September 8, 2021 Media Brief
Orange County
Voice of OC: A return to campus for OC college students filled with outbreaks, hard lessons
Orange County’s college and K-12 school students have largely come back to campus over the last two weeks while educators make in-person learning the norm again — and in many cases, an unwavering requirement.
Voice of OC: OC Sheriff says COVID vaccinations now mandatory for jail deputies, as infections rise
Deputy sheriffs are only about 8 percent of the county government workforce, but account for nearly half of all recent Covid infections among county employees who were exposed at work, according to county data.
Voice of OC: Santa Ana officials may get stricter with affordable housing requirements for developers
Developers could go back to paying $15 per-square-foot for projects with no affordable housing on site — a price set under the original version of the housing ordinance — as opposed to $5 under the current version of the law, modified by a different council majority last year.
OC Register: Temperatures to rise, with triple-digit heat expected in Inland Empire, parts of LA County
Meteorologists say a warming trend through the workweek will peak on Wednesday and Thursday, with triple-digit temperatures likely in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, as well as portions of Los Angeles County.
California
OC Register: How the 9/11 attacks are taught in Southern California schools
Teachers rely on personal stories, media coverage from that day and artifacts from attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Nation
OC Register: Once united, America has grown more divided since 9/11 attacks
It was the country’s failure to coalesce amid another national tragedy – albeit one wholly different from 9/11 — that revealed and possibly enhanced the cultural, ideological and political schisms that have metastasized over the past 20 years.
Bloomberg: ‘Varsity Blues’ college scandal’s holdout parents aim to put admissions on trial
Now, the first parents go on trial in the scandal that revealed a tawdry underbelly of the U.S. college admissions process in which “donations” lined the pockets of middlemen and opened doors for the children of the wealthy to attend the school of their choice.
Publication Date: September 8, 2021
