The powerful Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West is behind a ballot measure that would impose a 3% “gross receipts” tax on for-profit hospitals
For the past few years, the City of Dana Point and an organization named the Center for Natural Lands Management (CNLM) have been locked in
Two radical members of the Santa Ana Police Oversight Commission are using social media to actively solicit the filing of complaints against Santa Ana police
Circulators are gathering signatures in Anaheim for an initiative to impose a 3% tax on the “gross receipts” of for-profit “general acute care hospitals.” The
A formal complaint has been filed with the state’s political watchdog agency regarding the failure of a controversial appointee to Santa Ana’s Rental Housing Board
Orange County Superintendent of Schools Al Mijares announced on Friday that he has been battling cancer for some time and will retire from his elective
The leadership of UNITE-HERE Local 11, the militant hotel workers union seeking to recall Anaheim Councilwoman Natalie Rubalcava, has been consistently increasing members’ dues payments
The Orange Unified School District Board of Education voted last week to fill two vacancies by appointment. The vacancies in Areas 4 and 7 resulted
There are two vacancies on the Orange Unified School District Board of Education stemming from the successful recall of Trustees Rick Ledesma and Madison Miner
Originally published in the Orange County Register on April 4, 2024. Despite a federally preemptive law that went into effect last year to crack down
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