Derail the Sale measure approved for Costa Mesa ballot
COSTA MESA – City leaders voted Tuesday night to place a measure on the June ballot that would ask Costa Mesa voters to help preserve […]
Month: February 2010
Rocco’s Back – Election season just got more interesting
Steve Rocco, former Orange School District Trustee and convicted ketchup theif has filed paperwork to run for Orange County Public Administrator. Having lost his campaign for Santa Ana City Council in 2008 many thought they had seen the last of this character’s name on the ballot.
New Executive Director Tapped by DPOC
We got this note from DPOC chair Frank Barbaro: I am pleased to announce that Gerrie Schipske is the new Executive Director of the Democratic […]
Olbermann: Beware fear’s racist temptation
The rationalizations of the racist are too many and too contradictory for the rest of us to keep them straight. The whole of the anger at government movement is predicated on this. Times are tough. The future is confusing. The threat from those who would dismantle our way of life is real, as if we weren‘t, to some extent, doing it for them now.
California Community Colleges need to improve transfer rates to universities
“When courses do not transfer from a community college to a four-year institution, students lose valuable time and taxpayers waste a lot of money,†said Chancellor Jack Scott. “Improving how colleges and universities prepare students for transfer is a cost effective strategy for increasing graduation rates. My advice to cash strapped states is to invest a small amount of resources into developing common transfer agreements.
OC Tet participants embrace diversity, in spite of Andy Quach and his religious police
In a desperate effort to repair his tattered drunken-bad-boy image, Westminster City Councilman Andy Quach whipped up outrage on the part of a small band of bigoted religious leaders to threaten boycotts of the parade he chaired. All this because “The Commies Gays are Coming, The Commies Gays are Coming to march in a parade.”
Galloway: Callous in Wonderland
With Lorri Galloway having fully thrown her hat in the ring to run for Supervisor, I was digging through our files and found this little […]
Obama Weekly Address: Pay as you go
The President, having just signed the “Pay As You Go” law, discusses the importance of this fundamental rule to getting budget deficits in check. Ensuring that new spending and tax cuts are offset was a important factor in creating the budget surplus of the late 1990’s.
Teabagging with Chuck DeVore and Bill Hunt in Laguna Hills Today
On the heels of last week’s national Tea Party convention, two of OC’s leading teabaggers are geting together to headline a Laguna Niguel protest in […]