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Kelly Galindo has devoted several years to investigating the whos and whys of global sex trafficking. Originally, “our approach was rescue and reintegration. Now it’s more about prevention. If we can prevent it, we are saving not only years of turmoil for the victim, but also the taxpayers’ money. It takes a lot of money to restore a kid.”
PREVIEW: At its ninth annual OC-Centric New Play Festival, the Orange County-based playwrights group will unveil original works it touts as ‘compelling,’ written by three playwrights who live in or hail from Orange County.
Originally slated to move to the Villa Park Orchards Packing House, the Hilbert Museum will stay put and expand into nearby dance department building.
Olivia Harden, a student at Chapman and Features Editor of The Panther Newspaper, writes that being Black at Chapman can be traumatic and has only been exacerbated by the refusal of Chapman’s President to remove a racially charged poster of the film Birth of a Nation, at the Dodge School of Film. A vote Monday by the faculty will consider whether to call for a change.
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Brian Glaser, professor of English at Chapman University argues that perpetual war represents a failure of imagination. H. R. McMaster, the former national security advisor for the Trump administration, will provide his perspective on September 28th at Chapman.
Concert performances like the LA Opera’s “Don Carlo” are a special treat for Orange County opera lovers. With no opera company in the county since 2008, the economics of the art form and recent trends make its revival here unlikely.
Lloyd Pendleton’s speech to local officials, business leaders and advocates came as Orange County grapples with a growing homeless population and a severe shortage of shelter and affordable housing.
The lack of affordable housing threatens the quality of life and upward mobility of residents, and puts the county’s economic future at risk, according to a declaration by county supervisors.
There’s a serious risk of the county eventually becoming an economy of low-wage “servants” and wealthy homeowners, unless there’s a stronger focus on expanding the housing supply, according to Chapman University researchers who are advising county officials.