Bad Branding: Mesa Water District’s Marketing Scheme Backfires: Looking Back to 2013
Lately, the people who act like they own the Mesa Water District, namely its five-member board of directors, general manager, and communications manager, have been...
Mesa Water Vanity Leads to Questionable Consulting Fees: Looking Back to 2013
Mesa Water spent hundreds, if not thousands of dollars preparing its general manager and communications manager for a thirty minute interview with this reporter and...
Can MWDOC Find a Reason to Exist? Looking Back to 2013 and Gus Ayer
Gus Ayer, the former mayor of Fountain Valley, was probably Orange County’s top progressive political strategist and activist. He passed away on Feb. 13, 2013....
Mesa Water’s Reliability Celebration: Misuse of Public Funds? Looking back
Editor’s note: This story was originally posted on March 12, 2013 as “Mesa Water’s Celebration: Misuse of Public Funds? Ratepayers Pay Thousands for ‘Private Event’....
Ratepayers Picked Up the Tab for Mesa Water’s Fiduciary Fumbles: Looking Back to 2013
Paul Shoenberger spends too much of the ratepayers’ time and dime promoting desalination and not enough time looking out for them....
Mesa Water Censure Effort Fails: Looking Back to 2012
Bockmiller said "...there have been directors’ behaviors far more ludicrous than Director Ohlig-Hall’s behaviors.”...
Mesa Water Directors’ Plot to Remove Trudy Ohlig-Hall from Office: Looking back to 2012
Mesa board members Shawn Dewane and James Fisler are hoping for a knock-out punch against fellow board member Trudy Ohlig-Hall in tomorrow’s election (Nov. 6)...
Does Mesa Water care what you think?: Looking Back to 2012 with Afterthoughts
Stung by Cook’s rebuke of his rude interruption, Bockmiller quipped, sarcastically, “Thank you very much, Ms. Cook."...
Alleged Employee Abuse by Mesa Water Director: Looking Back to 2012 with Afterthoughts
It’s no secret around Mesa Water that Ohlig-Hall, who has served three terms on the board, can be temperamental at times, something even she acknowledges....
‘Prenuptial Agreement’ Stops Investigation of Met Chairman
First posted June 5, 2012 By John Earl Surf City Voice The Fair Political Practices Commission has cleared the chairman of the Metropolitan Water District...