OCEA Media Brief
OCEA monitors local, state-wide and national news outlets to keep members up to date on the issues that impact working people. Media briefs are compiled and sent to members in a daily email blast. To receive OCEA media briefs, please register for an account.
December 4, 2020
Today: Battle heats up to represent coastal cities on OC Board of Supervisors; new stay at home order imminent for Orange County and others, and California expected to get 327K COVID vaccine doses.
December 3, 2020
Today: Evacuation zones for the rapidly-growing Bond Fire expanded; Silverado residents say this fire is different and, OC’s nonessential businesses to be shut down under new stay at home order.
December 2, 2020
Today: Struggling Santa Ana residents turn to each other for pandemic aid; California’s move toward regular COVID-19 testing is a relief to healthcare workers, and thousands of customers brace for power shutoffs because of Santa Ana winds.
December 1, 2020
Today: OC grapples with skyrocketing COVID cases,hospitalizations; many OC businesses might be shutdown because of the virus, and, who will represent the County’s coast on the Board of Supervisors?
November 30, 2020 Media Brief
Today: 1,058 new cases, no new deaths reported in Orange County on Nov. 29; new, younger city council will decide what the city looks like, and local officials eye Michelle Steel’s vacated supervisor's seat.
November 25, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Coronavirus positivity rates keep increasing in working-class neighborhoods; OC Health Care Agency ramps up efforts encouraging testing and, Irvine Council approves colleague’s mailer spending despite city policy violation.
November 24, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Coronavirus hospitalization increases recall summer wave as Thanksgiving draws near; San Clemente City Council censures colleague for speaking out against city staff and, Irvine city council to vote on councilman Carroll’s mailer spending.
November 23, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Annual high tide spurs concerns about future safety of San Onofre nuclear waste stock; 552 new COVID cases and 3 new deaths reported in Orange County on Nov. 22 and, Orange County mixed on enforcing Gov. Newsom’s curfew and mask orders.
November 20, 2020 Media Brief
Today: 2nd Coronavirus wave already digging into county’s poorest neighborhoods; 1,169 new cases, 3 new deaths reported in Orange County on Nov. 20, and County food banks and pantries step up to giveaway Thanksgiving turkeys.
November 19, 2020 Media Brief
Today: OC residents face statewide Coronavirus curfew beginning Saturday; what did Orange County voters tell us this past election? and, OC reveals a slice of how it spent federal coronavirus relief money.
