October 10, 2018

Orange County

Voice of OC: Protecting public safety

To really protect public safety, civic leaders need to make smart, sustained investments in a series of community institutions – including the police department – to truly enhance public safety. Now, that’s a much heavier lift than just offering raises to police officers.

 

Voice of OC: News transparency matters

Today, Voice of OC is among more than 120 leading news organizations worldwide bolstering the Trust Project, a new standard for journalism that allows readers to judge the transparency of news organizations.

 

Voice of OC: Nonprofit withdraws Fullerton homeless housing proposal

The nonprofit Pathways of Hope withdrew its Fullerton application to create housing aimed at homeless people because it said it wants to see how a federal lawsuit and funding from state bills play out.

 

OC Register: Disney announces it’s pulling the plug on Anaheim luxury hotel

Disney officials said they’re looking to bring back food and entertainment venues now that the hotel won’t go forward, but no immediate details were available.

 

Labor

LA Times: The union movement's ground zero is California

Unlike the California quitters who leave the state complaining that the dream is over for the middle class, labor argues that solutions start with good jobs and management that takes care of more than quarterly earnings.

 

Inc.: Why Verizon is doomed and what to learn from it

It's pretty obvious that the main reason behind the transfer of Verizon's IT personnel is so the US-based erstwhile-Verizon employees can train their counterparts in InfoSys. This will theoretically allow InfoSys to accomplish the work previously done by Verizon's IT personnel but at a lower cost.

 

Region

OC Register: As California struggles to house the homeless, some neighbors say ‘welcome’

A health-care center is opening there for as many as 62 people newly released from the hospital, all of them homeless, many of them struggling to recover from drug addiction – and some neighbors are OK with it.

 

Publication Date: October 10, 2018