July 22, 2020 Media Brief
Orange County
Voice of OC: Santa Ana officials raise questions over voter access “desert” in City’s south end
There was only one new voting ballot drop-off box proposed for an entire area of the city south of First Street — an area officials said is one of the city’s densest and most public transportation-dependent — at Memorial Park, aside from the Registrar of Voters’ office itself.
Voice of OC: OC Board of Ed releases previously silenced comments on starting schools without masks
Only four of those emails supported the Board’s decision, and only one of the commenters said they currently had children in an Orange County public school. That commenter also identified themselves as an emergency room nurse at a local hospital.
Voice of OC: Discussions on changing place names reignites debate across the County
People throughout America are protesting institutional inequities and demanding that buildings, statues and monuments that bear the names of historic or perceived oppressors, and those who supported white supremacy, be changed.
OC Register: 6,818 apply for 80 Irvine apartments with rent as low as $590
The city-inspired Irvine Community Land Trust has closed the interest list for the new Salerno complex where income-qualified rents will start as low as $590 monthly. Salerno, the trust’s fourth affordable rental project, will have 24 one-bedroom, 16 two-bedroom and 40 three-bedroom apartments with rents far below market value.
Daily Pilot: Huntington Beach’s Great Pacific Airshow is a no-go, as organizers yield to coronavirus concern
This year’s annual Great Pacific Airshow in Huntington Beach — an event whose aerial feats have drawn hundreds of thousands of spectators to the city’s pier and beachfront area since 2016 — has been canceled.
Labor
Labor 411: Best Buy raises starting wage to $15 an hour as sales grow 15% since reopening
The new pay for domestic hourly employees will take effect Aug. 2, a day after temporary incentive pay increases for retail associates and supply chain employees who have been working through the coronavirus pandemic were scheduled to end.
California
OC Register: California tops New York with most coronavirus cases in the United States
In California, 409,305 have tested positive -- more than any other state, and almost every country in the world.
Publication Date: July 22, 2020
