April 26, 2021 Media Brief
Orange County
Voice of OC: Meet Orange County doctors who are confronting COVID-19
Since the start of the pandemic, doctors have dealt with the stress of see-sawing hospitalizations and seeing field hospitals emerge in their own county, relying on each other for support to combat the virus. Some have seen their colleagues get sick.
OC Supervisor Chaffee: Fourth District Virtual Job Fair
Orange County Vice-Chairman Doug Chaffee is hosting a Virtual Job Fair on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The Vice-Chair is working with the OC Workforce Development Board, Orange Community Services, American’s Job Center of California, 4th District Cities, and Chambers of Commerce.
Voice of OC: Deputies get five times more weapons training than de-escalation
Sheriff officials say they’re working to provide another 40 hours of de-escalation training to a subset of deputies who are transferring into the department’s new behavioral health unit, though a timeline for implementing that wasn’t made available.
Voice of OC: Westminster police officer on paid leave after punching handcuffed suspect twice
It’s another controversy for a department that once lost a federal discrimination lawsuit by Latino officers in 2014 — resulting in a $3 million judgement at the city’s expense — and continues to face wrongdoing and retaliation lawsuits by rank-and-file officers and one high-ranking department head.
OC Register: Opponents to ethnic studies travel to Los Alamitos, again, to fight school board
The timing was coincidental yet ironic. On April 20, as many people around the country celebrated a court ruling they saw as a modicum of justice for George Floyd, speakers took turns denouncing an ethnic studies class recently approved by the Los Alamitos Unified School District.
Daily Pilot: Poseidon water plant permit discussion continued to this week
Proponents and opponents of the Poseidon Water desalination plant in Huntington Beach made their voices heard Friday in an all-day virtual meeting that continued well into the night. In the end, a decision by the Santa Ana Regional Water Board on a permit Poseidon’s $1.4-billion project will have to wait until at least until Thursday.
Labor
Labor 411: The New York Times won’t voluntarily recognize 650 member tech worker union
In an email to staff on Thursday, the Times chief executive, Meredith Kopit Levien, wrote that, since the union was formed, “we have heard questions and concerns from many of our colleagues about what this would really mean for their careers.”
Region
LA Times: “Nomadland,” Frances McDormand are big winners at the Oscars
Capping a year that few in Hollywood will ever forget, much as they might want to, the 93rd Oscars ceremony Sunday night delivered an impassioned message that, while the movies may be down, they are far from out.
California
LA Times: California’s coronavirus case rate now the lowest in the continental U.S.
California’s coronavirus case rate is now the lowest in the continental U.S., an achievement that reflects months of hard-won progress against the pandemic in the aftermath of the state’s devastating fall and winter surge.
Publication Date: April 26, 2021
