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Voice of OC- Venezia’s View: Airport Director Retiring, Sups Weigh Replacement
- Judge Denies DA Request to Widen Net in Santa Ana Gang Injunction
- Split Anaheim Council Approves New Chamber Contract
- Do’s Lead Widens in Race for County Supervisor Seat
- Westminster Considers Re-Naming Asian Garden Mall Signs
- Two Votes Separate Do, Correa in County Supervisor Race
- County Officials Could Have to Disclose Social Relationships With Contractors
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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
- Do’s lead over Correa in the First District Special Election narrows to 85
- CA State Senate Republican employee nominated for a leadership award
- Do widens his lead over Correa in the First District Special Election
- Spitzer assures voters that the First District election results will be fair and impartial
- Lou Correa losing in the First District Special Election by 2 votes
- Correa takes a small lead as the First District election earlyresults are posted
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- John Earl’s Surf City Voice!
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- Navel Gazing (OC Weekly)
- The Principle Filmmakers Tell Media to Stop Focusing on Them and Start Focusing on Movie
- Come to Chapman for the Bell Scandal, Stay for Shots at/of "Jabba the Corrupt" Robert Rizzo
- Arrest Warrant Issued for Peter G. Chadwick, Millionaire Who Bailed Out After Wife's Murder
- Are They Joshing or is Hamilton's Wife Really Real Housewives of Orange County-Bound?
- Michael Goodwin "Relieved" His Conviction for Mickey Thompson Murders is Upheld?
- Judge James Stotler Recuses Himself In Daniel Wozniak Death-Penalty Case For Cheering DA
pensions and retirement Archive
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‘Pre-Recession Spending’: Economics Under Anaheim’s Council Majority
Posted on July 27, 2014 | 18 Comments“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana in The Life of Reason, 1905. “I do not support new taxes to [hire more... -
O C Supervisors get a lesson in retirement math
Posted on July 13, 2014 | 1 CommentAccording to The Voice of OC, in a story headlined “OC Supervisors Split on Sheriff Deputy Pay Package,” at least two members of the five person Orange County Board of... -
The health of our County Retirement Fund is improving!
Posted on June 21, 2014 | 5 CommentsMuch has been written about the financial health of public sector pension funds these days. The usual theme is that such funds are grossly underfunded, the sky will fall and... -
Irvine Unified School District & City Council “Punting” The Political Football Over To Saddleback
Posted on April 19, 2014 | No CommentsTake a moment to reflect on a potential decision. Let’s say you’re charged with building a new state-of-the-art high school for one of the top performing school districts in the... -
Further Misadventures and Malfunctions of the Murrbot™
Posted on April 3, 2014 | 5 CommentsOne of the few areas right and left generally agree on is the primacy of Public Safety as a critical function of government. If taxes do nothing else, keeping us... -
Proposed Pension Reform Initiative Dealt Death Blow? UPDATE: Death Blow Dealt.
Posted on March 14, 2014 | 8 CommentsThe Sacramento Bee reported yesterday that San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, the public face of a proposal to qualify a pension reform initiative for the state ballot, lost a Superior... -
Weekend Open Thread: Lessons I’ve Learned from 2013, by Over But Not Out
Posted on December 28, 2013 | 13 CommentsEven though I am older than dirt and should have learned a lot in my life, I learned a lot more in 2013. Here are some examples. Republicans and Democrats... -
Pension “Reformers” get whipped in 2 city elections
Posted on November 6, 2013 | 7 CommentsIn the myriad of conservative think tank writings, including newspaper columns, so-called research papers, and hand-wringing diatribe, one would believe that the status of public pensions and their funding is... -
A Primer on Pension Politics
Posted on October 28, 2013 | 22 CommentsWhat follows is an attempt to provide a general overview of the public pension controversy that seems to be in our media and various blogs continuously. If you are sick... -
Pensions and Politics, Tales of Doom or Tales of Boom…
Posted on September 24, 2013 | 8 CommentsPensions once engendered feelings of promise and security, something for workers to aspire to. Unfortunately those days have long since passed; pensions are now on the verge of extinction, except... -
Lalloway’s “Memo to File”
Posted on August 16, 2013 | 18 CommentsAccording to a fairly intelligent man named Albert Einstein, “Insanity” is defined as doing something over and over again and expecting different results; I’m not certain what inspired Albert Einstein... -
Doesn’t a city owe its people anything?
Posted on July 24, 2013 | No Comments. How much DO they make? A California Public Policy Center (CPPC) study published this year has both raised eyebrows and been decried by an Orange County Employees Association spokesperson as... -
How to fix Global Banking….101
Posted on April 6, 2013 | 5 CommentsGreg Smith worked for Goldman-Sachs. He turned on his former employer and in fact the whole Wall Street Industry in order to let folks know the “ins and outs” of... -
County Supes stumble on CEO Recruitment and Selection process.
Posted on March 19, 2013 | 19 Comments. Late Tuesday afternoon the Orange County Board of Supervisors finished a lengthy discussion at the Supervisors’ public meeting on whether to hire Santa Barbara CEO Chandra Wallar to fill...
