November 30, 2021 Media Brief
Orange County
Voice of OC: Is Anaheim’s resort gamble paying off for local residents?
Anaheim city leaders have argued for years that the city’s path to prosperity lies in borrowing more than a billion from Wall Street to build all the infrastructure needed to keep their resort district humming. Does the city’s math really back up that vision?
Voice of OC: Santa Ana officials want more people on buses to fight climate change
Inspired by efforts in Riverside, some Santa Ana officials this month have proposed the idea of bus discounts for residents to drive up public transportation use in town and combat climate change.
Voice of OC: OC supervisors make controversial hospital executive appointment to public health board
A regional hospital association is raising concerns about OC supervisors appointing someone without local hospital experience to the hospital position at the county’s public health insurance board.
OC Register: ‘No place in Irvine’ for hate, Mayor Khan says after second anti-Semitic banner incident
After the second instance this month of people hanging banners with White supremacist messages from freeway overpasses in Irvine, Mayor Farrah Khan is seeking to unite the community to reject anti-Semitism.
OC Register: CIF will not investigate the Mater Dei hazing case
Athlete safety advocates maintain CIF Southern Section needs to implement by-laws to protect athletes or be subject to legislative oversight.
OC Register: Fishing to reopen in OC after testing following oil spill off Huntington Beach coast
At noon Tuesday, Nov. 30, waters along a 45-mile stretch of coastline that were closed to fishing because of last month’s oil spill off Huntington Beach, will welcome anglers again, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Monday.
OC Register: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 1,226 new cases over the long holiday weekend
The OC Health Care Agency reported 1,226 new cases of the coronavirus over the long holiday weekend, increasing the cumulative total since tracking began in the county to 311,623 as of Monday, Nov. 29.
Labor
Labor 411: NLRB overturns Amazon union election results; orders another vote
The decision was widely expected after a hearing officer recommended in August that the results be thrown out and that a new election take place.
Nation
KTLA: Court temporarily blocks COVID-19 vaccine mandate for California prisons
A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked an order that all California prison workers must be vaccinated against the coronavirus or have a religious or medical exemption.
Publication Date: November 30, 2021
