It’s strange how this is thought to be the ultimate test of a “true” homeless advocate, and the ultimate solution to homelessness – the challenge to take a stranger … into your home and rehabilitate them.
Tag: COVID-19
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Khan: Cities Need OC Board of Supervisors to Follow Governor’s Guidelines, Open More Testing, and Distribute CARES Act Funds
Irvine has done a tremendous job consistently setting policies ahead of the trend to respond to COVID-19. Like other cities in OC, we want to help our businesses and families that have been struggling. To be most successful, we need the OC Board of Supervisors to take three important actions.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Armendariz: Caught the Coronavirus in Jail? “Tough Biscuits”
The government uses fear-mongering to advance mass incarceration even with the Covid-19 pandemic. This writer seeks to quell the hate flowing from some fear-mongering by providing an inside perspective, based on his personal experience, on how the pandemic threatens the incarcerated, and by transmission to staff, the entire community.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Maestas, Rodriguez and Vielma: Poseidon’s Desalination Plant Threatens our Climate and Human Right to Clean Water
As the Regional Water Board considers final permits for an ocean water desalination plant in Huntington Beach, Latinx community leaders argue it would infringe on our fundamental human rights to a safe climate and clean water; countering an OpEd by a League of United Latin American Citizens lobbyist.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Harvey: A Huntington Beach Student’s Response to the Recent Protests
Once again, a health issue has become the center of political discourse, resulting in both sides engaging in fundamentally different arguments and preventing any real change. Spread of misinformation, not only regarding the virus, but also regarding the political climate in my own hometown is frustrating. This piece attempts to correct some of these misconceptions.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Barfield: Orange County Public Servants Speak Out About Workplace Safety
An OCEA safety survey of public workers show that more than 44 percent of respondents do NOT feel safe in the workplace and more than 40 percent say they do not have adequate access to personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks and shields.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Ip: Face Covering Requirements Across Orange County
Without one face covering requirement across Orange County, it’s important to know where you’re, and if you’re required to wear face covering. Here is a brief summary of the requirements in the county.
Posted inARTS & CULTURE
Local Farm Purchases Surplus Produce to Donate for Community Packages
Irvine’s Tanaka Farms, working with local businesses and nonprofits, formed an initiative named Helping Farms Feed Families.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Cho: A Covid Call to Arms
Residents should resist those who co-opt patriotism to argue for premature reopening and remember that only continued, shared sacrifice will defeat this pandemic.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Singer, Kropke and Clayton-Tarvin: Orange County, the COVID Wild West?
Many children will have to return to daycare requiring bold initiatives. There is likely no vaccine for COVID and herd immunity is years away. There is no relief for this pandemic on the immediate horizon and waiting for a cure is unattainable because science takes time. Our childcare programs will have to be reimagined with flexible thinkers leading the charge. Yet the OC Supervisors have yet to contact anyone in the educational community for assistance. The new normal should be led by campus sanitation specialists who rank in respect to principals and paid commensurate to professionals. Our daily structure needs to be rethought and turned on its head altogether. It’s time.
