The broadest exposure most of our readers have to the court system is jury service. Our Court Room Diary feature allows readers to gain insight into the day-to-day working of our court system from the viewpoint of a bystander, rather than as a prospective juror, plaintiff or defendant. Our first Court Room Diary follows the [...]

The Anaheim/OC Job Fair and Expo, this year with currently 165 employers representing more than 2,350 jobs, will take place on June 13 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the Anaheim Convention Center. The new location will allow for more convention space for the employer recruiters, as well as organizations leading career building workshops, [...]

The items shown below are culled from the logs of the Cypress police department. No inference of guilt is implied in showing any item. May 25, 2012 SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE – 1:04 a.m. – Undisclosed location – Attempt to contact the registered owner regarding an unlocked and open vehicle door. Contacted the vehicle owner who was [...]

The items shown below are culled from the logs of the Cypress police department. No inference of guilt is implied in showing any item. May 24, 2012 GRAND THEFT REPORT – 6:27 a.m. – 5400 block of Rome Ave. – The catalytic converter was stolen from a Volkswagen van overnight. The caller is reporting that [...]

The federal Bureau of Economic Analysis released a report today that says that California ranked in the top fifth nationally for economic growth in 2011. That sounds good, until you realize that the national growth rate was a weak 1.5%, down from 3.1% the previous year. In 2010, the Far West’s economy shrank by 3.8%. [...]

A paragraph from an article by Kyle Trygstad today at Roll Call is irksome: For those of us in northern and northwestern Orange County, calling the Citizen’s Redistricting Commission “nonpartisan” is nettling, considering the cross-county-line raids to plop chunks of conservative Orange County into districts that decisively lean Democratic. The bland phrase “more seats in [...]

Google Analytics, the software that tracks and analyzes website activity for oc-breeze.com, is endlessly fascinating. Tweaking the various reports to gain different views on that activity can easily gobble up an hour — or half a day. Here is a small snippet to go with yesterday’s map of where our readers are. This list shows [...]