Today's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:
Mile Square Park To Get Facelift -- OCR
Fountain Valley OKs $17.5 million in improvements after years of delays.
Celebrants Tie Religion, Politics -- OCR
Bishop Soto leads a las posadas procession with a call for immigration reform. I'll now wait in vain for the Left to complain about mixing religion and politics.
OCTA Is Mapping Solutions To South County Traffic Jams -- OCR
The transportation agency is studying ways to deal with long-term growth.
6 Residents Bid For Vacancy On Santa Ana Council -- OCR
City seeks to fill school board, council seats by appointment to avoid election.
Board of Supes OKs Giant Sports Complex Plan For Tustin Blimp Hangar -- OCR and LAT
Supervisors OK making the Tustin north blimp hangar into a gigantic sports complex for $100 million.
UCI Receives $1 Million For SPeech Research -- OCR
Gift from Newport man with disorder will support endowed professorship.
TV Station May Soon Return To District -- DP
KOCE-TV, the public television station that has been embedded in a court battle for nearly three years, may soon return to the Coast Community College District, which sold it in 2004 to boost funds for academic programs.
A New Route For Placentia? They're Onboard -- LAT
Some see the council makeover as a burial of OnTrac. Others hope the leadership can move beyond the issue and solve other problems.
Toy Donations Leave OC Short For Needy Kids -- LAT
We don't know what happened this year,' says the Toy Collaborative, which has only 115,000 gifts to fill requests for more than 350,000.
Fire Officials Hire, Promote To Boost Ranks -- DP
An end is in sight to the Costa Mesa Fire Department's personnel shortage, especially in leadership positions, fire officials said Tuesday.
I saw Bishop Soto on CNN speaking out against a fence and calling for amnesty, citing the "anguish and suffering" involved in crossing the border illegally. In view of Santa Ana's move to change the school calendar due to so many people traveling to Mexico for a lengthy holiday, I would say he is wrong about that and knows it.
In fact, I would say Bishop Soto is a politician and is violating the separation of church and state.
Can we tax the church now?
Posted by: Pat | December 20, 2006 at 09:04 AM