County Workers Union Chief Speaks Out on Layoffs
Orange County Employees Association General Manager Nick Berardino sent the following message out to his 11,000 plus members highlighting the difficulties and differences of approach […]
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You’ve Gotta Love Irvine’s Liberal Budget Foresight
Sean Emery reports today in the Orange County Register that the Irvine City Council unanimously voted to set aside $1.6 million in reserve funds to blunt […]
And We Have a Budget… Yuck.
Yes, my dears, California now has a budget. So what happened? Abel Maldonado got his silly “open primary” (Or did he? It first has to […]
We Have A Budget
For what it’s worth, the hostage crisis in Sacramento is over. While there is certainly some Republican blood on the floors of both legislative houses, no […]
Wherein The Governator Attempts to Regain Relevance
Wow. Arnold says the obvious. “If you think you can do this budget without any increase in revenues,” he said, “then you have a big […]
Republican Capitol Coup-d’etat
The Senate Republicans, upset over the budget that their leader had agreed to, successfully initiated a coup-d’etat and ousted their leader Dave Codgill for cutting […]
Assembly Speaker on Budget Vote
SACRAMENTO – In this week’s Democratic address, Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) sees spending cuts and new revenues as necessary components of a budget […]
OC Probation Chief AWOL
Colleene Preciado, Orange County’s Chief Probation Officer, fired off an email to her staff on Friday evening in another demonstration of the misinformation campaign being […]
Groundhog Day 2009
Today February 2nd is Groundhog Day. The official history of Groundhog Day can be found here and starts out like this: Groundhog Day, February 2nd, is […]