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It looks like some Anaheim City Council members want to keep all their secret deals quiet. Now we find out that the development agreement which gave away $158 million specifically conceals the name of the primary investor benefiting from their gift of future public funds.

According to open government expert Terry Francke, the Costa Mesa City Council violated California’s open meetings law last year when it authorized behind closed doors a letter seeking federal law enforcement assistance in shutting down the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries.

Seven days after taking the fundraising lead, raising $120,000 at the end of 2011, in the newly drawn central Orange County 72nd Assembly District contest, Westminster […]

Thinking about the state of leadership in the country right now I recalled this thought from Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat and the Chrysler Group: “…. Leadership is not a quantitative thing…people either smell it in you or they don’t…People need to trust you that you’re going to pull them out and they will follow you when you pull them out. If they don’t get that comfort, they’re going to drop you.

It wasn’t very pretty Tuesday night for the three members of the Anaheim City Council who voted to give away $158 million in future bed tax revenues to the developers of two hotels in the troubled Garden Walk district. A couple hundred residents showed up to express their displeasure over the decision…

For the past couple of weeks Orange County Public Administrator John Williams has been fighting to keep his job even though he tendered his resignation last year. He He’s finally surrendered to the reality of his situation.