Red County Ventura

The Stardecided to identify Ventura County's top-earning public employeeslast week in a story highlighting the growth in those making over $200,000 annually. Most of the county employees named ...

The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association just released its annual report card, scoring officials on their votes on 35 bills (double weighting bills against Prop 13 or 218). Ventura County officials remain high scorers on the list.

A local tea party group will sponsor a screening of a popular anti-global-warming movie this weekend. Not Evil Just Wrong went viral earlier this year when hundreds of thousands of Americans reacted to the environmental hysteria by supporting this film.

Political humorists are sort of the wartime diplomats of political debate. Their audiences give them safe passage through their defensive walls and grant them permission to directly influence decisions of hostile entities. ...

Nobody denies that Chuck DeVore is a hard-working candidate. His bid to replace Barbara Boxer as senator is centered on tirelessly driving up and down the state building grassroots support. But he’s ...

Political humorists are sort of the wartime diplomats of political debate. Their audiences give them safe passage through their defensive walls and grant them permission to directly influence decisions of hostile entities. ...

What a great day it is for political speech when someone can be personally destroyed in public just because she had the audacity to have an opinion on a political subject. The nightmare that Carrie Prejean has been through since speaking out against gay marriage is a travesty. ...

Normally when your wages are garnished it’s your own fault—you failed to pay child support, taxes, or you have some other unmet financial obligation. As of November 1st, your wages are now garnished because of the state of California couldn’t meet its financial obligations.

Assemblywoman Audra Strickland will soon announce her intention to become Ventura County’s next treasurer-tax collector, according to a source very close to her office.

Yet another murder has occurred in the city of Oxnard yesterday, bringing the death toll up to twelve for the year.In August, I reported that Oxnard’s murder rate was 25 percent higher than Los Angeles. ...

A recent article in the Ventura County Star contained a quote from a local doctor and supporter of the Democrats’ health care plan in which he says, “This is capitalism. This is competition. It’s another car brand. No one’s making you pick it.”

Former Reagan Administration advisers gathered at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Friday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Nancy Reagan hosted a panel discussion that included former National Security Adviser Richard Allen, former U.S. ...

The Ventura County Star published the names of the highest paid public employees in the county today, raising a question of how privacy issues of public employees should be balanced against the public’s right to know how their tax dollars are spent.