The LA Times and Capitol Weekly have launched a new blog aimed at covering California politics. Which means they’ll go after Republicans and Democrats alike, and not just Democrats and public unions a la the Register’s editorial pages or Steven Greenhut’s new venture.
Check out the new site here.
Anthony York, editor of the Capitol Weekly,...
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LA Times and Capitol Weekly Team up on New State Political Blog
Campbell’s lies about the House Health Care Reform bill
The OCRegister published Congressman John Campbell’s OP-ED full of lies about the House Health Care Reform bill today. I wonder if they will print a fact check? Odds are, they won’t bother.
To start Campbell claims: This bill is 2,032 pages of a pure and unadulterated government takeover of health care. The total package would cost...
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OC’s Scariest Bloggers
It’s time for All Hallow’s Eve and another rendition of OC’s Scariest Bloggers; this is an informal list we talk about at Drinking Liberally and we’re expanding it a bit to include regular commenters.
We’ll count it down…
#10 Adam Probolsky– A blogger for both Red County and Flash Report and the winner of the “most...
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OC Register Website gets a Facelift
The oft-criticized web page of the OC Register (criticism for design) is getting a facelift but the content will likely stay pretty much the same. Check out the new site here.
Here’s the news in an email blast we received this morning.
The new OCRegister.com site has been designed and tested during the past several months...
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As expected: Register Parent Files Bankruptcy
Freedom Communications Inc., parent company of the Orange County Register, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today. The action was taken in Federal Court in Delaware. The plan is to reorganize the company’s debt of $770 million down to about $325 million. Under the reorganization plan, a new board of directors and new CEO...
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Paul Krugman: Reagan’s Zombie Economic Policies
Sunday’s New York Times features this terrific column by Nobel-prize winning economist and Princeton professor Paul Krugman who speculates on why Reaganism’s economic promise is a documented failure but still lives on in Conservative strongholds in Congress and State Legislatures.
From the column:
First of all, even before the current crisis Reaganomics had failed to deliver...
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Santa Ana City Council to Vote on Station District
In reaction to the OC Register’s investigative reporting on the redevelopment debacle east of Downtown Santa Ana, the City Council has come back with a supposed plan to develop the blight they created. You can read the article HERE. The powers that be at the Santa Ana City Hall went in and bought up...
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