Items by Travis Kiger

• FSD Teachers: Get Ready for a 10% Pay Cut

  —Orange Juice

  Fullerton teachers, it’s time to be frank with you because the school board and your union will not. There will be no new parcel tax to save the FSD budget. Due to unsustainable concessions to the teachers union in previous years, the Fullerton School District will have to cut teacher pay [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 8:03am EST
  by Travis Kiger

• County Website Promotes Anti-Tea Party Video

  —Orange Juice

  Number of comments: 3
  Blog reader Pam Keller sent FFFF an email yesterday to alert us of a blatant abuse of County resources to promote a political message against Tea Party activists. In a video that is presented on the official Orange County government website, children are shown lecturing adults on the dangers of free [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 1:26pm EST
  by Travis Kiger

• Carona Love Letters Protrude from Craig Hunter’s Stakeholders

  —Orange Juice

  Perhaps the felonious Mike Carona promised them that these letters would not be released to the public. Or maybe Greg Block and Bill Prentice owed Carona a huge favor. Whatever the reason, these two leaders of the OCCCWS PAC wrote fluffy letters in support of disgraced ex-sheriff Mike Carona when [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 7:38am EST
  by Travis Kiger

• Carona Insider Backs Craig Hunter for OC Sheriff

  —Orange Juice

  Number of comments: 3
  Shortly after Anaheim cop Craig Hunter announced his candidacy for OC Sheriff, a PAC called OCCCWS jumped to endorse him. Of course we found that interesting, since “Ordinary California Citizens Concerned With Safety” is primarily focused on issuance of concealed weapons permits to civilians, an issue on which candidate Bill [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 6:09am EST
  by Travis Kiger

• Steven Greenhut Hosts KFI Talk Show on Sunday

  —Orange Juice

  Number of comments: 3
  Friend, author and staunch proponent of limited government Steven Greenhut will be hosting a 3 hour show on KFI AM 640 this Sunday from 7 – 10 PM. Tune in online at kfi640.com for a great show. Steve has been busy lately. Last week he released a book titled “Plunder: How [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:17am EST
  by Travis Kiger

• The Fullerton School District’s Budget is Really Screwed Up

  —Orange Juice

  Let’s keep this simple – today the Fullerton School Board is staring down the barrel of an unprecedented budget hole. To insulate themselves from the difficult decisions, the board is asking the “Budget Advisory Committee” to recommend a solution. This committee consists of unionized teachers, administrators and PTA parents. At this [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:55am EST
  by Travis Kiger

• The Bad Part of Town: A Revelation

  —Orange Juice

  A few days ago a visitor named Greg made derogatory remarks on our blog about some Fullerton neighborhoods south of Commonwealth. Admin asked Greg to take a walk through the area with him, hoping that a closer look would challenge old stereotypes and misconceptions about the area. Following the meeting, Greg [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:25am EST
  by Travis Kiger

• Fullerton Parents and Teachers Confirm Laptop Porn is Widespread

  —Orange Juice

  Number of comments: 2
  Back in September we published a mothers’ letter accusing the Fullerton School District of ignoring the pornography problem on school-issued laptops. At the time, the school district responded to the an OC Register reporter by claiming that this was the “first reported case of a student using the laptops to [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 7:40am EST
  by Travis Kiger

• What Does Pam Keller Do All Day?

  —Orange Juice

  For most people the idea of being one’s own boss is an alluring if somewhat daunting proposition. With the freedom and self-responsibility come the risks – of freedom and self-responsibility. So imagine the pleasant prospect of being your own boss, answering to nobody, and at the same time enjoying the safety [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:09am EST
  by Travis Kiger

• Pechanga Indians Buy More Favors from the Ackermans

  —Orange Juice

  A few days ago, the Pechanga Band of Indians kicked down $15,000 to send out mailers on in the 72nd on behalf of Linda Ackerman. The money arrived at the same time as the $25K kicked in by billionaire owner of the City of Industry. And on the 23rd a [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 1:48pm EDT
  by Travis Kiger

• Fullerton Fox Block Rises from the Ashes

  —Orange Juice

  City staff is back to hustle the infamous Fox Block project after it was killed by city council earlier this year. The project was shot down by a suddenly-fiscally-conservative council majority because it included a $6 million dollar giveaway to the McDonalds corporation that would be used to build a [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 2:00pm EDT
  by Travis Kiger

• Ex-Chief McKinley Unleashed Bad Cop on Fullerton

  —Orange Juice

  Officer misconduct cases are usually handled behind closed doors, hidden away from the public who are ultimately the victims when cops go bad. Recently a document slipped out from underneath the curtain and gave us some insight into Chief McKinley’s department, which had a habit responding to officer misconduct by [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 7:01am EDT
  by Travis Kiger

• Nobody Reads the Blog

  —Orange Juice

  Number of comments: 2
  Occasionally we hear of local politicos who attempt to downplay the effectiveness of our efforts here at Friends for Fullerton’s Future, claiming “nobody reads the blog” (while feverishly checking it themselves). Despite our hurt feelings, we have continued our daily blogging efforts to bring long-missing accountability and reason to this [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 3:20pm EDT
  by Travis Kiger

• OC Register Digs Into FFFF’s School Laptop Post, Misses the Point

  —Orange Juice

  Number of comments: 1
  The OC Register ran a story today on our previous laptop post in which a mother came forward to warn parents about the dangers of FSD’s school laptop program. Overall the reporter gave a fair assessment to both sides of the controversy, although the article made the mother out to be [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 8:49am EDT
  by Travis Kiger

• Pam Keller, A Call For Transparency – Reminder

  —Orange Juice

  Last month we asked City Council member Pam Keller for the records of donors to the Fullerton Collaborative since she came onto the City Council. You may recall that the reason we asked was because we were curious whether or not any of the contributors had business before the City, [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 10:45am EDT
  by Travis Kiger

• Fullerton School Laptops Help Children Find Pornography and Meet Sexual Predators

  —Orange Juice

  At the urging of Fullerton police, a mother sent us this chilling story of her 11 year old girl who was nearly lured into a meeting with a suspected sexual predator after spending months chatting with him on a school laptop. School district employees deceptively promised parents that the laptops [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 7:41am EDT
  by Travis Kiger

• Fullerton Parents Reject School Laptop Program

  —Orange Juice

  We were constantly told how wonderful the 1:1 Laptop program has been for the education of Fullerton school children, but something just didn’t smell right to us. Sure enough, we find out that many parents are finally saying “NO”. Resistance to the autocratic technology program has grown drastically in the [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 7:22am EDT
  by Travis Kiger

• Pam Keller – A Conflicted Individual

  —Orange Juice

  Number of comments: 8
  We’ve been tracking the doings of Fullerton City Council member Pam Keller lately, with particular interest in her job as Executive Director of something called the Fullerton Collaborative, an outfit with fairly fuzzy goals whose biggest expense in 2007 was Pam Keller herself. We’ve gotten a little bit of blow back from some [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 8:16am EDT
  by Travis Kiger