Commentary: Orange County isn't ready for blue wave
by Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times
May 31, 2018
3 minutes
I've long fancied myself a journalistic John the Baptist for Orange County, a voice in the wilderness crying out to the world that there is more to my homeland than suburban sprawl and vapid housewives. Well, who looks like a lunatic now? In 2018, the old Orange Curtain is looking really frayed.
Issues festering here for decades that politicians and the rich alike ignored - homelessness, income disparity, jailhouse corruption - have received national attention, forever tarnishing our carefully crafted image as the
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