November 29, 2018

Orange County

Voice of OC: Fullerton to inventory its emergency homeless shelter beds

Fullerton and other cities are scrambling to find shelters after a federal lawsuit was filed against the County, Anaheim, Costa Mesa and Orange in January for the County’s eviction of homeless people living on the Santa Ana Riverbed.

 

Daily Pilot: Serving people in need works to end homelessness in costly O.C.

In O.C., one of the most successful nonprofits focusing on reversing and/or preventing homelessness is Serving People In Need (SPIN). Headquartered in Costa Mesa, this faith-based, nonsectarian charity has faced this issue for more than 30 years.

 

OC Register: How beauticians are being trained to spot signs of domestic violence around their clients

When Tam Nguyen, founder and president of Advance Beauty College in Garden Grove, heard about the program, he knew right away that he wanted to bring it to the thousands of students who train yearly at his school’s two locations in Orange County.

 

OC Register: Irvine veterans cemetery plans moving forward, with Great Park golf course site under consideration

Discussions about building a veterans cemetery in Irvine are ramping up again, this time focused on land planned for a golf course in the Great Park in addition to the original site considered on the park’s northern border.

 

Daily Pilot: Costa Mesa project would install new traffic signal, median and bike lanes on Fairview Road

The city also plans to stripe more bike lanes in the area and add a raised roadway median that would prevent vehicles from turning left out of the Stater Bros. parking lot to head south on Fairview.

 

California

OC Register: Nobody moves: California worst at attracting folks from other states, No. 3 at retaining residents

When you consider size, California lost just 1.7 percent of its population to other states. That’s the nation’s third-best “retention rate” by my math and perhaps something to cheer. Michigan was No. 1, Texas No. 2. And after California came Ohio and Wisconsin.

 

Nation

Associated Press: Suicide, at 50-year peak, and drug overdoses push down U.S. life expectancy

Overall, there were more than 2.8 million U.S. deaths in 2017, or nearly 70,000 more than the previous year. It was the most deaths in a single year since the government began counting more than a century ago according to the CDC.

 

Publication Date: November 29, 2018