Archive for February, 2008

I just had a peek at our Sitemeter, which is available for public viewing here, and noticed we experienced more hits in February than any previous month. Prior to this month our greatest number of hits was in October during the wildfires, when our coverage drew a lot of readers. Thanks for being with us....
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The Orange County Sanitation Districted voted a fee increase on Wednesday night and it was not without a bit of controversy.  At the center of the storm is La Habra Councilwoman Rose Espinoza and her changing her vote from an “abstention” to a “yes” vote.  The local blogosphere has weighed in on the issue...
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Here’s a message I got from the Democratic Party of OC: Right now, a group of well funded “Rovian” strategists are attempting to put a discriminatory marriage initiative on the ballot in November. This coalition of conservative groups hired 200 paid signature gatherers to spread out around California and have begun gathering signatures at shopping...
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While researching my next story I ran across a story on MSNBC that talked about Republicans in Texas crossing over to vote for Barack Obama in the Democratic primary being held in that state next Tuesday. Some estimates have as much as ten percent of the electorate in the Democratic primary actually being...
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The New York Times had an interesting story yesterday that question’s Senator John McCain’s eligibility to even be a candidate for president. McCain was not born in this country. He was born on a military base in the Panama Canal zone to an American military father and mother. And there’s considerable legal grounding that...
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Some guy from another blog got all “Juiced” up last night whining that we missed the story about the increase in OC sewer rates. No, we didn’t miss it, we simply covered other crap. The blogs have been all in a tizzy over the increase in sewer fees, so I figured I should check out...
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Yikes! Check out the new February DataQuick housing data. But oh yes, let me warn you first that this isn’t for the faint of heart. DataQuick’s freshest stats show this will certainly be the 29th straight month where buyers bought fewer O.C. homes than the year-ago period as mid-February O.C. home sales were off 49%...
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