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The Voice of OC!-
- Navel Gazing (OC Weekly)
- Pimp Guilty of Having Sold 14-Year-Old Girl For Sex In Anaheim: Update
- Santa Ana Holds Checkpoint Saturday Night
- Ashton Colby Sachs, Alleged Killer of Parents, Paralyzed Brother and Tried to Shoot Sister: DA
- Judge Orders Hearing On Alleged Prosecution Cheating In Seal Beach Salon Massacre Case
- Donna Acevedo, Mother of Man Slain by Anaheim Police, Running for Anaheim City Council
- Joseph Elija Ettima Gets 28 Years to Life for Killing Grandmother and Setting Home Ablaze
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- OC Political. Warning – Jubal sightings
- The Tea Party, Conservatism and the Constitution – a Thought Provoking Article by Professor Charles Kesler
- Eric Woolery to Dominate Mail in Auditor-Controller Election with 1.5 Million Pieces
- Petrilla Makes Statement to CRA About 2001 Arrest – Double Wow!
- OCTA Board Members Discuss State Lobbyist Contract
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- A Bubbling Cauldron: Costa Mesa blog
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- OC Politics by Pedroza and friends
- California Women’s Leadership Association endorses Ferguson for Judge
- Popular SAUSD Trustee Iglesias is challenging Daly for the 69th A.D.
- CA Senate’s Democratic leaders deny motion to expel Sen. Wright
- Will slate mailers put OC Auditor-Controller candidate Woolery over the top?
- Temp retirees hired by the OC Sheriff to process CCW applications
- Prop. 13 saved by naughty Democratic lawmakers?
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transportation Archive
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Loretta “affirms her support” of California High Speed Rail! As does the Orange Juice Blog (some of us anyway.)
Posted on January 17, 2014 | 35 CommentsI’m not in the habit of posting up every little communique I receive from Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Santa Ana) , or you’d see little else here. But I’d been thinking,... -
The Orange Juice’s Top Sorties of 2013 – and a few new items for our VICTORY list!
Posted on December 31, 2013 | 10 CommentsOh whoops, DAMN. Did I mis-type “stories” as “sorties?” Well, you know what, that’s okay! Because “sortie” is a military term meaning a “sudden issuing of troops against the enemy... -
Eric Bever asks: What’s the REAL reason OCTA wants to make us a Toll Lane County?
Posted on December 7, 2013 | 31 CommentsEric Bever, a former Mayor of Costa Mesa who helped bring the “405 Corridor Cities” together last year to fight the proposed Toll Lanes, sent this into the local papers... -
Metrolink: Lies, Big Money, Ridiculous Corruption.
Posted on November 8, 2013 | 8 Comments“Why does government cost so much?” is a question taxpayers often ask themselves. There are many answers to that but in the case of Metrolink the response is a simple... -
![[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,... -
State Senator Bob Huff Doesn’t Think Drivers Can Count to Three
Posted on September 7, 2013 | 5 CommentsFullerton Rag Earlier this week the California State Senate approved SB 1371, a bill that would require drivers to maintain at least three feet of space between their vehicles... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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.,... -
John MacMurray: “Look, Boss, the Train!”
Posted on July 12, 2012 | No Comments. Reprinted with kind permission of the LA Progressive. A while back, 1863, actually, in San Jose, California, citizens and business people got together to build a railroad from San...
