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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)
- The Gathering of the Juggalos' Night Court Helps Wicked Clowns Bury the Hatchet (NSFW)
- Michael Theodore Mordaunt, Boeing IT Pro, Posed as Surfer Boy to Lure, Molest Girls: Cops
- FBI Arrests Bomb-Threatening, Wild-Note Writing Santa Ana Bank Bandit
- Films, Martial Arts, and More at Fiesta Latina at Bowers Museum This Sunday
- Garden Grove and Santa Ana Hold Checkpoints SATURDAY NIGHT!
- Orange County Man Charged With Selling Fake Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii
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- A Bubbling Cauldron: Costa Mesa blog
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- OC Politics by Pedroza and friends
- 65th A.D. candidate Young Kim to host an election kickoff BBQ on August 2
- The OCTA now says they have to include HOV toll lanes on the 405 Freeway
- Slower than the OCDA Prosecuting a Politician
- Assemblywoman Grove to speak at the Santa Ana Republican Women Federated meeting tonight
- OC unions will rally for abortion rights on July 29
- OC employees may no longer sign nomination papers during work hours
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public employees Archive
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‘Pre-Recession Spending’: Economics Under Anaheim’s Council Majority
Posted on July 27, 2014 | 11 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
The Great No-Fault Crisis in American Health Care
Posted on March 3, 2013 | 5 Comments2012 has slipped calmly into the distant past and 2013 came in slipping and sliding. The Republicans played the “No Game!” and the Democrats played “Game On”! Noting happened except a bunch... -
How and Why Mitt Romney Wanted to Outsource and Off-shore American Jobs
Posted on December 7, 2012 | 3 CommentsThe Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor says: “Bring us your tired, huddled masses……”. At the dawn of the 20th Century, the United States was a burgeoning manufacturing nation. ... -
Mr. President, Spike the Football!
Posted on December 6, 2012 | 7 Comments. Life along the Fiscal Cliff is rather frustrating. This “Fiscal Cliff Issue” goes on and on with an entire lifeform of its own, sandbagging, barnstorming, arm waving, lying and has... -
Fullerton Police Officers’ Association <3′s Flory and Alvarez *Updated 10/16*
Posted on October 16, 2012 | 23 Comments**Update 10/16** The FPOA and Fullerton Firefighter’s PAC filed additional late expenditure reports (not to be confused with filing late reports– different problem, like Mr. Bankhead.) We’re now up... -
Welcome to a “Cushy Government Job!”
Posted on June 27, 2012 | 13 Comments. He was a 40-something MBA with a good 6 figure job that allowed him to work out of his home a great deal of time, giving him flexibility to...
