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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
- The Bryson Chronicles: they lied about her school board attendance record
- 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
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transportation Archive
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Mansoor’s new Toll Lanes bill deserves bipartisan support from the full OC delegation.
Posted on April 14, 2014 | 13 CommentsAllan Mansoor’s promised AB 2036 to address the Toll Lanes controversy in our county – let’s say, to bring this important transportation question under democratic control in a county that’s... -
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.,...
