Irvine Task Force

Supporters and opponents of a proposal to convert part of the Irvine Animal Care Center into temporary housing for the homeless packed the chambers of the City Council Tuesday night. More than half of the overflow crowd of 180 sported small, red paper hearts. "We want to show that Irvine has a heart for the homeless," homeless shelter supporter Lynn Davanzio said.

A faculty committee on Tuesday unanimously endorsed establishment of a law school at UC Irvine as the university contemplates nearly doubling in size over the next 15 years. Such a school of about 400 to 600 students would be an advantage in attorney-rich Orange County, one of the largest locales in the United States without a law school accredited by the American Bar Assn., according to a task force of professors and private lawyers who studied the issue. "There are 2.

Progress? Maybe. Hopefully. Within six hours of our election results being declared in the wee hours of March 6, the Navy released a statement promising to honor Measure W's new non-aviation zoning requirements but declaring its new intent to begin a sale of the base. This action has provided a sense of urgency to resolve our local conflicts or suffer a disposal process that bypasses our normal decision-making authority.

This is Fardad Fateri's 10th year as organizer of the Persian New Year festival in Irvine, said to be the largest annual gathering of Iranians outside Iran. A decade ago, traffic, noise and litter generated by the loosely organized celebration angered residents. And some city leaders, in turn, called the participants "barbarians," said Fateri, who was deeply troubled by the damage the controversy caused to the image of Iranian Americans.

The pain was like another person, a constant companion to Alice Marks, who thought she had led a good life and deserved better than this graceless escort for her exit. Unable to eat or sleep, Marks decided she could endure the ravages of degenerative bone disease no longer. With her 51-year-old son, Christopher, at her side, holding her and saying he loved her, she injected herself last month with a massive overdose of morphine. After a time, her eyes stared emptily into space, and Christopher Marks called police to say that his mother was gone.

The pain was like another person, a constant companion to Alice Marks, who thought she had led a good life and deserved better than this graceless escort for her exit. Unable to eat, or sleep, Marks decided she could endure the ravages of degenerative bone disease no longer. With her 51-year-old son, Christopher, at her side, holding her and saying he loved her, she injected herself last month with a massive overdose of morphine.

The typical homeless person in Orange County is a 30-year-old white male who has lived in the county for more than 10 years and has a high school or college education, according to a countywide survey released Friday by the Homeless Issues Task Force. The survey also shows that 30% of the county's homeless are children, and that the homeless hail from virtually every city.

Orange County motorists will have their first--and perhaps last--chance Monday to testify about an ambitious 20-year plan to improve traffic and manage growth that would be paid for partly by a half-cent sales tax. The final hearing on the plan and tax--the first proposed since voters soundly rejected a 1-cent sales tax increase for transportation 5 years ago--will be at the County Hall of Administration in Santa Ana. The plan is designed to...