October 20, 2021 Media Brief
Orange County
Voice of OC: Officials from two OC coastal cities join growing calls to ban offshore oil drilling
A couple of weeks after an oil spill off the Orange County coast, City Councilmembers in Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach passed resolutions supporting a ban on offshore oil drilling at their meetings on Tuesday night.
OC Register: State earmarks $236 million for 55 Freeway widening project
The funds are part of a $2.1 billion allocation doled out by the California Transportation Commission last week for various transportation projects throughout the state.
Voice of OC: OC’s second largest school district moves to reshape voter representation
Orange County’s second-largest school system that’s had one elected leader at the helm for more than two decades now wants to see if new trustees can better reflect its 24-square mile community of bilingual students and working families.
OC Register: Midterms bringing huge money, attention to Orange County House races
Though the 2022 midterms are more than a year away the political battleground of Orange County is tight enough, and the stakes high enough, that candidates running for local House seats have already raised $19 million.
Voice of OC: Newport Beach voters could get to directly elect their mayor, power grab concerns surface
Newport Beach voters may be able to elect their own mayor directly with a potential new ballot measure being championed by some local city officials and residents, but critics say the changes would give the mayor too much power.
OC Register: Woman who refused to wear mask in Costa Mesa grocery store goes on trial
A jury will decide whether Marianne Campbell Smith is guilty of a pair of misdemeanor charges, including trespassing for allegedly refusing to leave busy Mother’s Market near the Triangle Square during an anti-mask protest on Aug. 15, 2020.
Labor
Atlantic: The great resignation is accelerating
Since the 1980s, Americans have quit less, and many have clung to crappy jobs for fear that the safety net wouldn’t support them while they looked for a new one. But Americans seem to be done with sticking it out.
City News Service: Netflix workers stage walkout over Dave Chappelle special
Hundreds of Netflix employees and their supporters staged a walkout Wednesday in protest of the streaming service’s distribution of a Dave Chappelle comedy special in which the comedian makes a series of trans-phobic remarks.
California
OC Register: ShakeOut Day: Here are eight-plus things you can do now to get ready for an earthquake
Locate you electrical circuit box. For your safety, always shut off all the individual circuits before shutting off the main circuit.
Publication Date: October 20, 2021
