OCInsider by Rick Reiff, on KOCE TV
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For sure inspiration, it doesn't get better than this: an OC hero and a famed physicist joining efforts to help others ... the Angels report that ticket sales are ahead of last year's pace ... and, Hollywood has been popping up in the OC...
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March 17, 2008 
An OC Pop Star is auctioning tour items on Ebay to help two local children's charities... What does this libertarian CEO have in common with Barack Obama?... Orange County has a new tourism logo, and it looks familiar...
March 10, 2008 More bad news for the OC housing market: it's serverely distressed, according to Wells Fargo... And a farewell to Norm Watson, founder of KOCE and one of OC's leading educators...
Feb. 25, 2008 Something's up! The film industry has discovered OC's Red Digital secret HD movie camera... But the video biz is a tough biz. Just ask Irvine-based Vizio... There's a new Democrat mayor in Fullerton. That makes six in Rep-dominated OC...
Feb. 18, 2008 Good news and bad news for OC Auto dealers... Las Vegas developers pay record prices for OC homes... Shares of Irvine-based Allergan fell on news the FDA is reviewing the safety of Botox...
Jan. 28, 2008 When it comes to global competition, this is the final insult: America has lost it's shopping edge... It's been a total makeover, and even more is coming to Huntington Beach... OC's CalState Fullerton now has a name on it's school, too...
Jan. 14, 2008 What do Tom Hanks and OC Assemblyman Chuck DeVore have in common? ... Sleepy seaside Dana Point isn't sleepy anymore. It has awakened into a luxury hotspot... Not much bigger than a golf cart, this fuel efficient car is coming to OC...
December 24, 2007 
Guess who's benefiting from the collapse of the housing market - that's right, Lawyers... They're just black & white squares, but for two Southern California shoe companies they're the stuff of a court battle...
December 17, 2007 This high-powered duo has defended some of the biggest and celebrated cases and now they take on Sheriff Carona... The OC has hip reality shows, and now hip huggers, too... It's back to the surfboard for Pacific Sunwear...
December 10, 2007 Meet OC's own Dr. Frankenstein, who lives on Castlegate Lane... Among luxury hotels along OC's coast St. Regis Monarch Beach can claim bragging rights... And from ventures in Africa to powerplants in the So. Cal desert...
November 19, 2007 Costa Mesa's 17th Street is oh so hip, and now it's spruced up, too... It's going to get easier to find a Rolex in South Coast Plaza... and Life gets Sweeter for an OC cookie company...
November 12, 2007 A Newport Beach clothing maker is getting a lot of Hollywood exposure... An Anaheim film company has debuted the first film by Arab-Americans about Arab-Americans... A once high-flying, now broke, company is bringing down its sign...
November 5, 2007 3M tape is out and Marukome miso soup is in... With the housing market tanking, Lennar says "Hold 'em"... Masimo Corp is a company with a couple of pulses: a new product and hot stocks...
October 29, 2007 Black Flys - the bad boy of the sunglass world - is cleaning up its act, with the help of an apparel veteran... OC Congressman, Chris Cox, is planning to call it quits and go into the private sector...
October 15, 2007 Today America & Asia, tomorrow the rest of the world. That's the game plan for K2 Networks... More bad economic news! Car registrations dropped almost 20% in OC... Power plants in China, military contracts; business is booming for engineering firms...
October 1, 2007 US Olympic chairman Peter Ueberroth is heading efforts to reach out to foreign guests visiting OC… Business isn't “rocky” going for two Indian immigrants turned successful OC business owners… So. Coast Plaza gets a new upscale Italian clothing retailer...
September 24, 2007 The OC may be the capitol of surfwear, but it now has new company - from LA!... The Insider hears that a former LA Laker great has purchased a place in Laguna Beach... OC Developers are putting the brakes on new projects...
September 17, 2007 The next retro-craze could be Bowling - including upscale food and no smoking... With a record number of passengers, air travel in So. Cal. appears to have finally recovered from 911. ... And a lot of tofu is being made in Fullerton...
September 10, 2007 Over the Labor Day weekend the former El Toro Marine Base was the Great Race Track... Now you see them, and soon you won't. HB Medical Lens maker makes a final move... and the Register's OC Post's days may be numbered...
August 27, 2007 OC's Lincoln Club is taking dead aim at Hillary Clinton... Sometimes it costs a lot to go out of business, especially in the subprime industry... And just how bad is the subprime biz right now? ... Have you shopped for a flat-panel TV recently? Here's good news...
July 16, 2007 What is Oakley founder, Jim Jannard, going to do after selling his sunglass company for two billion dollars?... A military-sounding real estate project has been moved onto the former El Toro Marine base... Upscale Mexican restaurants coming: Tacos stuffed with filet mignon...
July 9, 2007 Partying is BIG business in OC, but with the mortgage business kaput, it's Party On, but not as much... soon to open for celebrity watching: a new fun spot at the former Tustin Marine Base... so happens one of the buyers at the Strand is a big celebrity golf pro...
July 2, 2007 Even by OC's hip standards, this Lake Forest-based apparel maker really hops... In New York, a young Fullerton designer has been lured away by GAP... Allergan is discovering new ideas and maybe 100 new uses for its popular BOTOX ...
June 25, 2007 Two small OC companies have come to the rescue of our overseas troops who wish to stay it touch, on the internet... HB surfwear maker, Quicksilver, has had trouble mixing surf with snow...
June 18, 2007 Fletcher Jones, move over; Mercedes Benz of Anaheim has a posh, new dealership... Costa Mesa's Volcom is only the second OC surfwear company to join the Billion-dollar club... Up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane... it's a former county supervisor...
June 11, 2007 OC's reputation for a political ATM machine is proving true... The OC Register had a little trouble making up its mind about murder motives... High school buddies: an OC TV producer and President Bush's war czar...
