May 7, 2018

Orange County

 

Voice of OC: Will the CA Attorney General act on the jailhouse snitch scandal?

Complicated investigations can take years, but a deadline is looming: the expiration of the three-year statute of limitations on state perjury charges against three Sheriff’s deputies who are accused of lying under oath about their work with informants during testimonies in 2014 and 2015.

 

LA Times: Newport Beach City Council to discuss apparent e-mail leak with city attorney

City Atty. Aaron Harp is requesting that the council waive attorney-client privilege "in regards to two E-mails between the City Attorney and an individual Council Member because the two E-mails have been shared with a third party," Harp wrote in a memo to the council ahead of Tuesday's meeting.

 

Daily Pilot: Newport councilman uses city email to encourage residents to vote colleagues out of office over city manager flap

Newport Beach City Councilman Jeff Herdman might have run afoul of state campaign regulations when he used his city email account to explicitly advocate for the election defeat of council colleagues who he and others believe forced City Manager Dave Kiff out of his job.

 

Daily Pilot: Around Town: Veterans storytelling returning to OC Fair & Event Center

The project is meant to give veterans a creative outlet so they can discuss and share memories about their time in the service. It's part of a series of such workshops presented by Heroes Hall, Arts Orange County, a nonprofit arts council, and Veterans First, a nonprofit service provider.

 

Labor

LA Times: More than 50,000 UC workers set to strike this week but campuses will remain open

The union and university reached a bargaining impasse last year, and subsequent mediation efforts have failed to produce an agreement over wage increases, healthcare premiums and retirement terms.

 

California

OC Register: California now world’s 5th largest economy, surpassing UK

California’s economic output is now surpassed only by the total GDP of the United States, China, Japan and Germany. The state has 12 percent of the U.S. population but contributed 16 percent of the country’s job growth between 2012 and 2017.

 

Nation

Washington Post: America is more diverse than ever — but still segregated

Over the past 30 years, suburbs have increasingly become the most racial and ethnically diverse areas in the country. For example, the D.C. metro area saw the Hispanic American population increase by almost 300 percent from 1990 to 2016.

 

Publication Date: May 7, 2018