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.
November 3, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Election Day kicks off with two-thirds of OC votes already cast; school re-opening debate continues as potential COVID wave looms, and O.C. Health Care Agency looks to kids to promote ‘mask message.'
November 2, 2020 Media Brief
Today: More than 1 million ballots cast in Orange County with Election Day tomorrow; amid fires and a global pandemic, OC residents step up to serve, shelter and feed and, 233 new COVID-19 cases and 1 new death reported in OC.
October 30, 2020 Media Brief
Today: More than 770,000 ballots cast as Vote Centers open today; anxious religious leaders come together to urge calm ahead of Election Day, and more Coronavirus testing to come to poor, often minority neighborhoods.
October 29, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Almost a half-million OC residents have had the Coronavirus; OC residents back home after days of wildfire uncertainty and, county Congressional seats: Will there be a repeat of 2018.
October 28, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Some containment progress as two wildfires continue to burn in OC; Orange County residents remain resilient after two days and two fires and, did faulty power equipment drive 90,000 OC residents from their homes?
October 27, 2020 Media Brief
Today: County fires spread to nearly 20,000 acres new evacuation orders; families flee from two OC fires, growing in acres overnight and, five Westminster council candidates hope to take charge of disarrayed city.
October 26, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Wildfire leaves two firefighters critically injured, 60,000 evacuate; Blue Ridge and Silverado Canyon photos – Day one and, fires, dust and winds torpedo air quality.
October 23, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Uber and Lyft lose appeal against California labor law; County’s unemployment rate remains high as potential second Coronavirus wave looms and, Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach begins first phase of clinical trial for COVID-19 vaccine.
October 22, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Candidate money sources come to light too late as many have voted early; Garden Grove schools to phase in reopening of schools amid pushback and, OC prosecutors “inappropriately abandoned” plan to tell defendants about informant violations.
October 21, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Voters return more early ballots than 2016, but gap narrows; La Habra councilman under fire for allegedly mocking public commenters; calls intensify for DA to reopen probe into police shooting.
