Register’s Newsroom, SCNG Journalists Poised to Strike
It’s election season, where media outlets reap the benefit of political advertising. Sure would be nice to have a newspaper to advertise in. Some 90% […]
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Of Fake Newspapers, Nuanced Communications, and Credentialed Media
Since 2014, I have a regular series of arguments on social media regarding the Irvine Community News & Views, a/k/a “Larry Agran’s fake […]
Irvine DTS Council Candidate’s Financial Troubles Exposed
Our friends at Irvine Watchdog published this detailed and well-documented report on Parrisa Yazdani, who is running for Irvine City Council as a Decline to […]
Vote no on Anaheim’s Recall of Natalie Rubalcalva
The Orange Juice blog’s Vern Nelson hasn’t quite figured out that the Orange County Register’s editorial desk is using him – as a Democrat – […]
Democrats can Ignore the SCNG Editorial Board and its Columnists
For $12, I re-upped by subscription with the Orange County Register last month. The paper’s news pages and journalists with long intitutional knowledge do good […]
Register Opinion Desk Continues to Target Dave Min; Reminds Us of Our Constitutional Right to Keep and “Bare” Arms
His byline isn’t on the column, but Register Opinion Editor Sal Rodriguez’s fingerprints are all over a story about State Senator Dabe Min’s tweets regarding […]
Free Speech or Hate Speech?
(long post warning; profanity warning; stay with it) For fans of the Amazon show “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” a welcome real-life character makes his way […]
Democrats Continue to Support Min’s Congressional Bid
Since his May 3 arrest for a DUI, State Senator Dave Min has managed to retain all of his endorsements for Congress in CA-47. (But […]
The Devil in the Details of the CUSD Strike
I’ve been writing about Capistrano Unified School District and the struggles with our current Board of Trustees. The teachers went on strike Thursday even as talks began regarding the contract imposed by the CUSD Board of Trustees.
The details are important because they seem to be getting lost in translation between the media, the administration, the union and the parents. The issue is that Teachers are willing to take pay cuts, they just don’t want them to be permanent. There are other issues as well, which I’ve written about but the real issue is the board, who funded their race and the ultimate goal of a number of organizations to privatize our public education system.