Two More Cities Join Regional Renewable Energy Agency a Day Before New Board Meets
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Five cities are now part of a new Community Choice Energy program starting up in Orange County.
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Five cities are now part of a new Community Choice Energy program starting up in Orange County.
Lake Forest officials will decide today on whether their city should join a regional renewable energy agency.
Buena Park and Lake Forest will be considering joining the new energy program this week as well.
The redrawing of representation maps will affect local communities’ political power for 10 years.
Evacuation zones for the rapidly-growing Bond Fire are being expanded to thousands more residents in communities near Orange County’s inland canyons, as Orange County’s third major wildfire of the season burns south from the canyon community of Silverado.
Sheriff Don Barnes questions their constitutionality, while Santa Ana, Irvine, and Costa Mesa police may enforce.
Voice of OC keeps asking where the $554 million in taxpayer money went. Some answers are starting to emerge.
Fees would increase from $50 to $144. Officials say it’s to recover costs while opponents say it will hurt the working poor.
Things began to quiet down in Orange County on Wednesday night, and people trickled back into their homes, after three days of wildfires, smoke, evacuations and anxiety.
Unprecedented early voter turnout. A pandemic. A high-stakes election. Orange County’s top elections official said a wildfire was the last thing he expected a week before election day.