March 10, 2020

Orange County

Voice of OC: Irvine’s Great Park fails transparency test

Homeowners around the Great Park are paying tens of millions per year in extra taxes, yet Irvine city officials rarely tell them where it’s all going. City officials and partners openly debate where hundreds of millions of dollars in funding has gone, while other project budgets have swelled.

 

OC Register: Orange County health officials now can test for coronavirus

The Orange County Health Care Agency said Saturday tests would be administered to anyone with the flu-like symptoms of the disease — referred to as COVID-19 by experts — who in the last two weeks has been in contact with other virus patients or who has traveled in areas where outbreaks have occurred.

 

OC Register: Here’s what you need to know about testing for coronavirus

Right now, without widespread public testing, nobody knows how many Americans have COVID-19. But the ability of private labs to develop and analyze tests to detect if someone is or isn’t infected with the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is about to expand. With that, so will identification of new cases.

 

OC Register: Primary results show how Orange County differs from the rest of California

With votes from California’s March 3 primary still being counted, results so far suggest Orange County voters differed in some key ways from voters in other parts of the state.

 

California

OC Register: Following coronavirus death, Santa Clara County bans all large gatherings

The ban, which will begin at midnight on Wednesday, will span three weeks and apply to events with more than 1,000 attendees, County Counsel James Williams announced at a press conference Monday evening.

 

OC Register: California passes $1 billion in cannabis tax revenue two years after launching legal market

The bulk of that $1.03 billion in tax money, after covering regulatory costs, has been spent on programs such as child care for low income families, cannabis research, public safety grants and cleaning up public lands harmed by illegal marijuana grows.

 

Nation

MSNBC: Administration struggles to explain why he disbanded his global health team

One of the Administration’s more serious missteps in dealing with the coronavirus outbreak happened before anyone heard of COVID-19 when the President ordered the shutdown of the National Security Council’s entire global health security unit.

 

Publication Date: March 10, 2020