November 5, 2019

Orange County

OC Register: 5 candidates vie for open San Clemente City Council seat, in all mail-in election

The candidates up for election, in the all mail-in ballot, are Dee Coleman, a local business owner; Jackson Hinkle, a marketing specialist; Gene James, a security consultant; Michael (Mickey) McClane, a retired parole officer; and Christina Selter, a local business owner.

 

Voice of OC: It’s Election Day in Santa Ana for council and school board seats

Santa Ana voters are deciding today who will fill a hotly-contested City Council seat and potentially impact key decisions on local issues like the ongoing homelessness crisis, complaints about slow 9-1-1 response times, and how to spend an extra $60 million a year from a new sales tax increase that has bolstered city coffers.

 

OC Register: Who are the big political donors in Orange County?

Even though Orange County officially flipped from red to blue this summer, a Register analysis of campaign finance records suggests most of the biggest individual donors from the region long associated with Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan are Republican.

 

Voice of OC: Anaheim seeks to gag council members

The proposed changes – up for debate on Tuesday night – come after months of tense exchanges between the council majority, led by Mayor Harry Sidhu, and dissenting members over issues involving the Angels stadium lease and rent control efforts for seniors.

 

OC Register: Purchase of Banning Ranch for coastal preserve buoyed by $50 million donation

A two-decade effort to preserve the 401-acre Banning Ranch as a nature sanctuary got a surprise boost Saturday night when Frank Randall announced he and his wife, Joann, were donating $50 million toward purchase of the property.

 

OC Register: Suicide rate in Orange County reached highest point of the century last year

In all, the Health Care Agency documented 1,648 county residents who took their own lives, a figure that included residents who died outside the county. More than two out of three who committed suicide during the period — 1,017 — were age 45 or older.

 

Labor

OC Register: More than 25,000 University of California employees prepare to strike Nov. 13

In an announcement released Friday, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 3299, which represents the employees, said the action will take place at all 10 UC campuses and at five medical centers.

 

OC Register: Who are the big political donors in Orange County?

Even though Orange County officially flipped from red to blue this summer, a Register analysis of campaign finance records suggests most of the biggest individual donors from the region long associated with Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan are Republican.

 

Publication Date: November 5, 2019