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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.
![I don’t know about you, but the sorry state of affairs in State, Federal and some local governments has been giving me a sense that the next election will be […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/anti-incumbent-vote.jpg "Incumbents Beware!")
![The Federal Government Accounting Office (GAO), Congress’s watchdog, has issued a report on the effort to secure the Mexican border under the Homeland Security Initiative. To put it plainly, it […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Mexican-Border-Fence.jpg "Border control is floundering")
![On September 10, I wrote about State government uncovering glaring deficiencies at two Orange County Hospitals – Hoag and Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). That post reported that failure […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Monkey-doctors.jpg "Training – The answer to all hospital problems")
![As has been reported in the press and on this blog the Retired Employees Association of Orange County (REAOC) is suing the County of Orange and its Board of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Supervisors seek to hamper retirees’ due process legal rights")
![District Attorneys have almost unfettered discretion in whether or not to prosecute many cases. If they do prosecute, that discretion includes what specific charges are filed, and whether plea bargaining […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/DNA-Crime-Investigations.jpg "D.A. Trades Prosecution for Money and DNA")
![Admidst on-going budget disasters that are years long and with no foreseeable end, one scandal after another involving State Legislators, reductions in State services, talk about early release of thousands […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/California-government-sucks.jpg "Public Disgusted with California’s State Government")
![In the last week both the Register and Los Angeles Times have published a story about 6 hospitals being fined by the State Department of Public Health for serious violations. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Hospital-Mistakes.jpg "Hospital Mistakes Uncovered by State Government")
![It was reported on this Blog a few days ago that Freedom Communications, the parent company of Orange County’s Register newspaper, was likely to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Today’s (September […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Freedom_Communications_Logo.jpg "Register Parent’s Bankruptcy – The Ultimate Spin"){kind=logo}
![The media is looking into public pensions In a post on August 30 titled “Pension Wars Continue” I attempted to describe the issues that seem to surround public sector pensions […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Media-looking-into-pensions.jpg "Public pension info. is available to the media")
![California’s furloughed state workers are suffering too The Los Angeles Times on August 30 ran an article that puts a face and a dose of reality on the 200,000 State […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Furloughted-worker-bread-line.jpeg "Furloughed state workers facing tough times")
![Is Detroit dead? Detroit, Michigan is facing a $ 300 million deficit, a cash flow shortage of $ 60 – $ 80 million and is bleeding $5 million a month […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Death-of-Detroit.jpg "Detroit has become a clunker")
![For much of this year it has been reported that apparently legal but repugnant to most taxpayers pension spiking in the public sector has been occurring. Those doing the spiking […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Pension-Spiking.gif "Pension wars continue")
![Remember all that rhetoric from Sacramento just a couple months ago about no new or increased taxes? Well, it is sounding like more deception and sleight of hand has been […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Tax-Increases.jpg "Stealth State Income Tax Increases")
![It was reported on Wednesday that U. S. Senator Dianne Feinstein called upon Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to be more strategic in his policy of furloughing State workers to help reduce […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Furlough-Friday.jpg "Government closures, furloughs – are they O.K.?")
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