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- A retired Orange County employee, and moderate Republican. The editor seriously does not know OBNO's identity as did not the former editor, but his point of view is obviously interesting and valued.
![Do a Google search for the word actuary, and a litany of definitions is presented. Here is a definition from the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics: Actuaries […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/actuary.jpg "Pension Underfunding – The Actuary Did It")
![As we have read on this blog, Prop. 16 is backed by a big money energy firm (PG&E) that used paid professional signature gatherers to qualify the initiative for the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sig-gatherer.jpg "California’s Toxic Initiative and Signature Gathering Process")
![I was watching the news on TV Thursday evening. They showed Michelle Obama visiting vegetable gardens in LA, encouraging the locals in their food raising efforts. Then the story mentioned […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Michelle-and-Barack-Obama-Dolls.jpg "Child Neglect in the White House?")
![The budget woes facing public school districts such as Capistrano Unified and Santa Ana Unified are pretty well known thanks to media coverage. But, other school districts in Orange County […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/chaos.jpg "Turmoil at the Tustin Unified School District")
![Picture courtesy of the New York Daily News Over several years the Arizona Legislature has passed legislation that categorized the presence of an illegal person in Arizona as trespassing, making […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Arizona-immigration-law-protesters.jpg "Arizona Passes nation’s toughest illegal immigrant law")
![The last several weeks the television and radio air waves have been heavily loaded with big dollar advertising placed by Meg Whitman in her quest for the Republican nomination for […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Prop-16-powergrab.jpg "Proposition 16 – A Wealthy Special Interest Misleads")
![In the last two days it was reported in the press that individuals and groups who are mad as hell about something they consider to be dead wrong have failed […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Angry-Activists.jpg "Angry political activists fail to qualify their initiatives")
![Currently there is much hysteria regarding the unfunded liability amounts being reported as future costs that states, cities, counties, school districts and other public agencies face. Huge amounts are thrown […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Fuzzy-Monkey-Math.jpg "Fuzzy Math Behind Pension Liability Estimates")
![The Los Angeles Times has reported that a survey by the California Citizens Compensation Commission responsible for setting the pay of California legislators has found that California’s legislators are the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "State Legislator Pay Highest in Nation")
![Forbes magazine uses what it calls a misery index to annually list the 20 most miserable cities in the U.S. Factors used in that index include taxes, commute time, violent […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ohio-sucks.jpg "Santa Ana is not on the Forbes Miserable Cities list")
![The Easter Bunny better be careful about leaving gifts at some front doors… At 10:20 AM I spotted some fresh and muddy footprints leading to and from my front porch. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Front-door-easter-bunny.jpg "Boycott front door brochure businesses?")
![The job statistics for January have been released, and for California it is grim. Overall, the State unemployment rate was 12.5%, the highest ever recorded since the State began keeping […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/California-is-broken.jpg "Time to give up on California?")
She couldn’t condemn khan, rafiei or Kim but she wants you to condemn Pulido. Muy rico. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1938288386808688&id=1267537805528996 https://voiceofoc.org/2026/05/political-action-committee/ (Does Ada…
Hack agrees re Villaragoisa. https://www.thetruthoc.com/p/antonio-villaraigosa-is-everything
It's all great to be in favor of alternatives to fossil fuels, less pollution, green energy and the like. Who…
I get the sense last night that all the other candidates sensed Becerra was the elephant in the room. Villaragoisa…
I haven't visited this blog in a while but I see you still have the same troll. Tiresome. I hope…
The Haughey guy is director of California RCV Coalition, Inc. https://www.calrcv.org/people
Some background on California RCV Coalition, Inc., an ngo that backed DGI and others lobbying Irvine for rcv at last…
Oh shit. I agree with oh myopic booby one. He is the only path to victory for the Democratic party.
Retired Federal Judge Lynne Riddle has spent years scrutinizing the fiscal stewardship and other practices of the Orange County Board…
Funny story I haven’t been able to tell yet - I was somehow included in the small DPOC group that…