Residents have asked city council members to shut down the factory for years, and contracted multiple studies they say show the facility is negatively affecting their health.
Category: Health & Wellness
Posted inHealth & Wellness
Top Official Resigns From OC’s Health Plan for the Poor Following Revelations of State Probe
Chairman Andrew Do quit his CalOptima board position on Thursday – the day after Voice of OC reported state officials are investigating the agency for large salary spikes and hiring practices.
Posted inHealth & Wellness
OC’s Top Public Health Official is Resigning; No Permanent Replacement Yet
Dr. Margaret Bredehoft’s departure marks another chapter of the Orange County Health Care Agency’s high-profile exits of executive staff.
Posted inCountywide
Santa Ana Faces Lawsuit For Barring a Religious Charity From Feeding Homeless People
A homeless resource center’s fight with Santa Ana taps into a decades-long legal battle over whether religious groups have the right to feed and shelter the poor.
Posted inHealth & Wellness
Sacramento is Investigating Pay Spikes and Hiring Practices at OC’s Health Plan for the Poor
It’s “startling” to see what some of CalOptima’s executives are making, said Sharon Quirk-Silva, the state assemblywoman who pushed for the audit.
Posted inIrvine
What Are the Exact Plans for Orange County’s Next Mental Health Campus?
Officials say the campus – slated to get $132 million from taxpayers – will help fill a critical need. Yet detailed plans have not yet been publicly revealed.
Posted inWestminster
After Monterey Park Shooting, Westminster Pushed Past Its Own Turmoil for Triumphant Tet Parade
With mass shooting reports coming in and all eyes on Little Saigon, Westminster officials had just hours to weigh the problem in front of them against what was, to many, an essential tradition.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
Disability Rights Advocates Want State Supreme Court To End California’s Experiment With Forced Treatment
It’s become the center of a debate over what’s truly causing homelessness across the state: Mental health issues, or a lack of affordable housing?
Posted inHealth & Wellness
Millions of Californians Are About to Lose COVID Food Benefits; OC Braces for ‘Food Cliff’
About $30 million a month in food assistance for hundreds of thousands of OC residents is about to disappear amid inflation and as the need for food remains high throughout the Golden State.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
Orange County to Open Cold Weather Homeless Shelter in Fullerton
The number of beds – 90 – will be far less than the 400 available in the past, when cold-weather shelters opened starting in October. This year, the shelter is opening months later.
