Opinion

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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It’s an old mantra: stay in school.  My mother said it, your mother probably said it, and of course all of our teachers probably said it. While I was earning my Master’s in Communications just a few years ago (my BA I earned just a few decades ago), a trusted advisor told me that...
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This week I removed a reader’s comment from FullertonStories.com because it contained aggressive and potentially libelous accusations toward an individual who was a small part of a story reported. I was not concerned about being sued for libel; the courts have ruled clearly that a site generally cannot be held responsible for the opinions...
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