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Voice of OC- OC Vietnamese Americans Protest Riverside for Sister City Relationship
- Do Wins Central County Supervisors’ Election
- Pulido Forced to Amend More Disclosure Forms
- Garden Grove Mayor Focuses on Youth, Citizen Engagement at State of the City
- Do’s Lead in First District Supervisor Election Narrows to 85 Votes
- Venezia’s View: Airport Director Retiring, Supes Weigh Replacement
- Judge Denies DA Request to Widen Net in Santa Ana Gang Injunction
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- OC Political. Warning – Jubal sightings
- Final Day of Counting: Math Says Do Defeats Correa in Every Likely Scenario
- To Win 1st District, Correa Needs to Beat Do by 22% in Provisionals – If All Provisionals Are Valid
- Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees to Vote Tonight to Duck Class Size Issue
- SB 29 (Correa) Likely to Determine Fate of 1st District Special Election
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- A Bubbling Cauldron: Costa Mesa blog
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- OC Politics by Pedroza and friends
- First District Special Election results certified by the Voter Registrar
- Correa loses by 43 votes to Do in the First District Special Election
- Anaheim Mayor Tait joins Supervisor Nelson in backing Moorlach for SD 37
- Two Orange County department heads announce their retirements
- Do’s lead over Correa in the First District Special Election narrows to 85
- CA State Senate Republican employee nominated for a leadership award
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- John Earl’s Surf City Voice!
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- Navel Gazing (OC Weekly)
- Sex Tape Extortion Plot Involving Vietnamese Immigrants Ends With Little Saigon Arrest
- White Shadow, Opening Tonight in Santa Ana, is Not a Costneresque Black or White Tale
- Credit Union Embezzler Of $480,000 Hoped For Home Detention As Punishment
- Little Saigon Protestors Show Up in Riverside Like They Always Do And Always Will
- Santa Ana Police Commander Says Anti-Lesbian Witch Hunt Destroyed Her Career
- Transgender Woman's Death After Silicone Party Raises Alarm with Cops, LGBT Officials
democracy Archive
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Lucille Kring and Tom Tait Spar over District Elections. OJB says Yes on L & M!
Posted on September 19, 2014 | 23 Comments. . . We strained forward in our seats to hear tiny Lucille Kring, speaking in the hushed tones of a shocked gerbil, describe a nightmare dystopian vision of a... -
Water Board’s Misuse of Committee Meetings gives the finger to OC Ratepayers.
Posted on August 6, 2014 | 23 Comments. . . by Debbie Cook, first posted in Surf City Voice, Aug. 4, 2014. At a recent (July 3) sub-committee meeting (see video at bottom of story) OC Water... -
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 | 80 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 | 52 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...
