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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
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- 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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taxes Archive
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How Proposition 13 began to screw us over the years, and how to fix it!
Posted on June 29, 2014 | 35 CommentsIn the late 1970′s an attempt was made to rein in the uncontrolled taxation of real estate property in California. This effort became known as Prop 13. The idea was... -
Does Jerry Brown have it right this time?
Posted on November 25, 2013 | 6 CommentsBack in the late 70’s, under then-Governor Jerry Brown, the State of California ran a healthy budget surplus. So healthy in fact that Howard Jarvis, in launching the Proposition 13... -
Irvine gets to play with “other people’s money.”
Posted on October 23, 2013 | 6 CommentsFinally, here’s some good news for you… something to cheer about! The city of Irvine is scheduled to receive $134.5 million dollars over the next 17 years. This is the... -
No such thing as a Good Tax: Irvine and the OC Fire Authority
Posted on August 21, 2013 | No CommentsAn ever-present and growing problem in today’s recession economy has been the acquisitive public employee unions and related organizations. The city of Irvine is no stranger to this, particularly when... -
This Graphic Says that Most Discussions about Our Spending Priorities are Bullshit
Posted on August 10, 2013 | 4 CommentsAnytime we say that we don’t have enough money to do something good, this chart shows why that’s a lie. It depends on the definition of “we.” ”We” have plenty... -
The Dangerous Votes of Sharon Quirk-Silva.
Posted on July 28, 2013 | 23 CommentsLast month I expressed my disappointment that our new Democratic assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva (pictured above taking on corruption and injustice in Sacramento) had joined forces with Reefer Madness Republicans and... -
Does anyone still believe in “Hope and Change?”
Posted on June 25, 2013 | 17 Comments. Five years ago, much of the American public bought into the “new” era of American politics and thrust Barack Obama into office. For many citizens the concept of “Hope... -
Fire Ring Compromise Should Substantially Increase Newport Beach Property Tax Assessments
Posted on June 8, 2013 | 17 CommentsThe key word in this story’s headline is “should.” I won’t say “will” — and I don’t even know that I’d say “might.” But a compromise that leaves Huntington Beach’s... -
Opening the Tap on Fullerton’s Water Rates
Posted on May 8, 2013 | 6 Comments. On May 7 the Fullerton City Council approved two resolutions to charge more money to provide water to the city’s residents. The council unanimously approved a simple pass-through increase... -
Who’s Really Punishing Hard Workers? (pt. 2 of 3)
Posted on April 2, 2013 | 1 Comment. Capital gains are the profits acquired from the sale of property or an investment and they are taxed at a different rate than that of typical income bracket rates. If you... -
Who’s really punishing hard workers? (part one)
Posted on March 26, 2013 | 68 Comments. Many people are familiar with the right wing rhetoric that suspending the tax cuts on the rich and taxing multi-national corporations is somehow “punishing hard work and success.” Glorifying... -
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... -
A VAT and Gun Control……
Posted on January 26, 2013 | 24 CommentsThe only thing that separates the United States from being Europe West is simply adding a VAT and Unconstituional Gun Control. The United States can easily turn into the One World... -
Governor Brown’s 2013 State of the State Address. Discuss!
Posted on January 24, 2013 | 34 CommentsVideo and transcript below of Governor Brown’s State of the State address for 2013, preceded by what in most cases will be a loud ad. FULL TEXT: The message this...
