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Manhattan Beach Firefighter Pay Averages Over $300,000 Per Year

January 21, 2020 2:07 amJanuary 21, 2020 8:52 am

There is now a $300,000 club for California’s firefighters. In the City of Manhattan Beach during 2018, the average pay and benefits for a full time firefighter were $300,242. While the Manhattan Beach firefighters, at least through 2018, belong to...

California Appeals Court Rules That All Cities Must Follow Sanctuary City Law

January 13, 2020 4:50 pm

The California Fourth District Court of Appeals in Santa Ana has ruled that charter cities and other atypically classified cities have to follow the California Values Act (CVA), commonly known as the ‘sanctuary city law’. Under the CVA, which was...

Lawsuit at Cal State Fullerton Leads to Calls for Strengthening Hazing Laws

November 29, 2019 8:10 pm

The parents of Bea Castro, a 19-year-old Cal State, Fulletron student who died from acute ethanol intoxication in March of 2018 during a hazing incident, are suing both the University and the Chi Sigma Phi sorority. The charges in the...

Female Dockworkers In Los Angeles And Long Beach File Discrimination Suit

October 9, 2019 6:18 am

A Federal discrimination suit against the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 13 and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) has been filed by the ACLU in Los Angeles. The lawsuit claims that both the union (ILWU) and the shippers...

The Housing Crisis Part III: Fullerton

October 8, 2019 6:05 amOctober 11, 2019 8:23 am

While driving down a few streets in the suburban Orange County city of Fullerton, an unusual by-product of the housing crisis presented itself. Rows and rows of large houses known as ‘McMansions’ built within the past 20 years lined the...

Orange County Tackles Homeless Issue by Regulating Group Homes

September 27, 2019 11:10 amSeptember 27, 2019 3:07 pm

There are myriad of situations exasperating the homeless issue in California including the unregulated business of group homes. On Tuesday, the Orange County Board of Supervisors tackled this issue by unanimously passing an ordinance; requiring operators to obtain a license...

Assemblywoman Presents OC United Way Veterans Big State Check… With Her Signature On It

August 1, 2019 9:11 amAugust 5, 2019 4:55 pm

Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris made a recent presentation to the United Way for Orange County’s homeless veterans, issuing an oversized check of $2.9 million, with her signature on the front of the check… as if she was giving her own money....