CleanTechOC Expo: It’s All About Jobs
Job Creation – How to grow employment in Southern California will be the focus of the CleanTech OC 2010 Conference & Expo on Monday, September […]
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Berardino responds to OC Register distortions regarding retiree medical benefits
Five years ago, Supervisor Bill Campbell and the Orange County Employees Association recognized two things: the importance of providing quality health care coverage for retired county employees and the rising cost of doing so. So, together, we addressed these issues head-on. Through the collective bargaining process, OCEA and the county arrived at an agreement that reduced the county’s unfunded liability for retiree medical benefits by $815 million while continuing to ensure our employees would receive adequate care in their most vulnerable years.
The Quest to Remake Capistrano Unified: A Parent’s Perspective
I came to this conclusion after watching the campaign by the current trustees to impose an agenda that in my view that forgot what they were elected: to serve the Children of the District. It began when I went out to a Community Meet and Greet organized by Capistrano’s Children First to start making inroads within the Community earlier in the year. I got a real sense of where things were when I saw the District go on strike. I joined the teachers on the picket lines to underscore how the Community was with them. In my conversations with them, I wanted them to realize that times were tough and the budget deficit at hand.
President appoints Elizabeth Warren “Watchdog for the American Consumer”
Long before this crisis hit, she had written eloquently, passionately, forcefully, about the growing financial pressures on working families and the need to put in place stronger consumer protections. And three years ago she came up with an idea for a new independent agency that would have one simple overriding mission: standing up for consumers and middle-class families.
New CBS/NY Times Poll: Public Trusts Democrats More
This exceptional opinion column in today’s New York Times is well worth reading and should serve as a reminder that the leadership demonstrated by President […]
Obama Weekly Address: GOP Leadership Blocking Fixes for the Citizens United Decision
After the Supreme Court overturned decades of law and precedent in the Citizens United decision, the administration tried to fix the new loopholes in the campaign finance system with a common sense law. But, the GOP leadership has blocked a vote on the law in the Senate in hopes that the special interests will reward them by funding attack ads against their opponents.
Bill Clinton to Campaign for Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom
Jerry Brown announced the terrific news today that President Bill Clinton will join him and Gavin Newsom, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, on the campaign […]
Ceci and Meg: A Picture paints a thousand words
Among those 300 women was Cecilia Iglesias, the self proclaimed Independent challenger to Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez. We have written since the start of her campaign that Cecilia Iglesias is nothing more than a Republican plant, funded clandestinely by supporters of Republican nominee Assemblyman Van Tran. We have pointed out the fact that Iglesias has posted pictures of herself with a variety of high profile Republicans on her website.
Confessions of a Business License Fee Scofflaw
Earlier this week, our friends at the Orange Juice raked me through the coals by painting me as operating a business in Santa Ana without […]