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Why the state budget never gets smaller

This morning’s Capitol Alert from the Sacramento Bee provides an example of why the budget of the state of California never gets smaller:     Somebody needs to explain to Assembly Speaker John Pérez that you’re n...
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Guest Editorial
Gary DeLong, CA-47 Congressional candidate

Congressional candidate Gary DeLong asks whether higher taxes are necessary

The following information was released by Congressional candidate Gary DeLong. Emphasis added. Note that Mr. DeLong addresses only his Democratic opponent, Alan Lowenthal. Because of the new “top-two” primary, the June prim...
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Room with a view: I’m fat and that’s that

I cheerily admit to being fat and happy — I never lost all the weight gained during my third pregnancy, and despite hit-or-miss efforts ever since, the needle on my bathroom scale has never slumped towards my premarital weigh...
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Room with a view: almost a fight

The Los Alamitos City Council maintained an eerie display of amiableness through most of the discussion of agenda item 9A at the Council’s regular meeting on Monday, April 2. That item proposed that the Council consider holdi...
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Room with a view: speed bump ahead

Just when you thought you might make a (far-fetched) case for two apartment-dwelling members of the City Council getting special hurry-up handling for a pet project — speeders in the alley behind their (separate) residences ...
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Top Ten Stories for March 18 through March 25

These were the most read stories at Orange County Breeze from March 18 through March 25: Suspect arrested for videotaping a victim in a bathroom stall at Cypress College Apartment fire on Green Avenue in Los Alamitos Transient ...
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Editorial
Gary DeLong, CA-47 Congressional candidate

Congressional candidate DeLong decries partisan bickering

The following information was released by Friends of Gary DeLong. Are you tired of the partisan bickering in Washington? I know I am. I just returned from spending three days in our nation’s capitol, meeting with both Rep...
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Editorial
Sanford Kahn

Congressional candidate Kahn supports flat tax

The following information was released by Sanford Kahn, candidate for Congress in the 47th District. Sanford Kahn, Candidate for Congress in the new 47th district, strongly supports a Flat Rate Income Tax of between 15 to 17% w...
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Top Ten Stories for March 11 through March 17

These were the most read stories at Orange County Breeze from Feb. 26 through Mar. 3: Surfriders to hear about solar surfboards from owner of Coral Reef wetsuits Seven-day weather forecast for OCB Country, 11 Mar. 2012 through ...
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Top Ten Stories for Mar. 4 through Mar. 10

These were the most read stories at Orange County Breeze from March 4 through March 10: Seven-day weather forecast for OCB Country from 4 March 2012 through 10 March 2012 Five men to be arraigned for defrauding hundreds of vict...
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Room with a View: Facebook going public will not save California from the reckless spending of its politicians

Sacramento politicians — up to and including Governor Jerry Brown — look forward to Facebook going public not because it represents a successful technology business firmly planted in the new millennium but because the initi...
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Room with a View: Council factions try to bury the hatchet in Los Alamitos

The confrontation over item 9D on the agenda for the March 6 Los Alamitos City Council meeting did not rise to the high level of tragic grace shown by Grant and Lee at Appomattox Courthouse, but we can all be grateful that no o...
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Top Ten Stories for Feb. 26 through Mar. 3

These were the most read stories at Orange County Breeze from Feb. 26 through Mar. 3: Seven day weather forecast for-OCB Country 26 Feb 2012 through 3 Mar 2012 State seeking significant surprise cuts to community colleges Addit...
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Top Ten Stories for Feb. 19 through Feb. 25

These were the most read stories at Orange County Breeze from Feb. 19 through Feb. 25: Westminster woman charged in fraudulent real estate investment scheme Additional victims sought of Anahiem Hills teacher charged with lewd a...
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Wings, Wheels, Rotors and Expo 2012

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  • Griffin Girls Lacrosse win 4th straight OC Championship
    The Los Alamitos Girls Lacrosse team won their fourth straight Orange County Girls L:Lacrosse Championship,  downing Corona Del Mar 12-6 on Thursday evening. The Griffins, who improved their record to 17-2, were led by senior Keaton Otake and sophomore Grace Schmidt-Beck who each scored four goals.  Soph Haley Fessenden added three. Los Al now advances to th […]
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    The Los Al Boys Volleyball, team, the Sunset League’s No. 3 seed, gave Santa Barbara, the Channel league’s champion all it could handle but the Griffins came up short in their CIF Divisioon I playoffs opening round match-up The Dons won the last two games to pull out a dramatic 18-25, 25-10, 23-25, 25-20, 16-14 victory. In the final set, with the score tied […]