The Orange County Register emerged from bankruptcy last week with a new set of corporate owners. Â I’m delighted to see any newspaper emerge from financial difficulty, but I’m also hopeful the new owners of the Register will finally acknowledge the…
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The Devil in the Details of the CUSD Strike
by Heather Pritchard • • 1 Comment
I’ve been writing about Capistrano Unified School District and the struggles with our current Board of Trustees. The teachers went on strike Thursday even as talks began regarding the contract imposed by the CUSD Board of Trustees.
The details are important because they seem to be getting lost in translation between the media, the administration, the union and the parents. The issue is that Teachers are willing to take pay cuts, they just don’t want them to be permanent. There are other issues as well, which I’ve written about but the real issue is the board, who funded their race and the ultimate goal of a number of organizations to privatize our public education system.
Freedom Communiations May File Bankruptcy
by Chris Prevatt • • 10 Comments
The report was in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, and I forwarded out a Tweet from OCWeekly yesterday evening. Here is the report from today’s Orange County Register. The Orange County Register’s parent, Freedom Communications, Inc. in Irvine, continues…
Jeff Jacoby Disses Hugh Hewitt: “Liberal Bias Isn’t Killing Newspapers.”
by Dan Chmielewski • • 7 Comments
Some of you know I moved here from Boston about 12 years ago and I’ve been following the situation at thge Boston Globe, New England’s largest paper, that faced a shutdown by the New York Times Company without major union…
