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The Voice of OC- Open Government Advocates Scramble to Save Public Records Act
- Curt Pringle Applies For Anaheim City Charter Review Commission
- OC's Two Largest Cities Dealing With Tennis Center Issues Differently
- Community Editorial: Anaheim Needs to Adopt Better Budget Priorities
- Santa Ana Business Owners Get Crack at New Downtown Tax
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- A Bubbling Cauldron: Costa Mesa blog
- Save Anaheim (prev. No Jordan Brandman)
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- Pedroza and Roy Reynolds’ OC Politics
- Assemblyman Allen’s resolution on the NSA scandal needs our support
- Stop the TCA from building the first “segment” of their illegal toll road
- Politico: Rohrabacher advised Boehner against a ‘betrayal’ of GOP lawmakers
- The L.A. City Council votes to ban plastic bags and tax paper bags
- Everyone’s a target in the surveillance state
- More secrecy issues at CalOptima as mystery check arrives
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- The Liberal OC
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- Navel Gazing (OC Weekly)
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- OC Political. Warning – Jubal sightings
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octa Archive
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Tell the OCTA we want what we paid for: TWO NEW FREE LANES on the 405!
Posted on February 13, 2013 | 8 Comments. From the fine folks at the OCTA, to me and you: Reminder: Measure M Annual Public Hearing Tonight! The Measure M Taxpayers Oversight Committee is conducting the 22nd Annual... -
OCTA’s Big Lie – How Kempton destroyed Alternative Two (temporarily!)
Posted on October 25, 2012 | 5 Comments. I put this up near the end of my last story, with some questions. I couldn’t believe I was seeing what I was seeing, and that nobody else had... -
405 Toll Lanes Killed! (for this year at any rate…)
Posted on October 22, 2012 | 9 Comments. Smells like…. VICTORY. (temporary victory.) In another grueling OCTA session, the Toll Lane Alternative 3 was not able to muster more than six of the required nine votes to... -
OCTA Board’s 405 Toll Road Arguments: A Review and Refresher Course
Posted on October 22, 2012 | 5 CommentsVern and I were each going to do our separate stories before today’s either climactic or anti-climactic OCTA Board meeting. His is out; here’s mine, scheduled for 5 a.m. What... -
Will Kempton’s passive-aggressive war against Alternative 2, and other timely 405 thoughts.
Posted on October 21, 2012 | 3 Comments. Sigh, this isn’t the story I wanted to write this week. I wanted to be able to show some of the swing voters on the OCTA Board – i.e.,... -
405 tolls: Campbell flings “Hail Mary Pass,” Moorlach decries “Chinese Water Torture,” Can kicked hard.
Posted on September 26, 2012 | 13 Comments. Down for the count? No, the 405 Toll Lane Option known as Alternative 3 is not quite “down for the count.” It’s down for the moment, far from the... -
OCTA 405 Toll Decision This Morning – Will the Board Lead?
Posted on September 23, 2012 | 8 Comments. The battle over adding toll lanes on the 405 is a classic example of government at its worst. The battle is not between alternatives and the proponents for various... -
OCTA says WE just need some more “education,” LOL. And, introducing the Orange Juice Option!
Posted on September 21, 2012 | 21 Comments. . The second public speaker at Monday’s OCTA highway committee meeting (after Fountain Valley Mayor John Collins’ furious, righteous scolding of OCTA staff for dismissing the official opposition of... -
OCTA Highway Committee Meeting: “Votes Not There for Toll Lanes”
Posted on September 17, 2012 | 5 CommentsIn a meeting of the OCTA Highways Committee this morning, toll lane proponents admitted that the votes were not there for their plan to add tolls to the 405. Instead,... -
OCTA to Toll Lane Opponents: “Fine, NO FREEWAY WIDENING FOR YOU!”
Posted on September 15, 2012 | 15 Comments. If you can go way, way, back in your mind – back a month or two, to just before Anaheim exploded – you might remember that the pinheaded... -
OC Democratic Party Goes on Record: NO TOLL LANES FOR THE 405!
Posted on September 4, 2012 | 11 CommentsAfter much of a month off, Orange Juice Blog is back on the No 405 Toll Lanes beat — with some good news of progress in the battle against “Lexus... -
Six Feisty West-county Mayors tell Supes: NO 405 TOLL LANES!
Posted on August 1, 2012 | 5 Comments. I love it – the Mayors of pretty much all the towns directly affected by the threatened 405 Toll Lanes – Los Alamitos’ Troy Edgar, Huntington Beach’s (pro-tem) Devin... -
The Moorlach, Don Hansen & Larry Crandall on the 405 Tolls. [with Crandall UPDATE!]
Posted on July 25, 2012 | 13 Comments. 1. The Moorlach Reasons His Way to a Healthy Skepticism on 405 Tolls. It is lonely being The Moorlach at times of great decision for The County. Alone on... -
How we can defeat the 405 Toll Lanes! And also… Meet your OCTA Board!
Posted on July 20, 2012 | 29 Comments. You and I can defeat this 405 Toll Lanes plot! But first off, when talking about OCTA, (the Orange County Tranportation Authority) it’s important for us to distinguish two...
