The air will be filled with the sounds of bagpipes and the sight of kilts as the Scottish Fest returns to the OC Fairgrounds on
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
It’s Wildfire Awareness Month, and this Friday, May 24, is an opportunity to learn about fire dependency, resiliency and plant management during a slow-paced interpretive
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
The Orange County Transportation Authority Board of Directors yesterday greenlit a new three-year collective bargaining agreement with Teamsters Local 952, which represent the agency’s coach
Syrentis Clinical Research will hold a free memory screening event on Thursday, May 16 for people aged 50 and above to increase awareness for early detection of memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease. In California, it
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
13 initiatives were considered in 2020. 7 in 2022 1 so far in 2024 And in November? This is what we are looking at –
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
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