About Author: La Femme Wonkita
Posts by La Femme Wonkita
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Getting Soaked by the Mesa Consolidated Water Board?
Posted on November 2, 2010 | 5 Comments[Damn - I was supposed to post this for La Femme a couple days ago. Hope it's not too late for you Costa Mesans to vote these guys out! Wonder... -
BELLs are ringing in Costa Mesa …
Posted on September 23, 2010 | 10 CommentsMany of us felt a certain degree of satisfaction in seeing officials from the City of Bell led away in handcuffs, even if the vision of Frank Rizzo in a... -
Poseidon: The Garbage Barge of the Desalination Industry.
Posted on September 7, 2010 | 12 CommentsOther companies have had success in other parts of the world, using the technique of sea-water desalination to provide water for the public in an environmentally and economically sound way,... -
Tonight, a Double-Header of Public-Private Ripoffs! (Costa Mesa / Fairgrounds, Huntington Beach / Poseidon.)
Posted on September 7, 2010 | 4 CommentsLa Femme Wonkita has said it before, on public access TV no less: When the public hears the phrase “Public-Private Partnership,” what they need to hear is “Bend over.” Tonight,... -
Fairgrounds Swindle: As Good As It Gets.
Posted on August 24, 2010 | 12 CommentsThere’s a story, possibly apocryphal, that a famous author offered the following as a graduation speech, then walked off the stage: Things are bad. They will not get better. They... -
Fairgrounds Swindle: An End Run Around Measure C?
Posted on August 23, 2010 | 5 CommentsWas Costa Mesa’s Measure C to protect the Fairgrounds a waste of $100,000? The City of Costa Mesa is poised to buy the Orange County Fairgrounds, then lease it out...
