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Editorial
California state budget May revise, LCFF, local control funding formula

Keep your eye on Sacramento’s budget follies

We are enduring consequences of long-standing budget follies by the California State Legislature. Even as the non-partisan Legislative Analyst predicts a rosier budget project than Governor Brown, local results of earlier budge...
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Business
money, fist, business suit

Bill to carve out exception to Prop. 13 property tax protection stalled

At last week’s Seal Beach Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast, Seth Eaker provided an update on legislative matters that included mention of AB 188, which would strip commercial property of Prop. 13 protection from tax i...
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Gallup's Trend in Self-Reported U.S. Average Daily Spending, Monthly Averages by Income Since January 2008.

Marketing Maven: All politics is local? All marketing is local!

You could have the best product in the world and it wouldn’t help… You could have the best advertising agency in the world to create the best marketing campaign for the best product in the world and it wouldn’t help… Yo...
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Business
Los Angeles Business Council, Sustainability Summit

Sustainability Summit has a distinct liberal Democratic bent

In an email this morning, the Sacramento Bee noted today’s Sustainability Summit sponsored by the Los Angeles Business Council: If you pay attention, you’ll notice that all the politicians on that list have a “D” after ...
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Editorial
Alan Lowenthal

Room with a view: an analysis of California House seats for the 2014 election

Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia Center for Politics is a well-regarded political analyst and his Crystal Ball a highly followed analysis of political trends and forecasts. This morning, Crystal Ball released an analy...
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Editorial
Cypress, Board of Equalization, Michelle Steel, Dr. Prakash Narain

Proposed fee to search court records hits poor litigants hardest

The following guest editorial was submitted by Michelle Steel, vice chairwoman of the California State Board of Equalization. Transparency is a bulwark of liberty. The right of the people to search court records is fundamental ...
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Business
money handshake

Room with a View: Mr. Ivler’s business co-op

Editor’s note: for the sake of transparency, readers should know that Orange County Breeze belongs to three Chambers of Commerce: Los Alamitos, Cypress, and Seal Beach. I sit on the board of directors of the Los Alamitos Area...
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Editorial
Ribbon cutting at Tri-Zone in Los Alamitos

Room with a view: eye roll, please (part 4)

Editor’s note: this editorial is divided in parts across days due to its length. Part 1: introduction and background Part 2: front-page article Part 3: editorial Part 4: conclusion This is part 4 of a four part editorial in r...
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Editorial
Los Alamitos City Councilman Dean Grose and Congressman Alan Lowenthal (D-CA47) at Bldg. 1001 on Los Alamitos JFTB.

Room with a view: eye roll, please (part 3)

Editor’s note: this editorial is divided in parts across days due to its length. Part 1: introduction and background Part 2: front-page article Part 3: editorial Part 4: conclusion This is part 3 of a four part editorial in r...
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Editorial
JFTB, hero mission, USMC, Marine, Cpl. Singer, Temecula

Room with a view: eye roll, please (part 2)

Editor’s note: this editorial is divided in parts across days due to its length. Part 1: introduction and background Part 2: front-page article Part 3: editorial Part 4: conclusion The links for parts 3 and 4 will become acti...
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Editorial
Los Alamitos City Council members Dean Grose, Troy Edgar and Richard Murphy at the groundbreaking for Sausalito Walk, a new residentail development in Los Alamitos.

Room with a view: eye roll, please (part 1)

Editor’s note: this editorial is divided in parts across days due to its length. Later links will work once later parts are actually published. Part 1: introduction and background (Sunday, Feb. 10) Part 2: front-page article ...
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Editorial
Republican elephant party icon

A peek ahead at the 2014 mid-term election, House edition

For conservative residents of northwest Orange County still smarting over redistricting that dumped them in a liberal-majority Congressional district that sent Alan Lowenthal (D-CA47) to Washington, D.C., a recent assessment by...
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Editorial
Cypress, Board of Equalization, Michelle Steel, Dr. Prakash Narain

California state budget balanced by overlooking important liabilities

The following editorial was written by California State Board of Equalization Vice Chair Michelle Steel. Ignoring hundreds of billions of dollars in unfunded retirement liabilities, the condition of the California economy, and ...
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Editorial
letters to the editor

Republican Women thank Orange County Breeze

The following email was received from the Rossmoor – Los Alamitos Republic Women Federated. Dear Editor and Publisher, Just wanted to thank you for publishing the press release of our upcoming membership tea. Your conside...
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  • Groundbreaking ceremony for new all-weather track at Los Al
    A giant step in a process that began over 12 years ago was made yesterday afternoon when the Los Al School District held a groundbreaking ceremony for the new lighted all-weather track and synthetic turf athletic complex on the Los Al HS site. Despite some challenges posed by the existing baseball field and the student parking lot, the new facility, which wi […]
  • GIRLS SOCCER: Griffins down Marina in Sunset opener
    The Los Al Griffins girls soccer team ended their Holiday vacation with a 2-0 win over the Marina Vikings in the Sunset League opener for both teams. Senior midfielder Hannah Goldsmith and senior forward Rachel Price both scored first half goals for Los Al.  It was Goldsmith’s third goal of the season. The Griffins. who have been beset by injuries in the pas […]
  • BOYS WATER POLO: Jarrels leads Griffin in post-season honors
    Five Los Al Griffins boys water polo players earned post-season honors on the All-Sunset league team. The Griffin award winners were led by senior Chandler Jarrells who made the all-Orange County team,  all-CIF and all-Sunset League. Jarrels missed most of his junior season with a back injury but came back to score 111 goals and help Los Alamitos reach the C […]