February 25, 2019

Orange County

Voice of OC: New OC DA wants to make a deal with Feds ending DOJ jailhouse snitch probe

“I’ve got an office to run here. I want to close this chapter and ensure it never happens again,” DA Todd Spitzer argues. “We’ve got to move on. My office cannot be inundated with the legacy issues from the past.”

 

OC Register: Orange County may change election system and replace polling places with vote centers

Orange County supervisors are set to consider a sweeping overhaul of the county’s voting system that would eliminate polling places and replace them with vote centers, which election officials say could make it easier to cast ballots, increase participation and save the county upwards of $29 million.

 

CBS News: High rents create a new class of hidden homeless in Los Angeles and Orange County

From 2010 to 2018, median rental prices for a one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles increased 84 percent, while median wages during the same period only rose 11 percent.

 

OC Register: Bubble Watch: Orange County’s worst home buying dip since ’07

Everything from pricier mortgages to economic and political uncertainty to uneven home inventory may have spooked buyers.

 

OC Register: CalOptima board approves $1.6 million to start mobile medical team to treat homeless people

Responding to a surge in homeless deaths, the governing board of Orange County’s health care plan for its poor allocated $1.6 million on Friday, Feb. 22, to start a mobile medical team to treat homeless people.

 

OC Register: Garden Grove promotes 29-year department veteran Tom DaRé to police chief

After climbing the ranks, the Garden Grove High alum became a lieutenant overseeing the homeless task force in 2015. Two years later, the city added the Grove District and Anaheim Resort areas to his responsibilities.

 

Daily Pilot: Master plan for new Orange County Museum of Art location gets OK from Costa Mesa Planning Commission

The structure will more than double the exhibit capacity that OCMA, an acclaimed venue for modern and contemporary art, had at its former home at 850 San Clemente Drive in Newport Beach.

 

California

OC Register: California considers environmental laws on single-use plastics, climate change, wastewater reuse and more

With statewide restrictions on single-use plastic bags and plastic straws in place, state lawmakers this year will consider a sweeping measure that would force a major reduction of all other single-use plastics.

 

Publication Date: February 25, 2019