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Voice of OC- Supervisors Pass Moratorium to Block Senior Housing Project
- Garden Grove Mayor Calls For Investigations Into Ex-Fire Chief’s Deal
- Garden Grove Considers Banning Sale of Pets From Puppy Mills
- Civic Center Homeless at Odds With City Over Proposed Storage Center
- Buena Park To Look at District Elections
- Anaheim Makes Moves Toward District Elections
- Vietnamese Voter Turnout to Decide First District Race
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- OC Political. Warning – Jubal sightings
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- A Bubbling Cauldron: Costa Mesa blog
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- OC Politics by Pedroza and friends
- Orange County awarded $19.5 million in grant funding for homeless services
- OCDA Rackauckas endorses Wagner for the 37th State Senate District
- Costa Mesa liberals launch a libelous attack on Righeimer and Harper
- Will Andrew Do and Janet Nguyen succeed in fooling GOP voters on 1/27?
- Former Rohrabacher Deputy Campaign Manager files for the 37th S.D.
- Freidenrich sworn in to second term as OC Treasurer-Tax Collector
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- John Earl’s Surf City Voice!
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- Navel Gazing (OC Weekly)
- Who Wants to Buy OC Weekly? 'Cause We're For Sale!
- 10 Things to Know About the Upcoming Matches of OC-Based UFC Fighters
- Anti-Slavery Campaign Brings Author to Santa Ana and Life-Like Dolls Outside the Super Bowl
- Kobe Bryant Suffers Injury and Real Estate Setbacks, But at Least Kobe Inc.'s Doing Fine
- Violence in Places of Worship Deplored Hours After OC Church Closes Due to Bomb Threat
- Michael Goodwin Conviction Upheld in Murders of Ex-Partner Mickey Thompson and His Wife
oc fair Archive
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The Festering Fairgrounds Swindle Impunity.
Posted on December 22, 2014 | 4 Comments. . . Ugh – what IS that stench? Well, it’s a number of things. And some of them are closely related to this blog, injustices that we’ve been fighting... -
A Rackauckas Retrospective: Is This the County we want to be?
Posted on May 29, 2014 | 29 Comments. . . Ah, Orange County. California’s ruling bastion of rich white privilege. Populated largely in the 70’s by post-Watts riot White Flight, Orange County has long boasted a voting... -
Thankful for a Cornucopia of Victories This Year!
Posted on November 28, 2013 | 15 CommentsThis Thanksgiving, The Orange Juice Blog is grateful for several victories great and small the people of Orange County have been fighting for, with this blog at the forefront (in... -
Buck Johns, “Titan of Industry” – LOL!!!
Posted on April 1, 2013 | 18 Comments. Last week, Newport millionaire and Orange Juice friend Stan Tkaczyk received quite an odd e-mail. Mr. Tkaczyk (pron. “Tkaczyk”) is perhaps best known in this county as: Republican Fair Board... -
Fairgrounds Sale Struggle ends with whimper and adoption of new policies.
Posted on March 3, 2013 | 7 Comments. “ENOUGH ALREADY! This Fair Sale Review Committee has done great work, but we can’t go any farther without subpoena power which we don’t have. I move that we pack... -
Mother of all Gus Ayer Tributes.
Posted on February 16, 2013 | 56 Comments. Some men – many powerful men (mostly men) in Orange County must be secretly breathing a sigh of relief right now – I’m talking about corrupt men (and women)... -
All’s War and Love in FAIR Board Meeting…
Posted on April 27, 2012 | 25 CommentsBoy, do we at the Orange Juice Blog like it when sparks fly! And yesterday’s OC Fair Board meeting did not disappoint in that regard. I’ll skip all the friendly... -
Battle Royale brewing over ELEPHANT RIDES at the OC Fair. UPDATE – Victory! Rides ended; only Dave Ellis dissents.
Posted on March 22, 2012 | 62 Comments. It is SO important for kids to be able to ride on elephants at the Orange County Fair. How important is it? Important enough to justify torturing these sensitive... -
Tony Petros bails at Fair Board Meeting before LSA vote
Posted on February 24, 2012 | 12 CommentsTony Petros is running for Newport Beach City Council. Tony Petros is also a Principal in the Irvine office of LSA & Associates, the company that was the bag man... -
The Fair Board Is TRANSFORMED.
Posted on February 21, 2012 | 15 CommentsExcellent news for all of us who care about not only the Orange County Fairgrounds, but also the quaint notions of accountability, open governance, and justice for crooks: Governor Brown... -
My letter to S-Kang: Re-open investigation into Dick Ackerman’s Illegal Fairgrounds Lobbying!
Posted on January 18, 2012 | 26 CommentsHere goes nothing. Hand delivery tomorrow or Friday… January 16, 2011 Dear Ms. Kang Schroeder: Looking back over the work many of us did over the last couple of years... -
Scott Baugh’s “Non-profit, for the children” OC Marathon is actually FOR profit! And other surprises from the Fair Board Meeting.
Posted on November 2, 2011 | 64 Comments. . . Whatever, I wondered, was Scott Baugh doing at the Orange County Fair Board meeting last Thursday? I recognized the longtime lobbyist, OC GOP chairman, and newly-minted warrior... -
Two openings on the OC Fair Board – apply online to give Dave Ellis an ulcer!
Posted on October 1, 2011 | 4 Comments. .. . “Babs” Venezia reported yesterday that cranky shriveled pharisee Dale Dykema and hapless long-suffering follower Gary Hayakawa, who have been two of Dave Ellis’ dependable allies in all... -
Dave Ellis’ Fair Board pursues political vendetta against Sale Derailers, evicts Jeff Teller’s OC Marketplace
Posted on September 22, 2011 | 9 Comments. . . It’s infuriating that, six months after our celebrated and blistering exposé on the dude, with all its baleful warnings of the legal “shitstorms” supposedly “coming down the...
