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bankruptcy Archive
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Moorlach Should be Embarrassed, Censured
Posted on September 8, 2011 | 3 Comments, , , Imagine that you are sitting on the Board of Directors of a large corporation, making policy decisions for the CEO and staff to carry out. Your organization... -
Who is Dave Ellis? A Portrait of our Fair Board Chairman.
Posted on March 4, 2011 | 75 Comments. . . . Given the shitstorm coming down the pike for the various insiders implicated in the attempted Great Swindle of the Orange County Fairgrounds, we figure it’s time... -
Wendy Leece defies OC GOP Stalinism. Also, Atlas PAC? Hypocritical douchebags. Oh, the layers of irony.
Posted on October 31, 2010 | 21 Comments. . . . . As you may remember, last we left our heroine Costa Mesa Councilwoman Wendy Leece, she was still undecided on how she would vote Tuesday night... -
Can Corporations Survive Their Own Malfeasance?
Posted on May 3, 2010 | 4 CommentsTwo current examples come to mind that may telegraph corporate liability so massive that questions are being asked about whether the corporations in question can survive. First there is BP.... -
Register owner reaches deal with creditors in bankruptcy
Posted on January 23, 2010 | 2 CommentsPosts on this blog have previously reported that Freedom Communications, the parent company of the Orange County Register and numerous newspapers and television stations around the country, had filed for... -
![Willie Brown is calling for an "honest dialogue" on California's public employee unions. Brown, the former San Francisco mayor and longtime Speaker of the California Assembly, has pointed out the obvious - that our civil servants now "[run] the show" in California. They have "job security for life" and "pushed by our friends in labor, gradually expanded pay and benefits to private-sector levels while keeping the job protections and layering on incredibly generous retirement packages that pay ex-workers almost as much as current workers". Standing against them, says Brown, is "politically unpopular and potentially even career suicide for most officeholders".](http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Willie-Brown-rethinks-unions.jpg "Willie Brown: State of the Unions")
Willie Brown: State of the Unions
Posted on January 5, 2010 | 12 CommentsWillie Brown is calling for an "honest dialogue" on California's public employee unions. Brown, the former San Francisco mayor and longtime Speaker of the California Assembly, has pointed out the obvious - that our civil servants now "[run] the show" in California. They have "job security for life" and "pushed by our friends in labor, gradually expanded pay and benefits to private-sector levels while keeping the job protections and layering on incredibly generous retirement packages that pay ex-workers almost as much as current workers". Standing against them, says Brown, is "politically unpopular and potentially even career suicide for most officeholders". -
California’s Nuclear Option
Posted on December 28, 2009 | 3 CommentsCalifornia, in the (appropriate) person of Governor Schwarzenegger, has gone crawling to Washington to beg for handouts. This is a bad idea because it is no long-term solution and federal money comes with strings attached. Washington, like Mr. Potter, the avaricious banker in Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, cares only for its ambition to own and control everything and everyone. There is another solution - debt restructuring (“bankruptcy”). -
Lipstick on the Bankrupt Pig
Posted on December 13, 2009 | No CommentsSo now, the Leftists propose to ADD 3 million 55 and older to Medicare, 3 million being the rough number of uninsured in that age group. Gone are the dogmatic... -
Senator Franken schools corporate lackey dilettante
Posted on November 3, 2009 | 12 Comments. . . And it’s true, a million bankruptcies a year with a side order of death and malaise, that’s the wonderful system that our Terrys and Larrys cling to... -
CIT Group files the latest big bankruptcy
Posted on November 2, 2009 | 1 CommentThere is considerable hype coming from Washington and Wall Street that the worst of the so-called recession is over, and recovery has begun. However, others dispute such views as a... -
O.C. Register’s parent won’t share its porno
Posted on October 6, 2009 | 1 CommentIn my post of October 3 (“Is the OC Register trying to shift its retirement costs to taxpayers?”) I wrote about the irony of The Register’s parent company, Freedom Communications,... -
Is the O.C. Register trying to shift its retirement costs to taxpayers?
Posted on October 3, 2009 | 2 CommentsAn article in the Saturday, October 3 Business section of the Register (“Freedom tries to keep bankruptcy documents secret”) reports that the Register’s parent company, Freedom Communications, has run into... -
Santa Ana City Place developer Robert Bisno reportedly bankrupt and tossed out of his house
Posted on September 5, 2009 | 13 CommentsReal estate developer Bob Bisno, who last year failed in an attempt to build a large redevelopment project in Baldwin Park, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Los... -
O.C. Register’s parent company, Freedom Communications, headed for bankruptcy?
Posted on August 30, 2009 | 3 Comments“Freedom Communications Inc., the owner of the Orange County Register, is expected to declare bankruptcy this week, according to people familiar with the situation, the latest in a string of...
