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Tag: Orange County Board of Supervisors
Orange County’s five supervisors run a $10.5 billion county government, from public health and jails to the unincorporated areas no city covers. We cover their votes, their budget and the decisions that reach every city.
Posted inGovernment
What Will OC’s Newest County Supervisor Katrina Foley Do As She Takes Office After Flipping the Seat?
It’s the first time in decades that Democrats have two seats on the powerful OC Board of Supervisors – which controls $7 billion in taxpayer spending and oversees everything from public health to homeless services to spending on jails and prosecution.
Posted inSafety, Security & Justice
Orange County’s #1 Most-Prosecuted Crime is Possession of Drug Paraphernalia Such as Meth Pipes
OC sheriff officials wouldn’t disclose data on the most common charges that land people in jail unless Voice of OC paid at least $1,000 for “custom programming.” But OC Superior Court provided similar data for free. Here’s what it showed.
Posted inEmergencies & Disasters
OC Partners With Blue Shield for Coronavirus Vaccine, Health Officials Expect More Reopenings Next Week
Local health clinics worry Blue Shield’s takeover will impact efforts to vaccinate the county’s most vulnerable residents.
Posted inGovernment
How Will More Than $1 Billion in New Aid Be Spent in OC? And When Will the Public Get to Give Input?
Will the public be brought into the discussion early, or towards the end after the plan has been mostly already decided in private? It’s a key question facing local officials as they prepare to receive a wave of new stimulus money.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Smoller and Moodian: Issues Matter in Supervisor’s Race
Conventional wisdom is that a split Republican vote cost John Moorlach his old seat on the Board of Supervisors. True, but Foley was more aligned with voters on pandemic and climate change in changing county.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Underwood: On Covid Time – A Mid Pandemic Assessment
One year into this life altering pandemic we mark as Covid time, seems like a good time to take stock of our public health response in Orange County to the coronavirus thus far, and ask the critical question how fit is our frontline public health agency in seeing us through what will most certainly be a second year on Covid time?
Posted inPolitics & Elections
Orange County Democrats Flip Key Supervisors’ Seat, Moorlach Concedes to Foley
It’s the first time in decades that Democrats will have two seats on the powerful board that impacts everything from homelessness to mental health services to the pandemic.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Bustos: Policies Against the Poor – the Human Toll of the Orange County Board of Supervisors Decision to Put Money First
The Orange County Board of Supervisors has failed hundreds of people in Santa Ana who have lost their lives to COVID-19, including the grandfather of a young Santa Ana youth organizer.
Posted inPolitics & Elections
In Rare Move, Sheriff Deputies Are Spending Big Against GOP-Backed Candidate for OC Supervisor
A campaign finance analysis by Voice of OC shows about $540,000 being spent against John Moorlach, mostly by the deputy sheriffs and other public employee unions.
