Republicans long claim the mantle of being the party of small government, but when in power, they seldom (if ever) actually deliver on this principle. The last US president to shrink the size of the Federal Government? Why that would be Bill Clinton of course.
Want smaller local government? Look to Irvine where the policies of...
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Register columnist Steven Greenhut wrote a column Sunday that amounted to a sort of compliment to the progressive city council majority in regards to the council’s handling of the contract dispute with the Irvine Police Association. It was sort of like a husband at a marriage counseling session being asked by the counselor to...
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The cities of Anaheim and Irvine approved their budgets for next fiscal year on Tuesday. Each city took similar approached to address projected shortfalls in revenue and public service needs with one Mayor vowing to travel to Sacramento to resist state efforts to raid city revenues.
Two reports from Wednesdays’s Orange County Register…
Irvine OKs $145 million...
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Well, Orange Coast Magazine says Irvine is the city OCers love to hate. The city is well-positioned to weather the economic downturn due to the city’s eight year record of progressive leadership.
Here is Irvine Mayor Suhkee Kang’s first State of the City address:
Mayor Sukhee Kang
State of the City of Irvine
February 10, 2009
Thank you so...
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The Irvine Tattler, a web site that offered no ability to correct incorrect information, is going offline on Valentine’s Day. The site, which hadn’t had a new posted since October 29, 2008 (they ran out of gas before election day) slung some of the best mud out there, mostly directly at Todd Gallinger for...
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In a recent OC Watchdog column, the City of Irvine is not quite in the financial dire straights that Christina Shea and Steven Choi (or Stephen Smith of the dead-in-the-water Irvine Tattler) would have you believe.
Some excerpts:
Irvine, unlike the U.S. government, is sitting on a pretty pot of money that promises to allow it...
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I tuned in to Cameron Jackson’s KUCI radio program this morning to catch his reaction to Tuesday’s election (doing so, I likely doubled his audience). Having done commercial radio in New York state about 25 years ago, one of the best pieces of advice I ever got was “don’t insult your audience when the...
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