Voice of OC (https://voiceofoc.org/category/regions/central-county/santa-ana/)
Orange County may see its bars and pubs shut down again, less than a month after they reopened, because of the continuing spike in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations.
Latino Health Access has partnered with OC health officials in an effort to help address the growing coronavirus cases in poor, working-class Latino neighborhoods.
Advocates for affordable housing in OC see the Santa Ana Arts Collective as an excellent example of addressing the needs of a specific population.
Residents of Santa Ana and Anaheim are home to 20 percent of the county population but 40 percent of county residents who have tested positive for coronavirus.
By design, Friday’s rally coincided with Juneteenth, which commemorates the year when Black slaves in Texas were proclaimed free two years after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
Santa Ana City Council members late Thursday night approved a $9 million police spending increase for the next fiscal year along with the rest of the city budget in an initial vote.
Local Black activists and leaders participating in recent protests warn that the energy needs to carry over to local city council and public agency meetings in order to accomplish any real systemic change.
Hundreds of public comments on spending pushed the Tuesday meeting into Wednesday.
The discussion comes in the wake of protests over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. The idea has been struck down twice before by the Council.
The Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to mandate students finish a one-year course of ethnic studies before receiving their diploma.