Heightened transparency and public engagement from OC public health officials around local pandemic data is key for helping residents protect themselves against the fourth COVID spike.
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Santana: Big Oil Heads To Federal Court in Orange County
Federal Judge David Carter, known for handling the 2018 homeless lawsuits against the county, is poised to handle a class action lawsuit against the oil rig operator for the October 2021 oil spill.
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Santana: Orange County Veterans Take Their Last Hill
A coalition of Orange County veterans broke out of Irvine’s shifting council majorities, developer interests and competing sites to secure countywide support for a proposed veterans cemetery at Gypsum Canyon. It all comes after roughly a decade-long battle for a final resting place in OC.
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Santana: A Chance to Cheat Death For Dia de Los Muertos
Latinos continue to get hit the hardest when it comes to COVID deaths in OC. During this weekend’s holiday, vaccination clinics will go up in key areas with the hope of avoiding the wave of death that engulfed Orange County last winter.
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Why Did One of Orange County’s Most Park Poor Cities Quietly Sell Off a Slice of Its Own Public Park?
Westminster city officials and their law firm are drawing questions — and formal calls for an investigation — into how the sale of a slice of Liberty Park happened without public hearings required by state law to sell off public land.
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Santana: State, Feds Kick Off Slew of Investigations Into OC Oil Spill
This week, a host of different state and federal officeholders are launching investigations and oversight hearings after last week’s oil spill off of OC’s coast. Could their action spur the next environmental movement?
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Santana: The Public’s Right to Know Shouldn’t Be the First Victim of an Oil Spill
The unified command for OC’s massive oil spill admitted Tuesday it can’t meet the public information demand. That’s why — more than ever — residents need raw, public documents to be released quickly.
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Santana: Turns Out the Public Does Have a Right to Know How Anaheim City Officials Sold Off Angels’ Stadium
Anaheim residents’ lawsuit spurs questions about what kinds of private text messages, emails and memos exist detailing how Anaheim officials deliberated privately to sell Angels Stadium to a development group controlled by team owner Arte Moreno.
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Santana: Why Are Orange County Latinos The Least Vaccinated in SoCal?
OC lags behind all surrounding counties in the percentage of Latinos vaccinated. County public health officials don’t have many answers, demonstrating a need for public questioning and debate on strategies to get vaccines to the hardest hit community.
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Santana: Is Orange County Poised to Depoliticize Its Public Health Officer?
After months of OC’s public health officer dodging important COVID questions and downplaying trends, there seems to be movement to professionalize the role of Orange County’s chief public doctor.
