City council to discuss whether to keep the city’s jail contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Yearly Archives: 2017
Posted inFullerton, News Briefs
Fullerton City Council to Look Again at 2018 District Races
The City Council will take a second look at its decision to put two new districts up for election next year.
Posted inAnaheim, Countywide, Education, Top Stories
Anaheim Groups Urge Sanctuary Policy for High School District
Local organizers call on the Anaheim Union High School District to establish a policy protecting students and staff who are unauthorized.
Posted inCountywide, Economy, Top Stories, Transportation
Orange County’s Bus Program Faces Grim Future
With bus ridership continuing to decline, Orange County Transportation Authority officials say their bus program is at a crossroads.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Santa Ana
Kanter: Santa Ana Cannot Backtrack on ICE Contract
Using Santa Ana’s jail to house transgender undocumented immigrants is not the way to go for a Sanctuary City, writes Laura Kanter. Ending the city’s ICE contract is.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Quirk-Silva: Listening to Other Points of View is Critical
Watching recent headlines about U.S. Senators being silenced, State Senators being removed and reporters being denied access to the President, State Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk Silva calls out for more civil dialogue and challenges everyone to reach out and engage with people who see the world differently.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Umberg: We Depend on Our Military to Speak Truth to Power
Tom Umberg writes that military leaders must speak truth to power, crediting Defense Secretary James Mattis for doing just that, speaking out against torture as an effective intelligence gathering tool, in strong support of NATO as an essential element of US national security and against the recklessness of suggesting that the U.S. should “take the Iraqi oil.”
Posted inCountywide, Government, Top Stories
Understaffing Means Thousands of Calls for Social Services Help Go Unanswered, Union Says
About 26,000 calls went unanswered in January, according to the union for social services eligibility workers. In response, Supervisor Shawn Nelson has pointed to the fact that Sacramento returns a very low portion of property taxes to Orange County.
Posted inCountywide, Investigative, Norberto Santana Jr.
Santana: Respect For Human Rights is a Local Story
Watching State Sen. Janet Nguyen get dragged out of a California Senate chamber is a stark reminder that too often, after the trade deals are done and history has been rewritten, our ideals take a quiet back seat to profit. Here in OC, groups like the Protocol Foundation deserve constant scrutiny to see what foreign interests are visiting our local government.
Posted inAnaheim, News Briefs
Anaheim Council Votes, for the Second Time, to Change Agenda-Setting Rules
The City Council voted 4-2, with Mayor Tom Tait absent, to rescind a rule that allows a majority of council members to deny a colleague’s request to place items on the agenda.
