Thank you for your thoughtful comment, Jeff. I appreciate your willingness to engage in an honest conversation about the future…
No, we stand athwart Stupid yelling stop.
We are, like Buckley's conservative, standing athwart history yelling STOP! The history of language's demise.
Kudos. Spot on.
Well I don't think you're gonna stop it, it's too common and standard by now. Plus it's only a fragment…
I wish to God people would stop using the word "communities" to describe a group of separate, unrelated people. "Low…
Blog editor here; I'll get Stephanie to answer this, but I can get started: 1. Where's the evidence? You're asking…
If you're claiming there's a "plague" of sewer service in California, then it's reasonable to ask: where’s the evidence? A…
Neither do I nuisance. Neither do I. Especially here in oc where the cpod equates winning elections with actually governing.…
405 toll lanes Archive
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Just around the bend: The 405 Toll Lanes we fought so hard against.
Posted on August 8, 2023 | 2 CommentsFight is over. The good guys lost. Here is our future. -
![. . . Well. That I wasn’t expecting! New Assemblyman Matt Harper, who represents at least half of the area that would be affected by the threatened 405 toll […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/young-kim-toll-lane-presser-e1425448619517-115x115.jpg "Young Kim picks up the anti-Toll Lane torch for the OC. With exclusive video!")
Young Kim picks up the anti-Toll Lane torch for the OC. With exclusive video!
Posted on March 3, 2015 | 46 Comments. . . Well. That I wasn’t expecting! New Assemblyman Matt Harper, who represents at least half of the area that would be affected by the threatened 405 toll […] -
![. . . Something like a staggering $800,000 has been spent in Irvine this season to defeat the Democratic candidates – my friend Melissa Fox calculates that at least $100 […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/lalloway-choi-405-115x115.png "Lalloway-Choi Lies: 405 Toll Lanes, Veterans’ Cemetery, and so much more!")
Lalloway-Choi Lies: 405 Toll Lanes, Veterans’ Cemetery, and so much more!
Posted on November 2, 2014 | 19 Comments. . . Something like a staggering $800,000 has been spent in Irvine this season to defeat the Democratic candidates – my friend Melissa Fox calculates that at least $100 […] -
![. . . Beloved Westminster Councilwoman Diana Lee Carey, protégé of the late great Gus Ayer, and famed for having fought off the OCTA’s 405 Toll Lane dreams years before […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/mansoor-carey-115x115.jpg "Diana Lee Carey: Democrats (and independents) should support MANSOOR for Supervisor!")
Diana Lee Carey: Democrats (and independents) should support MANSOOR for Supervisor!
Posted on October 31, 2014 | 7 Comments. . . Beloved Westminster Councilwoman Diana Lee Carey, protégé of the late great Gus Ayer, and famed for having fought off the OCTA’s 405 Toll Lane dreams years before […] -
![. . . Annals of chutzpah, or annals of cluelessness? You be the judge. Orange County Business Council (OCBC) head flack Lucy Dunn is well-known and well-remembered in my hometown […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/delgleize-oconnell-dunn-115x115.png "Not DUNN with HB yet? Toll Lane Lucy, Bolsa Chica Betrayer, tells us who to vote for.")
Not DUNN with HB yet? Toll Lane Lucy, Bolsa Chica Betrayer, tells us who to vote for.
Posted on October 27, 2014 | 8 Comments. . . Annals of chutzpah, or annals of cluelessness? You be the judge. Orange County Business Council (OCBC) head flack Lucy Dunn is well-known and well-remembered in my hometown […] -
![Remember that Flag Day event I played piano for on Saturday? I used to think of it as a Democrat, or as THE OC Democrat Flag Day event. I guess […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/alvarez-kelly-oconnell-115x115.png "Scenes from the “Labor” Flag Day: SQS, RINO’s, Teamsters and Toll Lanes!")
Scenes from the “Labor” Flag Day: SQS, RINO’s, Teamsters and Toll Lanes!
Posted on June 17, 2014 | 8 CommentsRemember that Flag Day event I played piano for on Saturday? I used to think of it as a Democrat, or as THE OC Democrat Flag Day event. I guess […] -
![Allan Mansoor’s promised AB 2036 to address the Toll Lanes controversy in our county – let’s say, to bring this important transportation question under democratic control in a county that’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/mansoor-405-sqs-daly-allen-correa-115x115.png "Mansoor’s new Toll Lanes bill deserves bipartisan support from the full OC delegation.")
Mansoor’s new Toll Lanes bill deserves bipartisan support from the full OC delegation.
Posted on April 14, 2014 | 13 CommentsAllan Mansoor’s promised AB 2036 to address the Toll Lanes controversy in our county – let’s say, to bring this important transportation question under democratic control in a county that’s […] -
![I was just getting ready to write another Toll Lane piece. This one was going to be called “Moving Target: OCTA’s Ever-Shifting Rationales for Making the OC a Toll Lane […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/mansoor-and-405-traffic-115x115.png "Breaking: Mansoor to file legislation stopping OCTA’s plans to make us a Toll Lane County.")
Breaking: Mansoor to file legislation stopping OCTA’s plans to make us a Toll Lane County.
Posted on December 6, 2013 | 17 CommentsI was just getting ready to write another Toll Lane piece. This one was going to be called “Moving Target: OCTA’s Ever-Shifting Rationales for Making the OC a Toll Lane […] -
![This Thanksgiving, The Orange Juice Blog is grateful for several victories great and small the people of Orange County have been fighting for, with this blog at the forefront (in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Cornucopia-2013-115x115.jpg "Thankful for a Cornucopia of Victories This Year!")
Thankful for a Cornucopia of Victories This Year!
Posted on November 28, 2013 | 15 CommentsThis Thanksgiving, The Orange Juice Blog is grateful for several victories great and small the people of Orange County have been fighting for, with this blog at the forefront (in […] -
![This is OCTA Board Chairman Gregory Winterbottom, in his natural state. You may remember him a few weeks ago, when Diana Lee Carey finished a speech with the exasperated cry, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/winterbottomcrabluminositycopy-e1383965772929.jpg "Toll-Lane Uprising 2: Delay, Kabuki, and the Staggering Arrogance of Chairman Winterbottom.")
Toll-Lane Uprising 2: Delay, Kabuki, and the Staggering Arrogance of Chairman Winterbottom.
Posted on November 9, 2013 | 23 CommentsThis is OCTA Board Chairman Gregory Winterbottom, in his natural state. You may remember him a few weeks ago, when Diana Lee Carey finished a speech with the exasperated cry, […] -
![. . . “First they came for the 405, and I said nothing for I rarely use the 405. Then they came to put toll lanes on MY freeway, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/No-OC-Toll-Lanes-115x115.png "The Uprising Against O.C. Toll Lanes. Pt 1")
The Uprising Against O.C. Toll Lanes. Pt 1
Posted on November 7, 2013 | 33 Comments. . . “First they came for the 405, and I said nothing for I rarely use the 405. Then they came to put toll lanes on MY freeway, […] -
![“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy!” As this past Halloween approached, the county’s alternative weekly, the estimable OC Weekly – whose motto LIKE […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jabberwockandmore-115x115.jpg "O Frabjous Day: Our Alt-Weekly correctly identifies our Scariest People! We elaborate…")
O Frabjous Day: Our Alt-Weekly correctly identifies our Scariest People! We elaborate…
Posted on November 5, 2013 | 26 Comments“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy!” As this past Halloween approached, the county’s alternative weekly, the estimable OC Weekly – whose motto LIKE […] -
![In our last dispatch on the 405 Tolls controversy, we intimated that a convenient convergence between Federal law and state law on low-emission vehicles and carpool lanes had opened up […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/carey-dana-loretta-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: Diana Lee Carey writes to OC’s federal delegation about 405 Tolls – UPDATED with video")
Weekend Open Thread: Diana Lee Carey writes to OC’s federal delegation about 405 Tolls – UPDATED with video
Posted on October 11, 2013 | 67 CommentsIn our last dispatch on the 405 Tolls controversy, we intimated that a convenient convergence between Federal law and state law on low-emission vehicles and carpool lanes had opened up […] -
![. I put this up near the end of my last story, with some questions. I couldn’t believe I was seeing what I was seeing, and that nobody else had […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/kempton-pinocchio-115x115.jpg "OCTA’s Big Lie – How Kempton destroyed Alternative Two (temporarily!)")
OCTA’s Big Lie – How Kempton destroyed Alternative Two (temporarily!)
Posted on October 25, 2012 | 5 Comments. I put this up near the end of my last story, with some questions. I couldn’t believe I was seeing what I was seeing, and that nobody else had […]
David, thank you for pointing this out. I hadn’t really considered how automatic my use of “community” had become in…