January 7, 2020
Orange County
Voice of OC: Angel Stadium – a look ahead in 2020 and a look back at 2019
Millions could be shaved off Angel Stadium’s $325 million price tag when Anaheim City Councilmembers begin negotiating community benefit and labor agreements with the team owner this spring.
Voice of OC: Most popular news columns on Orange County
These are savvy and civically-connected Orange County residents, who are also becoming the most forward thinking funders of nonprofit journalism in our nation, helping forge a new model of news coverage – focused on engagement not entertainment.
OC Register: Irvine is trying a hybrid light system to provide safer street crossing for pedestrians
Called a pedestrian hybrid beacon, the device is activated when the person coming up to the curb to cross pushes the button. That prompts lights posted above the street like a traffic signal to first flash yellow to alert drivers to slow to a stop.
OC Register: Southern California home prices surge 5.6% to record $549,000 in November
Southern California’s median home sales price hit $549,000 in November as low mortgage rates, limited choices and a healthy local economy motivated house hunters to pay up, CoreLogic/DQ News reports.
OC Register: Temps at 2 Southern California spots, including John Wayne Airport, were hottest in the nation Monday
High temperatures recorded Monday at John Wayne Airport in Orange County and the Oceanside Airport were the hottest in the nation, according to the National Weather Service.
California
LA Times: Rep. Duncan Hunter, convicted of corruption, to resign effective Monday
Republican U.S. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter submitted his resignation Tuesday, effective Jan. 13, after pleading guilty to a corruption charge, leaving one of the GOP’s few remaining House seats in heavily Democratic California.
OC Register: Wiener revamps bill that would force California cities to allow denser housing
Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, on Monday unveiled two significant adjustments to Senate Bill 50 that would give cities at least two years to craft their own local plans to add more housing before the law kicks in and requires it.
Publication Date: January 7, 2020
