Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Owen & Dennis?

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● We keep hearing that the fates of IVC Police Chief Owen Kreza and his Deputy, Dennis Duncan, have been decided. (Both were mysteriously placed on administrative leave over two months ago. Their computers were seized.) As near as I can tell, nothing was announced about them after the closed session of the Board of Trustees Monday night. See Tracy’s Board meeting highlights.

On the other hand, I’ve been told that the closed session item regarding “Resignation.Retirement/Conclusion of Employment” [sic] referred to the resolution of the Owen/Dennis situation.

According to my sources, Owen Kreza will retire, and Dennis will resign. We'll try to get confirmation.


● The LA Times had a great story yesterday (and another today) about my Congressman, Gary Miller. He’s another corrupt local Republican, bigtime. See Ex-aids allege abuse of power. We’ll have more about Miller at a later date. See also Gary Miller can always get what he wants in today’s Times.

* In this morning’s Times: Passion fills O.C. court in trial over student rights:
Two high schoolers are caught kissing on campus.

Ordinarily, such an incident would garner little attention. But for Charlene Nguon, a smattering of kisses and hugs stolen after school and in between classes led to detention, suspensions, a transfer and a lawsuit.

The reason? That's what a federal judge in Santa Ana will soon decide.

Nguon says it's because she was kissing a girl. Ben Wolf, who was then principal of Garden Grove's Santiago High School, says that's not the case at all….
The article ends:
On the plaintiff's side, one focus of [the girl’s attorney’s] closing argument was school policy. He said that when Wolf told Nguon's mother her daughter had been kissing a girl, he was revealing her sexual orientation. Would it not be sufficient to say she was caught making out? He said school officials testified that they would never use a student's race or ethnicity as an identifier.

[The defendant’s attorney] warned that siding with the plaintiff on that point would force "a lot of school districts throughout this state to change the way they communicate."

To which the judge replied, "What's wrong with that?"
● If you want to read about how our state is unprepared for a disaster, check out State lags in health readiness surve in this morning’s San Francisco Chronicle. It ain’t pretty. Compared to other states, we’re near the bottom. Joining us there: Iowa, Maryland and New Jersey.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You weren't invited last week to the local Margarita bar to lift one in farewell to Owen and Dennis? You missed an I-can't-talk-about-it afternoon.

Anonymous said...

LIKE WE CARE.......

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...