Based on almost absolutely nothing—or, alternatively, nothing—looks like it already could be curtains for Judith Ahrens' reign of terror on Westminster School Board. Or not.
Candidate Mary Mangold—a Norwalk-La Mirada Unified teacher and longtime Ahrens foe—says that based on "our own campaigning and going door-to-door, it seems like there's a lot of grass-roots support." For her. Which could be just election night techno-babble. But Mangold, who'll be attending a Westmins
Our weekly anal probing of the Orange County Register continues...
MONDAY, APRIL 14:
● Not that we’re in the habit of making fun of old people, but strangely, 70-year-old columnist Jane Glenn Haas sure is. Haas, whose beat is chiefly comprised of the same curmudgeonly senior citizens who pen crazed, delusional Letters to the Reggie Editor, spends her space in today’s paper whining about people who tell old-people jokes—and then, to get her point across, she tells a couple of them (nei
... and the shopping cart, the Polio Vaccine and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Should the Republican take office, he would be the oldest U.S. president ever elected.
The Weekly would never promote ageism or anything ridiculous like that, but check out this website for more fun facts about the elder statesman.
Spirited Orange County union and Democratic Party officials gathered this morning outside the county's Hall of Administration to protest the Board of Supervisors' firing of more than 200 Social Service Agency employees as one way to address massive budget woes. With a backdrop of placard-waving senior citizens, eight speakers hailed the event's theme: "Save our seniors! Not political perks!" Organizers claim that county supervisors and top managers continue to hand themselves $21 million in annu
Laguna Woods is famous for many things: elderly people, elderly people and elderly people. So when the nation's best newspaper sends a reporter to the tiny OC city, chances are, the story that comes out is going to be about youth baseball.Just kidding. It's going to be about elderly people.An article published last Thursday in the New York Times peaks in at the bridge game of a group of nonagenarians in the retirement community formerly known as Leisure World. Apparently, Laguna Woods is the sub
Things can get mighty testy in Laguna Woods, the town formerly known as Leisure World in polite corners and Seizure World in less polite ones. A recent Residents Voice meeting in Clubhouse Five deginerated into a physical assault, according to one United Mutual Board of Directors candidate. It brings to mind the testy clashes Jerry's dad had with his Florida retirement community board colleagues on Seinfeld.Fortunately, as Janet Whitcomb reports in the Register-owned Laguna Woods Globe, a way to
The Orange County District Attorney's office announced the charges in a second case involving an elderly man who shot his longtime wife.Kenneth Joseph Leake, 75, Costa Mesa, is charged with one felony count of attempted murder and one felony count of elder abuse for allegedly shooting his 72-year-old bride of 50 years Doris Leake four times in the head and once in the wrist while she was napping.
