Voice of OC (https://voiceofoc.org/category/columnists/norberto-santana-jr/)
There’s nearly 200,000 people out of work across Orange County, about the same amount of local unemployment during the Great Recession of 2008. Who will look out for the county’s working poor?
As the Angels’ development bid for the heart of Anaheim moves forward at a fastball pace, planning commissioners examine the process – without live public comment.
The County of Orange this past month installed a new County Health Officer with limited background and also tasked him with running the county’s billion dollar Health Care Agency.
New numbers from the beleagured County Health Care Agency – showed nearly half of 2,000 restaurants inspected since June had a “COVID non-compliance rate of approximately 40%.”
The County of Orange is failing taxpayers when it comes to disseminating public information about the coronavirus pandemic.
Supervisors are again expected to hear a proposal that would ask voters this coming November to consider creating a three-term, 12-year life term limit for county supervisors.
OC supervisors today are expected to consider placing an initiative on the November ballot establishing a lifetime, three-term limit for a county supervisor.
Going into Tuesday’s supervisors’ meeting, it looks as if there’s no official appetite to put the renaming issue up for a formal discussion, much less a vote.
Pencil in the John Wayne Airport naming battle onto the list of potential races that could tell us a lot about the new Orange County come this fall.
Since Coronavirus broke out, county supervisors have spent most of their time on the public dais reacting to public health restrictions like mask orders or closures of beaches.