March 2, 2021
Orange County
Voice of OC: Sheriff deputies are spending big against GOP candidate for county supervisor
“This is a critical time in our County’s history. This requires a vision for the future, not a retread from the past,” said Charles Barfield, general manager of the Orange County Employees Association. “Moorlach represents Orange County going backwards.”
Voice of OC: OC schools to reopen Kindergarten to 2nd Grade or risk loss of state grant money
Under the new reopening plans, if Orange County school districts don’t offer classroom instruction by the end of the month, they’ll lose 1% of their share of the $6.6 billion reopening grant for each day classroom options aren’t available.
OC Register: Orange County’s coronavirus case rate misses red tier status by a fraction
The hang up is the rate of new COVID-19 cases in the county, which remained just above the red tier threshold of 7 per 100,000 residents, according to a state Department of Public Health update Tuesday, March 2.
Voice of OC: Could new state housing rules force more zoning for 100,000 homes?
The state assigned the Southern California Association of Governments — a regional board of elected officials — to come up with zoning for 1.3 million homes across six counties, including more than 180,000 in Orange County by Oct. 2029.
Labor
NBC: Biden expresses support for Amazon union vote in Alabama
Without naming Amazon specifically, President Joe Biden on Sunday expressed support for a closely watched union vote at one of the retail giant’s Alabama warehouses, calling it “vitally important.”
California
KTLA: California counties could ease restrictions as virus cases decrease in amounts
More parts of California may be allowed to further reopen their economies this week amid both growing optimism as the last coronavirus wave continues to recede, and swirling concern that new strains of the virus threaten to imperil that progress.
Nation
AP News: Senate Dems sorting final details of virus relief bill
Democrats sorted through lingering disagreements over emergency jobless benefits and other issues Tuesday and prepared to commence Senate debate on a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan that would deliver a major victory to President Joe Biden.
Publication Date: March 2, 2021
