Here is an example of her charismatic speaking ability. https://www.instagram.com/bettymartinezforirvine/reel/DIC4ZuKSEJ3/
Have you ever heard or seen Betty speak? She is an unmitigated disaster. And, if she wins, Agran’s platform is…
Carville calls for a progressives to split from the Democratic Party over pronoun politics. That group is poison. Toxic!!! https://www.foxnews.com/media/james-carville-suggests-split-left-over-pronoun-politics.amp
It is not a democracy and it became part of the Soviet Union in Apr of 1920 where it remained…
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…
desalination Archive
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Poseidon Desal: Will OCWD be Shipwrecked by Mermaids?
Posted on June 10, 2015 | 40 Comments. . . by John Earl, cross-posted from Surf City Voice. Centuries ago, explorers sailed Poseidon’s Seven Seas looking for beautiful mermaids and lands full of golden treasures. Although some […] -
Weekend Open Thread: Prop 218 and Tiered Water Rates
Posted on June 6, 2015 | 6 CommentsTiered Rates are fine. Obfuscation isn't. -
Dina Nguyen stands up Garden Grove, skips fascinating Poseidon forum.
Posted on May 20, 2015 | 27 Comments. . . INTRO BY VERN: Easy-going and honest OCWD Director Phil Anthony, who represents the western one-third of Garden Grove on the water board and who was one of […] -
The Poseidon Adventure Sails On!
Posted on May 14, 2015 | 29 CommentsOCWD voted 7-3 to have North County rate payers subsidize South County development. -
Showdown at the OCWD Corral nears; R4RD fires volley at Poseidon Term Sheet.
Posted on May 12, 2015 | 28 Comments. . . Vern here. I’ve been guilty of thinking, and communicating, that each new development in the OCWD/Poseidon courtship is the final and irreversible one, which could lead to […] -
Swan Song for Poseidon? Irvine’s Peer Swan unleashes a Blast of Truth at the Connecticut Hedge-Fund Pirates.
Posted on March 17, 2015 | 3 Comments. . . Wishful thinking there, and a pun, in the title. What are the chances really that, no matter how much sense was shared at last week’s desal townhall […] -
Pat Bates Baits us with Bogus Doomsday Drought Scenario.
Posted on March 17, 2015 | 8 Comments. . . By Debbie Cook, cross-posted from Surf City Voice On March 11, the San Diego Union-Tribune posted an op-ed, “Desalination makes sense for Orange County,” “written” by Assemblywoman […] -
OCWD’s forecast for the future: Cloudy with a huge chance of Error.
Posted on March 7, 2015 | 12 Comments. . . by Debbie Cook; cross-posted from Surf City Voice. Give me a chimpanzee with a dart board and I’ll give you a water demand forecast about as reliable […] -
The Iceman (Waterman) Cometh!
Posted on September 4, 2014 | 22 CommentsGoing in depth on any subject usually comes about because the things discussed are complex. People are complex. Problems are complex. You start to read an article on […] -
OCWD’s Stephen Sheldon clams up on Poseidon vote, Flory shakes things up.
Posted on June 1, 2014 | 4 CommentsBy John Earl from Surf City Voice, May 29, 2014 “No comment!” That’s all that Director Stephen Sheldon will say about his participation in a recent Orange County Water District […] -
Poseidon’s Water Boy: Matt Harper Quietly Pushes Desal Scam Past Ratepayers.
Posted on May 30, 2014 | 5 CommentsFormer HB Mayor and energy activist Debbie Cook wrote this editorial a couple weeks ago in John Earl’s re-vivified Surf City Voice. As HB Mayor Matt Harper is running for […] -
Thankful for a Cornucopia of Victories This Year!
Posted on November 28, 2013 | 15 CommentsThis Thanksgiving, The Orange Juice Blog is grateful for several victories great and small the people of Orange County have been fighting for, with this blog at the forefront (in […] -
Poseidon runs headlong into “Infiltration Gallery.”
Posted on November 18, 2013 | 36 CommentsAs I stood about waiting for Wednesday’s marathon Coastal Commission hearing to begin, and beheld our nemesis, Poseidon VP Scott Maloni, stomping about scowling, I resolved to shake his hand. […]
Patrick Strader must be stewing in his own juices right now…