January 27, 2020

Orange County

OC Register: Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli, wife and daughter die in helicopter crash with Kobe Bryant

Altobelli’s brother Tony, Orange Coast College’s sports information director, confirmed that Altobelli’s wife Keri and daughter Alyssa also were among the crash victims. Alyssa was a club basketball teammate of Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna Bryant who also was killed in the crash.

 

OC Register: How a mural of Kobe and Gigi appeared in just 6 hours

Like much of Los Angeles, Venice-based street muralist Jules Muck didn’t believe the news at first. Once she began receiving a wave of requests for a public mural to memorialize Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, their deaths alongside seven others in a Calabasas helicopter crash began to sink in.

 

Voice of OC: Recalls, lawsuits, financial struggles and leadership vacuum ahead for Westminster

Residents will soon have to decide between continuing a higher local sales tax or absorbing $13 million in yearly losses to city revenue with cuts to public services.

 

Voice of OC: Dueling Tet parades in Little Saigon still lead happiness

There was even a third Tet parade in Costa Mesa on Saturday. But that was part of the annual Tet Festival at the OC Fairgrounds, and that’s been going on for 39 years.

 

Voice of OC: Anaheim renews debate on where new housing should go

Anaheim City Councilmembers this week will decide if 58 condominiums will be built in Anaheim Hills, continuing a debate on where new housing should go in the city.

 

OC Register: Faced with a planned homeless shelter near schools, Santa Ana residents demand ‘no more shelters’

Some 200 residents gathered for a meeting Thursday night at Godinez Fundamental High School to hear a presentation about a planned 425-bed homeless shelter near the school, on South Yale Street.

 

Labor

Vice: A rogue French labor union just shut off the power in Paris

Just one day after the end of the longest transport strike in the history of France, local members of one of France’s famously militant unions kept their fight with President Emmanuel Macron going in a big way: by cutting power to thousands of people in Paris’ southern suburbs.

 

Publication Date: January 27, 2020