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Maybe some people think that it’s funny to give poor old John Moorlach a fainting spell by printing an ad for a Dec. 16 holiday fundraiser for Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait’s…

Nelson Mandela died this evening, South African time.  So much can be said about him that, at this moment, we will just refer you to the words of some of…

Many Californians continue to struggle through the incredibly-slow economic recovery… wages in many areas are stagnant, employment opportunities are difficult to find and November tax hikes and Obamacare stand as…

I give Californian Republicans some credit for what they did yesterday. They revised the website they had used to trick people looking for Covered California health care exchanges into going…

Where to start? Here, here: The last time I met with Anaheim’s interim police chief Raul Quezada I asked him about the controversial gang injunction zones, of which Anaheim has…

*The University of Southern California Football Trojans have a huge history that started in the 1930′s with the Howard Jones “Thundering Herd” who battled the great Notre Dame Coach  Knute…

It isn’t easy to capture the emotion behind anticipation.  I helped my kids set up Christmas today.  We got a tree, we hung up lights, we read stories and watched…

(Vern here)  I was glad that Orange County’s CAIR – the Council on Islamic-American Relations – rebuffed Jordan Brandman‘s request for an endorsement, but the reason sure sucked – as…

For a long time now, Talking Points Memo (published by Joshua Micah Marshall) has been one of the best political sites on the web.  To keep you maniacs busy, let’s…

This Thanksgiving, The Orange Juice Blog is grateful for several victories great and small the people of Orange County have been fighting for, with this blog at the forefront (in…

This is massively cool.  The site seems to allow sharing but not embedding, so you’ll have to click the link. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/11/bob-dylan-rolling-stone-video/ Yes, as you no doubt expected, this is indeed a…

An (unknowing) Orange Juice Blog correspondent (who can claim authorship of the dispatches below  for the asking) documented last night’s goings-on.  I’ve cleaned up some of the spelling and grammar,…

That 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…

1. The Master Plan is Not Looking So Well Today I and many others haven’t really focused too much on alternative possibilities for the Great Park because the initial plan…

Many, many people writing in Orange County know more about the Great Park than I do.  But I think that I do know when it’s time to write a story…

Back 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…

Against what may have seemed to be enormous odds for a man made of less stern stuff, on Friday Rep. Ed Royce DID successfully complete an entire work week of…

I recently ordered a book on-line from the author’s web site. Next thing I know I got an e-mail from Barnes and Noble acknowledging my order. O.K. I thought, the…