On Tuesday, January 14, OCBC hosted its first Chairman's Leadership Breakfast of 2020 featuring Fram Virjee, President of California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). In a discussion with Steve Churm, Executive Vice President, Public Affairs, FivePoint, Virjee discussed his life from his early years as the son...
Congrats to UC Irvine on ranking as the top university in the nation on the College Access Index. It's the New York Times ranking of colleges -- those with a five-year graduation rate of at least 75 percent -- and is based on the school's...
"Millennial About Town!" chronicles the great entertainment, arts, and culture found right here in Orange County. Got suggestions for me? Send them to Patty Conover. A melting pot of culture in the base of downtown Santa Ana, 4th Street Market shines. Created as a safe haven for small...
Last Thursday, Gov. Brown released the May Revision of the California budget, which reduced the forecasted $5.8 billion revenue shortfall in January to $3.3 billion -primarily based on higher capital gains. Nevertheless, this continues to mark the most constrained budget since 2012 with many cuts...
Lucy Dunn, President and CEO, will join Steve PonTell, La Jolla Institute and Randy Barth, THINK Together, for a panel discussion at the May 11 OC Forum Luncheon "Release of the 2017 Orange County Community Indicators Report." Business Editor Samantha Gowen, The Orange County Register,...
On Friday, Gov. Brown signed SB 1, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, which is a landmark transportation funding package. SB1 will help to reduce the backlog of infrastructure projects in California with $52.4 billion over the next decade to fix roads, freeways...
"Millennial About Town!" is a new feature to the OCBC Indicator chronicling the great entertainment, arts, and culture found right here in Orange County as covered by me, your "Millennial About Town!" Patty Conover. Got suggestions for me? Send them to [email protected]. The Irvine Company bought...
OCBC’S LEGISLATIVE SCORECARD IS RELEASED! OCBC took positions and advocated on behalf of several state bills that impacted the business community throughout California’s most recent legislative session. Senator Huff best represented the business community’s key interests with a voting record of 92.3 percent on critical bills making...
Off the 405 Freeway in Irvine, hundreds of workers are busy erecting a 20-story glass office tower, a stark symbol of Orange County's economic expansion. This year, the county is expected to add the most new jobs in 17 years, outpacing the growth rate of California...
San Francisco stands out as a unique and diverse metropolis. Its housing-affordability crisis, however, is not unique in the Golden State. While San Francisco is well known to be California’s most expensive city, Realtor.com recently declared San Diego to be the least-affordable California city when residents’...
