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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.
![The latest immigration sweep netted some interesting subjects from the North Pole… “Immigration Sweep Nets 286” blares the headline from the Saturday, December 12, Orange County Register. The story that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Immigrant-Santas.jpg "Criminal immigrants amongst us")
![Perhaps it is the accumulating depression from the daily gloomy economic news that seems to bombard us, much of it regarding our State government in Sacramento, but a story that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sacramento-state-capitol.jpg "In search of someone to clean up state government")
![The stores were jammed today, from COSTCO to Albertson’s and everything in between. The primary target of all this shopping seemed to be food – the $ 5.99 pumpkin pies […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Depression-Thanksgiving.jpg "Thoughts on Thanksgiving Eve")
![The issue of legal status in order to obtain driving privileges has bubbled up in Ohio. Bloomberg News reports that the League of Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has sued the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Ohio-License-Plate.jpg "LULAC Sues Ohio on Car License Issue")
![Since advancing the idea of a stimulus President Obama has touted the expenditure of stimulus dollars as a job creator. As the months have gone by since the stimulus funding […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Barack-Obama-lied-about-jobs.jpg "Obama Official Admits Stimulus Jobs Numbers Unreliable")
![You have heard about situations where a government employee retires but is then hired back, often without benefits, or goes to work for another government agency. The result is that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Double-Dipping.jpg "Double dipping a useful tool for Irvine teachers")
![The hole keeps getting bigger… Within the last week it has been reported: • LA Unified School District needs employees to accept another 4 day furlough this fiscal year, and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/The-hole-keeps-getting-bigger.jpg "State, Local Government Finances Not Recovering")
![Every fall and early winter, as the holiday season approaches, we can count on requests at our doors, in the mail and via the media, for donations to help the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Salvation-Army-Santa.jpg "‘Tis The Season When Charities Solicit")
![There is considerable hype coming from Washington and Wall Street that the worst of the so-called recession is over, and recovery has begun. However, others dispute such views as a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "CIT Group files the latest big bankruptcy")
![For several days prior to October 26, and throughout much of the day of the 27th, the TV and radio media had been reporting that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lapd-badge.jpg "3 Middle-Age White Guys for LA Police Chief?"){kind=icon}
![You will remember a posting on this blog about the fact that the District Attorney has been plea bargaining with people accused of crimes to forego a prosecution of these […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Forensics.bmp "Orange County Supervisors Order Study of Forensic Lab Oversight"){kind=small}
![David Parrish looks through his file of correspondence with the Indiana Division of Family Resources about his Medicaid and food-stamps benefits in late July. The former security officer’s doctor has […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Affiliated-Computer-Systems-fails-in-Indiana.jpg "Indiana gives up privatization effort – watch out California!")
If we're talking about Dan C, he has never seemed "happy."
Yes, I know that's the impulse but you gotta know what the Guatemalan hill folk know: you get poisoned and…
If it touches me first, all bets are off.
You're absolutely right that California should adopt it statewide -- and should already have done so. And you're absolutely right…
If I were Fiona ma or Rob Bonta I’d be scared.
RCV should be adopted statewide so cities and counties don’t have to do it piecemeal. It saves money, discourages negative…
My advice to Mr. Moore, who seems like an eminently reasonable man is the same as I always give Vern.…
Great article on Ranked Choice Voting Josh! I wholeheartedly agree. I want more control with my vote. We only have…
Young Kim on broadcast tv going hard against Calvert and aligning herself closely with Trump. Might win her the primary…
Content being a Pink Toad? I guess it depends on an amphibian's level of sef-awareness. The lower, the happier. In…