April 6, 2018
Orange County
OCEA: Members Only: Holistic Lifestyle Mini Fair April 12
The event runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 12, at OCEA Headquarters, 830 N. Ross St., in Santa Ana. Come for a FREE lunch, raffle prizes, holistic massage, stress relief, holistic medicine, health screenings, acupressure/acupuncture, body and skin care, treats, pain relief and much more!
Voice of OC: OC Cities take stands on state sanctuary laws
Santa Ana, which declared itself a sanctuary city last year, and Fullerton went in different directions. The Santa Ana city council voted to file a court brief supporting the state laws and Fullerton, while initially considering siding with the U.S. Department of Justice against the state law, instead voted to do nothing.
OCGOV.COM: Second installment property tax payment deadline is Tuesday
Last year, the county received over 57 percent of property tax payments electronically. Taxpayer payments online by eCheck are the fastest growing payment method and property tax payments by eCheck have increased by 13 percent in the last year. Follow MyHealthOC.org for more tips and info on healthy living in Orange County.
OC Health: What is WIC?
WIC is a health and nutrition program for women, infants and children. WIC helps families by providing checks for buying healthy supplemental food items from authorized vendors. WIC also helps families by helping you to know more about how to help your family to eat healthy.
California
LA Times: No, California's 'sanctuary state' law does not allow the release of dangerous criminals to the streets
What the law does: It prohibits alerting federal immigration agents of an inmate’s release from a county jail — unless the information is already available to the public, or if the person has been convicted of any of the 800 offenses outlined in a 2013 state law, the Trust Act.
Nation
OC Register: China vows to ‘counterattack’ U.S. as trade spat worsens
China’s government vowed Friday to “counterattack with great strength” if President Donald Trump goes ahead with plans to raise U.S. tariffs on an additional $100 billion worth of Chinese goods and said negotiations were impossible under current conditions.
Washington Post: Rich Americans get a $33,000 tax break under the GOP tax law. The poorest get $40
“While most of the corporate tax cuts flow to the top of the income distribution, what this shows is that even in the direct changes to the individual side of the tax code, most of those changes are still being allocated to the top,” said Kim Rueben, a senior fellow at TPC.
Publication Date: April 6, 2018
