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RIGONOMICS: September 2007
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Friday, September 28, 2007. UCI’s Rehiring Ensures Liberal Slant. The decision to rehire uber-liberal lawyer Erwin Chemerinsky as founding dean of UC Irvine’s new law school by Chancellor Michael Drake was a mistake of historic proportion. I am not here to criticize Drake or to even try to understand the labyrinth of three-level chess he has to play to navigate in the largest publicly funded university system in the world. He is being hired as the founding dean of a new, yet-to-be-formed public law school.
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RIGONOMICS: May 2008
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Friday, May 30, 2008. Country Club A Local Gem. Every community has hidden gems. Whether it’s a locals-only restaurant, a small park or community event, they are what make every community special. Usually they are small and out-of-the-way places. In this case, the hidden gem may be out-of-the-way, but at more than 100 acres it is not small. What I am talking about is the Mesa Verde Country Club, which turns 50 this January. The golf course has a very rich history. It has been home to many PGA and LPG...
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RIGONOMICS: July 2007
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Monday, July 30, 2007. Lack of Transparency in KOCE-TV Sale. One of the most important factors in running any public agency or governmental body is transparency. This last week we saw the final chapter in an embarrassing and bizarre example of the lack of transparency. I am talking about the so-called sale of Coast Community College District's television station KOCE to the KOCE-TV Foundation. The court concluded that the district refused taking the additional $26.5 million because it came from " ...
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RIGONOMICS: December 2007
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Friday, December 28, 2007. Mapping Out Politics in New Year. With Christmas behind us and the new year nearly upon us, I spent some time this week thinking about what next year will bring: presidential politics. The first voting will start Thursday and end Nov. 4, when we pick the next president of the red, white and blue. On the Democrat side, which has become a three-way tie in Iowa within the margin of error, according to the average of all polls followed by RealClearPolitics.com. With Clinton’s...
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RIGONOMICS: October 2007
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Friday, October 12, 2007. Proposed Bills Nit-Picky, Redundant. By midnight Sunday, Gov. Schwarzenegger will have vetoed, signed or let pass into law — by doing nothing — 965 bills that were approved by a majority of both houses of the Democrat-controlled state legislature. These 965 bills that received enough votes to get to the governor’s desk could become 965 additional laws that some people think Californians could not live one more day without. California has become the ultimate “nanny-state,&#...
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RIGONOMICS: August 2008
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Monday, August 11, 2008. Need to Conserve is Still On. I never thought I would be so happy to see gas priced at $3.99 a gallon. After paying $4.49 a gallon just a few weeks ago, it feels like a good buy. It is amazing what a little market pressure can do to bring down consumption, increase supply and lower prices. This latest oil shock, which is now subsiding, also made us look at becoming more energy efficient. It did not take a government mandate for airlines to mothball their older, less fuel-effi...
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RIGONOMICS: June 2008
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Friday, June 20, 2008. Help Burst Gas Bubble. Last month I wrote about my first $4 gallon of gas. I yearn for those days after paying $4.59 a gallon this week. We need to solve the energy crisis in this country, but we are never going to do it, if our national leaders say it cannot be done — so why even try? The economy will only get worse if Americans do not have any money left in their wallets after they fill up their tanks. First off, where does he get his facts? It will simply take too long. The left...
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RIGONOMICS: Football Has its Home
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Saturday, August 2, 2008. Football Has its Home. Football and cheerleading practice kicked off last night in Costa Mesa at Parson’s Field behind Estancia High School’s Jim Scott Stadium. The new and hopefully permanent (I will talk about that later) home of the Costa Mesa Pop Warner league fielded more than 275 kids for football and cheerleading. When Steve asked another parent why they had the unlit fields in the drainage area, the response was that they were lucky to have a field at all. Since its ince...
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RIGONOMICS: April 2008
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Saturday, April 26, 2008. Stadium Instills Pride in School. I could feel the electricity in the air as I walked onto the Estancia High School campus Friday morning. You could see the amazement in people’s eyes as they filled the bleachers or walked around the track. This is the kind of field that you only see when watching the NFL on Sunday. The quality of the facility, with its new locker rooms, snack bar and professional press box, was not something the people of Costa Mesa were expecting. Not only is ...