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CalOptima provides health care for nearly 800,000 disabled, elderly and low-income Orange County residents. County supervisors are moving to expand their power on its board of directors, but state legislators are moving to block that effort.
In what some say is an all-out effort to save the Anaheim City Council majority, the megaresort has so far doubled what it spent in 2012.
One after another, board members tell high-speed rail official that they don’t trust cost estimates for the bullet train program.
The city lost nearly $8.5 million for the project when Gov.
Jerry Brown eliminated redevelopment.
New rules allow for reimbursement at IRS rate with less
documentation.
In a matter of weeks, Peter Buffa went from serving on the
Orange County Transportation Authority board to working for an
investment house that does business with the agency.
Some of the proposals being considered by the California
Citizens’ Redistricting Committee lump smaller cities in with big
cities.
Meetings of the statewide redistricting panel have drawn
hundreds. But meetings at the county level can’t draw two
dozen.
City Council unofficially agrees to a developer’s plan for one
of the city’s last remaining tracts of open space.
City councils in Fullerton and Orange in the coming weeks will
vote on development proposals that community groups oppose.