Subject: Trade

• Cheap Easy Mondays

  October 16, 2008

• The Fix Was In For The GOP?

  Your hunch at the gas pump was right. In advance of recent federal elections, oil companies seemed to have lowered gas prices--a move that's benefited the party in power: Republicans. But now there's conclusive evidence that you weren't nuts. Last week, the good folks over at The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights released data demonstrating that oil companies sharply reduced gas prices in the months before the last three federal elections. After the Republicans retained their politica

  November 7, 2006

• OC's leading indicator an economic downturn looms

  Forget sky-high gas prices, stagnant home sales and shaky consumer confidence. Around here, all you need to know that rotten times are ahead is Sharper Image quarterly profits have sunk 62 percent.

  April 18, 2006

• Rock on to Electric Car Avenue

  In yesterday's thrilling Clockwork, we shared the weirdness that ensued after we interviewed Who Killed the Electric Car? writer-director Chris Paine, when we discovered during the entire chat our Los Angeles Times was open, unbeknownst to lil' ol' us, to an Associated Press story with the headline: "Silicon Valley Races to Develop Electric Cars." The story even mentioned Paine's film. Well, the hits keep coming. The film's PR company sent out links to two other stories on recent electric-car d

  June 27, 2006

• Why The Toll Road Is Dead

  The Foothill-South (241) toll road extension, as we know it, is dead. Bold claim, you say? Presumptuous, maybe? Not so. Recently, mi hermano Gustavo Arellano pinpointed the root cause of the Transportation Corridor Agencies' failure to gain Coastal Commission approval for their Final Solution to San Onofre State Beach: ARROGANCE. The TCA presumptuously and sometimes even indignantly refuted the majority of criticism of their project, as reflected in the Response to Comments section of the Env

  February 10, 2008

• 241 Toll Road Update

  The Department of Commerce has stated their interest in holding a public hearing on the Foothill-South toll road extension, disregarding the impotent raging of Transportation Corridor Agencies counsel Robert Thornton. The LA Times reported on the road's construction cost leaping from $875 million to $1.3 billion and that ridership is down on the Foothill-South by "nearly 4 percent." The Army Corps of Engineers has declared that there could still be potential alternatives to the favored route, on

  May 29, 2008

• The Return of Toll Road Foister Jerry Amante

  Here were told you about our question to Tustin City Councilman Jerry Amante, the chairman of the Orange County Transportation Authority, the Transportation Corridor System Board of Directors and the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency (TCA) who was all over the news last week after Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez upheld the California Coastal Commission's rejection of the TCA's preferred route for the Foothill/South toll road extension through San Onofre State Park. (Amante i

  December 22, 2008

• Saving Trestles: Game On!

  The on-again, off-again hearing on the 241 Foothill South toll road extension by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce is back on, from 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 22, and in an old/new home, O'Brien Hall at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, or the same place the California Coastal Commission met, took testimony and ultimately voted 8-2 against paving Lexus lanes over state park land. The hearing was to go off last month in the Bren Events Center until fears about the expected crowd size, coupled with a sl

  August 26, 2008

• Ho Chi Minute Rice

  July 1, 1999

• Are OCs Democrats Dunn?

  February 20, 2003

• Tarts and Crafts

  SolArt Summer Craft Fair and Santa Ana Farmer's Market

  August 17, 2006

• Mother's Market Don't Know its Mexicans

  Don't get me wrong--I like Mother's Market, our homegrown Whole Foods. I make it a point to support businesses that subscribe to the principles of the Slow Food movement--we all are sinners (except for the do-gooders at Avanti Cafe), so I understand slip-ups or exceptions occur from time to time. But I was still surprised when I saw Cacique cheese on the shelves of Mother's location in SanTana amongst organic, fair-trade offerings. I'm very familiar with the brand, having eaten the queso fresco

  November 25, 2008

• Toll Road Foister Jerry Amante: We're Doomed

  As chairman of the Orange County Transportation Authority, the Transportation Corridor System Board of Directors and the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency (TCA), Tustin City Councilman Jerry Amante (pictured) is all over the news today, reacting bitterly to the Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez's decision announced yesterday to uphold the California Coastal Commission rejection of the TCA's preferred route for the Foothill/South toll road extension.For instance, as local envi

  December 19, 2008

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Sucio Harry

  April 2, 2009

• Eine Party

  October 2, 2008

• Bike and Hike

  July 31, 2008

• Mayor McCheese

  July 24, 2008

• Baby, You Can Still Drive My Electric Car

  May 18, 2006

• Corn Power

  How to Make and Use Biodiesel

  July 5, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  Nov. 8 - Nov. 14

  November 16, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  October 5, 2006

• All Charged Up

  June 29, 2006

• The Children of Imperialismo

  January 5, 2006

• The Ideal Nafta

  October 27, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 25, 2005

• Hunger Strike

  July 14, 2005

• Felony Foods

  March 21, 2002

• Shrubs Man In Madrid

  July 12, 2001

• When Wiley Drake Comes Marching In

  June 28, 2001

• Just Declare Victory

  December 7, 2000

• Letters

  June 8, 2000

• Working for Beans

  June 1, 2000

• No-Show Perot

  May 25, 2000

• Shut Em Down!

  April 20, 2000

• How About a Future That Doesnt Blow?

  January 13, 2000

• The New New World Order

  December 16, 1999

• Letters

  July 15, 1999

• Got Gas?

  May 6, 1999

• How to Kill a Factory

  September 3, 1998