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Corporations are NOT People and Money is NOT Speech

by SPK January 20, 2012

Why we need a Constitutional Amendment against Corporate Personhood

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This will take a second. The jurisprudence behind corporate personhood did not come into existence overnight with the Roberts Gang in the Supreme Court and the Citizens United decision. The idea that a corporation is a person and therefore due the rights of a human being under the Bill of Rights finds its roots in post Civil War America. But to explain the whole issue we have to start back still further in our nations history. The Revolutionary War which birthed the United States was as much a war against Royally chartered corporations like the East India Company as it was against British rule.

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Stop The Trucks: State deals business blow to Ojai Quarry

by Howard Smith January 10, 2012

Read excerpts from Tony Biasotti’s new article in the Ventura County Star that appeared in Tuesday’s online edition:

“While Ojai Quarry owner Larry Mosler waits to see whether the county will revoke his mining permit, he got bad news from the state: His mine has been barred from supplying material for…

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•*¨*5 Star Beginning to 2012¨*•.

by Jodi Womack January 10, 2012

♪•.¸¸¸¸.•* I hope you’re year is off to a 5 STAR start! ♪•.¸¸¸¸.•*

The Ojai Women’s Business Socials are coming up on 3 full years of monthly gatherings. I call that tremendous community support of local businesses and entrepreneurs…

This month’s Social will be hosted at our own five diamond resort, the…

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CA-26: Linda Parks is in

by Tyler Suchman January 10, 2012

From the VC Star, a second County Supervisor adds her name to the mix…

Parks becomes the first Republican to declare in the race, joining five Democrats who already have announced their intent to run. Her announcement comes two days after Rep. Elton Gallegly, R-Simi Valley, said he will retire at…

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Stop The Trucks: The Past and Future Legacy of the Ojai Valley

by Howard Smith January 9, 2012

By Michael J. Shapiro

The Stop the Trucks! Coalition (Coalition) has had to fend-off countless, scurrilous attacks from the moment we organized five years ago. We were vilified again following the most recent Ventura County Planning Commission hearing (December 15, 2011) after expressing our opposition to the Ojai Quarry (Quarry) being…

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Stop The Trucks: Two Breaking News Events: Mosler Delisted & Santa Barbara County Ready to stop the trucks

by Howard Smith January 7, 2012

Two new major breaking news stories have taken place this week as can be see from the emails below. The first is from Steve Offerman in Supervisor Bennett’s office and the second is from Gary Kaiser at the Santa Barbara Planning Department:

1)   When the Ventura County Planning…

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CA-26: Ding Dong, Gallegly to Retire

by Tyler Suchman January 7, 2012

As widely suspected here on the Post, the VC Star reports that Elton Gallegly will hang up the spurs and call it quits after a quarter century in his Congressional seat. The 26th is wide open, folks, with Supervisor Steve Bennett in the pole position.

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CA-26: Harbor Commissioner to Run

by Tyler Suchman January 6, 2012

Harbor Commissioner Jess Herrera throws his hat into the ring. Gallegly still unannounced.

Herrera is the fifth Democrat to join the growing 26th district field that includes Ventura County Supervisor Steve Bennett, Moorpark Councilman David Pollock, retired longshoreman Zeke Ruelas and Westlake Village businessman David Cruz Thayne.

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The Wheel Doesn’t Need to be Reinvented

by Kristofer Young January 1, 2012

The wheel doesn’t need to be reinvented, and I don’t have to work to restate what Dean Ornish, MD has stated so clearly on his website:

“People often think that advances in medicine have to be a new drug, a new laser, or a surgical intervention to be powerful—something really high-tech and…

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Ojai City Council Selects Joseph Fletcher as City Attorney

by Tyler Suchman December 31, 2011

PR from the City…

The Ojai City Council has selected Joseph Fletcher of Tustin to serve as city attorney after a six‐month search to replace Monte Widders, who retired in May after nearly 30 years in the post.

The decision is pending final approval by the Ojai City Council on January 10,…

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