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Voice of OC- OC Vietnamese Americans Protest Riverside for Sister City Relationship
- Do Wins Central County Supervisors’ Election
- Pulido Forced to Amend More Disclosure Forms
- Garden Grove Mayor Focuses on Youth, Citizen Engagement at State of the City
- Do’s Lead in First District Supervisor Election Narrows to 85 Votes
- Venezia’s View: Airport Director Retiring, Supes Weigh Replacement
- Judge Denies DA Request to Widen Net in Santa Ana Gang Injunction
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- OC Political. Warning – Jubal sightings
- It’s Certified: Do Defeats Correa by 43 Votes
- Final Day of Counting: Math Says Do Defeats Correa in Every Likely Scenario
- To Win 1st District, Correa Needs to Beat Do by 22% in Provisionals – If All Provisionals Are Valid
- Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees to Vote Tonight to Duck Class Size Issue
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- A Bubbling Cauldron: Costa Mesa blog
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- OC Politics by Pedroza and friends
- Why Lou Correa lost to Andrew Do in the First District Special Election
- First District Special Election results certified by the Voter Registrar
- Correa loses by 43 votes to Do in the First District Special Election
- Anaheim Mayor Tait joins Supervisor Nelson in backing Moorlach for SD 37
- Two Orange County department heads announce their retirements
- Do’s lead over Correa in the First District Special Election narrows to 85
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- John Earl’s Surf City Voice!
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- Navel Gazing (OC Weekly)
- Sex Tape Extortion Plot Involving Vietnamese Immigrants Ends With Little Saigon Arrest
- White Shadow, Opening Tonight in Santa Ana, is Not a Costneresque Black or White Tale
- Credit Union Embezzler Of $480,000 Hoped For Home Detention As Punishment
- Little Saigon Protestors Show Up in Riverside Like They Always Do And Always Will
- Santa Ana Police Commander Says Anti-Lesbian Witch Hunt Destroyed Her Career
- Transgender Woman's Death After Silicone Party Raises Alarm with Cops, LGBT Officials
Todd Spitzer Archive
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Turmoil Continues in County Government!
Posted on January 16, 2015 | 10 Comments. . . Some of it has already started, but the next month or so will see turmoil within and about county government accelerate. Currently the race for the vacant First... -
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... -
A Rackauckas Retrospective: Is This the County we want to be?
Posted on May 29, 2014 | 29 Comments. . . Ah, 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... -
If Susan Kang Schroeder Plans to be DA by 2017, I Want to Run Against Her Now!
Posted on February 27, 2014 | 9 CommentsMy nominal opponent in this year’s race for Orange County District Attorney (now fortified with Public Administrator) is incumbent Tony Rackauckas. Many people, though, apparently think that he doesn’t plan to be... -
OCDA: When I Read This Sentence Just Now, a Chill Went Down My Spine
Posted on February 18, 2014 | 23 CommentsFrom an OC Political post today on the OCGOP early endorsements: There were unanimous endorsements for Shari Freidenrich and Tony Rackaukas. I don’t believe that Shari is challenged and given... -
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... -
Are There NO Politically Ambitious Leading Democratic Prosecuting Attorneys in Orange County?
Posted on November 26, 2013 | 37 CommentsThat question is rhetorical: of course there are politically ambitious leading Democratic attorneys in Orange County. But that question gives rise to a second one: why aren’t any of them apparently thinking... -
Toll-Lane Uprising 2: Delay, Kabuki, and the Staggering Arrogance of Chairman Winterbottom.
Posted on November 9, 2013 | 23 CommentsThis is OCTA Board Chairman Gregory Winterbottom, in his natural state. You may remember him a few weeks ago, when Diana Lee Carey finished a speech with the exasperated cry,... -
O Frabjous Day: Our Alt-Weekly correctly identifies our Scariest People! We elaborate…
Posted on November 5, 2013 | 26 Comments“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy!” As this past Halloween approached, the county’s alternative weekly, the estimable OC Weekly – whose motto LIKE... -
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... -
![[Sad-face emoticon -- I see Gus' old website has died...] Background Almost exactly a year ago, in one of our dozens of pieces following last year’s debate of 405 improvements,...](http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/no405tolls-ad-115x115.jpg "OCTA Board inches closer to giving away our 405 to the Toll Trolls.")
OCTA Board inches closer to giving away our 405 to the Toll Trolls.
Posted on September 23, 2013 | 27 Comments[Sad-face emoticon -- I see Gus' old website has died...] Background Almost exactly a year ago, in one of our dozens of pieces following last year’s debate of 405 improvements,... -
Poseidon, the Disney Streetcar, and the Camel’s Nose in the Tent.
Posted on August 12, 2013 | 15 CommentsGuys. And girls. Do we have to talk to our electeds and Board representatives like children? Does this really have to be our job? Because it seems that our generally... -
Hysteria Among County Supervisors Proves Premature.
Posted on May 27, 2013 | 3 Comments. Personally, I’m getting tired of looking for the day our County Supervisors start acting like the leaders of a large, complex organization rather than reactive, soundbite-driven politicos who engage... -
Damage Control in Orange County Government
Posted on May 10, 2013 | 12 CommentsLate Wednesday and Thursday the press this week reported that the Superior Court ruled against Orange County, in the trial in which the State of California claimed that our Supervisors...
