The Fullerton City Council And It’s Trail of Tears to Nowhere
It's a long wretched journey, but it sure isn't worth it when you get there... We have almost exhausted ourselves relating the long and troubling story of the Poisoned Park, AKA the Union Pacific Park,...
View ArticleOn the Agenda – January 19th, 2009
In a closed session King Rob Zur Schmiede will attempt to beat up a few property owners in his relentless quest to spend your money and expand his kingdom. Tuesday, he will be targeting several...
View ArticleOne Big Happy $23 Million Community Center
Last week, before all of the excitement about Coyote Hills and the one term history of Pam Keller, the Fullerton City Council approved the conceptual plan for a new community center. This eighth...
View ArticleNews Flash From Hillcrest Park Pals
On Saturday morning from 9:00 to noon, the City of Fullerton and landscape architect Mia Leher will present two alternative master plans for the restoration/preservation of Hillcrest Park. The meeting...
View ArticleWhere’s Our Park?
Hey, man, where's the park? The north part of Orange County has a notorious lack of parks and open space. And while the County of Orange spends millions on its park system annually, including vast...
View Article‘Tree City’ Decapitates Trees
Todd Warden wrote in to tell us how the unsightly drainage ditch along Malvern/Chapman avenues is becoming further uglified by the city without regard for the surrounding neighborhood or the health of...
View ArticleJessica’s Law Enforcement Ordinance Comes Up For A Vote
This just came in from city council candidate Barry Levinson: This Tuesday night at 6:30 PM, September 21, 2010 at city hall, the culmination of 7 months of hard work by my wife Susan and myself should...
View ArticleSunday In The Park With AD, Nelson and Berardino
I received a call this morning from our 4th District County Supervisor Shawn Nelson asking if I would be willing to help coach a youth football clinic at Craig Park. Supervisor Nelson, aware of the...
View ArticleWhat Could Be Worse Than a McDonald’s in Hillcrest Park?
How about a taxpayer-subsidized McFullerton to compete with non-subsidized local eateries. It’s Fullerton. it’s Redevelopment. It’s not impossible. Seriously, could our city council really be...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood
The wife and I were having a discussion over dinner about the pros and cons of Proposition 30, and its claim to save education from a devastating blow of the budgetary axe. Then I remembered this post...
View ArticleThe Pinewood Stairs Pintrest Fail
Readers here will be familiar with the Pine Wood… excuse me, the Exercise Stairs, that were thrown up at Hillcrest Park recently for the low-low price of over $1.6Million. Let us take a tour of these...
View ArticleThe Parks & Rec Manipulation of Public Comments
Readers of this blog know good and well the many failures of the Pine Forest Stairs at Hillcrest Park, not to mention the $724,000 bridge to nowhere that will soon become reality. What you probably...
View ArticleMaintenance of our City’s Parks is a Bridge Too Far
Parks and Recreation has been spending a considerable amount of energy lately, between their big PR push to justify their last costly mistake (Hillcrest Park’s poorly constructed and unneeded stairs)...
View ArticleFullerton’s Most Expensive Park?
Just when you thought the Parks and Recreation Department might get their act together comes another gem on next week’s agenda. This time, it’s a $903,500 land purchase for a new park at 3001 Pearl...
View ArticleWhat’s a Million Dollars Between Friends?
Our lobbyist Councilperson Jennifer Fitzgerald has asked her supporters on Facebook to show up at tonight’s Council Meeting to support the purchase of land on Pearl Drive to be used as a park. Our...
View ArticleShould the state use eminent domain to take Coyote Hills?
Newman has been handed yet another bill to pass off as his own in his race against the recall – SB714. It allows the state to use eminent domain to take Coyote Hills by force, turning it over to...
View ArticleFullerton Lost and Found
These misplaced medical supplies were discovered near Hillcrest Park today. If they belong to you, please call (714) 738-6800 to claim them. The post Fullerton Lost and Found appeared first on Friends...
View ArticleReading 101.1.1
How well can you read? Good enough? Somebody at City Hall desperately needs your help. These obnoxious signs were installed at the train station last week. Not only are they ugly and obtrusive,...
View ArticleFaux Cost Reductions
The City Council was warned earlier this year that (long overdue) changes at CalPERS to tackle pension debts would spell fiscal disaster for Fullerton. This problem is very much real and will be quite...
View ArticleA Trip Up and Down Memory Lane…AKA The Pine Wood Stairs.
“Pine Wood Stairs” looked a lot better in concept than in reality… Back in May, FFFF documented the lamentable construction disaster of the Pinewood Stairs, a $1.6 million boondoggle created by City...
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