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College district trustees back governor's tax increase
HUNTINGTON BEACH — Coast Community College District trustees have come out in support of a proposed statewide tax increase aimed at staving off cuts to classes, programs, services and staff. The Board of Trustees unanimously passed a resolution...Tags: Government, David Grant, Personal Income, Politics, Colleges and Universities
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Apodaca: Corporations have no place in public education
How far should we go to save public education? So far as to name a school gym after a corporate sponsor? Let business interests influence textbook content? Put cigarette and junk food ads on the sides of school buses? If you think these ideas sound far-...Tags: Government, Budgets and Budgeting, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Companies and Corporations
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Campaign rally for Gray is Saturday
Retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Jim Gray, the Libertarian Party nominee for vice president, will participate in a campaign rally at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Bowers Museum, 2002 North Main St., Santa Ana. A question-and-answer session will...Tags: Justice System, Government, Orange County Superior Court, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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Republican, Democrat named to Fair Board
Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday appointed to the Orange County Fair Board an attorney who worked to stop the proposed sale of the fairgrounds and a businessman whose company provided trash service to Newport Beach. Attorney Ashleigh Aitken, 36, a Democrat...Tags: Justice System, Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Lawyers
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Apodaca: We must preserve public education
By many measures, 2011 was a momentous year. Osama bin Laden was finally tracked down and killed. The Arab Spring uprisings toppled ruthless regimes. The Eurozone's unity was sorely tested. The Occupy protest movement swept across America. Closer to...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Government, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Colleges and Universities
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Wisconsin governor to visit Newport Beach
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, hero to small-government conservatives and villain to organized labor, is stopping by conservative bastion Newport Beach on Thursday while he visits Southern California for the Rose Bowl game. In any other year, the...Tags: Republican Party, Government, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Rose Bowl Game
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Mailbag: It's Berardino that Costa Mesa cannot trust
I was shocked and angered to read Joseph Serna's story "Berardino: City is not to be trusted" on Dec. 15 in which union boss and recent Orange County Fair Board appointee Nick Berardino moved to cut Costa Mesa's ties with the annual Barrett-Jackson auto...Tags: Christianity, Government, Career and Workplace, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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Community Commentary: California needs to change mandatory-minimum sentencing
Prison reform has dominated California's budgeting discussions. When a state with 10% of the nation's prisoners makes 20% of the nation's prison expenditures, something must be wrong. Or so the argument goes. To save money, Gov. Jerry Brown recently...Tags: Republican Party, Government, Crime, Law and Justice, United Nations, Politics
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Steinberg: My Super Bowl memories
Super Bowl week is a convention of Americana. It has transcended the narrow genre of football to become a gathering place for corporate, media, entertainment and political figures who will descend on Indianapolis this week. The general rule is that if...Tags: Government, Jay Leno, Charity, Janet Napolitano, Oliver Stone
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Costa Mesa firm in fight for RDA funds
A Costa Mesa-based law firm on Feb. 1 is representing a coalition of cities hoping to block the December decision to dissolve the state's redevelopment agencies. Attorneys for Rutan & Tucker argued before a Sacramento County Superior Court judge,...Tags: Justice System, Justice System, Government, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice
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Group wants Ellis off Fair Board
COSTA MESA — It seems all the dust hasn't settled from the state's failed attempt to sell the Orange County Fairgrounds and the Fair Board's effort to buy it in 2009. The Orange County Fair Preservation Society, a grass-roots group of residents and...Tags: Government, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lobbying, Equestrian, Politics
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Steinberg: Steriods not for sports
Warren Moon, the late coach Bill Walsh, Ken Dorsey and I testified before the California Senate and Assembly several years back supporting a bill by State Senator Jackie Speier to ban steroids and dangerous supplements from high school students and...Tags: Government, Drugs and Medicines, Jackie Speier, Politics, Schools
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