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July 26th, 2016

7/26/2016

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Election Season

By Jacob Levy, editor and publisher
The Irvine city elections are looking to be among the most significant in recent memory. In the next few months, Irvine City News will dive deep into the candidates’ qualifications, records and recommendations on how to keep Irvine the amazing, world-class city it already is, and will certainly continue to be.

In this issue, we offered the mayoral candidates the opportunity to share their positions and opinions in response to six questions we posed. You can read the responsive statements of Gang Chen, Katherine Daigle and MaryAnn Gaido and Don Wagner in this issue.

We’ll provide a similar forum for city council candidates in an upcoming issue.

One aspect of the Irvine city election we’ll be tracking closely is how much gloom and doom and fear-based messaging creeps into a candidate’s campaign. Certainly the city faces challenges, but we’re well positioned to overcome them because Irvine remains a well-planned model among Southern California cities.

The city’s superlatives are well known. Irvine is one of the safest cities in the country. We benefit from a team of highly professional and courteous first responders, who in turn are respected in the community. We’re a modern, multicultural metropolis, and the city’s economic vitality and steady growth is enviable.

So let’s take a hard look at the status quo, and keep in mind how good we’ve got it, before signing up for overreaching and unrealistic “change” for the sake of the same.
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We’ll get into those issues and more as the election approaches. The national elections look to be the most divisive in memory, if not history, and there are extremely serious issues facing the country. Irvine’s problems pale in comparison, and our politics should likewise be reasonable and responsible. I’m putting in a plug for patience, collegiality and a grown-up attitude in the coming election cycle.
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Irvine City News Publisher's Note

7/1/2016

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School's out for summer

By Jacob Levy, editor and publisher
Unless your child attends one of Irvine’s year-round schools, many Irvine residents are now wondering what to do with kids suddenly faced with endless free time. On our Facebook page we suggested many Irvine activities for families with and without kids and the response was considerable. Judging from the numbers of “shares” and comments, people were really happy to explore more of what makes Irvine so wonderful: the open spaces, the interesting places, and the people. See more comments on page 10.

Speaking of school, Irvine residents overwhelmingly voted to approve the IUSD school bond that will sell bonds to fund rehabilitation and modernization of facilities in the district. Whether you have kids in the district or not, many Irvine voters know that high-quality schools are important to the fabric of our city and to maintaining our high property values.

We can hardly believe that after the State of California and the Irvine Unified School District Board found the Portola High School site to be safe, YET AGAIN, the Larry Agran/Mary Ann Gaido/Irvine Community News & Views group is still out trying to convince people that the site is unsafe. We here at the Irvine City News have received email after email and Facebook comment after Facebook comment. And the message is clear: people overwhelmingly are tired of the misstatements designed to create a public scare for political gain.

​Enjoy this issue and good luck with bored kids! 
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    Jacob Levy is the editor and publisher of the Irvine City News.

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