Andy, Andy, Andy. What were you thinking? Andrew Do, Orange County Supervisor for the First District, has been in the news the last few weeks and ended his term on the board […]
Do not do what Do did
Washroom policy a washout?
Sometimes the most … wait, let me be fair, here … controversial ideas started with good intentions but end up biting us in the seat of our Levis. It’s been reported that […]
Why not do ‘Great Things’?
A while ago I wrote in this space about a certain disappointment with some of the speakers at a recent candidates forum. Some of them confused the city government with the school […]
Halloween is past its ‘salad days’
October is the perfect time for people to change their appearance and pretend to be someone they aren’t. Yes, there’s a double meaning in that, referring to how folks – and not […]
Those 2024 campaign capers
Editor’s note: Second part of Retort’s new “Kudos and Komplaints.” Here are the Komplaints. Read on for the Delights and Disappointments. I don’t care for campaign signs. I realize that “name recognition” […]
Ugly tunnel now a paintin’ place
A debut of a new Retorts feature: Kudos and Komplaints pointing out what’s worthy – in my opinion – of praise or worth of gripes. Tunnel We Love: The pedestrian tunnel (between […]
Justice for all, not just for us
Ten people, including two professors, will face misdemeanor charges of refusing to disperse as police tried to clear the University of California, Irvine campus of encampments in May created to demonstrate for […]
Retorts: Time for ‘tough love’
Cities all across our West Orange County and – and probably – all across California are busy composing anti-camping ordinances aimed at clearing clusters of homeless people creating impromptu settlements on public […]
Hey, use your thinkers, voters!
Now, wasn’t that an interesting debate? One candidate said the foreign leaders would “eat the lunch” of the other candidate, while the other claimed that a town in the Midwest is plagued […]
Is mixed-use trend a sort of a mix-up for Orange County?
I don’t suppose that in the midst of an historic presidential election, the beginning of the NFL season and the stretch run of the baseball pennant (and playoff) races many people are […]
