Voice of OC (https://voiceofoc.org/category/columnists/norberto-santana-jr/)
As Congress considers another impeachment, questions mount for those who traveled to the D.C. rally as well as for local political party leaders, who face election this month.
OC’s first female Sheriff was hired in 2008 to revamp a department battered by the federal indictment of former Sheriff Mike Carona. While she is credited with stabilizing the agency, the culture issues she identified when she first arrived remained throughout her tenure.
OC Sheriff faces a massive outbreak forcing near evacuation of the jail. County Social Services Agency has outbreaks int nine divisions across six different addresses.
Nearly 1,000 County of Orange workers have been infected with Coronavirus. As numbers continue to rise so do questions about how to best protect workers and the public.
OC Supervisors today expected to consider supporting lawsuit against Gov. Newsom. Yet the County of Orange itself isn’t very transparent about Covid.
As OC elections officially wrap up this week, no major race outcomes changed much. But for Lauren Barnes, now one of Orange County’s newest – and youngest – elected officials, the race came down to the last day and down to just one vote.
OC likes purple. Voters leaned Democrat for President and Republican in key congressional contests as well as in an urban county supervisors’ seat. Meanwhile, Democrat flipped two key state senate races.
OC’s Veterans Service Office – which helps local vets in crisis deal with hard-to-navigate federal benefit programs – is critically low on staffing. County officials say they are on track to fill key vacancies.
As the coronavirus ravaged through Orange County’s most working class neighborhoods this year, public officials largely shied away from acknowledging the dead at official meetings. They’ve also shied away from addressing the conditions that have fueled so much death, especially among Latinos, who make up nearly half of all OC Covid-19 cases and deaths. County officials now say that’s about to change.
A SCE report filed Monday with state regulators says investigators are looking into a lashing wire at SCE electrical facilities near Santiago Canyon Road that may have contacted SCE’s overhead primary conductor, which may have resulted in the ignition of the fire.