Month: February 2014

Drew Leavens is running for Congress in CD-45 and it’s a bit confusing as he was supposed to be challenging Darryl Issa in CD-49. Leavens, an active Democrat and therapist by profession, will run for John Campbell’s Congressional seat (CA 45).

The Orange County Register has published another one of its narrow-minded looks at the effect of the 2009 stimulus on its fifth anniversary. Most of the spending measures in the stimulus bill have expired, but the point is that it did what it was supposed to do. For Republicans to simply say “the economy is still bad, so the stimulus was a failure” is a cheap misdirection.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that that Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno has met with officials from the City of Tustin about building […]

One of the first Angels to play in Anaheim and eventually manage the Angels, Jim Fregosi will watch Angels play forever.  Fregosi died this week […]

At Tuesday’s meeting the Orange County Board of Supervisors considered how they would address the growing concern over possible campaign finance misbehavior and conflicts of interest in their ranks. Their response to calls for an ethics commission by the Orange County Grand Jury is, unsurprisingly, nothing more than the campaign finance reform equivalent of a bait-and-switch.

As the debate over Site A for Irvine’s fifth high school continues, the Irvine Unified School District (IUSD) has seemingly won another round against Councilmember […]

Last week Connor Traut was appointed to a four-year term as the Juvenile Justice Commissioner of Orange County. Traut’s duties will pertain to the administration of the Juvenile Court while trying to improve the lives of at-risk youth.

Republican Assemblyman Don Wagner (R-Irvine) has a long career in education and surely he’s smarter than his recent OC Political love letter to the late […]

GOP blogger Jon Fleischman took to Facebook recently to rail against the passage of the latest Farm Bill.  And before uttering his opposition to this […]