Opinion

I had a boss who used to say “it’s amazing what happens to people.”  That was after I recalled to him my experience of stepping through body parts strewn around the crash zone of the 1986 Aeromexico plane crash in Cerritos.  The phrase always stuck with me.  As humans we can never truly predict...
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Today’s online protests of House Bill 3261, more commonly known as the Stop Online Privacy Act, or SOPA, brings attention to a very real threat to free speech. SOPA’s aim is to combat foreign thefts of American intellectual property and specifically seeks to protect the products of big media firms and films studios. FullertonStories.com...
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Fullerton experienced more unrest this year than any other in recent memory.  While looking back at the coverage of the city published by FullertonStories.com, one theme became abundantly clear: Undo to others what they have done upon you.  2011 saw the Coyote Hills approval and subsequent referendum, the drive to undo the City Council...
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“The right to swing your arm ends at the other person’s nose,” the old saying goes.   Free speech is championed online, on the radio and in Fullerton City Council meetings by advocates asserting their rights to expression.  During the past several months we’ve seen those people trample the ability of others to do the...
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Kelly Thomas’ death has produced more than just outrage. It’s produced many ironic and contradictory situations in the public forum. A few things to consider: • Protesters against the police are assisted with roadblocks set up by the police. • People chanting “don’t believe the media” get their information from the media. • Public speaking...
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During the past week FullertonStories.com has received emails that range from “how dare you print those ignorant comments,” to “I’m glad someone is speaking about the other side of dealing with schizophrenia.” Last week’s Opinion essay by me, Davis Barber, about the difficulties of dealing with mental illness quoted Jeremy Popoff several times in...
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“It just sucks. Everything about it sucks.”  Those are the words of Jeremy Popoff, owner of the Slidebar Rock-N-Roll Kitchen. On July 5 outside his restaurant, Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old mentally ill homeless man, was arrested in a violent clash with Fullerton police. Thomas died five days later, after he was removed from life...
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By Chris Thompson – I appreciate Fullerton Stories providing me with additional opportunity to set the record straight on some seriously error-riddled stories being told by a Mr. Frank Jahn in the Fullerton Observer. In a letter entitled, “Boardmembers Actions Appalling” Jahn butchers my words in frustration over my efforts to put kids before...
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By Vince Buck – The 14 member California Citizens Redistricting Commission is traveling the state to get public reaction to  its proposed districts for the state and federal legislatures, and  on June 18  it came to Fullerton. The public is rarely pleased with how legislatures work. Mostly that is due to a lack of...
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By Theresa Harvey – The Fullerton Chamber of Commerce encourages businesses to get involved in the public review process of the recently released draft redistricting maps released by the Citizens Redistricting Commission (CRC). To quote the Bloomberg Report, “Republicans are angry. Democrats are running for cover. And the executive director of a group that...
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