You are invited to join the Democratic Party for our December meeting and annual holiday party! Bring your favorite dish for…
Read more →Ira Glasky will be sworn in at tonight’s Irvine Unified School Board meeting. We’ve written before that Glasky is a…
Read more →During a memorial service at South Africa’s largest soccer stadium, President Obama delivered a 20-minute eulogy that compared Mandela to…
Read more →The Voice of OC’s Adam Elmahrek is probably the most despised reporters covering the Santa Ana political beat. Elmahrek has…
Read more →Everyone needs an editor. The OC blogsphere is loaded with posts about typographical errors on fundraising invites or fundraising addresses…
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You are invited to join the Democratic Party for our December meeting and annual holiday party! Bring your favorite dish for our potluck. When: Monday, December 16th. Meeting at 7:00pm (all are welcome) & party at 8:00pm Where: Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 582 1916 West Chapman Avenue, Orange, CA 92868 We are collecting shoes for Global Volunteers…
Ira Glasky will be sworn in at tonight’s Irvine Unified School Board meeting. We’ve written before that Glasky is a well qualified candidate who brings considerable experience and passion to education and we support his appointment. But someone isn’t happy with the board’s decision. A petition drive to hold a costly special election is underway…
During a memorial service at South Africa’s largest soccer stadium, President Obama delivered a 20-minute eulogy that compared Mandela to Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln and America’s founding fathers.
The Voice of OC’s Adam Elmahrek is probably the most despised reporters covering the Santa Ana political beat. Elmahrek has revealed that recent allegations of secret and unreported political contributions to the effort by former Councilwoman Claudia Alvarez to seek a fourth term on the Santa Ana City Council.
Everyone needs an editor. The OC blogsphere is loaded with posts about typographical errors on fundraising invites or fundraising addresses pointed at City Hall in Anaheim. This afternoon, Mayor Choi’s December newsletter came in and I’ve noted two things quickly — the Mayor isn’t sending Christmas card to anyone this year. Grinch. From the letter:…
Fans of the Stephanie Miller show, Randi Rhodes and Thom Hartmann are going to have to move elsewhere as KTLK (K-Talk) will soon be the Los Angeles home of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. Clear Channel made the announcement and you can read about in this story from the LA Times. KFI, which…
On Wednesday, the publishers of the Register doubled down on their coverage by providing Mr. Moorlach with unprecedented space on their editorial pages to make his case. Moorlach’s guest editorial amounted to more than 800 words of free advertising for his campaign, in addition to the more than 400 words worth of “earned media” coverage Wisckol provided in his coverage of Moorlach’s announcement.
Thursday evening the delegates of the Orange County Labor Federation approved the selection of Julio Perez to be the next Executive Director of federation of Orange County labor organizations. Perez pledged to continue the work and leadership of his predecessor Tefere Gebre in fighting for the rights of working men and women in Orange County
The ruling, dated last week, from Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark V. Mooney which orders new district based elections for the City of Palmdale. The ruling illustrates what the City of Anaheim may be looking at as an outcome of a similar suit filed alleging violations of the California Voting Rights Act caused by the at-large election of city council members.
Yesterday former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona lost another appeal related to his January 2009 felony conviction on one count of witness tampering. A three judges hearing the appeal denied Carona’s request saying that the judge did not make an error in his sentencing decision. The court said, “The sentence imposed was not substantively unreasonable.”
Anaheim’s Cynthia Ward has started a group called Coalition of Anaheim Taxpayers for Economic Responsibility (CATER) and they have filed a complaint alleging unclear Brown Act violations against the Anaheim City Council based on the city staff’s recommendation to approve the two MOUs related to the Angels negotiations and the city council’s 4-1 vote to do so in…
Irvine Council member Christina Shea has her own blog and she used it recently to point her fickled finger of blame at council members Larry Agran and Beth Krom over what’s likely to be a court-ordered expansion of the Musick Jail in the City’s Northeast corner. She writes: “I want to remind Irvine residents of…
UPDATED!!! Costa Mesa Mayor Jim Righeimer has decided that he does not want to listen to the public first at the meetings of the city council. Righiemer’s solution to this “problem” of his own creation is to limit public comment at the beginning of the meeting to ten randomly selected speakers, leaving the rest to wait until the end of the agenda, however late that time may arrive.
Anaheim council member Jordan Brandman is hosting a fundraiser to retire debt left over from his successful 2012 election campaign. The event is being held on Wednesday, December 11 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the El Torito Restaurant at 2020 Ball Road in Anaheim. Brandman, the only Democrat on the all-Republican city council, garnered…
