Councilwoman Christina Shea has built her political career on rooting out corruption surrounding the Great Park. But what she’s doing behind the scenes for a consulting client is also crossing ethical lines, a government ethics expert says.
Tag: Immigration
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Curry: Trump is Not What Republicans Need
Newport Beach City Councilman and longtime Republican Keith Curry writes that the Donald Trump phenomenon will kill the Republican Party
Posted inAnaheim, Top Stories
OC Muslims Voice Concerns About Backlash
Anaheim police held an open forum with the area’s Muslim community Wednesday to discuss their safety concerns in the wake of the San Bernardino massacre.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Bolsavik: Syrian Refugees Facing What Vietnamese Did a Generation Ago
Today, many have unfounded fears of Syrian refugees as possible terrorists. In the 1970s and 1980s Vietnamese refugees were feared as communist infiltrators.
Posted inAnaheim, Community Opinion, Countywide
LeTourneau: Democrats Should Rebuke Brandman Move to Disenfranchise Latinos in Anaheim
Orange County Democratic Central Committee Member Jeff LeTourneau calls out Anaheim City Councilman Jordan Brandman for supporting a Republican majority plan that will stall Latino electoral clout in upcoming city elections. LeTourneau is calling on progressives to vote tonight on an emergency resolution condemning Brandman’s vote.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Moore: Vietnam Taught You Can Hate a War and Still Love our Warriors
Justice Eileen C. Moore, an Associate Justice on the California Court of Appeal and former combat nurse, spoke Wednesday at the Orange County Fairgrounds about her experience as a combat nurse in Vietnam and the importance of welcoming those veterans home.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Top Stories, Westminster
DA Charges Fountain Valley Man With Money Laundering for Nguyen Campaign
On 10 different occasions between November 2011 and the end of January 2012, Son Truong Nguyen allegedly reimbursed a total of $13,300 to people who contributed to State Sen. Janet Nguyen’s 2012 campaign for county supervisor.
Posted inGovernment, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories, Transportation
Report Reveals Uneven Progress Toward Well-being of OC’s Children
Teen pregnancies and high school dropout rates have plummeted in the past decade. But housing insecurity and mental illness hospitalizations are skyrocketing.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide, Education, Health & Wellness
Higher Education and Undocumented Youth
Undocumented youth brought to the US at an early age deserve the same shot at a higher education as children born here, writes a USC student studying for her Masters in Social Work.
Posted inCountywide, Norberto Santana Jr.
Santana: Playing with Pensions
Orange County’s Auditor Controller Eric Woolery is locked in a heated battle with county retirement administrators and county executives over a quiet deal struck back in February to retroactively fund a pension for Supervisor Shawn Nelson’s first term in office – one where he publicly fought to refuse a public pension.
