Ojai Politics: Mac-Paradise on a Postage Stamp Pay to Play: Did Mayoral Candidate Johnston Rig Things Up for Junior?
Oct. 15, 2016: How did that horrendously huge out-of-scale-with-the-neighborhood mini (LA housing tract style) mac-mansion get built? The one at the back of Sarzotti Park (owned by none other than Ojai Mayoral Candidate Johnny Johnston's son, contractor Johnny Johnston Jr. (Mr. Friendly)...). How did it get such rapid council approval just a few short years ago?
Was There was a Plan....? Part II Coming Back: 'A Different Set of Rules'
by Art Isgur, Oak View
In the first installment of this series we learned that budget deficits are neither good nor bad in themselves. Deficits are just borrowed money. A deficit may be ‘bad’ if most of the money is used to lower taxes on those people that already have more money to use than they can possibly spend. The very same deficit is ‘good’ if the money is put into productive use, encouraging greater consumer spending and lowering production costs, etc.
Statement - Ojai Youth: "You Gotta Save the Kids"
Sept. 8, 2010:
Good Evening,
Thank you for letting me speak.
There's a lot of things I can gripe about. I want to ask you all a personal question. How do you get up in the morning, and shave and put your make-up on when you're doing the kids wrong in this city? Skate Park's on one day, and it's off the next day. What exactly happened? The kids deserve something. That's our youth, that's our future. And if you don't wake up to it soon... well...
Jan. 2010 - Obama's GM Bailout: by Joel Anderson
Mike Gaddis has been a mechanic for over 40 years, having worked on everything from Maserati's to Volkswagens and everything in between for private customers and companies. I asked Mike about the Economic Bail Out, GM Cars (and trucks) and the future of the auto industry, which now lags behind that of China.
"Well... I’m a GM fan more than anything, but the CEO's are getting a twelve million dollar bonus for what ? And the company is going under...c'mon....somebody is bullshitting somebody... if they give them the loans.... When they start cutting the fat out of a company they ought to start at the top. That would save the company major bucks," said Mechanic Mike Gaddis.
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