Subject: Orange County Health Care Agency

• From the He's-Obviously- Not-a-Friend-of- Cheney File

  Courtesy of the state Dept. of Toxic Substances Control... Orange County Polluter Sentenced to 16 Months in State Prison Westminster - The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) announced today that an Orange County Superior Court sentenced Steven Craig Booth, of Anaheim, to 16 months in state prison for criminal violations relating to his operation of a metalizing business in Stanton. Booth pled guilty to eight felony and six misdemeanor charges, including hazardous waste, d

  December 20, 2005

• Smoke one for poverty

  This is something interesting I just learned from the Orange County Health Care Agency web site: "(1)The California Healthcare for Indigents Program (CHIP) is funded through surtax on cigarettes and tobacco products. CHIP provides funding to hospitals, physicians, and community clinics based on uncompensated care provided to individuals not eligible for MSI or any other government-funded program. (2) The Emergency Medical Services Fund (EMSF) receives funds from surtax on cigarettes and tobacco

  August 8, 2007

• How New Developments in Laguna Beach Will (and Won't) Deal With the Pollution in Aliso Creek

  May 29, 2008

• At the Miss Hermosa y Protegida Pageant, the Curves Can Be Fake, But the Messages Are Very Real

  March 27, 2008

• Blowing Smoke

  Did a landfill explosion cause the Santiago Canyon Fire? Umm . . .

  November 22, 2007

• The Force Is With Him

  November 28, 2002

• Dial M for Mold!

  June 16, 2005

• Roll Over And PlayOh, You Already Are

  November 18, 2004

• OC's Scariest People 2004

  October 28, 2004

• Ouch!

  Why are county health officials in West Nile Denial?

  September 23, 2004

• Out of His Skull

  August 21, 2003

• Toxic Politics

  December 26, 2002

• Ratting Out the Mouse

  October 10, 2002

• No Queers Here

  December 20, 2001

• Cry Baby Beach

  May 31, 2001

• Letters

  May 18, 2000

• The Talking Drug

  June 24, 1999

• See If Your Fave Beach Was One of '08's Cleanest (or Dirtiest)

  Based on the just released 2008 Annual Ocean and Bay Water Quality Report, Orange Countians can get a sense of the cleanest beaches, the dirtiest strands and the worst sewage spillers. Well, at least those were the ones in 2008.There is plenty of good news in Orange County Health Care Agency's yearly water-quality report (which you can read in its entirety here). Sewage spills in 2008 dropped for the sixth straight year and hit their lowest mark since 2000. The number of beach closure days due

  July 8, 2009

• New Inspection Placards Appearing in OC

  Orange County Health Care Agency​After the OC Register's exposé of the sanitation in OC's restaurants in 2008, the County Board of Supervisors empaneled a grand jury to examine how to improve food safety in OC eateries.The grand jury did its research and decided that the best way to avoid these "dining dangers" (ninjas at table 3!) was for OC to adopt the A-B-C letter grade system used in all of our surrounding counties.The Board of Supervisors decided in December not to move to a letter grad

  October 21, 2009