Month: July 2013

While most people have likely been mesmerized by the headlines citing rising pension costs, a less visible campaign has been waged locally by self-described “pension reformers” to needlessly raise the cost of public pensions for the taxpayer, and their public employees to astronomical levels

Last week the Air Quality Management District Board voted 7-6 to issue a new rule banning beach fire pits within 700 feet of homes. AQMD Staff indicated that standing around a beach fire pit is equivalent to breathing the air from 3 diesel trucks or 800 cigarettes. The new regulations will coincidentally cause the removal of fire pits from Newport Beach, the ONLY city that has been advocating for their removal.

When Irvine mayor Steve Choi sat down with the Orange Counter Register seeking their endorsement in the last election, he posted an interesting question: “What […]

“There is a path forward, but partisan Congressional Republicans cannot continue to procrastinate, putting up unnecessary roadblocks and hoping that this issue will simply go away. Silly season is over. The time to pass comprehensive immigration is now.”

On Tuesday the City of Anaheim got three more weeks before a judge decides if a trial is warranted in a Voting Rights case filed against the city. Judge Miller granted Anaheim one last chance to change it’s mind before he makes a decision on July 30th. You know the saying, “Give ’em enough rope, and they’ll hang themselves.”

Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is trying to follow Anthony Weiner’s example by announcing he will attempt to return to New York politics and run for New York City’s Comptroller. Spitzer resigned in 2008 after the public found out he spent a large amount of money on prostitutes.

Simply put, no. But Mr. Bartlett, a Libertarian blogger and Irvine Finance Commissioner, posted an interesting item on his Facebook page at the end of June concerning a matter of the playing of the National Anthem prior to the last Irvine City Council meeting in June.

Tomorrow Judge Franz Miller is set to decide whether the California Voting Rights lawsuit against the City of Anaheim will move forward. Something in our logical minds tells us that their hopes are based upon a logical fallacy.

When armed conflict between bands of American colonists and British soldiers began in April 1775, the Americans were ostensibly fighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown. By the following summer, with the Revolutionary War in full swing, the movement for independence from Britain had grown, and delegates of the Continental Congress were faced with a vote on the issue. In mid-June 1776, a five-man committee including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin was tasked with drafting a formal statement of the colonies’ intentions.