August 21, 2019

Orange County

Voice of OC: CA state legislature could soon back site in Irvine for OC Veterans Cemetery

Since March, Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva had looked to build the veterans cemetery near the heart of the old El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. But the Irvine City Council chose a proposed golf course July 23. Both sites are city-owned and were part of El Toro.

 

Voice of OC: Westminster budget struggles ahead

The projected deficit was originally larger — around $1.2 million — before the City Council in May approved a program that reexamined costs for special city services to bring in an estimated $1 million in extra cash and shrink the funding gap.

 

OC Register: Garden Grove school officials vow stronger response after 2018 video of students giving Nazi salute surfaces

Garden Grove Unified School District officials are revisiting the response to a 2018 incident in which students used the Nazi salute and recited a German military song, and school officials will take steps to confront hate and bias district-wide, a statement issued by the district Tuesday, Aug. 20, said.

 

Daily Pilot: Lobster, wine, plane tickets: Fair workers grossly misused taxpayer money, audit shows

The particular county fair and employees are not named to protect the identity of the whistleblower. A report found that among California’s 54 district agricultural associations — which oversee local fairs, expos and exhibitions — one group violated government law, often with the approval of its CEO and maintenance supervisor.

 

Labor

Labor 411: NLRB director rules that Boeing illegally fired workers who supported union

‘Boeing has continuously and systematically ignored the law and trampled on the rights of its own employees in South Carolina,’ said Robert Martinez Jr., the IAM’s national president.”

 

Nation

OC Register: US has 501,000 fewer jobs than first reported

These preliminary revisions complicate the Administration’s message of a strong economy, as they suggest that job growth was slowing as the expansion approached its tenth anniversary. Some of this slowdown would be natural given the length of the expansion.

 

Publication Date: August 21, 2019