By | | Orange County RegisterSoon we’ll all be using less water — and some of us may be lucky enough to pay more for the privilege!Happy Summer of the Drought, version 2022, folks.Be warned: It might hurt a bit. Orange County’s cities and water districts used 25% more water this April than in April 2020, even with bearing down, urging us to shrink water use up to 20%.There are many reasons why this April was so much thirstier – more on that in a minute – but the agencies that saw the biggest jumps were: San Juan Capistrano, up 61.5%; Trabuco Canyon Water District, up 43.9%;  Yorba...…By | | Orange County RegisterSoon we’ll all be using less water — and some of us may be lucky enough to pay more for the privilege!Happy Summer of the Drought, version 2022, folks.Be warned: It might hurt a bit. Orange County’s cities and water districts used 25% more water this April than in April 2020, even with bearing down, urging us to shrink water use up to 20%.There are many reasons why this April was so much thirstier – more on that in a minute – but the agencies that saw the biggest jumps were: San Juan Capistrano, up 61.5%; Trabuco Canyon Water District, up 43.9%;  Yorba...WW…

By | Southern California News GroupCalifornia has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into battling homelessness, and yet the last year.A bill by Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, D-Woodland Hills, aimed to better understand how those dollars are spent — and zero in on what works and what doesn’t — by creating a uniform data-collection system that could be used to craft better outcomes. It sailed through the Legislature without a single no vote and landed on the governor’s desk in September with 20 bipartisan co-authors, awaiting the signature that would make it law.On Tuesday, Sept. 29, Gov....…By | Southern California News GroupCalifornia has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into battling homelessness, and yet the last year.A bill by Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, D-Woodland Hills, aimed to better understand how those dollars are spent — and zero in on what works and what doesn’t — by creating a uniform data-collection system that could be used to craft better outcomes. It sailed through the Legislature without a single no vote and landed on the governor’s desk in September with 20 bipartisan co-authors, awaiting the signature that would make it law.On Tuesday, Sept. 29, Gov....WW…