Orange County Register: Robbins: The chance of dying in Orange County from a natural disaster is relatively low. This is based on a study Fox News cheerily lables “the death map.” . . . Wisckol: A 59-year-old Aliso Viejo woman's description of kissing President Barack Obama on his cheek at the March 18 Costa Mesa town hall drew a firestorm of criticism on the Reg Buzz blog. . . . Lansner: The gap between rents and monthly mortgage payments is narrowing. Maybe a glimmer of hope for a housing rebound, maybe not. Greenhut: Government “solutions” will only kill the newspaper business. Orange County Register editorial: Irvine Councilman and Great Park board chairman Larry Agran's words prove the Register was correct to label the project “the Great Pork.”
Los Angeles Times: Photographer Allen J. Schaben shoots the weekend Persian New Year celebration in Irvine. . . . A judge issued a gang injunction Friday against suspected members of Orange's Varrio Cypress gang. . . . Four OC men were charged in the gang rape of a 13-year-old girl. Near as we can tell, none of the suspects is the son of a high-ranking Sheriff's Department official. . . . Devon Eileen Abbott, 33, is sentenced to a year of house arrest for planting drugs and a gun in the trunk of the car belonging to her estranged husband, a popular Sunny Hills High School history teacher. . . . The mother of a child diagnosed with ADHD warns parents to be skeptical of a drug company's Facebook page on the disorder.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.