Newman refers to its being a democracy at its outset. Listen carefully with your ears and mind open: the compliments…
Wow -- alive since 1895 and now it will be dead due to greed and incompetence. And here I thought…
After all those years of not representing businesses in Anaheim. What a shame. Mrs. Cunningham's brilliant business acumen couldn't save…
Ding Dong the Chamber's Dead. https://www.ocregister.com/2025/04/15/anaheim-chamber-of-commerce-will-close-at-months-end-ceo-has-told-board-and-staff/ Real shame they didn't lock more of them up.
The problem is Azerbaijan is not democratic. And voting is a joke in Azerbaijan regardless of gender. https://freedomhouse.org/country/azerbaijan (as of…
Thanks for the tip. Some of these are paraphrases: "First secular democracy in the Muslim world." "Granted women the vote…
Remedial English class is now assembled! "Ditched" would be appropriate if she had gone to the show and then stormed…
The fun AOC dance was part of a recruitment video for Boston University, from which she graduated with honors with…
Lauren Johnson Norris ditched the ocasio and sanders show in downtown la this weekend for Las Vegas. How progressive (slots)…
brea Archive
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Los Alamitos Sweeps the Gold, Brea Picks Up a Bronze, in Show Choir National Championship
Posted on April 25, 2015 | No Comments. . . Orange County picked up 50% of the ribbons and had four of the 15 finalists in the FAME Show Choir National Championship in Waukegan, Illinois this weekend, with the […] -
Brea Council Meeting on Jamming Through $9MM Parking Structure, Part 3: “Blight” Caplow’s Hard Sell
Posted on April 20, 2015 | 9 Comments7. 24 Caplow Claims, 24 BREAN Commentaries I covered the first 30 seconds of Mark Caplow’s first speech to City Council on the $9MM parking structure here (where you’ll also see […] -
Brea Council Meeting on Jamming Through $9MM Parking Structure, Part 2: “Blight” Caplow Must Go
Posted on April 19, 2015 | 3 Comments4. Caplow Must Release the Hostage Only one thing about Downtown Brea really does suck : the deliberately blighted Tower Records building, which this November will “celebrate” the end of its tenth […] -
Brea Council Meeting on Jamming Through $9MM Parking Structure, Part 1: Audience Matters
Posted on April 18, 2015 | 13 Comments[Cross-posted from this story at THE BREAN.] 1. Introduction Brea’s City Council doesn’t have many Wednesday night meetings, nor many four-hour meetings, but it did both this past week. The meeting […] -
Brea Taxpayer ALERT – Stop the $9M Parking Structure Ripoff! (Non-Breans: It’s Like Anaheim in Miniature!)
Posted on April 15, 2015 | 16 Comments[Cross-posted from THE BREAN, where I also spend some of my bloggin’ time.] Here it comes — as suddenly as predicted, as ridiculous as expected: it’s the $9,000,000 parking structure giveaway. On […] -
See the art of Zenger and others, this weekend in Newport!
Posted on March 26, 2015 | 6 CommentsDid you know that our frequent and acerbic commenter David Zenger, bane of OC’s kleptocrats, one of the two visionaries behind the Fullerton Rail District (with Tony Bushala, above) is also […] -
State Senator Bob Huff to Meet with Lobbyists in Hawai’i
Posted on November 17, 2014 | 6 CommentsIt’s a tough life being a California State Senator. Long hours and plenty of travel are needed to serve the people of the 29th District, which stretches from Cypress to […] -
Weekend Open Thread: Dave Gilliard’s Dirty Money is Polluting a Race Near You
Posted on October 24, 2014 | 21 CommentsDave Gilliard's California Homeowners Association funnels dark money in local races. Who do you recognize? -
If You Would Briefly Indulge a Happy Parent of a Child in the Arts….
Posted on July 27, 2013 | No CommentsI am, in a minor way, a “stage parent.” I love the fact that my daughter is at a school with an award winning “show choir” program — more or […] -
No on Brea’s T and U and V. Recommendations for the Greatest City of the Mall.
Posted on October 29, 2012 | 7 CommentsI don’t write much about politics in my hometown of Brea. Partly this is because Fullerton, 1/3 of a mile south of my home, is really really interesting. But partially it’s […] -
‘Gentefication’ Sweeps Through Downtown Brea!
Posted on April 1, 2012 | 8 CommentsThe northern Orange County city of Brea, embarrassed by its historical past as a racist ‘Sundown Town’ with lots of Ku Klux Klan members as ‘civic pioneers,’ is aggressively pursuing […] -
Brea Police! Yorba Linda Council! County Sheriff! Unions! Murder!
Posted on January 2, 2012 | 43 Comments. . . This post is written at the suggestion of our commenter Kenlaysnotdead — a sentiment that I suspect, by the way, to be true — at the bottom […]
It is not a democracy and it became part of the Soviet Union in Apr of 1920 where it remained…