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Link: Get your game face on Irvine is usually known as a beige and bland town but stories I found in the town point to its diversity. Take this story in which I highlight a group of people who meet monthly to play board games at the Duck Club. I found the group by searching online and stumbling across the club’s Meetup.org website.Read More →

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Link: Video and slide show: Chicago’s newest park is people friendly During my time covering Irvine and the Great Park project I attended the Society of Professional Journalists national convention in Chicago. While in Chicago I visited Millennium Park, the most recent large park project in the United States, to write about the park and how it relates to the future Great Park. This was also one of my first multimedia projects for the Register.Read More →

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Link: Ex-firefighter has his own Great Park plan Writing about the Great Park planning and old El Toro base demolition allowed me to meet many interesting people. People like Don Croucher. At every Great Park meeting I’d find Don. He always wore a Hawaiian shirt, sat in the same seat and took notes. I introduced myself and inquired about his interest in the park. Turned out he was an ex-firefighter who loved the history of firefighting. All he wanted was to build a fire museum in the park someday.Read More →

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Link: Grand jury says city betrayed public trust The Great Park project is one of the most contentious matters in Orange County. Ten years of fighting over the land’s future turned into fighting over how the Great Park is designed and built. This story discusses many of the attacks made about the project highlighted by an Orange County Grand Jury report.Read More →