How to resolve AdBlock issue? EDITORIAL on OPINION Page: Brown Act fades to black in OUSD handbook
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- Published: Friday, 23 April 2021 09:26
Ojai Unified School District should not waste any more time discussing its proposed “Board Governance Handbook.”
OUSD Superintendent Morse thanked
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- Published: Friday, 23 April 2021 09:09
Bob Daddi and the Ojai Valley News want to personally thank and commend Ojai Unified School District superintendent, Dr. Tiffany Morse, for partnering with the city of Ojai and being instrumental in solving some of the ATP project engineering deficiencies at Nordhoff High School related to lanes and bicycle circulation.
Ojai Valley News' editorial response to Sheriff Ayub's 4-9 Op-Ed
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- Published: Friday, 09 April 2021 08:51
Ojai Valley News’ editorial response to Sheriff Ayub’s Op-Ed:
Why does Sheriff William Ayub believe that the city of Ojai should pay the equivalent to a city twice its size, with twice the crime rate, and 10 times the violent crime (Fillmore)?
Demand equal treatment 'under the law enforcement'
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- Published: Friday, 12 March 2021 09:01
Two separate issues are going on related to police reform in Ojai — financial reform and conduct reform. Critical to the city right now is financial reform.
EDITORIAL on Opinion page: Autopsies go underground
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- Published: Friday, 05 March 2021 09:25
Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, has reintroduced a bill — California AB 268 — to keep all autopsy reports in the hands of families whose relatives have died as a result of a criminal act.
OVN editorial on OPINION page: Ventura council hooked by BBK
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- Published: Friday, 12 February 2021 09:00
At the status conference for the Ventura water lawsuit this week, Scott Slater, a 36-year-veteran water litigator for one of the most powerful lobbying firms in the country, representing the Wood-Claeyssens Foundation, which owns approximately 8,000 acres of land in Ventura, schooled Judge Highberger, who is new to water law.
OPINION page: City of Ventura in hot water with attorney general over water lawsuit
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- Published: Thursday, 04 February 2021 22:04
OVN Editorial:
Ventura in hot water
with attorney general
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has leaped into the water lawsuit adjudication pool with a resounding splash, ripping the proposed "Physical Solution" (a step, not an end, in the water adjudication process) with a letter vigorously admonishing the city of Ventura, on behalf of Fish and Wildlife and the State Water Resources Control Board.
Ojai Valley News EDITORIAL on OPINION page: Ojai Valley needs a vaccination site
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- Published: Friday, 22 January 2021 08:29
It took about 10 months for California to reach 1 million cases of COVID-19, then 40 days more to reach 2 million cases. We reached 3 million cases just 28 days later. How many days will it take to reach 4 million?
EDITORIAL on OVN OPINION page: Cannabis vote to be trumped?
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- Published: Friday, 04 December 2020 09:03
After originally serving on the subcommittee that recommended Measure G — the Ojai cannabis tax — be placed on the Nov. 3 ballot, Councilmembers Suza Francina and Bill Weirick introduced an agenda item for the Dec. 8 City Council meeting to discuss the implementation of the measure. The Ojai Valley News’ position is that any move to alter or overturn the measure, which automatically goes into effect 10 days after the vote is certified, would nullify the votes of 3,165 people, and drive the city deeper into debt.
OVN EDITORIAL on Opinion page: 'Wash away stain of Mission/Pueblo water rights'
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- Published: Wednesday, 25 November 2020 17:01
This is the Ojai Valley News’ public comment for the state of California’s Truth and Healing Council meeting on Dec. 3 and 4:
To Tribal Adviser Michael Park, California Truth and Healing Council members, and Gov. Gavin Newsom:
Gov. Newsom has proclaimed November as Native American Heritage Month.
OVN EDITORIAL on OPINION page: Want justice? Take the train
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- Published: Friday, 20 November 2020 08:56
As Los Angeles County COVID-19 numbers surge, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Highberger denied Ojai Valley News reporters remote access to the water adjudication lawsuit proceedings.
The ruling against equal and meaningful access to the proceedings affecting thousands of Ojai Valley residents creates a constitutional problem. The ruling was handed down “with prejudice,” despite the valiant efforts of the Press Freedom and Transparency Team at the University of California Irvine School of Law, led by Susan Seager, Esq.