May 3, 2018

Orange County

 

Voice of OC: Anaheim, Buena Park and Fullerton team up to battle homelessness

The mayors, city managers and police chiefs of Anaheim, Buena Park and Fullerton met with U.S. District Judge David O. Carter Tuesday morning about creating a plan to combat homelessness that would be a “model” for the rest of the county.

 

OC Weekly: What happened to Downtown Santa Ana’s Cinco de Mayo Festival?

For the first time in two decades, Santa Ana won’t be hosting a Cinco de Mayo festival in downtown this weekend. The annual tradition drew over 100,000 to Calle Cuatro for two days of music, food, carnival rides and fun.

 

LA Times: High housing costs are driving out lower-income Californians, reports say

The studies, produced by Beacon Economics for public policy nonprofit Next 10, mirror findings from the groups two years ago, as well as a flurry of other research that's documented California's persistent housing crisis.

 

OC Register: Southern California recession? Not in next two years, says this forecast

In Orange County, any hints at a major hiring slump were false: the 2 percent hiring pace of 2017 should be followed up by 1.9 percent growth this year and 1.5 percent in 2019. Note: Growth was 3.2 percent in 2015.

 

Daily Pilot: Costa Mesa officials call proposal for mobile needle exchange a potential ‘magnet for drug users’

Police and city officials expressed opposition Tuesday to a proposed mobile needle exchange service in Costa Mesa's Westside, saying the program could attract drug users and undermine the recovery of residents in sober-living homes.

 

Labor

Capital & Main: What the NLRB’s about-face on McDonald’s means for franchise workers

The NLRB “is proposing a sham settlement,” said Mary Joyce Carlson, a lawyer representing Fight for $15. “McDonald’s directed a wave of retaliation that stretched from coast to coast and included illegally harassing, surveilling and firing workers in the Fight for $15. Workers deserve a ruling, not a settlement.

 

LA Times: Signatures submitted for ballot measure to require panic buttons for Terranea and Trump golf club workers

The city clerk has 30 days to certify that at least 3,300 of the signatures come from registered voters, which would meet the threshold of 10% of the city's total voters. Union workers say they have been collecting signatures since mid-March.

 

Publication Date: May 3, 2018