OC Blog News Roundup - July 30, 2008
Posted by: Scott W. Graves | 07/30/2008 9:03 AM
O.C. QUAKE UPDATE: Cal State Fullerton reopens, Disney rides back up (OCR)Traffic and trains were moving freely this morning as Orange County shook off the effects of the magnitude-5.4 earthquake.
Supervisors OK ballot measure for voter-approved pension hikes (OCR)
Plan bars future boards from sweetening public workers' benefits
County pension hike issue to go on Orange County ballot (LAT)
Supervisors will let voters decide whether they should get to rule on future benefits increases for workers.
Garden Grove to reconsider its artificial turf ban (OCR)
The council tonight will review a city ordinance that forbids residents and businesses from installing synthetic lawns after residents argued that it hampers water conservation.
Bon voyage, Peggy Lowe (OCR)
She won a presitigous 10-month Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Editorial: What if this quake had been the Big One? (OCR)
People need to be ready to fend for themselves right after a major earthquake
Bush signs housing bill to provide mortgage relief (AP)
Mr. Ayer registered as a Republican to be electable in an interim election with no incumbents. He did...
Supervisors OK ballot measure for voter-approved pension hikes (OCR)
“Supervisor Chris Norby, who voted against a benefit increase for the majority of
This initiative is political posturing and comes ten years too late. The plan sends a message that supervisors can't trust themselves to do the right thing,
Do we really want to vote to save ourselves from ourselves? - Supervisor Chris Norby” voting against the initiative before he voted for it.
"Bush signs housing bill to provide mortgage relief"
Nice framing, but the headline should of read..."Bush signs bailout bill that will cost taxpayers A trillion dollars"