Berardino: Voice of OC, Love and Hate Ten Years Later
Opinion
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Nick Berardino, a former general manager with the Orange County Employees Association and OC fair board member, reflects on a decade of muckraking by the journalists at Voice of OC.
Venezia: Celebrating Ten Years and Continued Success
Community Opinion
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Barbara Venezia, a former columnist for the Orange County Register and Daily Pilot as well as Voice of OC board member reflects on the nonprofit journalism model and success of the Voice of OC.
Santana: Voice of OC is Ten Years Old Today
Norberto Santana, Jr. columns
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An odd idea back in the summer of 2009 – a nonprofit, online newsroom covering local civics in a frank, nonpartisan, real time manner – has taken root in Orange County.
Santana: The Best of 2018
2018 elections
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The Blue Wave Election and Homelessness led the list of top stories for the Voice of OC team in 2018 along with a host of scrappy, daily enterprise reporting scoops uncovering fraud, waste and abuse across Orange County. Readers can really help spur this kind of reporting this week – as all contributions before Dec. 31 get doubled by a national foundation effort to bolster local nonprofit news.
Lawsuit Claims Auditor-Controller Had County Staff Drive His Kids To School
Orange County Auditor-Controller
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Orange County’s top watchdog of public dollars, Eric Woolery, is accused by a former employee of having government employees drive his young children to school and other activities during work hours and babysit them at the office.
Santana: Voice of OC Was There For You in 2017
Countywide
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Publisher Norberto Santana Jr. thanks the special donors who make Voice of OC possible along with reviewing the biggest stories of 2017.
Venezia: Community Voices Matter in News
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Newport Beach Daily Pilot Columnist Barbara Venezia writes about why she joined the Voice of OC board of directors as well as the future of online, non-profit news just as national journalism foundations select the Orange County-based newsroom to participate in a special fundraising match program through Dec. 31. Venezia also will chair a select group of community advisors to the Voice of OC newsroom.
County Supervisors Vote to Pay Voice of OC $121,396 in Legal Costs After Losing Public Records Case
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County Supervisors Tuesday unanimously voted to pay Voice of OC $121,396 in legal fees after losing a Superior Court case for refusing to release public records about Supervisor Todd Spitzer’s handcuffing a preacher at a Wahoo’s restaurant.