![Most of us are spending the day getting ready for a Thanksgiving feast. However that isn’t good enough for Santa Ana’s “Usual Suspects.” Pajaritos in town are chirping about their […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/usual-suspects.jpg "Are the Usual Suspects now targeting Michele Martinez?")
![Longtime community activist Beatriz Fernandez has opened a new political grassroots training office in Santa Ana. Here is what she has to say about this new venture on her website: […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/politcal-campaigning.jpg "Political grassroots training office now open in Santa Ana!"){kind=small}
![When our reader, Rob “Cook” wrote that “Aloha’s personal cart, the one in the picture was taken by the city,” we figured that he knew what he was talking about. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Mystery of Aloha’s missing cart resolved?")
![I don’t think this is what our former bloggers had in mind when three of them quit the Orange Juice blog on Nov. 15, and tried to destroy our blog […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/orange-juice-is-number-one.jpg "So much for the blog coup – the Orange Juice is now ranked the #1 political blog in California!")
![Bottoms up! The Santa Ana Planning Commission will consider CUP’s (conditional use permits) for three businesses seeking alcohol licenses at their meeting tonight, and they will conduct a CUP amendment […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/geisha-house.jpg "Santa Ana Planning Commission to consider “happy endings” at their meeting tonight")
![(Photo courtesy of the L.A. Times) One of the enduring conceits of Santa Ana’s “Team Pulido” and their allies in the “Usual Suspects” is that gang members cannot clean up […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/fighting-fires.jpg "Program offers gang members a way out via firefighting")
![Developer Robert Bisno, who recently pulled out of an attempt to reshape the City of Baldwin Park’s downtown area via eminent domain, has now put his Beverly Hills home up […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/beverly5.jpg "Developer Robert Bisno trying to sell his house for over $29 million")
![“With seven in 10 blacks and 53 percent of Latinos voting in favor of Prop. 8, the ballot measure to ban same-sex marriage, Republicans say they are confident that their […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/latinos-against-gop.jpg "Latinos are not turning to the GOP in our lifetime")
![We are in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression – and how does the Westfield Mainplace Mall react? By not letting parents take their own pictures […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/grinch-35-thumb.jpg "The Grinch would be proud of Westfield Mainplace Mall’s Santa policy")
![“As governor of Arizona, Janet Napolitano last year signed into law the nation’s harshest penalty for employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants, a measure that would take away their business […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/napolitano-is-no-friend-of-latinos.jpg "Is Janet Napolitano’s appointment to Homeland Security good news for Latinos?")
![Regardless of who is to blame for the seizure of Aloha’s cart and worldly belongings, the fact is we are headed into Thanksgiving week and Aloha needs our help. Donate […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/aloha.jpg "Help Aloha get her cart back!")
![“As many as five homes were lost to wildfire in an upscale Yorba Linda neighborhood last weekend because firefighters had no water, leaving them no choice but to let the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/beverage.jpg "What went wrong in Yorba Linda – and who is to blame?"){kind=small}
![“The Democratic leadership in Congress has given Detroit’s Big Three automakers until Dec. 2 to come up with a recovery plan to save their companies — a directive that’s driving […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/pelosi.jpg "We should NOT bail out the U.S. automakers!")
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