CM PRESS # 510

WILL COSTA MESA NOW RANDOMLY TEST EMPLOYEES FOR DRUGS? 

WHERE DID HUY PHAM GET HIS COCAINE? 

DID HE GO UP ON THE ROOF TO USE COCAINE?  IF SO, DID HE OBTAIN IT WHILE ON CITY PROPERTY?  

WHO DID HUY PHAM TALK TO BEFORE GOING TO THE ROOF?

IS THERE A DRUG CULTURE WITHIN COSTA MESA'S WORK FORCE?

ARE DRUGS BEING PASSED AROUND OR SOLD BY SOME CITY EMPLOYEES ON CITY PROPERTY?

DID YOU KNOW THAT THE POSSESSION OF ANY QUANTITY OF COCAINE IS A FELONY?

The above are just a few of the questions that citizens are now asking.
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HUY PHAM HAD COCAINE IN HIS SYSTEM WHEN HE JUMPED

Information on cocaine.

Additional facts in the OC REGISTER.
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U.S. SUPREME COURT GIVES STATES MORE POWER TO CRACK DOWN ON ILLEGAL ALIENS AND THOSE WHO HIRE THEM


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THE ONLY CONSTANT IN THE UNIVERSE IS CHANGE

Billy Folsom is a Costa Mesa city employee.  He was also the campaign manager for failed City Council candidate Bill Perkins a few years ago.  Perkins lost the race and left town. Folsom stayed.

In a new column in the OC REGISTER [HERE], you'll read that Folsom doesn't like what the new City Council is doing and wants things to remain unchanged.

Sorry, we don't live in a time warp.  Whether any of us want change or not, it happens.

The smart thing to do is realize that change is happening all the time and instead of trying to stop it, you try to steer it. This isn't something new.  Cities do it every day with zoning and planning regulations and by other means.

What the CM PRESS believes the new City Council is trying to partly do is steer the change so that
rather than having Costa Mesa become, say, the homeless capital of Orange County, that it changes in a way that actually helps the residents of the city realize their American dreams and have a safe city with good schools and a great quality of life.

Now, we agree with Folsom to the extent that we also don't want the City to jump on people for a brown spot on their lawns.  A sterile and overly antiseptic city doesn't suit us at the CM PRESS at all. If it did, we'd move to Irvine.

We want a city government that pretty much leaves people alone but which also works, as unobtrusively as possible, to steer the city in the right direction toward lower crime, better schools and a higher quality of life.

To accomplish its goals, we often talk about using a business model.

Now, we all know that a city isn't a business and the analogy quickly breaks down, but we think the idea of running a city more like a business is a solid one.

And, what we mean is that business tools and concepts should be used whenever and wherever they seem appropriate but not be used where they aren't a good fit.

Costa Mesa can't turn back the clock to 1950.  We are in a river of time, and things change.  Let's just make sure the changes that are happening are good ones for the residents of our city and that we don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
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