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It's A Gray Area: Incarceration is not always the best option
One thing that starkly sets the United States apart from other Western industrial countries is our incarceration rate. Today our country has more than 2.3 million people in jail or prison, which means that, with about 5% of the world's population, we have...Tags: Mental Health, Prisons, Punishment, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Hearing on dock fees delayed
A hearing scheduled for Thursday afternoon that could have decided the fate of a lawsuit alleging that the Newport Beach City Council broke a state transparency law while enacting a series of dock fee increases was postponed until June. An Orange... -
Newport to ask judge to close recovery homes
Newport Beach's city attorney said Monday that the city plans to ask a judge this week to close seven recovery homes found to be operating outside of the law. The proposal comes after an Orange County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that...Tags: Lawyers, Laws, Justice System, Alcohol Addiction, Crime, Law and Justice
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It's A Gray Area: A bigger House is more representative
Here is an idea that was suggested to me on the campaign trail — and the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. See if it does to you. Article I Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution specifies that each member of the House of Representatives...Tags: Lobbying, Politics, Elections, U.S. House of Representatives, Justice System
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Ruling: St. James must return church to Episcopal diocese
The long-disputed St. James Anglican Church campus in Newport Beach belongs to the larger Episcopal Church Diocese of Los Angeles, an Orange County Superior Court judge ruled last week. St. James members split from the Episcopal Church nine years ago...Tags: Anglicanism, Religion and Belief, Christianity
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It's A Gray Area: Government is not the road out of poverty
The road to success for communities struggling with poverty is generally not hard to find, or even to travel. All it requires is a firm reliance upon yourself instead of government. To drive that point home, candidly ask yourself what government has...Tags: Ethics, Religion and Belief, Peace Corps, Taiwan, Costa Rica
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Records: Man killed in bomb blast had lab equipment
The Costa Mesa home of a man who blew himself up last month contained an array of laboratory equipment, mysterious liquids and powders and a homemade shotgun, court documents show. Costa Mesa police responded to a home in the 3100 block of Bermuda Drive...
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It's A Gray Area: Lessons from Thatcherism remain relevant
As you know, Margaret Thatcher died April 8 at the age of 87 after serving as Britain's prime minister from 1979 until 1990. We owe her a debt for at least two reasons, one of them principled, the other cautionary. First and foremost, Thatcher took...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Politics, United Kingdom, FedEx Corporation, Business
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Kidnap case moves forward
Months before a Newport Beach man was kidnapped and severely beaten last year, he had traveled to Las Vegas with a business acquaintance he knew from his Orange County medical marijuana dispensary, according to court testimony given Wednesday by police...Tags: Lawyers, Prosecution, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Criminals, Court Preliminary
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Killer, rapist gets death penalty
A man convicted of one murder and multiple rapes, including one in Costa Mesa, will receive the death penalty. Waymon Livingston, 29, of Stanton, was convicted in February of one felony count of special-circumstances murder in the commission of sodomy,...Tags: Crimes, Criminals, Punishment, Trials, Murder
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Dock fee opponents drop request to stop collections
After private discussions with an Orange County Superior Court judge, the attorney for the Newport Beach Dock Owners Assn. agreed Friday to drop a request for a temporary restraining order that would have kept the city from collecting contested...Tags: Lawyers, Court Preliminary, Trials, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Judge blocks accused killer from transferring property
An Orange County Superior Court judge on Tuesday prohibited a man accused of killing a Newport Beach doctor from transferring ownership of his property to relatives, according to an attorney for the victim's family. Stanwood Elkus, 75, of Lake Elsinore,...
Tags: Prosecution, Court Preliminary, Trials, Defendants, Murder
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