August 16, 2018

Orange County

Voice of OC: Santana: Time for common sense

Voice of OC today stands alongside hundreds of news organizations across America, pushing back against assertions that reporters are enemies of the people, standing up for the notion that a free and independent press is central to our democracy, our freedom

 

Voice of OC: Newport Beach City Council names new city manager

According to documents in the staff report, Leung will be paid a base salary of $265,000 at Newport Beach, roughly $17,000 short of the maximum amount the city has allotted for the job, according to job posting documents.

 

Voice of OC: Disney in dispute with Anaheim, stops work on new four-star hotel

The city was going to give a 70 percent hotel tax subsidy to Disney. The subsidy for a four-diamond hotel proposed by Disneyland has the potential to be worth more than $200 million over two decades, which would make it the richest tax giveaway in the city’s history.

 

OC Register: Spring homebuying dips 2% in Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Westminster

That’s what the experts found when they looked at Orange County house hunting patterns at the neighborhood level in 2018’s second quarter vs. the April-to-June period a year earlier.

 

Labor

LA Times: Rich business owners are using pension plans to stash money and get a tax break

By doing so, they’ll get around the income limits Congress created to bar them from a generous new tax break for pass-through entity owners, who report the firms’ income on their individual tax returns.

 

Wall Street Journal: Unions triumph at the ballot box

It’s an incredible display of the labor movement’s capacity to win change. Voters are seeing through the corporate right wing’s efforts and its tired campaign of fear and misdirection.

Publication Date: August 16, 2018