OC Blog News Roundup - July 15, 2008
Posted by: Jubal | 07/15/2008 7:58 AM
Today's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:'Death Spiral' Of Relationship Between Former OC Sheriff Carona And Dist. Atty. Rackauckas Is Described On Secret Tapes (LAT)
Prosecutors quote snippets of Michael Carona's obscenity-laden discussion in an effort to let jurors hear the tapes.
Hundreds Of UCI Workers Go On Strike (OCR)
Janitors, parking attendants, hospital workers walk the picket lines.
Newport Beach Peeved By Pork Protester (OCR)
Is Rep. John Campbell right to resist earmarks for environmental project?
Fountain Valley City Council To Discuss 'In God We Trust' Again (OCR)
Elected leaders on Tuesday will also consider options that could reinstate the library's Sunday hours.
4 of OC's 7 Biggest Cities Lose Population (OCR)
If population growth supposedly drives a healthy housing market, then recent stats from the Census Bureau -- population growth for municipalities with 100,000-plus folks -- shows another challenge for local real estate.
Mission Viejo Making Adults Pay tab For Teen Drinking (OCR)
City becomes first in O.C. to fine adults for underage alcohol use.
'Fear And Anxiety' In Costa Mesa (DP)
Hundreds of nervous customers flocked to the Costa Mesa branch of IndyMac Bank Monday morning fearing they might lose the money they had invested in the failed institution.
Use Of 91 Tollroad Declines, But Fares Hold Steady (OCR)
But not enough to trigger a policy that would lower fees.
Chapman Opening East Coast Research Center (OCR)
Small research center in Bethesda, Maryland to enable some of its newly-recruited computational scientists to continue collaborating with scholars at NASA and other federal agencies on the East Coast.
Nicholas Moves To Dismiss SEC's $2.2 Billion Backdating Suit (OCR)
Like the headlines says.
What Bugs You About South County Traffic? (OCR)
Transportation Town Hall in Ladera Ranch will focus on problems and solutions.
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RE: Mission Viejo Makes Adults Pay For Teen Driving
Thousand Oaks, Mission Viejo, Irvine and Lake Forest continually rank at the top of the list of the safest cities (for their size) in the nation by FBI reporting standards.
Public safety in these safe cities is not accidental, but a top priority for their respective civic leaders. We previously reported (circa 11-2004) that the mayor pro tem of Thousand Oaks, one of the safest cities in the US stated that "... Public safety is our primary concern. We will do everything in our power to keep our city safe….” In Rancho Conejo Village, an 875-home community in Thousand Oaks, the association has even tried issuing its own tickets, for instance.
The Morgan Quitno Awards for the 2005 Safest Cities rank Mission Viejo in fourth place, Lake Forest at number six and Irvine in 11th place, exactly what we published in the November 2004.
Now Mission Viejo is tackling underage drinking by making parents responsible. The message sent by the Mission Viejo City Council is loud and clear: We care about public safety. You aid and abet teen drinking, you pay!
Suppose Mission Viejo Annexes Coto de Caza, afflcited by the GRUPS, aka Peter Pan Syndrome, the Coto Soccer Mom Syndrom and a community with crime risk index (2004 FBI) twice that of Lake Forest - what happens then?