Gov. Newsom heavily campaigned on COVID safety measures during the last weeks of the recall campaign, while Larry Elder, who polls as the frontrunner, ran against the mandates. What kind of pandemic landscape will the Golden State see on Wednesday?
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Santana: Why Did A Second Wave of Top Execs Bolt Orange County’s Public Health Care Agency?
For the second time during the pandemic, top OC Health Care agency executives — this time overseeing data collection and release, along with homelessness efforts — have abruptly left, prompting questions about the agency’s direction and contracting practices.
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Santana: Watching Orange County Supervisors Hot Wire the Public Health Department
Questions are rising about an OC Health Care Agency gag order stopping their doctors from updating Orange County residents about the pandemic.
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Santana: How Vaccinated is Your Orange County Neighborhood?
After engaging with Voice of OC, Orange County’s Health Care Agency is putting out more COVID-related statistics, with experts working to make them more usable.
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Santana: Orange County Residents Need Real Time Data to Effectively Confront Covid
Following the Voice of OC Town Hall on Covid, County of Orange officials are starting to share more of the Covid data they are collecting. That’s the best way to help residents protect themselves.
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Santana: Should OC Homeowners’ Park Taxes Fund Free Police Patrols For Newport Bay?
Should homeowners across Orange County’s most park-poor areas spend a portion of their special park-related property taxes to fund free police patrols for Newport Harbor?
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Santana: Confronting Orange County’s Third COVID Surge
County supervisors keep trashing a rare chance to engage the public on guarding their own quality of life. Tonight, the Voice of OC newsroom hosts a virtual Town Hall, acknowledging people are tense and need information to make key decisions.
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Santana: Who’s Really Running Anaheim’s Stadium Deal With Angels?
This week, Anaheim City Manager Jim Vanderpool and City Attorney Rob Fabela took tough questions about why city council members weren’t informed earlier this year when state officials advised them the recent stadium sale potentially violates state law.
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Santana: So Cal Cuban Americans Demonstrate on Local Streets, Ask Biden to Check Repressive Wave in Cuba
With Cubans hitting the streets of Havana last week in unprecedented numbers to protest 62 years of communism, Cuban Americans across the U.S. have also hit the streets, with demonstrations across So Cal this last week and this coming week calling on President Biden to stay tough, get creative in checking Cuba’s regime as it openly represses protesters.
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Santana: Sacramento Readies Bail Out for Embattled County Supervisors in Places Like San Bernardino, Orange County
San Bernardino voters decided last November to revolutionize local politics, creating a one-term limit for county politicians and limiting their pay to $60,000 annually. Now, legislation in Sacramento seeks to prevent that from ever happening again in places like Orange County.