Cuts severely impact services for Orange County’s poor.
Tag: County Government
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Top Stories
Homeless Shelters Closing Early
Federal budget stalemate is forcing armories that shelter
hundreds of homeless Orange County adults to close Thursday, nearly
a week early.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Countywide, Government, Huntington Beach, Investigative, Orange, Top Stories
Regional Leaders Weigh In on Costa Mesa Outsourcing
Last Wednesday local GOP Chairman Scott Baugh held up Costa
Mesa’s plan to drastically cut its workforce as an example for
others to follow. A city employee’s suicide the following day has
made that a far more complicated proposal.
Posted inGovernment, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories
Supervisors Approve Sex Offender Law
The new law will make it a misdemeanor for registered sex
offenders to enter county parks, beaches and harbors without
permission from authorities.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Top Stories
A Dire Picture Begins to Emerge for County’s Poor and Elderly
Legislature approves bills that largely adhere to drastic cuts
to social services proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Top Stories
Nelson Proposes Strengthening County Sex Offender Laws
Supervisor wants a law that would make it a misdemeanor for sex
offenders to go to parks, beaches or harbors without
permission.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Government, Investigative, Top Stories
Costa Mesa Officials Dodge Questions While Employee Remembered
Costa Mesa city maintenance worker Huy Pham, who committed
suicide at City Hall Thursday, is recalled by co-workers as
talented and caring.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Countywide, Government, Investigative, Top Stories
‘Everything About it Was Hasty’
While done in the name of good business, Costa Mesa’s mass
layoff notification violated basic principals that the corporate
world has developed for handling layoffs, experts say.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Countywide, Government, Investigative, Top Stories
Costa Mesa Employee Commits Suicide at City Hall
Maintenance worker jumped to his death from roof of the City
Hall building Thursday, the day he and more than 200 other city
employees were issued layoff notices.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Top Stories, Yorba Linda
County Human Relations Commission Reacts to Yorba Linda Protest
The statement calls for a “return to civility” in the wake of a
controversy over a video that shows a protest outside of a Muslim
charity event.
