Category: Orange County News

Orange County Health Care Agency releases MHSA 3-Year Program and Expenditure Plan draft for public comment

Orange County Health Care Agency is pleased to announce that the Orange County Mental Health Services Act Three-Year Program and Expenditure Plan for FY 2023-24 through FY 2025-26 has been posted for a 30-Day Public Comment Period. To access the draft Plan, please click on the following link: https://ochealthinfo.com/mhsa Within Read More

DFPI announces comprehensive review of oversight and regulation of Silicon Valley Bank

“The Department of Financial Protection and Innovation is conducting a comprehensive review of the department’s oversight and regulation of Silicon Valley Bank and will issue a report by early May 2023. Through this review, we will examine how we can strengthen and update our system of financial regulation to meet Read More

Golden West College students selected as semifinalists for prestigious scholarship

Three Golden West College students have been selected as semifinalists in the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship competition, announced on March 9. Thong Ho, Nghi Le, and Chloe Niebla were among the semi-finalists chosen from a pool of more than 1,700 applicants representing 215 community colleges in 38 Read More

Between atmospheric rivers, an update on the status of local reservoirs

We have previously reported on how the ongoing series of storms to deluge California this winter have refilled reservoirs and groundwater reserves and snowpack, here and here. Now as yet another storm approaches Southern California with still another possible after that, how are those reservoirs doing? Name of Reservoir % Read More

Senator Dave Min releases statement memorializing the anniversary of the Atlanta spa shootings

Senator Dave Min released the following statement on the anniversary of the March 16, 2021 mass shooting in Atlanta, Georgia. “Two years ago today, eight innocent people, including six Asian American women, lost their lives in the Atlanta spa shootings because of the deadly intersection between anti-Asian hate and the Read More