August 3, 2018
Orange County
Voice of OC: Does OC County government need performance auditing?
A former Performance Auditor for the County of Orange talks about the lost art of checking under the hood inside the halls of county government, what makes a good auditor and the future of the office, now on life-support.
Daily Pilot: Costa Mesa considering legal action over mobile needle-exchange program
Costa Mesa City Council members holds a special meeting Friday to discuss whether to pursue legal action in response to a state decision to allow a mobile needle-exchange program to operate in the city’s Westside.
OC Register: OC Fair 2018: Animals, fairgoers, rides serve as muses in plein air painting competition
The competition, in which artists set up their materials outdoors and paint scenes from real life, returned to the OC Fair for its third year on Thursday.
OC Register: 405 widening project moving forward with closure of McFadden Avenue bridge on Aug. 7
It’s time to start paying attention to the 405 Freeway widening project – and to figure out alternate routes. Beginning next week, bridges crossing over the freeway will lose lanes or – in some cases – be shut down altogether.
Labor
LA Times: State Supreme Court rules San Diego skipped key legal step in taking pension reform to voters
While the unanimous ruling stopped short of reversing the cuts, it essentially ordered the appeals court to invalidate the ballot measure that imposed those cuts.
California
OC Register: California consumers tell pollsters they’re edgy about the future
U.S. shoppers’ view of current conditions were up from both a month ago and a year ago. But consumer expectations were down in the month and year.
Nation
Politico: China hits back with tariffs on $60B in U.S. goods
China said it was taking the action “because the U.S. side has repeatedly escalated the situation despite the interests of both enterprises and consumers,” according to an informal translation from a China Ministry of Commerce statement.
Publication Date: August 3, 2018
