OC World guest host and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Reiff interviews two leaders of OCPA—Fullerton Mayor and OCPA Chair Fred Jung, and Irvine City Councilmember and OCPA Vice-Chair Kathleen Treseder. These two leaders acknowledge early challenges but emphasize their commitment to reshaping the agency and rebuilding customer trust. The program airs 5 p.m. Monday 4 September on KLCS-PBS. Until then, here are several outtakes from the interview that can be watched immediately. We’re thrilled to announce that OC World co-founder and producer Dr. Manuel Gomez was featured on the podcast Critical Mass, where he discusses the successes of OC World. Watch live on KCLS.org, or your local KLCS-PBS television station. Click here to find which channel carries KLCS-PBS in your area. Can't make the broadcast? No problem. Subscribe to our YouTube channel where we will be publishing our episodes shortly after each broadcast.

Monday 28 August Former state Senator John Moorlach interviews Siyamak Khorrami, Chief Editor of The Epoch Times (Orange County). The Epoch Times is affiliated with the Falun Gong spiritual movement and was founded in 2000 as a way to respond to communist repression and censorship in China, according to the company’s website. It’s described in certain political circles as a far-right media company but declares itself as free from any government or political influences. The Orange County edition of the newspaper has a circulation of roughly 16,000 readers. Monday 28 August What’s the future of the Orange County Power Authority? Energy cooperatives such as OCPA are touted as California’s energy future, providing greener and sometimes cheaper power than the big utilities. OC World guest host Rick Reiff interviews two leaders of the OCPA — Fullerton Mayor Fred Jung, OCPA Chair; and Irvine Councilmember Kathleen Treseder, a climate scientist at UC Irvine and new Vice-Chair of OCPA — who admit the electric cooperative got off to a rocky start. But in this [...]