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Scary title?  Yes.  Fearmongering?  Only if you consider reminding everyone of our insolvency as being “fearmongering”. With the city of Newport Beach owing over $1 billion in pensions that they never bothered to fully fund while hiring employees, we’re on the cusp of a major financial crisis which will become unsustainable in a mere 6-8 years.  Meanwhile, we are expanding entire …

As you all know, we’ve been advocates for Dog Beach for the more-than 18-months since Dixon initially attempted to get rid of it.  However, with your help, we secured a 7-0 vote from Newport’s Parks and Recreation and a 5-0 vote from the County of Orange to implement Dog Beach.  In addition to that– thanks to your public pressure, Diane Dixon …

Since December of 2015, we have been your advocates on behalf of keeping the Dog Beach at Santa Ana River Jetties.  We’ve been working with (and fighting with) local, regional, county, state, and federal governments for over 18 months now, and recently finally found the sole cause of Dog Beach not being official, and specifically who in government has been going behind-the-scenes to …

It seems that sharks have been dominating the news cycles recently.  With the popularity of drones skyrocketing, we are getting a better look than ever at the waters that we have traditionally shared with these aquatic beasts.  Just earlier this week, a helicopter off of San Juan Capistrano warned paddleboarders to “calmly exit the water” because they were “paddleboarding next to …

I don’t know if it’s a summertime treat or if it’s just coincidental, but everyone has been reminiscing about HoSum recently.  So what the heck is the deal with it, anyway? As everyone knows, mid-June of last year HoSum was hit by a fire in the middle of the night, and was closed for repairs the next day.  The fire …

Many of you know of Jon Pedersen from Lido Isle, the gentleman that worked with me side by side on the Dog Beach issue.  Well, neither of us have stopped working on it, and I’ll be doing a recap of that in a later article, but what happened last night at the council meeting was nothing short of jaw-dropping.  I …

A portion of beach is closed in both Newport and Huntington due to a sewage spill, after about 1,800 gallons of sewage spilled into the ocean due to a property owners sewage lift station failing. Surfers know this area as River Jetties, and dog lovers know this area as Dog Beach. You can follow the progress here over the next few …

Happy Friday, and Happy Cinco de Mayo!! This Cinco de Mayo, our Pet of the Week can give you an additional great reason to celebrate: After the Pet Expo last weekend, all but four dogs have been adopted!! That’s the great news!  The bad news is that the four that were not adopted were the same ones who have been …

The Newport Beach Police Department Traffic Unit will be conducting DUI/Drivers License Checkpoints on Friday and Saturday throughout the city of Newport Beach– so be prepared for traffic delays if you are moving to or from celebrations of Mexico’s 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War. DUI Checkpoints are claimed to reduce drunk driving mostly by …

LOTS of stories in Newport about rattlesnakes showing up in lawns in parks recently– especially outside of the Peninsula/Island area, and seem to be coming up around CdM and Santa Ana Heights areas.  Springtime is bringing these snakes out, but their numbers seem to be higher than usual. This is how the experts recommend that you deal with them.  This will not …