OC Blog News Roundup -- October 31, 2005
Happy Halloween! Today's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:
Martin Wisckol's The Buzz: Prop. 73 Backers Avoid Roe v. Wade -- OCR
Wisckol reports on the headline's topic, as well as the candidate fields in the 37th SD special and the 67th AD primary.
Teacher vs. Teacher -- OCR
Two OC teachers take opposing viewpoints on Prop. 74, the mild teacher tenure reform initiative.
22 To I-5 Transition Closed For Construction -- OCR
It took Chinese coolies from 1865 to 1867 to blast the Central Pacific railway through the Sierra Nevada mountain range, using dynamite, nitroglycerine and no machinery -- yet it takes modern government at least eight months to finish construction on one part of a freeway interchange.
Editorial: The Fast Track to A-Town -- OCR
The Reg opines on Anaheim using a free-market approach to take a quick step toward developing the Platinum Triangle.
Provocateur Waters Charms The OC -- LAT
John Waters mixes with OC art patrons.
Urban Afterthought -- LAT
Anaheim's A-town is reversing the process of building a ballpark to renew an urban core. Here, the ballpark's in place; the core's coming.
NB and CM Police Departments Upgrade Weaponry -- DP
Shotguns and mounts for motorcycle cops, AR-15s for patrol cars.
Three OC Cities Want To Emulate Anaheim's Example -- OCBJ
Santa Ana, Fullerton and Costa Mesa looking to streamline redevelopment.
Anyone also found it strange the Times' OC section didn't have their "Orange Peeled" column today? Maybe Spring Street thought the Waters overview was coverage enough?
Posted by: Gustavo Arellano | October 31, 2005 at 09:24 AM