May 27, 2021 Media Brief

Orange County

Voice of OC: County halts 20 million vaccination expansion after community clinics raise concerns

A $20 million contract to increase vaccination rates through neighborhood clinics was abruptly delayed during Tuesday’s Orange County Board of Supervisors public meeting, following questions from Voice of OC about whether the approach would leave local community clinics behind.

 

Voice of OC: OC eyes massive conversion of motels into homeless housing with services

Officials are gearing up for a major infusion of new state money for such conversions – known as Project Homekey – that would expand on their existing effort that converted two motels in Stanton.

 

Daily Pilot: With help from the Fed, Costa Mesa officials begin to build a bridge to a post-pandemic future

Although the economy-eating pandemic began little more than 14 months ago, its timing has caused impacts that have been felt across three different fiscal years, City Manager Lori-Ann Farrell Harrison explained Tuesday during a council study session.

 

OC Register: Huntington Beach records show majority of those arrested at weekend ‘Adrian’s Kickback’ event were from out of town

Huntington Beach police made nearly 180 arrests in relation to Adrian’s Kickback, police said. The event started as a social media invitation to a birthday party on Tik Tok and went viral, garnering more than 273 million views and prompting some to travel from out of state to attend.

 

Voice of OC: Will locals lose opportunity to create rare central Orange County park?

While Garden Grove officials recently moved to plant more trees amid a potential climate emergency, some are perplexed that the same city has turned down an initial offer to create a rare park in central Orange County.

 

Labor

Huffington Post: Biden nominates union lawyer to labor relations board

The White House said Wednesday that President Joe Biden plans to nominate union lawyer Gwynne Wilcox to a seat on the National Labor Relations Board, the federal body that shapes collective bargaining policy in the private sector.

 

KTLA: San Diego woman arrested, accused of assaulting Southwest flight attendant

San Diego authorities charged a 28-year-old woman with felony battery after an attack on a Southwest Airlines plane in which a flight attendant lost two teeth and suffered other injuries to her face.

 

Nation

AP News: Biden asks US Intel to investigate COVID-19 origin

President Joe Biden on Wednesday asked U.S. intelligence officials to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including any possibility the trail might lead to a Chinese lab.

 

Publication Date: May 27, 2021