Geoff West

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

It's Gotten Costa Messy In Costa Mesa

Scenes from the civic dissolution of America's latest public-employee battleground

Chris Shawkey, Costa Mesa Police Chief, Resigns Under Cloud of Corruption

​While Costa Mesa city workers still try to figure out how to beat back the job chops proposed by carpetbagging council member Jim Righeimer, at least there's now $200,000 that can go to save a couple of workers: Police Chief Chris Shawkey has resigned.Shawkey, of course, had been on paid administ ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

​While Costa Mesa city workers still try to figure out how to beat back the job chops proposed by carpetbagging council member Jim Righeimer, at least there's now $200,000 that can go to save a couple of workers: Police Chief Chris Shawkey has resigned.Shawkey, of course, had been on paid administ ... More >>

Martin Millard: Woody Allen Thespian?

The blog of David Duke-approved local racialist Martin Millard is our local Net version of the scruffy man with a shopping cart. And like those rambling, smelly men that straggle up and down Harbor Boulevard, Millard writes stuff once in a while that rises above the usual rambles about illegal alien ... More >>