CM PRESS # 501

WHITE TEACHERS SUE PHILLY SCHOOLS ALLEGING RACE BIAS AGAINST WHITE TEACHERS

More and more whites are getting fed up with the double standard and are speaking up.
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GREAT WHITE MOTHER TEXAS TEACHER ARRESTED AFTER SHE  INCITED AND LET BLACK STUDENTS BEAT UP A WHITE STUDENT

Then again, not everyone gets it.
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WHERE WE STAND ON COSTA MESA'S GOVERNMENT

The CM PRESS supports any efforts of the City Council to save money, to be transparent, to right size government, to let people alone, and to spend money correctly and do the things necessary to improve Costa Mesa and especially the Westside.

We've always supported those things, and over the years we've been frustrated by former liberal City Councils that seemed to be taking just the opposite position on most things.

You could probably fill a couple of small boxes with the requests for information and complaints we've made to city hall over the years about different things that the government was doing that we felt were wrong.

Now that there is a more conservative City Council, we haven't changed.  We still want the same things from this Council as we did when the liberals were running the joint.

With the above in mind, we have to tell you that we're glad to see some libs now playing the role that we previously played.

The way we keep government honest and doing what it should be doing, and not doing what it shouldn't be doing, is by constantly asking questions and by keeping our city officials on their toes.

It is the people of Costa Mesa who own this city.  We have delegated certain of our authority to city government to do things in our stead, but we have not delegated our responsibility.

It is the people of Costa Mesa who are ultimately responsible for the type of city we have.

Some of us take that responsibility seriously and we stay involved.  If you're not involved, you should try to find some time to get involved.
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SO THE EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATION IS GOING TO COURT...SO WHAT?

It doesn't really matter. 

Even if the court issues an injunction and even if the court says that Costa Mesa is bound by various provisions of the law from a mass layoff of employees, nothing will change that is essential. 

You see, the Council's main thrust has never been to just lay off employees. That idea was one of many possible means to the real goals.

The real goals are to get our financial house in order, to right size the government and to find ways to get the best price for the services the government supplies to residents. 

In other words, as Costa Mesa government becomes more businesslike it is trying to give the best value  to residents for the money they give to the government.

Issuing six month lay off notices was a contractual requirement in order for the Council to pursue just one of many strategies to achieve its goals.

There are, as they say in the boardrooms, many ways to skin a cat.
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