The Santa Margarita Water District board will decide whether to approve a project that would import water from the eastern desert.
Tag: Healthy Communities
Posted inGovernment, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories
Former CalOptima Chairman Quits
In his resignation letter, Ed Kacic asserts that “various forces over the past year have caused severe disruption to the organization.”
Posted inOrange, Top Stories
The Challenges of Treating Autism
Dr. Joseph Donnelly, who heads the county’s leading autism center, discusses the disorder’s many conundrums.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Top Stories
Mobile Camps Deliver Summer Fun for Low-Income Communities
A few cities in the county are using innovative ways to give kids in poorer neighborhoods a more supervised summer. Santa Ana is struggling.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Santa Ana, Top Stories
Peace Walk Brings Attention to Recent Violence in Santa Ana
Residents march and chant in protest of a spate of shootings in their neighborhood.
Posted inCountywide, Education, Santa Ana, Top Stories
One of Santa Ana’s ‘Researchers’ Heads Off to Her Dream — Princeton
Ana Maldonado overcame a childhood oppressed by poverty, disability and alcoholism to achieve a dream that began at a perilous intersection in front of her elementary school.
Posted inGovernment, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories
Refowitz New CalOptima Chairman
Orange County’s Health Care Agency director replaces Ed Kacic, who was temporarily removed as chairman in May.
Posted inCountywide, Outdoors, Top Stories
Reality Behind OC’s Urban Health
Preconceived notions regarding the reasons for obesity and other neighborhood health ills are not as cut-and-dried upon closer examination.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories
Irvine Health Foundation Demands That Attacks From CalOptima Stop
The nonprofit wants the County Board of Supervisors and CalOptima directors to halt what its attorney labels “scurrilous” allegations.
Posted inEconomy, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Santa Ana, Top Stories
County Report Reveals Wide Disparities in OC’s Health
Health Care Agency’s annual survey shows the number of Santa Ana residents living in crowded conditions to be 10 times the national average.
