Orange County Transportation Authority officials announced Friday the agency will offer free rides on all fixed-route buses on Election Day Tuesday. If you’ve filled out a voting ballot but have no way to get to a drop-off location on Election Day, fear not — the Orange County Transportation Authority is offering free bus rides all day Tuesday on 55 fixed …
Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, pictured in October, wants voters to expand the number of supervisors and establish a new elected countywide executive. Unions representing thousands of Los Angeles County workers are pushing back on a plan to create an elected county chief executive, warning that such a move would “politicize” the position. AFSCME Local 685, which represents 2,400 …
The staff of a power company work on the power line maintenance site in June. The State Grid Group, China's largest power utility company, announced on Monday the establishment of a county-wide zero planned power outage demonstration zone in Yizheng, a county-level city in Yangzhou city, Jiangsu province. Zero planned power outages refer to the practice of conducting power line …
"Texas conservatives want to end countywide voting. But election officials are warning that if legislators scrap the state’s countywide voting program, they will struggle to pull off the changes that would be required — beginning with increasing their numbers of polling places. And voting provisionally, that's no guarantee that that vote is going to count, because they'd be voting outside …
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Clinical pharmacist Stephanie Chao fills a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach in December. Orange County announced Thursday that it would be launching “Operation Independence,” in which county officials collaborate with the Orange County Fire Authority to help administer COVID-19 vaccinations to residents countywide. The announcement comes as the Orange County Health Care Agency …
