Hosam Elattar

1 week ago | voiceofoc.org | Hosam Elattar

Santa Ana Police. Credit: JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC Santa Ana officials are looking to ban the sale of nitrous oxide also known as “whippets” or “laughing gas” for recreational drug use under a new proposed law.

1 week ago | voiceofoc.org | Hosam Elattar |Erika Taylor

Chapman University students are raising concerns administrators are trying to infringe on their first amendment rights by taking disciplinary action against students who spoke at a recent protest to demand the university protect the diversity, equity and inclusion office.

2 weeks ago | voiceofoc.org | Hosam Elattar |Noah Biesiada

Trash bins in unincorporated Orange County on Tuesday, June 22, 2021. Credit: JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC It could be difficult to throw away an old couch or broken water heater, depending on where you live in Orange County.

2 weeks ago | voiceofoc.org | Hosam Elattar

Another problematic motel in a working class Anaheim neighborhood is being converted into housing – this time for very low income young adults exiting the foster care system or at risk of becoming homeless. The Tampico Motel conversion in Anaheim on State College Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue comes as cities across Orange County like Stanton and Costa Mesa in recent years have transformed motels that illicit police calls regarding drugs, prostitution and disorderly conduct into affordable homes.

2 weeks ago | voiceofoc.org | Hosam Elattar |Noriko Ostroy

Fifty years have passed since American soldiers and their South Vietnamese allies fled Vietnam on what would become known as Black April – a time many in Orange County’s Vietnamese community remember as the day they lost their homeland. Tháng Tư Đen or Black April commemorates the Fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Communist forces on April 30, 1975 after a month-long campaign into the southlands that would end the Vietnam War and start one of the largest refugee crises in history.