Factors impacting Orange County's future...
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East meets West Side Story
I hope OC Metro readers will excuse my absence from blogging these past weeks, but I have now returned from a two-week cultural exchange in China. Touring with the Southern California Master Chorale...
View ArticleThe state budget impasse drags on...
Six weeks past the constitutional deadline for a state budget, everyone has “drawn lines in the sand” in Sacramento. Republicans won’t raise taxes, Democrats won’t go for a real spending cap and the...
View ArticleLet's get back to real jobs creation
Have you seen Disney’s animated movie, "UP"? It’s a great story about Carl, a 78-year-old retired salesman who ties balloons to his house and flies away with Russell, an 8-year-old stowaway, and his...
View ArticleToyota is under siege
Toyota – the world’s largest automaker – has its troubles now, no doubt. More than 6 million cars recalled, product liability issues, injured drivers and a reputation badly beaten. Add to that,...
View ArticleTreasurer Street reaches a dead end
Orange County doesn't seem to have the best of luck when it comes to electing good treasurers. According to O.C. historian (and former OCBC CEO) Stan Oftelie, two of the county's earliest treasurers,...
View ArticleReturn local control of education now
State and federal lawmakers and bureaucrats are holding our children hostage. They are well intentioned, no doubt, but the road to hell is paved with their good intentions. And the travel is getting...
View ArticleRoses, radishes, squirrels sighted
In the garden of O.C. what we need is some serious cabbage, but instead we recently discovered some roses, radishes and a few squirrels. Jobs creation is No. 1. With O.C.’s near 10 percent unemployment...
View ArticleOCTA teaches jobs creation 101
You know the facts: Nationally, about 370,000 government jobs were just “created” versus only 41,000 private-sector jobs. With a real state unemployment rate nearing 20 percent (counting those...
View ArticleDisneyland lawsuit centers on 'costume'
Recently, Orange County's biggest private employer has been in the spotlight over a suit filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by Imane Boudlal, a restaurant hostess working at...
View ArticleBudget stalemate: When will it end?
Why is it that we Californians will watch a freeway chase of a car going nowhere fast? Fascinated with the police chase? Waiting for action, even a potential crash? Hoping for the ultimate real-time...
View ArticleObamacare: facts vs. hype
On Nov. 9, the Register's Opinion pages published opposing views on health-care reform ("Is it time to dismantle health reform law?"), one of which mentioned Orange County Business Council research by...
View ArticleLobbying 101: I say 'squirrel'
With the travesty in mismanagement at the city of Bell, Sacramento budget disasters, government regulations choking business at every level of our lives, under-funded public pensions and a sluggish...
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