Orange County’s latest mobile COVID-19 mobile clinic opened at Garden Grove’s Christ Cathedral as Catholic leaders work to address vaccine concerns among parishioners. The clinic, which opened March 10, will operate on three successive Wednesdays for first-dose Pfizer vaccinations, and continue for an additional three Wednesdays to facilitate booster shots. “This pandemic has shined a spotlight…

Orange County’s next supervisor will be elected March 9, ending a hotly-contested campaign to fill the Board of Supervisors’ vacant District 2 seat. Candidates include: former state senator John Moorlach, Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley, Fountain Valley Mayor Michael Vo, Newport Beach Councilmember Kevin Muldoon, and tax attorney Janet Rappaport. As voters prepare to make…

Several candidates running in the upcoming March 9 special election for a seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors say that reducing unfunded public employee pension liabilities should be a top priority for cities throughout the county. John Moorlach, Kevin Muldoon, and Janet Rappaport all agree that unfunded public pensions in the county, where…

A frontrunner for the Orange County Board of Supervisor’s vacant District 2 seat has tested positive for COVID 19. Former Sen. John Moorlach “has mild symptoms and remains in high spirits,” the Republican Party of Orange County said in a Feb. 24 email to its members. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Sen. Moorlach and…

A frontrunner for the Orange County Board of Supervisor’s vacant District 2 seat has tested positive for COVID 19. Former Sen. John Moorlach “has mild symptoms and remains in high spirits,” the Republican Party of Orange County said in a Feb. 24 email to its members. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Sen. Moorlach and…

More than two dozen conservatives in Irvine, California, have joined ranks to form a new local faction of the Republican Party. About 30 charter members met virtually on Feb. 22 to set up the new activist group—called the Irvine Republican Assembly (IRA)—after becoming disenchanted with some stances taken by their former group, the Greater Irvine…

Candidates running for the second district seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors (BOS) participated in a virtual forum Feb. 12, where they answered questions regarding their positions on county-level issues. Participants included former state senator and supervisor John Moorlach, Newport Beach Mayor Pro Tem Kevin Muldoon, and Corona del Mar attorney Janet Rappaport. Other candidates, Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley…

Southern California residents who want to make public comments during meetings of the Orange County Board of Supervisors can now address individual members by name, instead of having to address the board as a whole. The rule requiring all public remarks to be addressed to the entire board had stood since being adopted in 1971,…

Orange County health officials say they’re working to make the vaccination process easier for region’s disabled and minority communities. The Orange County Health Care Agency (HCA) said Feb. 4 that it was adding an Americans with Disabilities Act lane at Soka University to make the inoculation process easier for disabled residents. Rather than standing in line, those…

Orange County’s COVID-19 vaccine queue will likely get longer as the region struggles with obtaining the amount of supply it needs to grow its inoculation efforts. “We have the bandwidth to be able to set up multiple super-pod sites, but our frustration as a county is that we don’t have any guarantee of getting significant…