Will Swaim Launches New Web Venture

OC Weekly‘s founding editor and former publisher Will Swaim is back in the media mix, launching a new website called Republic of Costa Mesa–which tackles the issue of what the website calls the “simply  unsustainable” pension and healthcare  benefits of that city’s public employees. As someone who’s worked with Swaim before, and is accustomed to his politics falling on the more liberal side of things, we were surprised to see his latest venture take such a strong anti-union position–even if that position is rooted less in ideological terms than it is in a realpolitik cost-benefit analysis.