Sales tax revenues in Santa Ana are dropping quicker than home values as frightened consumers stop spending, exotic car dealerships go out of business, and strip malls lay vacant.
The fees Santa Ana charges developers have disappeared as construction ground to a halt.
Property tax revenues are dwindling as home values decline.
Despite just receiving 5.8 Million Dollars from HUD to be used for neighborhood stabilization, and despite having the highest concentrations of foreclosures in Orange County, The Santa Ana City Council is content to sit on the sidelines and watch vast swaths of this once glorious city decay.
Barack Obama is the President-elect of the United States. A quick, painless landslide capped off by a particularly ass-kissing speech by John McCain, my friends. No late night. No recounts. No Florida. No Ohio. Ohio, by the way, not shocking me with their selection; we pundits don’t always call them right [...]
Here is a breakdown by address of the municipal code violations by Ware Disposal on the various properties they own in Santa Ana:
1024 N. Lincoln Avenue
Accumulation of trash and debris on the property. This includes any and all rubbish that is on the property (e.g. contractor discards, brick, wire and other trash). SAMC [...]
Today I attended a fundraiser for mayoral candidate Michelle Martinez in the same Santa Ana neighborhood in which my good friend, Orange Juice Blog founder and Ward 3 Council candidate Art Pedroza, who also attended the event, lives. School board candidate Valerie Amezcua was co-headlining.
In the new global economy, and with the upcoming redistribution of wealth soon to be upon us, Santa Ana’s criminal element has decided to go global.
Or at least to Fountain Valley where two little scum bags named Eric Damion Luna, 17, and Ivan Bautista, 16, both of Santa Ana, decided to taunt, violently assault and then rob [...]
In yet another example of the failure to reduce crime by Claudia Alvarez and Co, last night a man and woman got out of their white 1999 Chevrolet Suburban to buy groceries at Stater Brothers on McFadden Ave and were approached by a man in his 20′s brandishing a handgun.
The man demanded the keys, the couple refused, [...]
The OC Register is reporting that Orange County gang membership has jumped by almost 50% according to The Report On The Conditions of Children in Orange County.
Its shows that children ages 8-17 becoming gang members has jumped to the highest levels since 1998.
The report goes on to state “Violence may be increasing along with the [...]
