A formal state audit will now examine waste, fraud, and abuse at the OCBE. I intend to discuss what this…
Content being a Pink Toad? I guess it depends on an amphibian's level of sef-awareness. The lower, the happier. In…
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.…
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Revolt in the Ranks of UNITE HERE Local 11
Posted on February 14, 2026 | 7 CommentsTrouble in paradise, proclaims this document we came across! -
Monday morning: Get your “Disney is Full of HOT AIR” Balloons!
Posted on June 16, 2024 | 4 CommentsCome for the workers' justice, stay for the balloons! -
The latest on UniteHERE’s $25 per hour minimum wage ordinance for hotel workers.
Posted on May 17, 2023 | 6 CommentsWill this pass in November 2024? Can it? Lotsa complications... -
Surf City Voice on Poseidon’s Co-optation of Labor and Latino Groups.
Posted on August 18, 2021 | 4 CommentsThis company co-opts and corrupts everything it can get its hands on. -
Harvest of Loneliness: Great Free Movie on Braceros, 11/22 in Santa Ana
Posted on November 19, 2019 | No CommentsOrale, check it out... -
¡Ada Briceño for DPOC Chair!
Posted on December 20, 2018 | 22 CommentsDefinitely the Orange Juice candidate. -
California v. the Supreme Court’s Reversion on labor rights
Posted on May 28, 2018 | 7 CommentsConservative Supreme Court majority wants to turn California back to 1925, says Donovan. -
![. . . Vern here. I noticed this great (although not entirely completed) interview with Mayor Tait, sitting among Greg’s “drafts” from last September, and thought it was still well worth […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Tait-hardhat-115x115.png "How “Anti-Union” is Anaheim’s Mayor Tom Tait? OJB’s Diamond Asks Him the Hard(hat) Questions")
How “Anti-Union” is Anaheim’s Mayor Tom Tait? OJB’s Diamond Asks Him the Hard(hat) Questions
Posted on February 13, 2017 | 11 Comments. . . Vern here. I noticed this great (although not entirely completed) interview with Mayor Tait, sitting among Greg’s “drafts” from last September, and thought it was still well worth […] -
![. . . Small and wiry, handsome and loquacious, former state Senator Joe Dunn makes no apologies for his liberalism, and hasn’t a worry about his Congressional race for the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/contemplative-115x115.jpg "Joe Dunn: The Man, the Record, the Interview.")
Joe Dunn: The Man, the Record, the Interview.
Posted on November 30, 2015 | 10 Comments. . . Small and wiry, handsome and loquacious, former state Senator Joe Dunn makes no apologies for his liberalism, and hasn’t a worry about his Congressional race for the […] -
![. . . CROSSPOSTED FROM THE KITCHENMUDGE BLOG: Any good free marketeer can tell you how to make sure your job is well paid: Make it a service that’s very […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/st-josephs-strike-2014-115x115.jpg "St. Joseph Nurses Attend to their own Cuts")
St. Joseph Nurses Attend to their own Cuts
Posted on September 17, 2014 | No Comments. . . CROSSPOSTED FROM THE KITCHENMUDGE BLOG: Any good free marketeer can tell you how to make sure your job is well paid: Make it a service that’s very […] -
![“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana in The Life of Reason, 1905. “I do not support new taxes to [hire more […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Fundraising-115x115.jpg "‘Pre-Recession Spending’: Economics Under Anaheim’s Council Majority")
‘Pre-Recession Spending’: Economics Under Anaheim’s Council Majority
Posted on July 27, 2014 | 18 Comments“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana in The Life of Reason, 1905. “I do not support new taxes to [hire more […] -
![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 […] -
![When I first heard that popular, termed-out, Costa Mesa Republican councilwoman Wendy Leece was planning to take on entrenched, deeply embarrassing 12-term Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, I thought, “Well, we […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/leece-rohrabacher-115x115.png "Why is Wendy Leece running against Dana Rohrabacher?")
Why is Wendy Leece running against Dana Rohrabacher?
Posted on March 5, 2014 | 49 CommentsWhen I first heard that popular, termed-out, Costa Mesa Republican councilwoman Wendy Leece was planning to take on entrenched, deeply embarrassing 12-term Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, I thought, “Well, we […] -
![As I stood about waiting for Wednesday’s marathon Coastal Commission hearing to begin, and beheld our nemesis, Poseidon VP Scott Maloni, stomping about scowling, I resolved to shake his hand. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/poseidon-entrained-1-115x115.jpg "Poseidon runs headlong into “Infiltration Gallery.”")
Poseidon runs headlong into “Infiltration Gallery.”
Posted on November 18, 2013 | 36 CommentsAs I stood about waiting for Wednesday’s marathon Coastal Commission hearing to begin, and beheld our nemesis, Poseidon VP Scott Maloni, stomping about scowling, I resolved to shake his hand. […]
So you're gonna write a piece about this audit? Good, folks have been asking us to cover that on this…