Best bet: take Katella/Willow to Woodruff, turn left & get on there, or get on the 405 at Seal Beach Blvd.

This is in preparation for CalTrans shifting work on the 605 from the old, center lanes to the new, outer lanes, so they can work in the center of the freeway.

Good old CalTrans, changing it up to help keep us young!

[for the record Carly beat Babs in OC by over 175K votes. $250? Get real.]

Edgar, on the other hand, was a high propensity Democratic voter until he Carpetbagged moved from Rossmoor to Los Al to run for public office. Dean, Gore, Kerry, just who did Troy vote for in those primaries and elections? That really is Troy’s business, and not ours, but Troy doesn’t seem to remember that he lives in a glass house.

I don’t have a dog in this fight. That makes it easy for me to say that I don’t like Travis’ positions and I don’t like Troys. Troy wants to keep Prop 13, with the current loopholes that benefit big business, but hurt Californians [I'm working on a post that discusses the loopholes and how California got suckered by Jarvis and the people that truly benefited from Prop 13, the ones who funded it.]. Travis also thinks that running the State can be done without anyone paying the tab. Personally I feel both of them should have to travel across every bridge in the State (in a car together) with someone telling them when the bridge was built and what the lifespan of it was at the time it was built, so they can see how not spending on infrastructure is gonna kill someone (lot’s of someones) one of these days.

I fought for increasing our reserves rather than lowering the tax rate 1% because I am a fiscal conservative. As cities around us struggle, we are ready to weather the storm. I am the guy who refi’d and put money INTO his home when rates were low rather than using it as an ATM. A fiscal conservative doesn’t mean that you are anti-tax, it means that you are willing to save and prepare for the unknown future. That you spend wisely on things that have a return on the investment, create more income than they cost (better roads so products get to market easier and are lower cost for consumers), invest in the public good. These faux conservatives are just that. They are willing to “starve the beast” when they fail to understand that how government spending can actually create a better standard of living for more people than cutting everything to the bone and waiting for the feces to hit the fan.

Edgar went around trying to sell high speed rail, when those same tax dollars could have been used to rebuild our crumbing infrastructure and created immediate jobs and greater safety for Californians today.

Like I said, neither of these two candidates excite me since neither one “gets it.” But Troy’s two hit pieces have all the stink of LATA and for that alone he doesn’t deserve anyone’s vote.

That hit piece said that Allen is a carpetbagger. Which is pretty funny because that is what many believe Edgar to be. He used the same grainy type black and white photo to make Travis Allen look bad as was used against Gerri Mejia when she was running against him for city council. Only difference was he denied it was him smearing Mejia. He had no control over what Sylyia did. Yeah, right!!!

He sure knew who to call to get the same format correct for the smear against Travis Allen.

Well, it didn’t work against Mejia and I hope it doesn’t work against Travis Allen.

There is a basic Management principle that has been overlooked here: ” You can delegate the authority to complete a task but you cannot delegate the responsibility”.

The person who answered the phone at Long Beach Animal Control gave you the right advice…Call your Council Member.

In this case Alice’s second call should have been to a Los Alamitos council member. They are the ones who delegated the authority to remove the carcass to Long Beach Animal Control, but they still retain the responsiblity to see that it is removed.

Art,

I have little doubt that Brown’s “millionaire” state income tax increase will most likely lose money (remember former CA resident Tiger Woods, now a Florida millionaire). What he really needs to do is create a more business-friendly environment, and put an end to all the paybacks to special interests (from prison guards to business groups to public employee unions, trial lawyers and doctors.

As for the Los Al Utility Users Tax, I haven’t come across enough info to know exactly what it will do and how revenue neutral it will be.

At this point it is being pushed as a needed update to avoid litigation, which makes sense. My fears are an onorous and intrusive effort to tax every “communication” by a Los Alamitos resident or business, from a VOIP phonecall to Facetime to a netflix download to posting on a Blog!

Another concern is that large businesses and to a lesser extent residents who work out of Los Alamitos may be able to switch billing addresses to avoid the tax while Los Al “ma & pa” firms will get stuck with it.

However, according to the info sheet passed out at last Week’s Commission meeting, the City could face the loss of about a half a million dollars in annual income if the law is not updated.

It is also significant that the Council Members who appear willing to work for it are the two not running for office this year.

So I’m eager to learn more, and plan to make it to tonight’s 6 p.m. informational meeting at City Hall. I’m already paying the tax on my Verizon FIOS, so I can always record the Kings & Clippers games.

Brown should call the increase “Modernization”. If it will fool the people in a little corner of REP OC it has to work statewide.