Residents are mounting fierce opposition to a landfill expansion in the southern tip of Orange County – leading to a cancelled public hearing on the issue that could see double the amount of trash hauled in.
Some residents living near the Prima Deshecha landfill say it has already resulted in their homes, air ducts and cars being caked with dust blowing over from the landfill.
Placentia-Yorba Linda school board members adopted a district policy that prevents staff from letting ICE agents on campus if they don’t have judicial warrants as part of a new state law and rejected explicitly supporting federal immigration agents
Roughly eight months after protests against federal deportation sweeps kicked off in Santa Ana last June, city officials are moving to have some type of public accounting of the police response to largely peaceful protestors.
For months, activists, residents and some local elected officials have raised concerns that Santa Ana police officers were too quick to fire tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds of demonstrators.
Orange County saw measles exposures at Disneyland and in South OC, with two infected people visiting the theme park in late January and one infected person visiting a gym in Ladera Ranch around the same time.
According to officials at the California Department of Public Health, cases have been popping up throughout Southern California.
“Cases have been reported in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside and Shasta counties. Two recent cases visited Disneyland on January 22 and 28 while infectious,” reads a Monday news release, with officials noting 17 total cases in California as of Feb. 9.
“Measles is a highly contagious viral disease. Unvaccinated individuals, particularly young children and pregnant people, face the highest risk of severe illness and even death,” officials said.
Thousands of healthcare workers continue striking across California and in Orange County as they hit the third week of picket lines against Kaiser Permanente in their push for increased pay and staffing while Kaiser says their employees are fairly paid already.
The drive through Irvine is about to get slower after city officials lowered speed limits across the city, including on some busy major roads like Alton Parkway and Jamboree Road.
Irvine is also creating a resident library advisory board after the city bailed out of the county library system – it comes as city officials consider buying property to house a city library, yet no price tags have been floated yet.
City officials keep kicking back a decision on a proposed Anaheim Hills housing development as nearby residents routinely show up to public comment and raise wildfire evacuation concerns – citing the already slow evacuation process in the area.
Cypress reduced city council campaign contribution limits from $5,900 to $1,250 per donor.
Spencer Custodio is the civic editor. You can reach him at scustodio@voiceofoc.org. Follow him on Twitter @SpencerCustodio.