March 12, 2021 Media Brief
Orange County
Voice of OC: Indoor dining, movie theaters and gyms to reopen Sunday
The reopenings also follow last week’s abrupt changes to the four-tiered reopening system, which essentially eased the path for counties to reopen once 400,000 additional vaccines were administered to people in the 400 hardest hit zip codes across the state.
Voice of OC: Santa Ana’s historic murals doomed to fade into history
A historic, five-part mural welcoming Latino immigrants and Chicano heritage to Santa Ana may be seeing its last days. Over the last decade, efforts to preserve it have yet to come to fruition — and the clock is ticking.
Voice of OC: Will Orange County’s community health clinics run out of money?
Orange County community health clinics, who are vaccinating the county’s most vulnerable against the coronavirus, face an uncertain future as questions surface about funding from the state and federal government.
Voice of OC: Canyon residents begin to return home following yesterday's mudslide warnings
According to a tweet from OC Public Works, roads in and out of the canyons remain largely closed despite little mud runoff last night, and staff are expected to work through the end of the week to clean off the roads and drains.
Labor
Vice: Unions are cool now
By referencing her time as a union member, Meghan Markle neatly and casually illustrated the primary reason unions exist: to support workers when their employers fail to do so—a fantastic piece of advertising that her former union, the Screen Actors Guild, was apparently thrilled to highlight.
California
KTLA: Top California doctors get Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine
Four days before an estimated 4.4 million Californians with disabilities and underlying health conditions become eligible for the vaccine, the California Public Health Department released guidance on the verification process.
Nation
AP News: Biden moves to relieve strain of child border crossings
The Biden administration hopes to relieve the strain of thousands of unaccompanied children coming to the southern border by ending a Trump-era order that discouraged potential family sponsors from coming forward to care for them.
Publication Date: March 12, 2021
