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The Voice of OC!Get Vern’s Latest and Greatest…
- John Earl’s Surf City Voice!
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- OC Political. Warning – Jubal sightings
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- Navel Gazing (OC Weekly)
- Michael Frederick Molle Held for Attempted Murder in Shootings of His Step-Grandkids
- Chapman University's Dodge College Ranked 7th Best Film School in U.S.
- Border Wars: Crystal Cove Panga'd; Irvine Becomes Murrieta; Rohrabacher Backs Boehner
- Neel Kashkari, California's GOP Nominee for Governor, Gives Homelessness a Spin: VIDEO
- Rev. Bud Green of Guest of Wally George Fame Takes Credit for White Flags on Brooklyn Bridge
- Checkpoints in Anaheim, Santa Ana; Patrols in SJC, Dana Point, San Clemente TONIGHT
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- A Bubbling Cauldron: Costa Mesa blog
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- OC Politics by Pedroza and friends
- Santa Ana Tea Party Patriots meeting set for August 12
- Duffy reports $67K in donations to his Newport Beach City Council campaign
- Cronyism infects a second Lake Forest City Commission
- The Bryson Chronicles: She didn’t violate the Brown Act
- Rep. Sanchez introduces a bill to deal with the border crisis
- Updated: Right, let’s do business with Caltrans
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oc fair Archive
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A Rackauckas Retrospective: Is This the County we want to be?
Posted on May 29, 2014 | 29 CommentsAh, 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 majority of people... -
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... -
Say what you will about Berardino, but…
Posted on August 17, 2011 | 8 Comments. . . …but it sure is nice to have him on the Orange County Fair Board now facing down Chairman Dave Ellis. Good call, Governor Brown! I know a...
