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Brea’s Folly, Part 5: How Proponents’ Funding Plans are Deceptive (and Ridiculous)
Posted on June 16, 2015 | 8 CommentsThe other main local political blogger in Brea showed up on the Facebook page I had set up to turn people out for today’s meeting — sure, go ahead, read it and […] -
Brea’s Folly, Part 4: Here’s What’s Worst About Manley’s Angry Screed
Posted on June 16, 2015 | No CommentsIf you haven’t already seen it, you’ll want to take a look at OJB’s post featuring the angry emails that Dwight Manley sent to Brea’s Community Development Director David Crabtree and […] -
Brea’s Folly, Part 3: Manley Letter Bullying City for Not Completely Sharing His Delusions
Posted on June 15, 2015 | No CommentsI did a Public Records Act request last week to find out what if anything Downtown Owners Dwight Manley and Mark “Blight” Caplow (who owns the all-but-abandoned former Tower Records […] -
Brea’s Folly, Part 2: It’s Either the Parking Structure or the 560 Fund — You Can’t Have Both
Posted on June 15, 2015 | No Comments1. I’m Afraid That You’re Going to Have to Choose As noted in Part 1 of this series, Brea Republican and environmental advocate Bev Perry (about whom this author has nothing […] -
Brea’s Folly, Part 1: Spending Half Its Cash Reserves to Build a Parking Structure
Posted on June 15, 2015 | 1 CommentI’ve been posting most of what I’ve had to say on the separate blog I run to cover the city where I live (which you’ll also see in all caps in […] -
Los Alamitos Sweeps the Gold, Brea Picks Up a Bronze, in Show Choir National Championship
Posted on April 25, 2015 | No Comments. . . Orange County picked up 50% of the ribbons and had four of the 15 finalists in the FAME Show Choir National Championship in Waukegan, Illinois this weekend, with the […] -
Brea Council Meeting on Jamming Through $9MM Parking Structure, Part 3: “Blight” Caplow’s Hard Sell
Posted on April 20, 2015 | 9 Comments7. 24 Caplow Claims, 24 BREAN Commentaries I covered the first 30 seconds of Mark Caplow’s first speech to City Council on the $9MM parking structure here (where you’ll also see […] -
Brea Council Meeting on Jamming Through $9MM Parking Structure, Part 2: “Blight” Caplow Must Go
Posted on April 19, 2015 | 3 Comments4. Caplow Must Release the Hostage Only one thing about Downtown Brea really does suck : the deliberately blighted Tower Records building, which this November will “celebrate” the end of its tenth […] -
Brea Council Meeting on Jamming Through $9MM Parking Structure, Part 1: Audience Matters
Posted on April 18, 2015 | 13 Comments[Cross-posted from this story at THE BREAN.] 1. Introduction Brea’s City Council doesn’t have many Wednesday night meetings, nor many four-hour meetings, but it did both this past week. The meeting […] -
Brea Taxpayer ALERT – Stop the $9M Parking Structure Ripoff! (Non-Breans: It’s Like Anaheim in Miniature!)
Posted on April 15, 2015 | 16 Comments[Cross-posted from THE BREAN, where I also spend some of my bloggin’ time.] Here it comes — as suddenly as predicted, as ridiculous as expected: it’s the $9,000,000 parking structure giveaway. On […] -
See the art of Zenger and others, this weekend in Newport!
Posted on March 26, 2015 | 6 CommentsDid you know that our frequent and acerbic commenter David Zenger, bane of OC’s kleptocrats, one of the two visionaries behind the Fullerton Rail District (with Tony Bushala, above) is also […] -
State Senator Bob Huff to Meet with Lobbyists in Hawai’i
Posted on November 17, 2014 | 6 CommentsIt’s a tough life being a California State Senator. Long hours and plenty of travel are needed to serve the people of the 29th District, which stretches from Cypress to […] -
Weekend Open Thread: Dave Gilliard’s Dirty Money is Polluting a Race Near You
Posted on October 24, 2014 | 21 CommentsDave Gilliard's California Homeowners Association funnels dark money in local races. Who do you recognize? -
If You Would Briefly Indulge a Happy Parent of a Child in the Arts….
Posted on July 27, 2013 | No CommentsI am, in a minor way, a “stage parent.” I love the fact that my daughter is at a school with an award winning “show choir” program — more or […]