Orange Juice Blog

1. Big Labor Meeting Will Discuss ‘the Greg Diamond Problem’ As the moon rises tonight, it won’t be on its way to becoming the beautiful ruddy “blood moon” that many…

  Restaurant employees will file a class action lawsuit in LA Superior Court this Wednesday. Workers allege management at the Daily Grill restaurant, located in the Westin Hotel, has underpaid them by $.40-$.60…

Allan Mansoor’s promised AB 2036 to address the Toll Lanes controversy in our county – let’s say, to bring this important transportation question under democratic control in a county that’s…

Cliven Bundy, the sixty year-old rancher, along with hundreds of “armed” supporters, some  on horseback and wearing cowboy hats, successfully got the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to return his cattle, and retreated from…

Here’s a “cute story” that isn’t cute at all: Slate as an article up right now entitled “Hillary Clinton Ducks Flying Shoe Thrown During Las Vegas Speech” that shows the…

  Rep. G. K. Butterfield of North Carolina  is now co-authoring the bill, Rep. Mike Pompeo introduced last week to prevent states from labeling GMOs.  I spoke with each of…

With a proposed November ballot initiative originating in Orange County to reestablish redevelopment agencies gaining steam, it is important to consider the widespread political failures and mismanagement that led to…

From the Voice of OC, regarding yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting: Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk Silva also drew protests from county supervisors for attempting to move a bill authorizing a veterans’ cemetery in…

Full Disclosure Disclaimer:  First of all, this is not Magic Johnson, Jerry West, the ghost of Jerry Buss, the other worldly voice or brain of Phil Jackson nor any of…

If you check out the City of Long Beach’s Election Results Page for yesterday’s primary, this is what you’ll see — except that it scrolls, slo-o-o-o-o-o-wly, up the page, and there’s…

Legendary OJ friend Jonathan Adler invites us all to a very special event this evening that you should really consider NOT missing: Please fwd this invitation to all those in…

Here are comments from Anaheim Police Chief Raul Quezada — someone whom I truly want to respect, because it’s hard to imagine Anaheim hiring anyone much better than him in…

In these days of Social Media, 24 hour Global News – partisan bends, Global Propaganda – sex, lies and video, National political back-stabbing and the total disregard for the truth;…

This came to us last night from Juice friend and Long Beach City Attorney candidate Matt Pappas: Almost two years ago now, Long Beach Police, using a battering ram and…

Tonight is the Annual Dinner for the Orange County Labor Federation, which I plan to attend.  I’m a longtime supporter of unions, which are one of our sole remaining bulwarks…

    The office of Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-KS) is not commenting on rumors floating around Washington that he is sponsoring a bill to end the GMO labeling debate once and…

One of the few areas right and left generally agree on is the primacy of Public Safety as a critical function of government. If taxes do nothing else, keeping us…

Today’s Supreme Court’s decision on campaign finance, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, allows the wealthy to give unlimited contributions to party committees — and remember that in California we have…