Ventura County Wildlife Regulations Met Major Resistance | Commissioners Have Reservations Moving Forward
By Debra Tash On January 31, 2019, a late January storm raged outside while another storm raged in the County Government Center today. A Planning Commission hearing was held in an attempt to enact major restrictions on property owners in the unincorporated area. County personnel had to open up the lower plaza room as well […]
With Two Tweets Trump Disarms Pelosi’s ‘No State of the Union Here’
By Debra Tash President Donald Trump, after a back and forth with Nancy Pelosi this last week over holding the State of the Union in the House of Representatives, just pulled the political rug out from under the Speaker. Following tradition the Speaker proffered a formal letter inviting the President to present the annual State […]
When Government says they’re doing it for the ‘Greater Good’ – Watch Out | Wildlife Project is a Theft of Property Rights
By Debra Tash In the Moorpark Acorn, January 11th 2019 edition, Hector Gonzalez wrote a piece with a headline that veered close to a Marxist mantra, Finding the Line Between Public Good, Private Property. In it there were four interviewees, the planner Kim Uhlich, who is in charge of Ventura County’s Proposed Habitat Connectivity and Wildlife […]
The Reagan Library Brings Holiday Cheer to Ventura County Residents – Holiday Lights
Amidst the week’s devastating news, the Reagan Library brings some needed holiday cheer to Ventura County residents. The Library opened its first Holiday Lights display. The only glitch in an otherwise fabulous opening night was having to wait as credit cards were processed by hand. Visitors understood the internet was out. There had been such […]
A Matter of Life and Death | Time for the Signal Light You Designed and Approved, Caltrans
By Debra Tash We chose to publish this op-ed at 7:50 AM on August 17th to mark a very grim one week anniversary. Serious Accident Closes Los Angeles Ave., 118, Closes Highway from Somis to Moorpark On August 10th, 2018 a gas tanker heading west T-boned a sedan making a left turn off of […]
Sean Spicer: “The Briefing—Politics, The Press, and The President”
By Debra Tash (Editor’s Note: Sean Spicer’s book “The Briefing—Politics, The Press, and The President” is published by Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group, and is available on Amazon and at Barnes and Noble stores.) SIMI VALLEY— “Today’s media is obsessed with palace intrigue instead of issues of substance, prioritizing the number […]
On Iran’s Corrupt Mullahs | Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Reagan Library
By Debra Tash Simi Valley, CA, July 22, 2018: Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo spoke at the Reagan Library on the corrupt Iranian regime, coinciding with President Trump’s tweet challenging the mullahs. It was a packed house with the check-in line looping nearly the whole way around the Library’s courtyard. Two dozen or so […]
Recipe of the Week | Easy Grilled Lemon Chicken
Ingredients: Equal parts: Lemon Juice, Soy Sauce (low sodium is good) and Light Extra Virgin Olive Oil Sliced in small pieces–Green Onions Salt and Pepper to taste Skinless/boneless thin cut chicken breasts Directions: Prepare Marinade. Place in container with chicken and refrigerate at least one hour Cook chicken on grill, basting with marinade and seasoning […]
Thousand Oaks | Town Square to SB 54 (4-1 to do nothing) — The Fix Was In
By Debra Tash Before facing down, then punting, on the issue of SB 54 Sanctuary State, which the Thousand Oaks Council buried deep in their agenda (page 7 of item 9C), they heard the Downtown Core Master Plan RESOLUTION ENDORSING DOWNTOWN CORE MASTER PLAN RES. NO. 2018. It was cooked up by the Raimi team, a […]
Rally to support Trump and Rule of Law
By Debra Tash A rally was held Sunday, April 22nd, in front of the Federal Building in Westwood. Attendees, numbering close to 200 people at its peak, lined the sidewalk and occupied all four corners of the intersection at Wilshire Blvd. and Veteran Ave. The organizers were surprised by the reactions of […]
