March 27, 2019

Orange County

OC Register: Orange County to increase triage services for people experiencing psychiatric emergencies

Orange County is moving to add another 24-hour crisis stabilization unit to help the mentally ill, another vital piece to a mental health care system it hopes to build over the next few years.

 

Voice of OC: New OC Supervisor Don Wagner takes office Wednesday

Orange County’s newest county supervisor, Don Wagner, is scheduled to be sworn in Wednesday afternoon at a ceremony paid for by his campaign, after winning a close-fought election this month.

 

Voice of OC: Santa Ana confronts city leadership vacuum

Santa Ana, facing a wave of departures from the city manager’s office since November, is now set to get a new city manager May 1, and will hold a special election this November to fill the vacant City Council seat formerly held by Roman Reyna.

 

OC Register: Irvine Councilwoman Christina Shea set to take Don Wagner’s place as mayor

Under city rules, the mayor pro tem – in this case, Shea – becomes mayor unless he or she declines in writing. Shea has said she will accept the position and serve the remainder of Wagner’s two-year term.

 

Voice of OC: OC state lawmakers jump back into the fight for a veterans cemetery

Democratic State Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk Silva is leading a bipartisan coalition of OC state lawmakers that want the state government to take over development of the veterans’ cemetery in Irvine.

 

Labor

OC Register: Triangle Fire deaths remind us capitalism is by no means perfect

Much is made of the Triangle Fire’s impact on the American labor movement. The ensuing outrage gave momentum to the emerging strength of unions, with garment workers at the forefront of workplace organizing efforts.

 

OC Register: Santa Ana ceramic company fined $250,000 after 18-year-old worker dies in clay mixer

A Santa Ana ceramic manufacturing company has been issued more than $250,000 in fines following the death of an 18-year-old employee who was killed after being entangled in a clay machine that did not have any safety guards.

 

Nation

Bloomberg: Almost half of older Americans have zero in retirement savings

Of those 55 and older, 48 percent had nothing put away in a 401(k)-style defined contribution plan or an individual retirement account, according to a GAO estimate for 2016 that was released Tuesday.

 

Publication Date: March 27, 2019