Jose Moreno, president of Los Amigos Orange County and advocate for the city’s underserved neighborhoods, claims a Register reporter lied to him and kept his views on a pending Disneyland ticket tax proposal out of the newspaper’s coverage.
Category: Transportation
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide, Transportation
Huff: Sacramento Legislators Should Get 72-Hour Window on Budget
Senate Republican Minority Leader Bob Huff argues that legislators in Sacramento should get a 72-hour waiting period to analyze bills before voting can take place.
Posted inCountywide, Norberto Santana, Jr., Transportation
Santana: Meet OC’s Biggest NIMBY on Homelessness; County Supervisors
Santana challenges county supervisors to address the homeless situation on their front steps by offering the civic center’s homeless community a better transition center at a nearby abandoned bus shelter.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, News Briefs, Top Stories, Transportation
County Budget Hearing Kicks Off With Some Requests Not Recommended for Funding
Most of the discussion is expected to center on how to divvy up the more than $60 million in extra discretionary funding for the next fiscal year, which starts July 1.
Posted inAnaheim, Countywide, Fullerton, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories, Transportation
Website Blurs Line Between Journalism and PR
“Behind the Badge OC,” a site dedicated to the good deeds of police officers and firefighters, and paid for by local police agencies, is both winning local journalism awards and raising eyebrows.
Posted inCountywide, Garden Grove, Investigative, Top Stories, Transportation
After Year of Scandal, Garden Grove Makes Transparency High Priority
Officials want to take steps to improve the city’s relationship with residents and the media after more than a year of dealing with fallout from nepotism revelations.
Posted inAnaheim, Countywide, Housing & Homelessness, Top Stories, Transportation
Wisdom From Years of Fighting Homelessness
Garden Grove’s Interim City Manager Allan Roeder sat down with Voice of OC recently to talk about his views on the county’s efforts to address homelessness, and what government leaders need to be doing to move forward on the issue.
Posted inGovernment, Health & Wellness, Top Stories, Transportation
Supervisors Finally Make Decision on Ambulance Firms
The drawn out and controversial process ends with the supervisors increasing Care Ambulance’s dominance of ambulance service in Orange County.
Posted inCorrections, Government, Health & Wellness, News Briefs, Top Stories, Transportation
Supervisors to Revisit Controversial Ambulance Contracts
The process for awarding the contracts, which cover about 800,000 people in 19 cities, has been drawn out.
Posted inAnaheim, Countywide, Top Stories, Transportation
ARTIC Ridership Continues to Fall Far Below Projections
Anaheim’s new transit hub attracted just over 800 train boardings per weekday in January and February, according to the latest figures from the Orange County Transportation Authority.
