Category: Orange County News

Los Al Chamber Networking Breakfast to feature labor and employment attorney Wendy Suggs

Please join the Los Alamitos Area Chamber of Commerce for their February Networking Breakfast on Friday, February 3, 2023 from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. at Maderas Steakhouse. The event will feature guest speaker labor and employment attorney Wendy Suggs discussing 2023 labor law updates. Wendy Suggs’s primary areas of Read More

California joins $22.5 million multistate securities settlement against crypto platform Nexo Capital

The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) announced it has entered into a settlement agreement with Nexo Capital Inc. (Nexo) to resolve the DFPI’s September 26, 2022 securities enforcement action in connection with Nexo’s Earn Interest Product program. Nexo, a Cayman Islands corporation formed in 2018, provides crypto-asset-related Read More

City of Newport Beach Accepting Applications to Fill Vacancies on Commissions and Committees

The City of Newport Beach is currently accepting applications to fill the following upcoming unscheduled vacancies: City Arts Commission (one seat) – term expires June 30, 2025. Meetings are at 5 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month, at 1000 Avocado Avenue, Newport Beach. Finance Committee (one seat) – Read More

Rep. Young Kim leads bill to support Taiwan’s participation in the International Monetary Fund

As first reported in POLITICO, U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-40), who serves on the House Financial Services Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced the Taiwan Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 540) with Rep. Al Green (TX-09) to support Taiwan’s participation in the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The bipartisan Taiwan Non-Discrimination Act Read More

Painter Ann Phong explores crises amplified since the COVID-19 pandemic at The Doyle starting Jan. 30

Painter Ann Phong presents new work in a solo exhibition on display at Orange Coast College’s Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion from Jan. 30 until Mar. 23, 2023. The exhibition, titled “Ann Phong: Re-Evaluating Normal,”continues the artist’s exploration of global challenges that reshaped her as an individual,as well as society Read More

State Treasurer Fiona Ma announces Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital awarded $135 million in grant funding

California State Treasurer Fiona Ma announced today that Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital (LLUCH) was awarded $135 million in grant funding through the Children’s Hospital Bond Act of 2018. The grant of voter-approved bond funds was awarded by the California Health Facilities Financing Authority (CHFFA), which is chaired by Treasurer Read More