While workplace outbreaks have been happening over the past month, OC’s Social Services Agency has been hit the hardest — where many workers deal with residents face to face
Category: State
Sacramento sets housing law, the state budget and the rules Orange County cities have to follow. We cover the decisions made there so you don’t have to sift through council agendas and meeting minutes.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
OC Mobile Home Park Seniors Win Rent Relief After Two Years of Activism
Seniors at the Rancho La Paz mobile home park, which straddles Anaheim and Fullerton, took their fight from the city councils all the way up to the state legislature to get protection from rent spikes.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
San Clemente Advocates Rally for Homeless People Ahead of CalTrans Eviction
A planned encampment removal has housing advocates pushing city officials for more money to address homelessness.
Posted inGovernment
Residents Challenge Who Gets Priority Access to Orange County’s Coast
A set of debates up and down Orange County’s scenic coast has residents questioning whether ideas about public coastal access only have the wealthy in mind.
Posted inCountywide
Collective Fight Could Expand Orange County’s Open Space Landscape
After decades of fighting, public land advocates are making steps to preserve or expand more open space in Orange County.
Posted inEducation
OC Board of Education Hosts Forum as Heated Debate Over Ethnic Studies Continues
People railed against ethnic studies at the forum Tuesday night, saying it’s too divisive. Others, at a separate event, criticized the forum itself as stacked against the course.
Posted inEducation
OC Board of Education to Host Ethnic Studies Forum Amid Misinformation Concerns
The forum is the first of two the board will host this summer as the ethnic studies debate continues across the county.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
CalTrans to Remove Homeless Camp Near San Clemente
CalTrans says it will remove a coastal homeless encampment below San Clemente, between Orange and San Diego counties, by August 13.
Posted inGovernment
OC Veterans Cemetery Could Get $20 Million Boost from County Under New Proposal
The proposal – slated for a vote on July 27 – is the latest move since supervisors this month publicly doubled down on their support of the cemetery site in Gypsum Canyon just east of Anaheim Hills, which would move the planned site from former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Irvine.
Posted inEquality & Equity
OC Fair Reopens Friday As Debates Over Its Identity, Policies Could Reshape Local Image
As the OC Fair reopens this Friday in-person, debates over the fair’s identity, role, and image persist.
