Category: Orange County News

Illumination Foundation named 2023 Chick-fil-A True Inspiration Awards grant recipient

Illumination Foundation, a nonprofit organization with the mission to disrupt the cycle of homelessness, has been named the recipient of a $125,000 grant through the annual Chick-fil-A ® True Inspiration Awards® program. This grant will help further Illumination Foundation’s efforts in providing housing and healthcare services to those experiencing homelessness Read More

CureDuchenne Raises More Than $1.5 Million at Eighth Annual Napa in Newport

CureDuchenne Founders Paul and Debra Miller with son Hawken Nearly 20 years ago, Paul and Debra Miller received a phone call from their infant son’s doctor, telling them that their son, Hawken, was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a devastating muscle disease that affects mainly boys: 15,000 in the U.S. Read More

Steel, Smith release statement on House passage of the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act

Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) and Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE) released the following statement after the House passed of H.R. 23, the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act, their bill to prevent the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from using its massive, $80 billion infusion of taxpayer dollars to squeeze more revenue Read More

Rep. Young Kim votes to protect families and small businesses from IRS overreach

U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-40) voted in support of the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act (H.R. 23) to rescind over $70 billion in Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding added last year through the Inflation Reduction Act.  According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the $80 billion in IRS Read More

WalletHub Martin Luther King Jr. Day Report: 2023’s states with the most racial progress

With Martin Luther King Jr. Day around the corner and only 40% of adults thinking that the recent spotlight on racial equality has actually improved the lives of black people, the personal-finance website WalletHub released its report on 2023’s States with the Most Racial Progress, as well as expert commentary. To Read More