![Over at the Huffington Post, there was an article indicating how many people are just one emergency away from facing financial disaster (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/30/financial-emergency-report_n_2576326.html?utm_hp_ref=business). I was recently asked what my take […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Financial_Disaster-300x207-115x115.jpg "Boutwell’s take on…Financial Disaster.")
![There are many ways to measure progress. Are you making more? Are you putting more cash in your pocket? Do you feel better about yourself? Are you sleeping more? Do […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/girl-better-off-115x115.jpg "Are you better off than your grandparents?")
![First and foremost, taxation is complicated. Multistate corporate taxation is even more complicated. We are being asked to consider a very complicated proposition in a few weeks and hopefully those […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Prop-39-Pic1-115x115.jpg "Boutwell on Prop 39…what the heck is apportionment anyways?")
![. We welcome to the Orange Juice Blog our new tax and finance expert who previously commented under the awkward handle TJLocalSA, but will henceforth write under the handle “BOUTWELL,” […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Romney-Obama-laughing-115x115.jpg "A Tale of Two Tax Worlds: Obama’s and Romney’s.")
The cost to the registrar or the cost to run the campaigns? The cost to the registrar would not be…
Do you have any idea how much a campaign for the 360,000 district would be? The distinction from a 640,000…
Paying Janet Nguyen more is ludicrous.
If we want better and more transparent elected representatives we simply need to pay them more. Take a look at…
You might be surprised what sort of low-lives would crave a quarter mil job with no professional qualifications and no…
That would just spark even more corruption and only allow independently wealthy people to run and win.
SB 249? It got killed via suspense file in assembly appropriations. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB249
Without commenting on your specific stats, I would say that is an excellent question. Maybe you should be a Supervisor.…
Criticizing past elected trustees of the Orange County Board of Supervisors reflects not only their leadership weaknesses but also flaws…
Oh, Sam. You don't know anything about local politics and elections or local governance. I do. I'll leave it at…