Orange Juice

If you’re going to run against Rep. Ed Royce — and if you’re stuck in a primary that you have a good chance of not winning, you should be thinking…

On Wednesday night, Fox News Host Megyn Kelly tried to deceive children into believing that Santa Claus – a fictionalized version of the Greco-Turkish St. Nicholas – was a rosy-cheeked white man.  She also…

Do professional individuals who temporarily leave their jobs in order to faithfully serve our nation overseas deserve to re-assume their positions once their tours of duty are over?  I assume…

The advent of Covered California has been changing my employment law practice — and for the better. It used to be that a terror among clients being wrongfully terminated was…

We welcome to the blog Diane Goldstein, 21-year law enforcement veteran and speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP.)  This piece was first printed today in the Huffington Post, but…

I have been assured that California’s Board of Equalization does SOMETHING or other, even though some of the smartest political observers of the state seem at a loss to understand,…

The OC Weekly posts its most popular article of the past week on (at least some) Sundays; this week it was Scott Moxley’s provocatively titled report on the first day…

Eric Bever, a former Mayor of Costa Mesa who helped bring the “405 Corridor Cities” together last year to fight the proposed Toll Lanes, sent this into the local papers…

The Anaheim Chamber of Commerce is continuing its full court press objecting to a new power plant being proposed on Orange County Water District owned land near Angel Stadium.  The…

I was just getting ready to write another Toll Lane piece. This one was going to be called “Moving Target:  OCTA’s Ever-Shifting Rationales for Making the OC a Toll Lane…

Our friend Greg Diamond has already shared his views on this minor gaffe becoming a bigger deal than it should have been, primarily Greg wishes that the typo were reality….

Maybe some people think that it’s funny to give poor old John Moorlach a fainting spell by printing an ad for a Dec. 16 holiday fundraiser for Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait’s…

Nelson Mandela died this evening, South African time.  So much can be said about him that, at this moment, we will just refer you to the words of some of…

Many Californians continue to struggle through the incredibly-slow economic recovery… wages in many areas are stagnant, employment opportunities are difficult to find and November tax hikes and Obamacare stand as…

I give Californian Republicans some credit for what they did yesterday. They revised the website they had used to trick people looking for Covered California health care exchanges into going…

Where to start? Here, here: The last time I met with Anaheim’s interim police chief Raul Quezada I asked him about the controversial gang injunction zones, of which Anaheim has…

It isn’t easy to capture the emotion behind anticipation.  I helped my kids set up Christmas today.  We got a tree, we hung up lights, we read stories and watched…

(Vern here)  I was glad that Orange County’s CAIR – the Council on Islamic-American Relations – rebuffed Jordan Brandman‘s request for an endorsement, but the reason sure sucked – as…