April 3, 2018
Orange County
Voice of OC: Moving started for Santa Ana Civic Center’s homeless
County workers, along with the Santa Ana Police Department, began clearing out segments of the Civic Center homeless camp Monday as healthcare workers and city contractors started health and other assessments of roughly 200 people living there.
Voice of OC: OC Supervisors leave it to cities and judge to find new homeless shelter sites
“We have a problem. It is a problem that we all have failed to address…We don’t have sufficient capacity.” And some of the existing shelters don’t meet the minimum legal standards for sheltering people with disabilities,” says Supervisor Andrew Do.
OC Register: Why the redesigned San Onofre nuclear waste containers weren’t approved by the feds
The replacement generators were essentially identical to their original counterparts, according to their manufacturer and Edison. But that wasn’t actually the case. “On the inside, they’re dramatically different,” said Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates, a non-profit consulting firm.
California
OC Register: If rent regulation raises the rent, is it worth the cost for Californians?
Tenants pay a larger share of their income to the landlord in states that are the most renter-friendly: averaging 40 percent vs. 36 percent in pro-landlord states. Californians pay 45 percent of earnings to the rental bill, the nation’s sixth-highest share.
Labor
Bloomberg: Teacher strikes are spreading across America with no end in sight
In each case, teachers are pushing Republican governors and GOP-controlled legislatures to hike their pay, saying declining real wages threaten to drive staff out of the public school system.
Nation
LA Times: Political potential of millennials untapped because they don't vote. Will Parkland change that?
By next year, millennials, born between 1981 and 1996, are projected to outnumber baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964. But they go to the polls in staggeringly small numbers.
Publication Date: April 3, 2018
