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Four Unions Approve Disneyland Resort Contract Raising Pay to $15 an Hour

Throughout the day, workers stuffed a big ballot box at the Lincoln Theater inside Disneyland where an animatronic Honest Abe has entertained park goers for decades. By nighttime, voters belonging to a council of four unions approved a new three-year Master Services contract on Thursday that includes significant increases for thousands of minimum wage earners. Workers …

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Disneyland Reaches Tentative Agreement With Unions Ahead of “Shantyland” Protest

Disneyland workers readied for a week-long “Shantyland” fast slated to begin this morning near the theme park’s entrance in an ongoing fight for fair wages. But in a sudden turn of events, four labor unions will be voting to ratify a contract on Thursday instead. Not to be confused with the Coalition of Resort Labor …

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Eighth Grade Is a Top-Notch Look at Teen Angst in the Social-Media Age

Anyone who has ever cringed their way through adolescence can tell you that eighth grade—that in-between age when you’re not a child anymore and not yet a full teenager—is hell. It’s hard to recall any movie that has tapped into that agony as astutely as Bo Burnham’s comedy Eighth Grade. Starring Elsie Fisher as a …

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Harley Rouda Slightly Leads Dana Rohrabacher in New Poll

First-time candidate Harley Rouda narrowly leads 30-year incumbent Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s push poll) in the 48th congressional district race, according to poll results released this morning. New Jersey-based Monmouth University Polling Institute is conducting polls in hotly contested congressional districts around the country, including California’s 48th district, which had been solidly Republican-leaning for decades. …

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A Tale of Two Shitties: OC Prospects for Rent Control and Luxury Housing

The Orange County Business Council recently released the results of a poll that is claimed to show that a November ballot measure to expand the authority of local governments to enact rent control on homes and apartments would fail if Orange County voters voted right now. The survey about the so-called Affordable Housing Act, which …

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Crime Lab Director Says Too Busy to Search for Forensic Science Errors

Bruce Houlihan enjoys puzzles, but the Orange County Crime Lab director is purposely failing to solve one of the biggest riddles of his career: Why did his office quietly give conflicting, pro-prosecution, expert testimony in two cold-case, rape/murder trials? Houlihan met that question—pending at least since 2016, when the Weekly revealed the controversy—with palpable silence …

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More Than A Lab: BelCosta Defines Cannabis Testing Standards

January 1, 2018, was the day commercial, and adult-use cannabis became legal in California. On the consumer side of regulation, the last seven months have been peachy—what’s not great about walking into any (legal) dispensary and waltzing out with a party bag of flower, edibles, concentrates and more? On the business side of the law, …

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Dana Watch: Rouda v. Rohrabacher

The final primary-election count from the Orange County Registrar of Voters determined that Democrat Harley Rouda received the second-most votes in the 48th Congressional District race and will thereby face incumbent Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s massage table) in November. Fellow Democrat Hans Keirstead had the most second-place votes after the June 5 Election Day ballots …

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