September 13, 2018

Orange County

OC Register: Next stop for Beach Boulevard improvements: Anaheim

Following Buena Park’s lead, Anaheim is now seeking to fix up its piece of the boulevard from a run-down stretch of low-rent motels, struggling businesses and empty lots into a place worth visiting.

 

OC Register: First games to be played at new Great Park baseball stadium

It will be time to play ball Sunday, Sept. 16, at the new baseball stadium at the Orange County Great Park Sports Complex in Irvine.

 

LA Times: Charges upheld against L.A. social workers in death of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez

A LA County judge denied a motion to dismiss child abuse and other charges against four social workers in the killing of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez, concluding that the Palmdale boy’s death had been “foreseeable.”

 

LA Times: Riverside County's top child protection official departs amid claims of botched abuse investigations

In separate civil lawsuits filed in November 2017 and March 2018, attorney Roger Booth alleged that county workers failed to protect the children despite multiple opportunities to intervene.

 

Labor

Cal Labor Fed: #Met too legislation leads the way with help from unions

Our bills are incredibly vital in the fight against sexual assault in the workplace and with an upsurge in forced arbitration across the country, bills like AB3080 (Gonzalez Fletcher) are both groundbreaking and absolutely necessary to protect California workers.

 

Labor 411: New study reveals increased minimum wage saw no slowdown in job growth

In the first six major U.S. cities to raise their minimum wage above $10 an hour, workers’ earnings went up while job growth held steady or improved, according to a new study from Berkeley’s Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics.

 

Nation

Associated Press: Decade later: Safer financial system yet much hasn’t changed

The government intervention shored up the banking system, allowed credit to flow freely again and helped set the economy on a path toward a painfully slow but lasting recovery from the Great Recession.

 

Publication Date: September 13, 2018