A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that an Anaheim man’s First Amendment rights were not violated when his speech drew…
Read more →Greg Diamond (Photo: Chris Prevatt) Two independent sources tell TheLiberalOC that at Wednesday’s special Executive Board meeting of the OC Labor…
Read more →The fallout from last week’s Irvine City Council meeting and Friendship city has begun to burn stronger. The City…
Read more →Twitter is a marvelous tool for some — 140 characters to demonstrate a complete lack of tolerance, demagoguery and…
Read more →This week, the Orange County Vietnamese community come out to protest a proposal by Council member Larry Agran to add…
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A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that an Anaheim man’s First Amendment rights were not violated when his speech drew strong reactions at Orange County Board of Supervisors meetings. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also upheld a board rule barring “personal, impertinent, slanderous or profane remarks” at public meetings. But the court made its ruling “unpublished,” meaning it does not set precedent for future cases.
Two independent sources tell TheLiberalOC that at Wednesday’s special Executive Board meeting of the OC Labor Fed, that all 90-plus unions represented by the LaborFed united with the 20-plus Building Trade unions in demanding that the Democratic Party of Orange County remove Greg Diamond from his North OC Vice Chair post or organized labor will withhold support of Democratic…
The fallout from last week’s Irvine City Council meeting and Friendship city has begun to burn stronger. The City of Irvine was sent a letter from Irvine resident W. Jia, a professor at Chapman University, criticizing the council majority for politicizing a friendship city opportunity with a city in China. Irvine Pakistani residents complained about…
Twitter is a marvelous tool for some — 140 characters to demonstrate a complete lack of tolerance, demagoguery and good old-fashioned McCarthyism all directed by conservative Irvine city commissioners and senior officials in the Republican Party in the wake of last week’s city council meeting in which there was an effort to expand Irvine’s…
This week, the Orange County Vietnamese community come out to protest a proposal by Council member Larry Agran to add a city from Vietnam as a Friendship City. Agran withdrew the proposal prior to the council meeting after receiving what I’m sure were a number of “are you crazy” phone calls.
Bad news for California Republicans. It looks like four more years for Governor Jerry Brown. The latest field poll shows the Governor’s approval rating has soared to 59 percent. That’s what happens when, in a single term and through a combination of spending cuts and selected tax/fee increases, you make a multi-billion dollar state deficit…
More than $30 billion in economic activity was generated by retirement benefits paid by the State’s pension fund, according to a study released by the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS). The CalPERS Economic Impacts in California report for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2012, highlights the vital role CalPERS plays in the State’s economy each year. The report demonstrates how CalPERS benefits and investments generate significant economic activity in the state, to stimulate business growth and increased tax revenues, and to support and create jobs for Californians.
On Tuesday, the Paycheck Fairness Act of 2014 failed to pass out of the United States Senate on a 53-44 party-line vote. The proposed legislation would have strengthened laws prohibiting pay discrimination based upon gender. In the senate, a bill usually requires a vote of at least 60 members to move forward to the floor for consideration. This parliamentary process allows a minority of senators to effectively stop a bill that would pass on a majority vote.
For many in Orange County, this is one of the worst kept secrets in politics but today it’s official. Melissa Fox is a candidate for Irvine City Council. As there are two spots open in addition to Mayor, Fox, an Irvine Community Services Commissioner, is taking direct aim at first-term Councilmember Jeff Lalloway. A…
We received the following news release asking for veterans in Orange County to turn out for the April 22 Irvine City Council meeting. Unfortunately, the Vets “buried the lede.” At that meeting, the Site Selection Committee will be formed and it’s crucial to keep consultants from Five Points far away from this proposal as possible.…
TheLiberalOC has obtained a letter from the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council to Henry Vandermeir of the Democratic Party of Orange County that unless Greg Diamond, a lawyer and candidate for District Attorney, isn’t removed from Diamond’s Vice Chair of the DPOC North leadership post, the union will immediately withdraw all support of…
On Tuesday night, without comment, the Anaheim city council agreed to pay $1.22 million in plaintiff attorneys fees related to a voting rights lawsuit seeking to require the establishment of council districts, and district level elections, in the city. The amount is on top of the $1.25 million in legal fees the city had incurred fighting the inevitable.
The New Santa Ana blog is probably the biggest critic of Payan X, the free early morning get-in-shape bootcamp run by Marc Payan. The blog has previous cited noise complaints, asked questions about insurance and has been critical in general because two Santa Ana council members the blog is exceptionally critical of – David Benavides and Michele Martinez…
