Day: August 18, 2022

The Importance of Cultural Competence in Service-Based Businesses

Diversity and inclusion are starting to be recognized as some of the most important initiatives in today’s workplaces. Although, before a company can implement these initiatives successfully, it must first develop its cultural competence. While many businesses would like to think that their cultural competence is already strong, making an Read More

Trustees Consider Resolution Calling for Local Control over COVID Guidelines, Push Final Vote to September

SUPPORT THIS INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMThe article you’re about to read is from our reporters doing their important work — investigating, researching, and writing their stories. We want to provide informative and inspirational stories that connect you to the people, issues and opportunities within our community. Journalism requires lots of resources. Today, Read More

Steel, U.S. Army Corps, local officials share update on Sand Replenishment Project

Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mayors of Orange County’s coastline cities, and local officials from the Orange County Board of Supervisors joined Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) to share an update on the Surfside-Sunset & Newport Beach Replenishment Project, and to highlight the funding secured earlier this Read More

FTA awards OCTA $2.5 million toward zero-emission paratransit buses

More zero-emission buses are headed to local streets thanks to a federal grant awarded to the Orange County Transportation Authority for battery-electric paratransit buses. The Federal Transit Administration announced Tuesday that OCTA will receive $2.5 million in federal funding toward the purchase of 10 battery-electric buses that will replace 10 Read More

News Next Door: San Clemente Community Icons Don Brown, Fred Swegles Awarded Wall of Recognition Honors

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