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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Sean Emery has a pretty interesting story in Saturday’s edition of the Irvine World News/OC Post. The story reports that $1.3 million was used for candidates and ballot measures in last November’s election. Not a shabby number for a city of 200,000 people.
The biggest whiners: those candidates who represent the “old” Irvine, the ones...
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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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Irvine’s Sukhee Kang has been elected Mayor making him the city’s first Korean-American mayor. He defeated Council member Christina Shea by 2,345 votes. It was the first election defeat for Shea on the ballot. She is termed out in 2010.
Joining Kang on the Council were slate mates Beth Krom and Larry Agran, both elected...
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