Transparent California Claims to See Through Anaheim School District's High Teacher Salaries

Despite its teachers earning more on average than their colleagues at every California school district but one, Anaheim Union High School District falls short on student performance, according to new data released by a Tustin-based think tank. ] Transparent California, which is a project of the California Policy Center and the Nevada Policy Research Institute, …

Rancho Santiago Community College District Foundation Takes Up Saudi Arabia Deal TODAY

The Rancho Santiago Community College District Foundation's board is scheduled today to discuss its controversial $105 million consulting contract with Saudi Arabia that has been chastised by faculty, a student trustee and the oldest pro-Israel organization in the United States. ] Rancho Santiago College Foundation Considers “Unconditional” Open Meeting Law Compliance The foundation, a private …

Taste of Chaos Tour Returns Along with Brand New It's Not Dead Festival

Okay, we know summer kinda just started but here's two reasons you should already be looking forward to the fall. Warped Tour creator Kevin Lyman along with Mayhem Fest/Odd Ball Festival co-founder John Reese and Live Nation's Rich Best are unleashing a couple huge events in October: The return of the Taste of Chaos tour …

Slippery Loretta Sanchez Darts By TV News Crew After Making Native American Gaffe

Less than 48 hours into her U.S. Senate campaign, Loretta Sanchez made two, unforced gaffes and topped off the embarrassments by providing what could be the most inadvertently hilarious footage in the Democratic Party primary to replace retiring Barbara Boxer. Sanchez first tried to tell a story to a gathering of native Americans at the …

Pat Benatar Talks Longevity, In Illustrated Form

Pat Benatar and guitarist-turned-husband Neil Giraldo are currently celebrating 35 years of professional partnership and love by–what else–touring. “Thirty-five years ago, 'Heartbreaker' was the catalyst for it all. It's hard to believe that so much time has passed,” Benatar said in a news release. “We're excited to be celebrating this personal and musical milestone.” To …

Victoria Ramirez, Fired Transgender Worker at Irvine Barnes & Noble, Sues for Discrimination

A six-year employee of an Irvine Barnes & Noble store is suing the parent company for alleged discrimination because, she claims, when she informed management she was undergoing gender transition from male to female, her bosses prohibited her from working as a woman and after she protested they fired her. ] The Transgender Law Center, …

Recent Proof of Prosecutorial Misconduct Mirrors OCDA’s Bad Old Days

After a Friday night of eating pizza, drinking booze, dancing and smoking hashish with friends in Laguna Beach, 20-year-old Ginger Lorraine Fleischli disappeared. Two days later, farm workers discovered Fleischli’s corpse in a sleeping bag buried in an Irvine field, just 10 miles away. Her killer used a knife to stab her five times in …