As we continue our expose on crooked government, it is my great pleasure to bring you this, our second installment of Exposing the Cronies: Given the reporting on our last article, I found it pretty ironic that shortly after we exposed cronyism at Speak Up Newport (http://savenewport.com/2019/08/28/speak-up-newport-puts-heavy-cronyism-on-display/), a new speaking event was sent to me by several readers.  They all told …

Well, we all know that the peninsula’s “Summer” seems to end every year on Labor Day, but to everyone else in the US, Sept 23rd is actually the official last day of summertime.  But if you survived the parking, the traffic, and the tourists jamming up your favorite establishments, those days are over this year (at least until the Boat …

King Tides are coming tonight to Newport Beach, bringing some of the highest tides of the entire year. Tonight, some of our largest tides will come, measuring over 6feet, 8 inches.  While less than our historical highs, this could breach some areas of our seawall, causing flooding, or send docks floating off of their pilings. If you have an older dock …

Speak Up Newport bills itself as a “Community Forum” in Newport Beach, but the reality is a lot more dirty than that, as you are about to find out.  To prelude: This is not a selfish article about disappointment for not being able to speak (although I am sure it will be framed that way by the ones I am …

Today is National Dog Day! My first dog was a stray poodle we adopted called “Licker” because when we found him he was so grateful, he kept licking everyone for the next several months. My second dog was a stray black lab that we named “Baby”, because she was so young when we first saw her (she was running with …

Friday, between 8pm and 2am, there will be DUI Saturation Patrols throughout the city, and concentrated in areas with high frequencies of DUI collisions and/or arrests. The cost of a ride home is cheap. Drivers caught driving impaired can expect the impact of a DUI arrest to include jail time, fines, fees, DUI classes, license suspensions and other expenses that …

An eagle-eyed local, SaveNewporter Gene Robertson, saw a sign on the Curl Fitness doors about a reopening under new ownership.  Immediately, I contacted the former owner, Jill (not the ones who recently had the suspicious shutdown on July 9th), and asked her if she might be coming back in to run the place. She said she wasn’t– but she *is* …

Tonight is the last “big night” to see the Perseid Meteor Showers. August 9-13 are the peak nights to watch the Perseid meteor shower (but tonight is really “the big night”!).  The moon will come out at 6:08pm and will set at 4:24am, so it will cause some light pollution, but our prospects for clear weather are good, so we …

Sunday, August 11th is the the day the world-famous Hi Time Wine Cellar Chili Cookoff is happens, from noon until 5pm! The 13th annual celebration goes to benefit the Boys and Girls Club in the harbor area.  Last year, the event raised over $25,000 for the Boys & Girls Club of Central Orange County!  Hopes are this year will even surpass that! Admission is …

As if last year’s election wasn’t a wake-up call for Republicans that Democrats are no longer sleeping on the job, today, the number of registered voters in “The Great Red County” has– for the first time since the Nixon Era– flipped. It is a common statement that the biggest partisan-donor ZIP code in the US is “92660”– and they almost …