As an OC supervisor, Michelle Steel awarded a $1.2M pandemic meals contract to her campaign mail printer

When she was an Orange County supervisor in 2020, Rep. Michelle Steel directed a $1.2 million taxpayer-funded contract to a marketing and printing company that she was using at the time for her congressional election campaign mailers. The contract was for providing dinner meals to needy seniors in her district, at a cost of $24 per meal. Meal costs in most other O.C. supervisor districts ranged between $7.50 per meal and $11 per meal. The company Steel selected, DTN Tech, had no prior experience with this type of government funding, according to an audit required by the county. At least two-thirds of the public funds the company paid for meals went to restaurants that have hired the company as a printing client, according to billing records submitted to the county and social media posts by the company reviewed by LAist. The taxpayer money came from the federal government and was authorized by the supervisors during the pandemic without public votes or competitive bidding.

With files from Nick Gerda at LAist.com. Read his full story here.

What to do when you and your co-parent can't agree on how to discipline your child?

They say raising a child takes a village. But what happens when that village can't agree on how to best raise said child? Every parent approaches parenting differently with different priorities and ideas of how a child should behave. According to psychologists, parents can be separated (to varying degrees) into four parenting "styles": permissive, authoritative, authoritarian and neglectful. These labels can help categorize how an individual may approach a specific situation. But what if your parenting style is in conflict with your partner's? How do you get on the same page to ensure your child isn't getting mixed signals when it comes to discipline? And is alignment really necessary?

Today on AirTalk we're joined by Tracy Ross, LCSW, couple and family therapist and relationship expert based in New York, to talk about how co-parents can come together when making discipline decisions and what impact misalignment has on the child. We'd also like to hear from you! If you are a parent, what is an issue you and your partner misalign on? How do you resolve disagreements on how to raise your child? Give us a call at 866-893-5722 or email us at atcomments@laist.com.

New Haven style pizza…or should we say “apizza”?

“Ah-Beetz”....What’s that you ask? It’s the New Haven, Connecticut way of pronouncing pizza. Back in the late 19th, early 20th century, a wave of Italian immigrants flooded into New Haven and have since earned the town a reputation for its own, unique style of pizza. So what makes New Haven style pizza stand out from say, New York, Chicago or Detroit? Joining us today on AirTalk is New Haven native Chris Wallace who is chef and founder of Ozzy’s Apizza.

Locations:
North Hollywood – Flagship location at 5300 Lankershim Blvd Suite 103
New Haven – 285 Nicoll St. New Haven, CT 06511