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Looks like the air battle over Newport Beach has flared up again. In a mini-replay of recent history, the Orange County Board of Supervisors is...

Some links are now dead, of course, but the library still has relevance.

For Laguna Niguel?

Was a thorn in our side. As the chairman of the committee on transportation he, of course, supported the proposed airport at El Toro.

Since the old...

Dana Point resident, Leonard Kranser, who has been posting Southern California airport related news to the El Toro Info website since 1996, will wrap...

Forgotten in the discussion over Great Park spending is the huge expected cost of the El Toro Airport that the park concept replaced. Until 2002, the...

During the fight against El Toro airport, we were "promised" by the supes that planes would take eastward, away from population center. Of...

A small Cessna airplane made an emergency landing in the Orange County Great Park on Thursday afternoon after experiencing engine trouble, Orange...

From the eltoro info

Cheers and confetti erupted Tuesday night at the Great Park as a bulldozer scooped away a small pile of rubble, marking the...

Yes, I still visit it on occasions. And Len keep updating it, this time is about aviation in SoCal.

But now it says: This site is temporarily...

From the Wall St. Journal 5/5/13

For over a decade, city officials in Irvine, Calif., have dreamed of building one of the most ambitious urban parks...

Construction is set to begin on the first phase of a massive housing development that is part of the city of Irvine's long-awaited Great Park...

By ANDY PASZTOR

LOS ANGELES—The City Council on Tuesday approved a politically divisive modernization and safety-enhancement plan for Los Angeles...

Congratulations, Len.

El Toro Info site marks 16 years of reporting airport news

The El Toro website posted its first report in October 1996 and...

One of Mission Viejo’s colorful and involved citizens passed away Tuesday night. Rick Reavis, husband of former mayor Gail Reavis, succumbed after a...

Former Lake Forest City Councilman and Eric Clapton lookalike. I had the pleasure of talking to him a few times. Nice guy.

Not a good day for...

No!

Why?

JANUARY 5, 2011

For Developer, California Dream Is a Reality

By ROBBIE WHELAN
Wall St. Journal

In the latest sign that financing is starting to...

I see that the CEO of the Great Park has elevated his position so far into the stratosphere that he now labels any reporter that might ask some...

More for Money - OCBJ Readers Letters

The OCBJ calls John Wayne Airport’s addition of a third terminal an “expansion”. (“John Wayne Nears Midway...

Michael Hiltzik: How to finance a Great Park
November 30, 2009 | 3:00 am

Ever since the federal government decommissioned the El Toro Marine Corps...

latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik30-2009nov30,0,7893019.column

Putting the green in Orange County Great Park

Michael Hiltzik

November 30, 2009...

Federal officials reject restrictions on night flights at Bob Hope Airport - LA Times

Federal officials dealt a blow to a decades-long fight to...

As I was reading the Wall St. Journal, I ran into a story that mentioned Greece and Portugal in one sentence: "Moody’s Raises Red Flags on...

The one where a fighter jet lost an engine and crashed on a house, killing a whole family.

This, of course, is why airports should not be next to...

More Blast From the Past Fraud Allegations in Irvine Election
Posted by Matt Coker in A Clockwork Orange
November 3, 2008 2:59 PM

This examines a...

(Unofficial) Great Park Fan Club Election Endorsements
greatparkfanclub.blogspot.com

Irvine voters -

Please vote for Larry Agran, Beth Krom, and...

Saw a whopper of an article at newsOC.org that exposes a coverup in irvine the local papers have yet to pick up on. It's an article that really blows...