12.16: State Announces: Tax Credits and Support for Small Businesses
In an effort to continue supporting small businesses through the pandemic, the state has recently increased different channels of support, including:
News
12.12.20 Column: California’s unemployment payment fiasco makes the DMV look like a well-run agency
Excerpted from The Los Angeles Times
Meanwhile, Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna Beach) said desperate Californians have “this sense of falling into a black hole” as they continue struggling with a malfunctioning computer system. They can’t get their benefits, spend months in EDD purgatory and can’t get anyone to answer their cries for help.
12.11.20 LAGUNA BEACH INDEPENDENT: Petrie-Norris Sworn-in for Second Term
Excerpted from Laguna Beach Independent:
Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna Beach) was sworn in Monday for her second term serving the 74th Assembly District, which includes Laguna Beach.
12.09.20 OC Register: Proposed bill would require in-person instruction at schools when a county’s COVID stats improve
Excerpted from The OC Register.
The proposed law would still allow students to choose the distance learning option, said Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, but targets concerns about the effectiveness of distance learning and the overall well-being of youth during the pandemic.
12.04.20 OC Register: Sober living, addiction treatment conflicts return to lawmakers’ crosshairs
Excerpted from OC Register:
11.21.20 Volunteers distribute holiday meals in Costa Mesa as officials stress pandemic caution
Excerpted from Daily Pilot
By Andrew Turner
The holidays bring an infectious spirit of giving, something that community members have done well to observe for needy families from the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
As Thanksgiving approaches, the Power of One Foundation and more than 70 volunteers worked together to make sure that families would be able to put food on the table to celebrate it.
11.19.20 Prepping 7,000 Thanksgiving dinners for community to take home
Excerpted from Orange County Register
By Mark Rightmere
A cheerful and well-caffeinated Bre Piantanida, volunteer engagement supervisor at the Second Harvest Food Bank in Irvine, spoke her instructions through her glitter-covered, personalized bullhorn to the first shift of 40 volunteers.
11.18 Marine Corps Veteran Mohamad Omar Diab Named Irvine’s Veteran of the Year
Excerpted from Irvine Community News and Review
Each year, Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris highlights a veteran from each of the six cities she represents (Assembly District 74) for their service commitment to the community.
This year, Irvine resident Mohamad Omar Diab has been chosen as the City’s 2020 Veteran of Year for Assembly District 74.
Mohamad was born in Washington state. In 2005, his family moved to Irvine where Mohamad attended our City’s public schools and graduated from University High School in 2014.
10.23.20 Laguna Beach Independent: Petrie-Norris names Laguna Food Pantry as city’s nonprofit of the year
Excerpted from Laguna Beach Independent
Laguna Food Pantry was selected by Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna Beach) as the 2020 Nonprofit of the Year for Laguna Beach.