrapped presents and were otherwise distracted preparing for Christmas Day, Mayor Tom Tait’s the newly-ensconced council majority plowed through a long list of major policy shifts they had piled onto the agenda with a few days notice. Mayor Tait employed the symbolism of dais to emphasize the new order. Rather than seating the councilmembers ...