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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)
- Carlos Sanchez Hernandez Busted for Jerking It While Staring at Santa Ana School Girls: Police
- Martinis and Movie Fundraiser at The Frida Screens The Women This Friday!
- Santa Ana Federal Judge Seeks August 2015 Trial on $5 Bil Suit Against Standard & Poor's
- St. Michael's Abbey Begins Holtz Ranch Grading, Conservationists Scramble
- Mark LeVine, Provocative UC Irvine Professor, Proposes "Parallel" Israeli-Palestinian States
- Timothy Charles Wilkinson Wanted to Commit Murder-Suicide But Only Got Suicide: Deputies
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- A Bubbling Cauldron: Costa Mesa blog
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- OC Politics by Pedroza and friends
- Santa Ana Tea Party Patriots meeting set for August 12
- Duffy reports $67K in donations to his Newport Beach City Council campaign
- Cronyism infects a second Lake Forest City Commission
- The Bryson Chronicles: She didn’t violate the Brown Act
- Rep. Sanchez introduces a bill to deal with the border crisis
- Right, let’s do business with Caltrans
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democracy Archive
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Beyond the Death of Digital Democracy: Online Astroturfing and Emotional Contagion
Posted on July 7, 2014 | 24 CommentsThe term netizen refers to a person who regularly engages in internet commentary. A portmanteau, it combines the words internet and citizen. To the extent such a group can be... -
Los Angeles resolution opposing Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations – let’s try this in OC cities!
Posted on June 6, 2014 | 4 CommentsThis received, well, I think we can absolutely say NO PRESS NO MAINSTREAM PRESS when it happened. Or in the five months since it happened. Figures. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)... -
Who owns the OC Water District, Poseidon or You? YOU DO! Remind them, TONIGHT!
Posted on June 4, 2014 | 23 CommentsWho Runs the Orange County Water District? You or Poseidon Inc.? Commentary By John Earl, Surf City Voice. Dear Friends: “A journalist is a good citizen of his or her... -
Your June 2014 Primary Election OCD Live-blogging Thread! (Last update Thursday)
Posted on June 3, 2014 | 12 CommentsFinal Results (pretty much) Wednesday morning: The best news: Judge Joanne Motoike (right) won by a lot! Board of Education incumbent David Boyd beat his tea-party challenger whatsisname by a... -
The Orange Juice June 2014 Primary Voter’s Guide!
Posted on May 19, 2014 | 78 CommentsSHORT VERSION Vern here. Greg obviously put a lot of thought and research into this guide, and on the races I’m familiar with I MOSTLY agree with him. And in... -
Huntington Beach Teabaggers Want their Plastic Bags Back! (I’m sorry, they want the CHOICE.)
Posted on April 21, 2014 | 51 CommentsFirst off, am I a bad man? A hypocrite, a holder of double standards? I’m just sayin’, because generally I’m always agitating for more democracy, direct democracy, bring this burning... -
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... -
Just the Headlines (Plus a Bit More) for Now from Friday at the Registrar of Voters’ Office
Posted on March 8, 2014 | 12 CommentsI’m off to the California Democratic Party convention soon, where I hope to raise $420,000 today for my now-official campaign for District Attorney, so I have time only to give... -
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... -
Why CATER is Suing Anaheim Over the Angels Stadium “Negotiations”
Posted on February 24, 2014 | 3 CommentsLabor Day weekend, 2013, kicked off with the late Friday afternoon posting of the Anaheim City Council agenda, disclosing that the Angels lease of our taxpayer-owned stadium was up for negotiation. ... -
How much taxpayer money did Kris Murray and Gail Eastman spend ensuring themselves a second term?
Posted on January 8, 2014 | 38 CommentsIt looks like the answer will be over $2 million of Anaheim taxpayers’ money, possibly as much as two and a half million. That’s the answer to the question, how... -
Today’s MLK event, and how we can revive the Voting Rights Act! (Jonathan Adler)
Posted on August 31, 2013 | 3 CommentsFirst, as we prepare for this afternoon”s spectacular 50-year celebration of the I Had A Dream speech 3-6 at Sasscer Park) let me pass along some thoughts from organizer and... -
Ed Royce Votes to Spy on Everyone, Including You
Posted on July 24, 2013 | 3 CommentsFullerton Rag On July 24 the United States House of Representatives narrowly defeated a bill that would have ended the National Security Agency’s ability to collect phone records of millions... -
Democracy gets blue balls, as Judge Franz Miller grants Anaheim another three weeks – UPDATED!
Posted on July 9, 2013 | 45 Comments. This is all we know so far: Judge Miller granted a three-week stay, for the anti-democracy forces of Anaheim to try to prove that their Santa Ana dog food-style...
