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.
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Santana: Latinos in Santa Ana and Anaheim Confront a Day of The Dead Unlike Any Other
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.
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Santana: Did Faulty Power Equipment Drive 90,000 OC Residents from Their Homes?
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.
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Santana: Amidst Record Voter Turnout, OC DA Probes His Own Party Over Ballot Harvesting
Republican Party officials are drawing fire over their approach to ballot harvesting, which they stand behind. Now, OC District Attorney Todd Spitzer is investigating his own party.
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Santana: Out of Work, Out of Time in Orange County
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?
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Santana: What If Anaheim Said No to Big Land Subsidies for Major League Baseball?
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.
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Santana: Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 1,000 as OC Supervisors Keep Politicizing Public Health
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.
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Santana: Is Restaurant Enforcement or Education the Key to Orange County Reopening?
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%.”
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Santana: The County of Orange Isn’t Transparent or Open When it Comes to Coronavirus
The County of Orange is failing taxpayers when it comes to disseminating public information about the coronavirus pandemic.
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Santana: Orange County Supervisors Effort to Extend Term Limits is Back
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.