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.
October 20, 2020 Media Brief
Today: What Prop. 22’s defeat would mean for Uber and Lyft — and drivers; hate crimes spiking across Orange County, up 89% since 2015, and Costa Mesa poised to vote on second round of virus relief funds for small businesses.
October 19, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Orange County reports 196 new coronavirus cases; OC Asian and Pacific Islanders team up to battle Coronavirus disparities, and car rally in Orange County rails against Proposition 22.
October 16, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Coronavirus trends move in right direction, supervisors to bolster distribution effort; schools take different paths on testing as vaccine chatter begins, and pandemic erects barriers for prized bloc of voters in nursing homes, senior facilities.
October 15, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Money, political battles surround controversial housing project before Orange voters; Seal Beach reclassifies city jail ending overnight lockups and, airport village in Newport Beach expected to include affordable housing.
October 14, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Orange County in the midst of unprecedented mail-in ballot wave; officials ready to define a Coronavirus outbreak, still won’t list outbreaks, and food pantries fight food insecurity as government aid dwindles, unemployment rises.
October 13, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Amidst record voter turnout, County DA probes GOP ballot harvesting; no new deaths, 117 new cases related to COVID-19 reported in OC, and No on California’s Prop. 22 endorsed by the Times.
October 9, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Vast new reservoir in south Orange County gets its first drops of water; Coronavirus: 162 new cases, 10 new deaths in Orange County on Oct. 9 and, Costa Mesa launches rental assistance program for residents affected by COVID.
October 8, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Coronavirus: 14 new deaths reported in Orange County on Oct. 8, total surpassed 1,300; school districts delay classroom reopening as county sees uptick in virus cases, and local officials rethink public access to cooling centers amid heat waves.
October 7, 2020 Media Brief
Today: OC to close motel program sheltering over 500 homeless people at high risk for COVID -19; County is failing state’s new health equity metric, remains in the red tier, and City Council majority is OK with Visit Anaheim holding onto millions of bailout dollars.
October 6, 2020 Media Brief
Today: County and state officials assure voters that they will not tolerate election intimidation or fraud; Disneyland reopen unclear as OC sees uptick Coronavirus cases, but County health officials are giving the green light.
