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So How Did Hugh Hewitt Get Onto the OC Children and Families Commission?
Here’s a post we ran last summer. Why is it timely? Beacuse I noticed on Tuesday’s Board of Supervisor’s agenda an item to reappoint all of Supervisor Bill Campbell’s minions on the OC Children and...
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Will Merging Water Districts Help or Harm Fullerton?
Earlier this month Terri Sforza wrote about a possible merger between Metropolitan Water District and the Orange County Water District. For years the Orange County Register has pointed out the...
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Fullerton’s Water Rep to Step Down
Amid Fullerton’s water rate debacle the City’s representative on the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California announced Tuesday that he is stepping down. After representing the City of...
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$6,000 Bonuses Part of Fullerton Water Rate Hike
As the Fullerton City Council prepares to hike water rates as “pass-through increases” I thought it would be good to share the sweet deal MWD employees get on April 1, 2012 (no, its not a joke) and see...
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The Shame of The Human Relations Commission
Three minutes elapsed. Nothing was said. There has been a lot of boohooing lately about the future of the County’s Human Relations Commission. As usual, it seems that those doing the biggest drum...
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CSUF Giving Up on “University Heights” Fiasco?
Those birds won’t be coming home to roost. Not if CSUF can help it. A few years ago Cal State Fullerton decided to get into the housing business for its employees. Why public employees should get any...
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What To Do About The Illegal Water Tax
On Tuesday the City Council is scheduled to discuss what they want to do about the embarrassing fact that the City charged an illegal 10% tax on our water bill for fifteen years, amassing a total...
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Jan Flory Talks About Sex and Water
Correct. We do not want you to discuss sexy issues. Okay this post is not about Jan Flory discussing anything remotely “sexy” because the thought of that…well, never mind. The post is about her latest...
View ArticleThe Cop Playbook. Public Safety Has Nothing To Do With It.
For paranoia, sheer cynicism and demonstration of unbridled self-interest there’s nothing that can beat this “playbook” created by the law firm of Lackie, Dammeier & McGill for use by their...
View ArticleMunicipal Redevelopment Arrogance: A Common Scourge
Sometimes you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Like the case in Philly where a local businessman may be sued by the Redevelopment Agency for cleaning up trash and beautifying a piece of blighted...
View ArticleCounty Wants To Build Homeless Shelter On State College
Fullertonstories is reporting here, that the County of Orange wants to build a homeless shelter on south State College in Fullerton. They may be soon buying the Linder Furniture store for $3,000,000....
View ArticleSHELTER FALLOUT
The County of Orange’s attempt to cram a permanent homeless shelter in east Fullerton across the street from single-family homes and an elementary school have taught us four things, so far. First, it...
View ArticleWe Get Mail: A Most Unhappy Neighbor
Friends, here is a letter sent to Mayor Bruce Whitaker and thoughtfully provided to us from a citizen who live in the Chapman Park neighborhood across the street from the proposed site of a County...
View ArticleWill We Get a Refund?
Item 7 on Tuesday’s City Council Agenda brings back a sore subject: paying back the water users who’ve been ripped off by years of an illegal 10% tax on their water bill. Thanks to the previous council...
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Prepare to be “Educated”
The other day a sharp-eyed commenter noticed that OC Supervisor Shawn Nelson is rolling into town on Tuesday to make a “presentation” about his homeless shelter proposal over on State College to the...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
It was bound to be a rocky ride. Last week the ever helpful Fullerton City Hall scribe Lou Ponsi scribbled a story about how Fullerton needs a transit dedicated line from the CSUF area to the Fullerton...
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Ready for Another Water Rate Increase?
Probably the biggest vote at tomorrow’s City Council meeting is the Red Oak development . Josh Ferguson has already discussed that issue in his excellent article here so there’s no need for me to pile...
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Rusty’s Bank Account
A while back some anonymous Friend dropped off what appears to be leaked financial statements from Rusty Kennedy’s non-profit, the Orange County Human Relations Council. The files didn’t receive much...
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Another Felzian Development
Word has got out that disgraced former city manager Joe Felz is working with Crittenton Services on a new “mixed-use” development on Harbor Boulevard. It’s hard to imagine Crittenden – that takes care...
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DEA Helicopter Crashes at Fullerton Airport
There was a crash at the Fullerton Airport this morning. By the time the media arrived, the FAA registration numbers on the tail had been carefully covered up with a tarp. Initial media reports...
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