Let’s close this week out of policy look-back by discussing homelessness. Since Gov. Newsom took office in 2019, homelessness in California has risen by 30,000
If we’ve learned one thing from the November elections in Orange County, it’s that scandals that would once have doomed a candidacy are no longer
This month, 60% of voters in overwhelmingly Hispanic and Democratic Santa Ana, one of California’s largest cities, soundly rejected Measure DD, a ballot measure to
One of the measures Santa Ana voters will be called up to decide this election is Measure DD – whether or not to allow non-citizens
This is the first election in which the Irvine City Council will be elected from districts, instead of at-large. There are four districts on the
In January 2015 I, along with five other well-qualified Trustee Area 1 residents applied to fill a temporary School Board vacancy in the Garden Grove
As we have previously editorialized, the La Habra City Council’s mismanagement of city finances has created a budget crisis. The 0.5% sales tax enacted in
They say the devil is in the details. And buried in Orange Unified School District Board of Education agendas, it seems. The OUSD Board of
We’ve got some deception going on in a Newport Beach city council race right now. My colleague, Noah Blom, is running against my former colleague,
VietRise and ChispaOC are two radical advocacy groups that have been striving mightily during the past few years to shift Orange County local governments –
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