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I go to Voice of OC this morning on my computer and I get this:
Well, I don’t know exactly what that is, but these things happen.
Then I go check it out on my phone and I get this:
And that I do not like because it has an air of greater permanence.
Voice of OC? Norberto? Adam? Nick? Thy? Where are you?
If you need to communicate with the outside world, or want to post something, send it over and we’ll put it up — temporarily for today or longer as need be. Most of you have my email. (If this just means that you’re taking over the Register or something, then congratulations. If not, check in!)
UPDATE: Whew! It was just a temporary glitch — and it seems that congratulations are in order!
Note: I couldn’t find it over the course of an hour or so, I think starting shortly before noon. Given the number of people who would like to sink their battleship, I do not apologize for fearing the worst, like some takeover by the evil Largo Project, which is probably not actually evil at all.
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
New web site today. You must have looked during cutover.
Nice little story on the ever evolving Great Park fiasco.
Nahhh, I think it was some sort of “settling into the new software” glitch — and I think it lasted for about an hour or more.
Norberto and Adam might have thought it was a good idea to transition the website in the middle of the day, but Nick and Thy surely would have talked them out of it.
Anyway, it’s a good chance to congratulate them on the spiffy new site, so I’m leaving it up!
So, do they finally have a fuckin’ RSS feed we can put up, or no?
Or do I have to make a new picture for our sidebar with little Thy on it?
No idea about the RSS. Write Gerda.
As for your photo of them, sadly for Thy it simply cannot be improved upon.
So the new Voice of OC is finally live? Please excuse me while I dash over there to check out their new digs.
UPDATED ! MISSING ‘WEEKEND OPEN THREAD’ STILL MISSING !!!
When it is (OMG!) found, here’s a little clip courtesy of Yahoo, about one of our (sort of) neighbors, where residents (but this time the WEALTHY ones!) are having ongoing problems with tourists, parking, and (without a coast, or a Coastal Commission) bureaucratic dysfunction, that might resonate with Anaheim Resort neighbors or HB shoreline residents? Well, for your time wastage and reading entertainment —–
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“In short, it’s a mess. Surprisingly, THR found that no local agency or organization — not the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, not the Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board, not the mayor’s office — bothers to track how many people visit the sign or even tries to put a dollar figure on how it directly impacts tourism. The city itself technically owns the sign and the land — it sits in the public Griffith Park. Yet L.A. has ceded responsibility for its maintenance to the state-registered trust, which in turn features a board whose seats are majority-controlled by members of the chamber. The all-business chamber, in turn, pulls in revenue from the trademark rights to the sign it possesses, which are administered through a contract with a licensing firm called Global Icons. (A portion of the revenue goes to pay the trust’s costs. A Chamber spokesperson could not provide information about the revenue the sign generates.) Meanwhile, various municipal departments have overlapping territorial claims and needs striating the sign. These include Recreation & Parks, fire and police, the Department of Transportation and Water & Power. Also in the mix, of course, are all of those sharp-elbowed private citizens.(!)” from-
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/war-over-hollywood-sign-pits-wealthy-residents-107423112452.html
We had asked the previous WOT to work overtime.