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By Alan Zarembo

November 2, 2009

While the state cuts services for the disabled, the owners of a company that provides vocational help for them have made more than $7 million in five years.

Edward Dawson started his business from scratch in 1978. He and his wife, Marcia, built it into a $63-million-a-year enterprise with offices throughout [...]

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By Tom Johnson

There’s a stink in town that’s bringing me some discomfort, and it’s not that skunk I was trying to catch a couple of years back.

It’s worse.

The fact is, the stench is coming from right in the center of town; to be exact, it’s the Orange County Fair & Events Center Board of [...]

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The minute the state heard the City of Costa Mesa had voted to make it harder to develop the Fairgrounds, it fired off a letter to Mayor Allan Mansoor and the rest of the City Council telling it to back off.

Back off? Mansoor immediately told city staff to prepare documents that would allow the [...]

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Supervisors set up committee to examine the possibility of acquiring fairgrounds in a closed session.

By Mona ShadiaUpdated: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:36 PM PDT
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The Orange County Board of Supervisors announced Tuesday that the county will explore the prospect of buying the Orange County Fairgrounds.

In a closed session Tuesday, the supervisors established [...]

State Official Warn Costa Mesa on Fairgrounds Restrictions
Approving a specific plan could affect the property’s commercial value, according to official.
By ELLYN PAK
The Orange County Register
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COSTA MESA – A state official has warned city leaders that “the State will consider whatever options may be available to preserve the Fairgrounds value” if the city [...]

by: ocprogressive
Sat Oct 24, 2009 at 06:35:41 AM PDT

There’s an incredible scandal brewing at the Orange County Fairgrounds and Attorney General Jerry Brown better get on top of this before it blows up in his face. The deal to sell the fairgrounds has stunk, and the Attorney General’s office is right in the middle [...]

Executive director of the First Amendment Coalition says private meeting about O.C. Fairgrounds may have violated state law.

By Mona Shadia

Updated: Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:56 PM PDT
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The Orange County Fair & Event Center’s Board of Directors might have violated one of California’s open-meeting laws when its six members, who [...]

Sale of fairgrounds looking like a shell game.
BARBARA VENEZIA
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Of all the fairgrounds around the state that were proposed to be sold by the governor, the OC Fairgrounds is the only one actually on the auction block. While other cities lobbied Sacramento against selling their fairgrounds, OC politicos actually lobbied for the [...]

It was about 20 years ago that I last covered a Costa Mesa City Council meeting. I remember walking out of the council chambers when it was over – into bright morning sun. It literally had been an all-nighter, probably over some land-use issue – the details are wiped from memory.

The one constant between that [...]