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Excerpted from the UCI News 

By Jim Washburn

California Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, whose 74th District includes beach cities Huntington, Newport and Laguna, as well as Irvine, says, ‘The paper shows just how urgent and immediate this threat can be. For a long time, when we talked about flood risks and sea level rise, people acted like it was 100 years away. The reality is that it’s here, it’s now, it’s urgent, and the state of California’s response needs to reflect that urgency.'

Excerpted from the Medscape

By Kathleen Doheny

Three patients were waiting in a queue for their telemedicine visit. Four others were in exam rooms, waiting for their appointments. Another patient was on the phone, requesting a prescription renewal.

Excerpted from the OC Register

By Kaitlyn Schallhorn

Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris, an Irvine Democrat who chairs the Accountability and Administrative Review Committee, part of last week’s joint hearing, said California has “made historic and enormous investments to address” the homelessness crisis.

Excerpted from the LA Times

By Emily Alvarenga

Assembly Bill 1237 was recently introduced by Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Irvine) and is co-sponsored by the San Diego Humane Society and San Francisco SPCA — the state’s two largest animal welfare organizations.

Excerpted from the Daily Pilot

By Lily Nguyen

The purchase of Banning Ranch remains within reach as conservationists received a ceremonial check representing $8 million Thursday from state officials to help purchase the 384-acre oil field.

Excerpted from the Orange County Register 

By Brooke Staggs

Petrie-Norris, 46, is in her second term representing Assembly District 74, which stretches along the coast from Huntington Beach to Laguna Beach and includes most of Irvine. She serves on committees overseeing accountability, banking, jobs, revenue and veterans.

Excerpted from CalMatters

By Emily Hoeven

If the pandemic made one thing clear in California, it’s that the state often fails to protect its most vulnerable residents.

That was the takeaway from an emotional eight-hour hearing Wednesday, during which state lawmakers listened to testimony about possible reforms to a state law governing how and when severely mentally ill family members can be forced into treatment.

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Excerpted from the Los Angeles Times

By Richard Winton, Laura J. Nelson, Thomas Curwen

A federal grand jury Wednesday charged three companies with criminal negligence in connection with the oil spill that tarred the Orange County coast in early October.

The three-page indictment alleges that Amplify Energy Corp. and two subsidiary firms, Beta Operating Co. and San Pedro Bay Pipeline Co., illegally discharged oil into federal waters from the pipeline they operated off Huntington Beach.

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Excerpted from the Voice of OC

By Teri Welsh

The last 20 years of determination squarely landed this once-in-a-generation opportunity to permanently protect a coastal park and preserve for future generations. To be successful, conservation transactions, like this one, typically need three main ingredients: willing sellers, funding, and political/public will.  

By Teri Sforza

Excerpted from the Orange County Register

After a delirious Henry Lehr bolted from a licensed Newport Beach detox in the middle of an August night and broke into a neighbor’s house, he was shot and killed by the frightened homeowner inside.

Deaths like these aren’t uncommon in the rehab industry, where lax regulation runs head-on with the high-stakes illness of addiction.

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